“Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.”
Ian Anderson
“I was not persuasive enough to persuade the president that the Marines were there on an impossible mission.”
Caspar Weinberger
“Most countries in the Gulf do not have to be persuaded that a nuclear Iran is a threat to them. But they ask if the cure is worse than the disease.”
Jon Alterman
“She is not in the form at all. We tried to persuade her to give up all-around but she insisted to give it a try.”
Lu Shanzhen
“A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.”
Leo Szilard
“I would not be here if I weren't persuaded by 20 years of walking around campuses and seeing this.”
David Horowitz
“We haven't unfortunately been able to persuade Apple Corps in relation to their Beatles catalogue. But we have persuaded everybody else.”
Anthony Grabiner
