Famous Quotes & Sayings

People always say they thought fields had to be green and I agreed. Maybe we'll get an orange one; it would be a great attraction for Bowling Green.

James Hanley

Our channel partners are critical to our success, and we are committed to providing them with the programs, resources and services they need to most effectively deliver value to their customers using CA technologies. Those technologies have become even more attractive to the channel as IT security and infrastructure management become increasingly important markets for solution sellers.

Jamie Wyeth

Painting is a field that attracts a lot of lazy people. You can just sort of sit and wait for things to come to you. I know a lot of painters who'll sit and chat it up all night. But God, I just can't do that.

Overspending is a very attractive trap. If people like what they're doing, despite the worry of debt, they won't do anything about it.

PaineWebber is an attractive target for a few reasons. Most importantly: the high net worth business. Second, it does have institutional presence. And third, you have very little crossover, meaning it is easy to find synergies in this type of a transaction.

Paper and leather binding for books are greatly appealing. It's going to be a transitional period. A fellow growing appreciating books might never buy an electronic book. But someone growing up using a game boy will find using an e-book is a very natural way of reading. And they'll find it a lot more attractive than carrying around 50-pound pack of school books.

P&O had an obligation to their shareholders. An offer came in which was too attractive to turn down.

Over the past two decades, Shakespeare in the Park has become one of the Tampa Bay area's most beloved institutions, having attracted more than 20,000 patrons a year. After speaking with our audience, we decided that, after 20 years, it was time to start a new tradition.

Our program, and our conference because of its great reputation for developing players to their highest potential, attracts quality quarterbacks and receivers. These young guys are good and they're ready to step up.

Our strong teen-girl demographic attracts a lot of the boys as well, so I suspect that they'll let us continue to create the show with a style that has already gotten us into the third season anyway.

Our songs did not transcend being R&B hits. They were R&B hits that white kids were attracted to. And if people bought it, it became rock & roll. That's marketing. Why couldn't it still be R&B? The bass pattern didn't change. The song didn't change. It was still 'Yakety Yak' and 'Searchin'.'

Our focus has never been on fast runners. That's why there's no prize money. . . . In terms of attracting big names, our philosophy is we want to provide this quality of service to our runners.

Our focus was to keep the business in the state. Shreveport offered the most attractive option.

Tim White

Our focus is to attract 200 youth between 10 and 16 who come from disadvantaged and low-income families from throughout the area. People can come from other counties, from Ohio and Kentucky -- as long as they meet eligibility requirements.

Our goal is to try and attract the best possible teams into the state.

Outlets need to be innovative. They need to make sure they are attractive and that they are speaking to the demographic. But by no means are they past their prime or suffering a stigma of being low-end shopping.

The outsize rally in the publicly traded debt for companies in this sector suggests that the bond market is sending a signal that the communications equipment sub-sector is particularly attractive at present relative to other technology sub-sectors,

Beeban Kidron

This idea of the digital native in the bedroom taking down a fascist regime and building a billion-dollar company is a very attractive image, but actually, if you look at the research, young people are on the lowest rung of digital opportunity.

Wolfgang Puck

The good news about showcasing chefs and the TV shows is they've attracted a lot more smart kids to the profession than 30 years ago. On the downside, though, these young chefs all say they want their own restaurant and their own TV show.

Walter Kirn

I had the impression from reading English literature that British women were great beauties, and I only had seen Julie Christie, and she was gorgeous and sexy. I don't know whether it was just my taste, but when I got to London, I went two years without seeing a truly attractive woman. A lot of near misses.

Felicity Kendal

It's difficult to say what attracts one person to another. It's always a combination, isn't it? I've always found people interesting because of the way they think, and a sense of humour is irresistible.

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.

Chaz Bono

I confused gender identity with sexual orientation. Your gender identity is about who you are, how you feel, the sex that you feel yourself to be. Sexual orientation is who you're attracted to.

Freddie Stroma

What attracted me to acting, from the start, was playing different characters. I'm not a massive fan of just playing myself on screen.

Laurie Holden

I'm just attracted to good material and great characters and that can come in any form, whether it's television or film or a theatre piece.

What you want to do as a restaurant is attract as many different people as possible.

Valerie Simpson

We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white.

Indra Nooyi

India is a country with huge potential, and it remains an attractive high priority market for PepsiCo. We believe we have only scratched the surface of long term growth opportunities that exist for PepsiCo and our partners.

Sarah McLachlan

We showed the industry that female artists could attract the same audiences as the big male stars.

I'm attracted to stories that deal with the family and what it's like to be a member of that family, whether it's together or apart, given the pressures that are put on it by the outside world.

Shari Sebbens

I'm attracted to strong female roles: females that aren't necessarily defined by their relationships with men.

If you want to attract more investment, foreign investment, more talent, more business, I think having some level of certainty that the business environment respects, those who have been your partners for a long time, is important.

Lindsey Graham

We don't have a lot of Reagan-type leaders in our party. Remember Ronald Reagan Democrats? I want a Republican that can attract Democrats.