Famous Quotes & Sayings

The movie was outstanding, very compelling and very well done.

The most important thing for Windows is being compelling to developers. Developers are the linchpin for the success of Windows.

There would have to be a compelling reason.

Janet Reno

that she is not compelled to force Juan Miguel Gonzalez to keep his son in the U.S. and indicated that she would do nothing to stop him from going home with his son to Cuba.

While the stock could remain under pressure near term, we maintain our 'buy' rating on IBM owing to a compelling second-half story.

Adam Rayner

Everyone working on 'Tyrant' wants to present the world and the issues in it in an intelligent, open, fair, non-reductive kind of way. For the actors, we have to try and make these stories as truthful and compelling as possible.

So it's very difficult for them. But there are compelling reasons for them to come to the talks. The settlement on offer is a good one and I'd hope they would see their way to doing that.

Robert Wilson

Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the visual is not an afterthought, not an illustration of the text. If it says the same thing as the words, why look? The visual must be so compelling that a deaf man would sit though the performance fascinated.

Obviously, they've got an incredibly compelling story to tell.

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

William Daley

I don't think you play it safe. I think you try to be very natural and lay out in a forward way the compelling reasons for the election going your way,

If the filmmaker has not done the work to grab the viewer with compelling storytelling, then the shock will probably be little more than a passing gimmick or an obscenity.

If someone can get ADSL today, the reasons today are compelling enough.

Janet Reno

If we're compelled to enforce our order, we intend to do so in a reasoned, measured way,

By contrast, China's domestic market was oversupplied generally, compelling traders to turn to international markets and thus boosting export.

But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.

How do you create something that's so compelling that people move from A to B?

Steve Elmendorf

I think Kerry's dead because I don't think he has anything to say. Message has something to do with this, and I don't think he has anything interesting or compelling to say. He's a weak third in Iowa and a weak second in New Hampshire, and I think if you finish third in Iowa and a weak second in New Hampshire, you're through.

While you had groups complaining about the violence and sexuality, what really sold those games were the compelling stories. Without them, you're just shooting people and stealing cars.

I don't see any compelling reason for a cut. The market hasn't changed; the price is still $67 a barrel.

If due to ego you think: I shall not fight; this resolve of yours is vain. Your own nature will compel you.

Howls of protest met my original downgrade to Thailand back in February. Now the conditions are in place to make this a compelling upgrade.

Judge, if I looked only at what you've said and written in the past, I'd feel compelled to vote no.

Previously the Fed had a reason to raise rates. There is no compelling reason to raise rates at the present time.

Sheldon Adelson

I am willing to spend whatever it takes … My moral standard compels me to speak out on this issue because I am the largest company by far in the industry and I am willing to speak out. I don’t see any compelling reason for the government to allow people to gamble on the Internet and nobody has ever explained except for the two companies whose special interest is going to be served if there is gaming on the Internet, Caesars and MGM.

Eric Williams

The Lord compelled me to go. Some people say they were moved by what they saw. Well, I was moved to go.

Maxine Waters

The mayor's race is a very sad event for me. I feel no connection. I have no passion. And I don't feel compelled to do anything.

Shane Carruth

I love the concept of the romance that exists when people are broken. Like, the promise of a romance when you're at the bottom. I think that's infinitely compelling and romantic.

Sid Meier

Our hope is to deliver an incredibly fun and compelling game that will give the fans more than what they've been waiting for, and show a whole new generation of gamers how much fun it is to live the life of a pirate!

Our view is the takeover is compelling and at the right price should proceed.

Ezra Taft Benson

God will have a humble people. Either we can choose to be humble, or we can be compelled to be humble.

The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those infallible distinctions between right and wrong.

Paul Haggis

You can't plan for people to like your movies. I knew that people were not going to run in droves to the theater for the 'In the Valley of Elah.' I knew they might not want to see it, but I still had to the movie; I felt very strongly about it. Wanting to keep telling a good story is what you want to do, a compelling story.