Famous Quotes & Sayings

They held it in conjunction with the Orange Festival, and the farmers would put on displays. All the locals would come, and they even attracted folks from Dania, Hollywood and Fort Lauderdale. It was one of the things that put Davie in the public eye. As more people heard about the rodeo, they'd come to Davie. It was a big thing at the time, and they had some pretty serious square dancing contests,

We were on the fence until we saw the pricing and that's what attracted us. It's a reasonable discount.

What attracted my wife and I to him was his magnetic personality and his big heart.

We believed that there was now a market to sell units downtown. They're not attracted to a tract house. What they're attracted to are the amenities of downtown living and the sense of community that comes with it.

We specialize in Latino insurance. That's what attracted us here was the Hispanic location.

I have seen similar incidents this year that haven't attracted such a substantial grading.

I really like saturated colors. I try and exaggerate what it is that attracted me to the image in the first place.

Investors have been attracted to growth opportunities. The most attractive growth rates are in the small and mid-cap space, with the growth styles leading returns for the month. We believe mid- and small-caps will continue to lead returns over the short term, as recent earnings disappointments have been focused in the large-cap arena.

In the past, we've attracted people (to Boise) from five surrounding counties, because more work entices people into a longer commute.

If you think about 'Person of Interest' with Taraji P. Henson or 'Scandal' with Kerry Washington - any of those black women could have been any race; they just happen to be black. And those are the characters that I'm more attracted to. It's not so much about separation of race, but really, more uniting us.

Martin Parr

In New York, you have the street; in the U.K., we have the beach. I end up being like a migrating bird, being attracted to it.

Martin Whitmarsh

Inevitably if you are successful Formula 1 staff are attracted by other teams offering them good deals. At the moment I am not aware of any senior members of the engineering staff that are leaving.

Carla Gugino

I guess I've always been really attracted to period pieces and always felt visually I was probably more made for the '50s or the early '60s than I am for a modern day.

Michaela Watkins

I realize I love crazy ladies. Of course I don't like to think of myself as one, but maybe I am, too. I dunno. I'm always drawn to them; I think it's because I'm attracted to people who aren't in the business of people-pleasing: saying what they really think, not passive-aggressive at all.

I realized that I was very attracted to her, and there was no point for my delaying it.

I realized that I was asexual because when I was young, all of my friends started being attracted to people, and I had no idea what they were talking about.

Kevin Spacey

I'm attracted to things that are challenging and fun and interesting, and it certainly seems that audiences enjoy them as well.

Mike White

I'm attracted to polarizing characters who upend the civility of life.

Jeremy Piven

I'm attracted to flawed characters, ... They're fun and interesting to play and the rest comes from that.

Noah Hawley

I'm attracted to ensembles: you get a lot of really good moving pieces. It's sort of like a horse race in a way, especially when you know that everyone is on this collision course. It's like, 'Who's going to make it?' And you can put people together in unexpected pairings.

If you increase the price of entry-level employment, you will have less of it. More troubling is (that) as wages go up, a disproportionate segment of the population loses jobs. Teens from wealthy families are attracted to the labor force, displacing those with lower skills and lower (levels of) education.

John Fowler

I don't know if the market can match the $200-plus billion in sales that occurred in 2006, but there is still a lot of capital that is attracted to real estate.

David Lowery

hopelessly attracted to pretty girls with mental problems.

Gene Simmons

How can you not be attracted to this sport? It's a hair-trigger sport where one sneeze at 230 mph gets you in trouble.

I hadn't seen George Mason a lot, didn't know much about them like everybody else. I didn't even know where it was. It attracted me as soon as I saw them play.

Bernie Williams

I remember just being attracted to the music. When I had the opportunity to pick up a guitar, it was like it was inside of me. It was a challenge to learn how to play it. I didn't want to stop.

Clearly, Denis and Peter want to make sure that the situations and day-to-day lives and challenges of the firemen (on the show) aren't sugarcoated and aren't whitewashed, and that's what attracted them to FX,

Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.

Jon Daniels

His credentials on the field speak for themselves. As much as anything, what attracted us to Kevin were the intangibles -- his character, his makeup and person on and off the field. We did our homework and we heard the same thing -- terms like 'bulldog,' 'tenacious,' 'competitor,' and 'great around young pitchers.' These are all things we are ecstatic about as we go forward.

Mary Harron

Certainly, I've always been attracted to that. Punk rock, when I was a part of it, was called 'the underground.' There was something very attractive in all the hidden places. The hidden histories,

Certainly energy continues to do well, but technology has also attracted increasing amounts of funds, and we're seeing growth stocks start to perform better than they have for some time.

James Denton

And they didn't have to get into a lot of legal speak or talk ER terms, they were real people. I think that's why so many actresses were attracted to it. And it was just about problems that you could identify with so much, right off the bat.

And you cannot let the mine just pull the plug one day and have quite a large community sitting there that over the years has been attracted to the mining operation.