Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Konieczka

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.

Joe Muscato

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

Jason Stollsteimer

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.

Mike Phillips

I think this can become a great tourist attraction because people love to visit old cemeteries. This is a great opportunity to point out the history of Chester.

Erwin McManus

I think that's a part of what motivates me in my teaching and writing. Once the Gospel feels mainstream and becomes a nicely organized, orchestrated belief system, frankly, I don't think there is even an attraction to the human spirit.

Warren Buffett

As one of my older friends says, "Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be." Let's take a stab at it, anyway.

Vince Vaughn

I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.

Emmy Rossum

I just really gravitate towards a nostalgia for a time when things were simpler. When beauty was more classical and glamorous.

Juan Ramon Jimenez

Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.

Miuccia Prada

Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.

Margaret Atwood

...and nostalgia swept through Jimmy like a sudden hunger.

Julian Barnes

What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.

Karl Lagerfeld

It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.

Kabir Bedi

I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days.

Syed Ahmed

He not only sold us a building, he sold us the town.

William Kristol

These soldiers deserve a better defense secretary than the one we have.

William Jennings Bryan

No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.

Robert M. Gates

Development is a lot cheaper than sending soldiers.

Winston Churchill

Put together a seaman, soldier and airman and what do you get? The sum of all fears.

Wilhelm Keitel

It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue.

Walter Scott

Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.

Winston Churchill

You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of their fears.

Samuel Johnson

A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption.

Patrick Foley

It can get complicated. It takes time, and there are a lot of legal-document translations.

Jenny Lewis

I think it's always an adjustment for me, but I do feel like, ultimately, I can kind of write anywhere. It just takes a second to get back in to the groove.

Phil Simms

Whatever it takes to make yourself a little angry.

Jorge Posada

Whatever it takes to get a 'W,' we have to keep on winning,

James Boyle

What you see can be nauseating, but you kind of get used to it. Without complications, it takes an hour-and-a-half, usually.

Michael Richards

I think we had that sense that everyone was going to do whatever it takes to win.

David Baker

I will do what it takes to get through this year,

Ben Crenshaw

I don't know where this week is going to lead, but I've had so much fun. I'm just going to kind of see where it takes me.

Bobby Jones

He has that grown-man game. He's strong, he rebounds. He just takes that team to another level.

Khaled Hosseini

You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.

Daniel Boulud

I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.

Mohsin Hamid

When I travel, I feel more like a nomad than a tourist.

Terry Pratchett

Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant ‘idiot.

Karl Lagerfeld

I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I'm not a tourist.

Paul Richards

The vagabond, when rich, is called a tourist

Andrew Zimbalist

You are substituting one set of tourists for another.

Mike Simpson

Visits from tourists are not going to do it,

Adam Braun

Tourists see, and travelers seek.

Terry Lanni

It has to be distinctive and it has to be more urban and it has to feel contemporary.

Narendra Modi

Urban development initiatives must match the aspirations of the middle class and the neo middle class.

Helmut Jahn

I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building.

Mahatma Gandhi

Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers.

Eric Kripke

I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.

David Butler

It's a new idea of supplying non-drinking water in an urban environment.

Armand Assante

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker

Bruce Sterling

Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of Postmodern skyscrapers.

Li Keqiang

Urbanization is not about simply increasing the number of urban residents or expanding the area of cities. More importantly, it's about a complete change from rural to urban style in terms of industry structure, employment, living environment and social security.