#appeal

An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court. ↗

— Finley Peter Dunne

#appeal #ask #contempt #court #show

The most important and urgent appeal we have to make is for an immediate cease-fire. Initial reports from the cease-fire talks being held in N'Djamena in Chad are not very encouraging. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#being #cease-fire #chad #encouraging #held

You make a film and you don't know who it's going to appeal to. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#film #going #know #make #who

A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worth while to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#appeal #continue #hear #her #i

It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#breeding #conscience #control #long #long run

I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#across #appealing #article #book #came

Sex appeal is not on purpose. ↗

— Heather Locklear

#purpose #sex #sex appeal

It's really cool to know that you've put something together that isn't for a particular audience. It's so often that a TV show can really only speak to one sect of the population, and this really is something that appeals to a worldwide fan base. People who are into the pursuit of knowledge. Their reaction has meant the world to us. ↗

— David Krumholtz

#audience #base #cool #fan #fan base

If I have any appeal at all, it's to the fellow who takes out the garbage. ↗

— Lee Marvin

#appeal #fellow #garbage #i #out

Pantaloons were often worn tight as paint and were not a great deal less revealing, particularly as they were worn without underwear. . . . Jackets were tailored with tails in the back, but were cut away in front so that they perfectly framed the groin. It was the first time in history that men's apparel was consciously designed to be more sexy than women's. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#modesty #sex-appeal #design