Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hot Hot Heat is a band that appealed to a wide range of students. They're growing in popularity every day.

That always appealed to me, encouraging kids to read.

I was not going to go just anywhere. The stability of the program appealed to me. Dan is the dean of the Big 12 coaches and has done a great job retaining his coaching staff despite all the success ISU has experienced.

Jenny Lewis

My mother had a great vinyl collection, and she was constantly playing female singer-songwriters. I first learned about classic song structures by listening to them, and Laura Nyro particularly stood out. Her voice was outside what you'd usually hear on the radio; that really appealed to me.

Thomas Perry

I was very impressed with the paintings. The subject matter that she uses is very clear and her style of painting that I saw was something that really appealed to me.

It felt a little awkward at first but it really wasn't relevant because we appealed to two different markets. He was geared toward an older and I a younger generation of listeners. It's like vanilla and chocolate, they're both equally good it just depends what you're in the mood for.

We're building a ranch plan based on a home we had previously done. We really liked this home plan, and when you build a house you are always thinking what if we did this or that differently. It appealed to us so much that we brought the plan, which we named the Encore, with our changes to the committee, and they agreed.

Brian Lamb

We protested and appealed to let our cameras in, but Scalia won and we were kept out, ... Albany is a political town, too, and this shouldn't come as a surprise.

We didn't pull out a marker and get on the board at halftime. We just kind of appealed to their competitive nature and challenged them in terms of where they want to go and how they want their season to play out.

Tom Wolfe

I used to go through the dictionary looking for unusual but nontechnical words. At one time, I thought the greatest word was 'jejune' and I would throw it into every piece because something about it appealed to me.

We know that this case, no matter how it's decided by Judge Fogel, is going to be appealed to the 9th Circuit and probably to the U.S. Supreme Court, so it's very important for us to get the case done right.

We have warned and appealed for months for contributions to save lives in drought-hit Kenya.

North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to Him.

Phil Collins

Originally, I thought the story of the Alamo was all these men defending their liberty when they could have left, knowing they were going to die. That's without a doubt what appealed to me, the romance and the nobility. But, as in life, the more you dig the more you find out that things weren't quite like that.

Robert Smith

The idea of appealing to people of a like mind and like spirit always appealed to me.

Stuff that's truly off-trail was what appealed to 'Weird Tales' editors.

Albert Einstein

To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle

The population that we are trying to reach is not the population that is going to be appealed to by slick marketing efforts. This population relies on individuals within their own communities who can carry that message.

I have appealed to the constitution and laws of my country; if they fail to protect me, I appeal to God, and with Him I cheerfully rest my cause. I can die at my post, but I cannot desert it.

Serge Schmemann

The fall of the Berlin Wall is very much a sequel, a continuation of the story about Eastern Europe emerging from war and Communism. The notion of presenting history as a story also appealed to me very much, since that is the way I look at the events I cover as a reporter.

Alexander Downer

We ask that the length of the sentence be appealed in the Indonesian courts.

Gary Jennings

Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.

Ahmed Ali

There are groups trying to instigate people. We don't want any violence. We prayed for the dead and peace in the city. We appealed to people not to pay heed to rumors.

Douglas Booth

To be able to experience a thousand different lives within my lifetime is something that always appealed to me. I wasn't content with just being one person for the rest of my life.

We run our company very much like a Shakespearean troupe. Everyone contributes. Shakespeare told stories on different levels and appealed to a wide variety of people.