Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Love in the peace of the blessing in the inheritance with a god in the worship of the man and an attraction in neatness is a GOOD MARRIAGE.

She is living the dream of so many people who watch Big Brother and her attraction is therefore huge.

People want to know whether a place is a credible first-world city. What they found in New Orleans was that underneath the gloss and facade of a first-world tourist attraction was a third-world reality. It will take a lot of work to erase that view.

Motorola is putting up a good fight ? the only real challenger to Nokia. But its portfolio hasn't the same attraction as Nokia at the moment.

Max and Moritz for their part found no attraction in it.

There is another thing about a kid, if we all remember, that you have an attraction to evil. Evil is exciting and evil is interesting, and plenty of kids have a fascination for it.

James Cameron

We've been discussing already an 'Aliens' attraction and there's a discussion of a 'Titanic' attraction, what I call the 'Titanic' restaurant-slash-near-death experience.

As skills shortages continue to test candidate sourcing and attraction strategies, and competition for the best possible staff remains high, it is no surprise the issue of employment branding continues to gain attention.

Harold MacMillan

A strange, a perverted creed that has a queer attraction both for the most primitive and for the most sophisticated societies.

The attraction of higher-skilled jobs and better-paying jobs have played a significant role in growing our economy.

The attraction of carry trades is in decline, a lot of people will be wary of going into the Icelandic crown.

The attraction is that we are not bogged down in tremendous bureaucracies and processes that make it difficult to get the transactions done.

Roger Smith

The attraction is that there must be interesting and possibly sad stories behind these place names, many of which were given by early European settlers. Unfortunately, a lot of the more unusual names were for places that are just too tiny to feature in the atlas.

The attraction is that Dunkin' Donuts has made coffee a dessert item.

Joe Williams

The attraction in this city is money, from gambling. What you are if you work here is a shill.

Jacky Ickx

That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me.

Jim Bunning

The new visitor center at Big Bone Lick State Park will provide an important cultural attraction in Northern Kentucky that will further establish it as a tourist destination,

John Schuerholz

It's not like me. But I was convinced by Larry and the publishers that in order for the book to have the attraction we wanted it to have, it had to be real and authentic.

They'll be an attraction in themselves. People still like to come and watch the fish being landed, and they'll be very interested in these people doing their painting too.

The senses have been conditioned by attraction to the pleasant and aversion to the unpleasant: a man should not be ruled by them; they are obstacles in his path.

Everyone is anticipating the growth and attraction of this market.

Rafael Yglesias

New York is a much more bourgeois city, more of a tourist attraction than a muscular metropolis. It's lost moxie and a rough energy, while gaining grace and friendliness. I love both versions of the city, but I wish the prosperous Manhattan would become a little easier for young people to afford.

When Sharapova, Venus or Serena do things outside the sport to get attraction it can only be good for the game. We're in a world where it's not just about sports it's about entertainment.

Few people travel from a long distance solely for one attraction or one part of an experience. I think the job here is to complement the Rock Hall with other venues that are also attractive. If the Rock Hall has not reached its peak yet, it's because we are not drawing enough to other venues.

When you hire a good coach, it's basically an attraction. (Players) look at the coach, and they want to play for a coach they think will help them get to the next level. The kids here are basically having a good time. They're learning we're winning because of the coach. It's attraction. The word attraction is very, very important. A good coach attracts.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

What is new in all of this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical traditions are losing their attraction.

Gijs de Vries

I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism.

Bar Paly

I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.

When people belong to something they make more of an attraction to the school. They take more pride in school and feel more at home.

Mario Testino

I don't like a tormented photograph. Something attracts you in them, but the attraction isn't because she has a pot on her head or tonnes of make-up and weird clothes and weird everything.

Right now we have a beach that's a very good attraction for our community and people from outside our community. We're building an events center. And right between those is one of the most contaminated bodies of water in the state.

The slippers are a major attraction at our museum. It is our hope that the slippers can be recovered immediately.