Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lisa Cholodenko

I tend not to be so attracted to films that force me into an intellectual place over an emotional one.

Mark Harmon

I'm in the business to push it. I'm not likely to be attracted to characters I've already done.

Peter Franck

We were attracted to it because we thought it was irreverent and poignant, and because of the obsolete technology.

Lina Wertmuller

I love life. I love my friends. I love to eat. Too many things, I love. I am very much an anti-historical character. I am attracted to happy people. Happy people with very grave problems.

Dannel Malloy

Whenever people say, 'You should be president,' I say, 'I thought you liked me.' Listen, I thought being mayor of Stamford was a wonderful job. Being governor of a state for a period of time is a wonderful job, and I'm not sure I'm at all attracted to Washington.

Jean Marais

What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.

Gypsy Lee

Women who marry men they don't love or aren't attracted to, men who are older, unattractive or unlovable, such women cannot validly look down on prostitutes. That is to say, on honest prostitutes.

Wu Bangguo

Work safety incidents, which always involve sacrifice of human lives, attracted wide public attention.

Wu Bangguo

Work safety incidents, which always involve losses of human lives, attracted wide public attention. Therefore, in 2005, the NPC Standing Committee examined the work safety law implementation from various aspects.

Jimbo Davis

We always believed we could come back, and once we got to their bullpen, we knew we were gonna score a lot of runs. It was just a matter of whether we'd run out of innings.

Jo Nata

We are prepared to do something dramatic again. Don't forget, we took over parliament and held hostages for what we believed in.

Martin Jacques

If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprising. For the best part of two centuries, we British ruled the waves, controlled two-fifths of the planet, and believed it was our responsibility to bring civilisation to those who allegedly lacked it.

Ted Leonsis

When you're young and you buy entertainment-oriented businesses, you do it so you can package them in a way that enhances their value. I've always believed that to build the Internet you build a community of interests. Then you supply content to strengthen the sense of community - and a hockey team is content.

Brandy Norwood

Right now, it's really about my fans knowing that whatever I believed spiritually at the time is what I believed. I just wouldn't deliberately lie to them just to save my image.

Tim Finchem

We've always believed we're prepared to do it, ... We can handle it in short order if we need to.

Adam Rothberg

We've always believed in Dan Brown's exceptional talent as an author. Everyone in publishing knows that sometimes it takes three or more books to reach critical mass and we're happy to have ultimately sold millions of copies of his books.

Kyle Hines

When we weren't winning, we were still working hard. It just didn't seem like we had all the pieces of the puzzle. We all believed sometime we'd click, and I'm happy it's now.

Frank Spinner

What he was doing he was doing in the open, and he was doing it because he believed the information in fact would save lives.

Samir Inamdar

We are prepared to play Zimbabwe in March.

James Hogan

We are prepared to go all-Boeing or all-Airbus,

Brian Bogosian

We are prepared financially to see this thing through to the very end.

Bob Castle

We're going to take our time and be careful. We are prepared for problems.

Scott Hamilton

It seems like they get it, and it seem like they were able to prepare properly for the new scoring system.

Alexander Downer

They have indicated they are prepared to resume talks and before too long, within a reasonable time frame,

PJ Crowley

They talked about where they were and what they should be prepared to consider.

Amanda Brown

They ran the play well. Props for them making it, but we should have been more prepared for that.

Regg Simon

There was one team prepared to play tonight and one team that wasn't. The team that was up 2-0 was prepared.

Alan Watts

You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.

Alan Paton

But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.

Alan Bennett

I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.

Alan Ball

I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

Alan Alda

When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect. That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.

Al Stewart

Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

Akio Morita

I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.

Chris Cleave

I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school.

Chris Colfer

I kind of did this thing in high school, a spoof of 'Sweeney Todd' called 'Shirley Todd,' and I had a great time doing that.