Famous Quotes & Sayings

We started three seasons ago with Monday Night Football. We thought it might be a catchy attraction to get guys who don't regularly go to church.

There is another thing about a kid, if we all remember, that you have an attraction to evil. Evil is exciting and evil is interesting, and plenty of kids have a fascination for it.

Eddi Reader

I've often felt I've been born out of my time, and when I started Fairground Attraction in the 1980s, I wanted to be a 1940s jazz singer.

She is living the dream of so many people who watch Big Brother and her attraction is therefore huge.

The creative legacy of Pirates of the Caribbean has come full circle with the attraction initially inspiring our highly successful film franchise and now the films inspiring exciting additions to the attraction itself.

Love in the peace of the blessing in the inheritance with a god in the worship of the man and an attraction in neatness is a GOOD MARRIAGE.

I've always resented the force of attraction that traps me here on Planet Earth. It makes me feel like a bug stuck to a piece of duct tape. Ever since my teenage years, when I used to read a lot of science fiction and took it much too seriously, I've dreamed of somehow reaching escape velocity. I am, you might say, anti-gravity.

Traditionally, we have looked at economic development as job attraction and job retention.

Martha Beck

Once we're willing to confront our emotional suffering, we begin making choices based on attraction instead of aversion, love instead of fear. Where we used to think about what was 'safe,' we now become interested in doing what seems right or fun or meaningful or ripe with possibilities.

All of my work is meant to evoke a whole bunch of different layers of discord between the attraction and repulsion that we feel toward our consumer habits and our consumer lives.

Paulo Freire

At a certain point in their existential experience, the oppressed feel an irresistible attraction toward the oppressor and his way of life. Sharing this way of life becomes an overpowering aspiration.

Walt Disney World engineers and ride system experts completed a thorough inspection of the attraction overnight and found it to be operating properly. A representative from the state Bureau of Fair Rides Inspection monitored the ride inspection and testing.

Tom Brokaw

My own strong feeling was that the gay liberation movement really got national attraction in the truest sense of the word later in the '70s, in the '80s, and especially in the '90s.

People want to know whether a place is a credible first-world city. What they found in New Orleans was that underneath the gloss and facade of a first-world tourist attraction was a third-world reality. It will take a lot of work to erase that view.

Motorola is putting up a good fight ? the only real challenger to Nokia. But its portfolio hasn't the same attraction as Nokia at the moment.

Max and Moritz for their part found no attraction in it.

Jane Austen

Sense will always have attractions for me.

There is a shipping boom and a port boom. As long as China is driving the market, the attraction of ships and ports will be sustained.

If a person deals with same-sex attractions, they are told that the only way for them to be happy is to identify as a gay and to embrace their sexual orientation. What we contend is that a person who has same-sex attraction can identify any way that they want to.

Esther Williams

I felt a powerful attraction to Victor Mature. I was married, but all the passion and most of the love in that marriage were gone, or going.

Gijs de Vries

I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism.

I think it has an attraction: the Mardi Gras, Bourbon Street, the fun area, it's warmer than Madison. But now it's got the attraction of a city in dire need, a physical manifestation of a way we can help out.

Drew Gilpin Faust

For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the escape from the gray everyday, from the humdrum into higher things.

I think it's going to turn out very well. We're sure it'll be a very big attraction when it's finished.

I think it's become a tourist attraction, which kind of takes away the nostalgia of it, ... I don't like that it's become a tourist attraction and CBGB T-shirts are sold at Urban Outfitters and stuff.

Radha Mitchell

I think the major attraction to me was?Christophe.

John Hodgman

I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish,' but for the end of all human life.

Tom Izzo

I think a lot of people like the Chicago thing because it's maybe more of a destination. But Indianapolis did an incredible job of making us feel like we were the main attraction in town.

Bar Paly

I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.

Learned Hand

Yet with all the attraction that it has, our youth cannot long remain without feeling the narrowness of simply a classification of the world. Life is not a thing of knowing only - nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotion.

When Sharapova, Venus or Serena do things outside the sport to get attraction it can only be good for the game. We're in a world where it's not just about sports it's about entertainment.

Few people travel from a long distance solely for one attraction or one part of an experience. I think the job here is to complement the Rock Hall with other venues that are also attractive. If the Rock Hall has not reached its peak yet, it's because we are not drawing enough to other venues.

Elie Wiesel

I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language.