Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Eisner

In the beginning of the century, in 1900, the newspapers in this country began running comic strips, and they were called jokes or funnies. The word comics developed later, but it is that that began to give the name - the ambience of comics - the feeling of being a frivolous kind of art-form.

Charles Gray

The downtown area is the ambience of the city. People come hunting for the artist, shops, and the walk. Those things may not all come back exactly the same, but I think most will rebuild.

Kathy Baylis

The labor market is very tight. All employers are trying to find workers. But there is some ambience to working in a brand new store.

Kurt Barnard

The May contribution is going to be very substantial because of the in-house brands, displays, and ambience of the stores.

Julie Rousseau

It was somewhat of an empty feeling. There wasn't the ambience of a basketball game, the excitement surrounding it. But I love the neutral site. I think it levels the playing field.

Jerry Reed

Celebrities like John Wayne and Willie Nelson used to stay here, so we took that idea and ran with it. Our visitors really like staying in rooms with a unique ambience rather than the bland cookie-cutter chain hotel rooms we've all seen before. We replaced just about everything except the walls to give the rooms a whole new look and feel.

Candace Corlett

More than just service, it's the respect, rapport, ambience that engages customers so that price becomes the last thing on their minds as they walk around stores.

Mark Spano

I don't want to rip this building apart and ruin the ambience of this landmark.

Jon Gerych

We attempt to grasp the 'look and feel' of the buildings with the seating, lighting ambience and floral pieces.

Tim Williams

I was in the main shop area when I heard a loud explosion. My ears hurt, and I took off running. I looked back and saw flames, and kept going.

Daren Beaudo

Knowing the impact area and getting it cleaned up, to us, is in a sense the most important thing.

Wendy Kopp

Kids in urban and rural areas face so many challenges, and they show up at schools that don't have the extra capacity or extra resources to meet their needs.

Cindy Hockenberry

I would suggest people start out by asking how long they've been in business, what their background is, and do they have a degree, which isn't required. Have they been in the area for a long time? Are they open all year? Do they stand behind their work?

Jon Lindhout

Just the vision of a revitalized Bellingham waterfront will make this place a desirable area for boaters. A new marina would also be big deal for the local boating industry, which plays an important role in this economy.

Douglas Porter

I suspect there will be enough positive news in other areas to persuade consumers there is a light at the end of the tunnel and that the economy is moving to better times, but it will be a gradual process, and confidence may be flat in the next couple of months.

John Eade

I think investors should be ready to buy on the dips, particularly in long-term focus areas like technology or health care.

Bruce Schneider

I think in general things are getting worse, not better. There are lots of little victories. Spam is one of our industries shining victories. But there are lots of areas where we aren't doing very well.

Nancy Bell

It can seem so complicated, but to me it's really not all that complicated, ... There are certain areas we would never want to see developed.

Gary Ferguson

Having Starbucks downtown will make a statement about downtown being a place to do business.

Kate Joncas

It guarantees downtown will have only luxury or subsidized housing, which ... will not make a healthy neighborhood.

Johnny Rivers

I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I.

Sharon Joseph

I didn't want to come here and still have to go downtown to eat. There's only so much I can do at Sylvia's.

Eddie Bumbaugh

Christa is one of several downtown property owners converting upper stories to housing.

David Pope

The Downtown Oak Park Plan anticipates improvements to the underpass,

Maureen Pero

It's not like downtown is doing horrible but everything around us is doing great. I mean, they're vacant in Centerville and Beavercreek and other places and north of town at the same level we're vacant. So it's a regional problem, it's not just downtown.

Mark Jackson

You can't just rely on the downtown businesses. You have to get people from every part of your town active.

Laura Muir

The Rep will be the first new professional theatre to be constructed downtown. We see this expansion downtown as solidifying our position as a leader in the cultural, social and economic life of the city.

Joe Clabby

I think it's a huge step in the right direction. It's exactly what they should be doing.

Kirk Smith

It always does increase in the winter, we don't know exactly why.

Matthew Johnson

He was a happy-go-lucky nihilist. He took things exactly as they were. No more, no less.

Matthew Johnson

He was a happy-go-lucky nihilist, ... He took things exactly as they were. No more, no less.

Todd Pletcher

He was a fresh horse and ran exactly the way we wanted him to.

Robert Dallek

He was able to put them on the trail of the truth to find out just exactly what was going on in this scandal.

Janet Brown

He wanted to be exactly where he was when he made that phone call.

John Buck

He didn't miss it. Everything was down to Damon. We had been pounding Jeter in all day, so we wanted to go down and away with the splitter. Instead, it was up - exactly the opposite of where we wanted it.

Leonard Hamilton

He didn't have the spring and had a tough time holding his position. I don't know exactly when it happened until the second half when he said he couldn't go. At that point I noticed him limping.

Bill Gottschalk

I don't have time to fish. I take my time off in the hunting season.

Richard Paul Evans

Some people spend so much time hunting treasure that they fail to see it all around them. It's like sifting through gold to find the silt.

Rick Riordan

Artemis grit her teeth. "I need a favor. I have some hunting to do, alone. I need you to take my companions to Camp Half-Blood." "Sure Sis!" then he raised his hands in a "stop everything" gesture. "I feel a haiku comIng on." The Hunters all groaned. Apparently they'd met Apollo before. He cleared his throat and held up one hand dramatically. "Green grass breaks through snow. Artemis pleads for my help. I am so awesome.

Woody Allen

You can't anticipate in the room the riches of what you encounter when you're location hunting for a movie.

William Wells Brown

I was not only hunting for my liberty, but also hunting for my name.

Walter Cronkite

The perils of duck hunting are great- especially for the duck.

Wayne Pacelle

The definition of obscenity on the newsstands should be extended to many hunting magazines.

William Golding

Which is better -- to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better -- to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?

Sam Abell

I did a story for the Geographic on Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, and Stephen Ambrose was the writer. He said, "I've got the easiest job in the world. I just have to re-tell the story of the greatest fishing, camping, hunting, canoeing trip of all time. You, Sam, have the hardest job, which is, pretend like nothing has happened in the last 200 years.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.