Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Graham

First and foremost the highway is needed for safety, but then we started looking at the economic development impact. We know how important transportation is when attracting businesses.

Billy Collins

I am increasingly attracted to restricting possibility in the poem by inflicting a form upon yourself. Once you impose some formal pattern on yourself, then the poem is pushing back. I think good poems are often the result of that kind of wrestling with the form.

Billy Collins

I am a nonparticipant of social media. I'm not much attracted to anything that involves the willing forfeiture of privacy and the foregrounding of insignificance.

There are a lot of guys out there with a Web site and a dream, positioning things to flip over to genuine developers. The current gold-rush mentality has attracted several speculators, causing a low percentage of projects to get built.

I suppose women are attracted to the bad-boy image sometimes because it's fun to have an adventure. It's like eating junk food... it's fun at the time, but ultimately not the best choice.

Hermann von Helmholtz

Iron which is brought near a spiral of copper wire, traversed by an electrical current, becomes magnetic, and then attracts other pieces of iron, or a suitably placed steel magnet.

David Henry Hwang

My father has always been interested in discarding the past. He's never much liked China or the whole idea behind China or Chinese ways of thinking. He's always been much more attracted to American ways of thinking. He feels Americans are more open - they tell you what they think - and he's very much that way himself.

Orison Swett Marden

If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.

We built a modern, attractive store and it drives traffic into the community. The Monroe store's business has been unbelievable, and it has been very good to our company.

We built a modern, attractive store - and it drives traffic into the community.

While Saks is trying to make itself even more exclusive and pricing its goods even higher, the Neiman Marcus stores are going in the other direction and trying to attract a larger group of consumers. Today's development shows that competition in the luxury space is being ratcheted up a notch.

Winning isn't everything, but playing to win is. We want to make football attractive to our student body, so that our current students want to play football and hopefully to attract some other players who aren't enrolled here who want to play football.

Henry Paulson

Wit Capital has pioneered the integration of the Internet and the capital markets, and both investors and corporate issuers are benefiting as a result, ... We believe that Wit Capital is both an attractive investment for Goldman Sachs and an important part of our ongoing commitment to supporting the Internet and other new technologies in our business.

Shelley Duvall

You think he's going to like you better, but then one day you look in the mirror and realize you've changed yourself - physically and emotionally - into a woman who's totally different from the one he was attracted to the first place.

Sharon Lawrence

I am attracted to the complexities and deeper truths of characters, and I can't name a favourite role any more than I can name a favourite food!

Ruth Rendell

Everybody wants their fame. They long for it, and I think they don't much care how they get it - to attract attention to themselves.

Faith is an invisible and invincible magnet, and attracts to itself whatever it fervently desires and calmly and persistently expects.

Family households often believe they have no choice but to move to the suburbs. They will only be attracted to communities that have food, schools, parks, child care facilities, services and community centers. These are the very households that make up most of the demand for urban sprawl.

Families have been finding it more attractive in many cases to look towards state universities, others schools that are lower cost. And we've decided to respond to that need by protecting their savings and home equity to a greater extent than before.

James Nasmyth

But my most favourite pursuit, after my daily exertions at the Foundry, was Astronomy. There were frequently clear nights when the glorious objects in the Heavens were seen in most attractive beauty and brilliancy.

Elie Wiesel

I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language.

Audrey Hepburn

My first big mission for UNICEF in Ethiopia was just to attract attention, before it was too late, to conditions which threatened the whole country. My role was to inform the world, to make sure that the people of Ethiopia were not forgotten.

The GO Zone could be attractive to businesses like this.

The good news in some ways is that we seem to be attractive to young families with kids. The problem is the people coming in tend to have less capital at their disposal. They're less educated. They're more likely to work in 20th century as opposed to 21st century jobs.

Annette Bening

I had never been attracted to younger guys. I had, from my late teens, always liked men who were older than me.

Michael Dell

We see this as a fantastic opportunity for us to attract some of the best and bright engineers for our software and hardware activities.

Alan Furst

The 1930s was a funny time. People knew they might not live for another six months, so if they were attracted to one another, there was no time to dawdle.

We had a buy on Toshiba in the last quarter of last year, on the basis we thought it was going to make more money out of its flash memory business. And indeed it did. But again, that stock did well and now valuations do not look attractive any more.

Sarah Thompson

We believe several of the company's assets/divisions may be attractive acquisition targets given their growth prospects and the relative ease to which they could be separated from the larger business.

Robert Stone

We believe scale, low cost, high capacity growth, high quality, and domestic supply relationships make it an attractive global solar ... play.

Reinhold Messner

We attract tourists to these regions where we can't guarantee their security,

We attract planes from all over. They love our terminal. The whole package is good for them.

Randy Bernard

We attract everyone from 8 years old to 80 years old, with our key demographic obviously being 18- to 34-year-old men. But if you come to one of our events, it's more like a rock 'n' roll event than anything else.