Famous Quotes & Sayings

The acquisition of B.C. Moore's represents a logical next step for us following our successful integration of Peebles. It significantly enhances the strategic and geographic development of our business, improves our competitive position, and presents us with a compelling opportunity for increased sales and earnings.

The 12th Man' is one of our most treasured traditions, recognized by most as one of the most compelling in collegiate athletics.

While you had groups complaining about the violence and sexuality, what really sold those games were the compelling stories. Without them, you're just shooting people and stealing cars.

We are very pleased about our record fourth-quarter and full-year results. Motorola continues to deliver compelling products and solutions to our customers, who are embracing our vision of seamless mobility.

Goldie Hawn

I am compelled to continuously see the bright side. It is in my DNA. My kids look at me and say: 'Mom, you're so happy!' And I do feel happy. I feel joyful inside. I can't explain it.

Eric Williams

The Lord compelled me to go. Some people say they were moved by what they saw. Well, I was moved to go.

The lower prices have given consumers a compelling reason to try our new vehicles, and it's working.

All the feedback that I'm getting is that they feel Moses Lake has a very compelling story to tell. We're definitely on the radar screen and approaching the target zone.

Maxine Waters

The mayor's race is a very sad event for me. I feel no connection. I have no passion. And I don't feel compelled to do anything.

Compelling content is what drives the long-term success of these systems.

Elbert Hubbard

A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

Anything that encourages a boy to open a book, in a world of more violent and therefore more compelling video games, is something I'm going to pay for.

The movie was outstanding, very compelling and very well done.

Conflict: Global Terror expands on the popular Conflict franchise that has sold more than two million units in the United States alone. Conflict: Global Terror provides a compelling gaming experience with an all-new graphics engine and intense online co-op play.

This fascination with the convergence of media and technology -- that's something that's compelled me for probably 20 years,

Jon Miller

This event has special qualities that have enabled it to rise in the poker landscape and establish a uniqueness that the public can embrace. The head-to-head confrontation between players, who are now legitimate stars, provides compelling competition for players and makes for entertaining television.

You're painting a picture of more compelling evidence,

Bob Cousy

This is a way to pay your dues and feel like you're contributing in a small way, ... There's nothing more compelling than that.

William Butler Yeats

This melancholy London- I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.

There's a compelling reason to hike interest rates at the next meeting.

It's a tough sell. For me, it's always been a very compelling work, a very challenging work. I think the payoff is really great at the end.

Jean Piaget

We learn more when we are compelled to invent.

Gay people are now living more honest and open lives and that leads to others wanting to know more about our lives. People want this product and we can provide it in a compelling and powerful way that can be profitable.

Even though Office 2007 is very innovative and a compelling solution, it is a big endeavor for enterprises to undertake, and many of them are going to sit on the sidelines in 2007 and wait and see and learn from others' experiences.

George Allen

Because it is impractical for all of those with a compelling interest to view this trial in person, we should give victims the option to view these open proceedings, which are directly related to the horrific events that injured them or took the lives of their loved ones,

Adam Rayner

Everyone working on 'Tyrant' wants to present the world and the issues in it in an intelligent, open, fair, non-reductive kind of way. For the actors, we have to try and make these stories as truthful and compelling as possible.

The most important thing for Windows is being compelling to developers. Developers are the linchpin for the success of Windows.

Elizabeth Blackburn

Studying organisms at a molecular level was totally compelling because it was moving from being a naturalist, which was the 19th-century kind of science, to being very focused and really getting to the heart of these molecules.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel

Richard Grasso

It was the (New Jersey) governor's suggestion to open a dialogue about a package of economic incentives, and they made a very compelling case,

That's not a compelling legal defense. The fact that you've stopped doing something is not a defense.

Janet Reno

that she is not compelled to force Juan Miguel Gonzalez to keep his son in the U.S. and indicated that she would do nothing to stop him from going home with his son to Cuba.

Those that are expected to win individual gold medals in compelling sports should have a couple of deals going into games. If they do well, there will be a deal or two after the games.