Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Mckellen

The most likely explanation is the most practical. 'Macbeth' is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of 'Macbeth'. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.

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.

The 80s is about color, color, color. When business gets tough, retailers use color to entice the customer because that's the first thing that attracts the buyer.

Hugh Johnson

We got down too far too fast. You reach a level that attracts buyers.

Politics attracts the glib, the fast talker and the con artist. It's a natural place for those who think fast on their feet.

Dick Murphy

I don't think that politics attracts the best and the brightest of America. It doesn't attract the most sincere people.

Gold in its insurance role in a portfolio attracts ample interest.

It attracts a lot of eyeballs. Their distribution on UPN has made it an even more powerful platform. Its robustness is pleasantly surprising. If any company can make a football league work, they can.

Jessica Stroup

Hair on a guy is something that attracts me first; if you've got a good head of hair, and you're able to style yourself in a way that's presentable, I think that's really important.

From a multibillion-dollar tourism perspective here in the city, this is one of the most powerful national signals that we can have, because it is the first major sporting commitment since Katrina. It is an event that attracts thousands of people, it has exposure all over the world, and it puts a highlight that weekend on New Orleans as a destination.

Jeff Carter

We want it to be a place where tourists can stop but is useable to people in the valley. We want to make sure that what attracts people here doesn't disappear.

Women watch more television than men in general, ... So it kind of makes sense to come up with programming that attracts the viewers most likely to be watching.

We're excited about entering the Tallahassee market with this prime location. It is just a little over a mile from the State Capitol building and attracts a strong business clientele as well as leisure guests.

Keith Sweat

Don't get caught up in the 'look' thing. Sometimes, we as men and women, the first thing that attracts us to someone is their physical appearance, and that's not always a good thing because what's good on the outside is not always good on the inside.

Kate O'Mara

I knew 'Bad Girls' attracts a younger audience, and it's vital to get oneself known to that audience because, unless they watch me in re-runs on 'U.K. Gold,' they won't know me from a hole in the ground.

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.

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.

Japan's interest rates are still low. The rate- differential story still attracts Japanese investors to higher yielding assets.

I think a genuine race attracts involvement in a way that a foregone conclusion doesn't.

I think the future of cruising is outstanding. Today, cruising captures only 2% of the vacation market in this country. That's just 9.6 million people, while Las Vegas attracts over 37 million and Orlando is over 40 million. But cruising is capacity constrained. Our ships are full. If we wanted to be 6% of the market, we'd have to double the size of the fleet.

That's the kind of technology that attracts and keeps patients.

I get no sense Citadel will want to do anything really different. WPLJ attracts a great demographic.

Maureen Forrester

When you're good and you're winning, it attracts people to come out for track.

We hate to see any new fund rolled out right when a sector is red hot. That just attracts performance chasers, and performance chasing is a very dangerous game to play.

I like a challenge. The fact that these are secret organizations, and also very important organizations that can engage in abuses that are so important to our national security - all that attracts me.

Sebastian Coe

When the subsidies are going out there to fund arts, I'd like to see jazz given a better shake of the dice. It attracts as many people as opera does, but not the subsidies.

We want to see an offering that attracts the sophisticated customers.

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.

Every Wednesday we have a Bible study (Kid's Club and God's Squad) that attracts 40-50 kids.

It's usually human drama that carries with it issues of race or class that attracts me. That was certainly the case with 'No Crossover.'

There's such a vast range of riches in a small, pretty easily navigated space. That's definitely what attracts me to cities.

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