Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Rickles

When I walk down the street in New York, I swear to God, the building constructor, the guy pounding cement and what not, will yell, 'Hey, you hockey puck!'

Barack Obama

Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.

Rob Lowe

The '90s were a time of building for me. Building a life that was sober, drained of harmful, wasteful excess and manufacturing in its place a family of my own.

Kathy Sierra

That was quite an experience right there, ... We went to New York the year after it happened. It was weird, because there was just like a big ol' gap in between all these buildings and you could tell where the damage had been done.

Margo Jonker

That was a great swing by Crews. I thought we were going to get right back into the game after that. It seemed building from that, we just weren't energized.

Justin Huber

That was a great start to the game, it really got everyone up from the beginning. We just kept building on our play from that point on.

Chris Laplante

We have all of the original plans, about 130 sheets of plans, that we used in designing and building the Texas State Capitol Building.

Paul Watson

We have also made the decision to have only 1 per cent of the fund invested in fixed interest. Instead, we use investments like the RG Casey building in Canberra to deliver a higher annuity style income for rents for long periods.

Jim Balsillie

We have already seen significant customer interest in this powerful combination, and we look forward to building on our relationship with Palm.

Beeban Kidron

I am still cautiously hopeful about the potential of the Internet. But it seems that the greatest revolution in communication has been hijacked by commercial values.

David Friedman

I know a lot of people who have tremendous commercial success and they go directly for it. There's something that has always been difficult about that for me.

Nicole Holofcener

I don't have a drawer full of ideas. I kind of look around and take notes and wonder what could actually be a whole movie. And each time, I think I'm going to do it more commercial this time; I'm going to get a big budget and make it. But I always come up with some small idea.

Jack Foley

The American marketplace is one conditioned by commercial movies, and the American moviegoer is in the greatest part a commercial moviegoer. They don't have much patience for high end.

Randy West

Because these show are live, script pages are being switched during the program and new commercial teases might be yelled in your ear with just enough time to scribble them on scrap paper before reading them.

Rick Rubin

I never really think so much about commercial success; I usually just think about records that move me, and 'Baby Got Back' was one that moved me.

Suranga Chandratillake

Today, the way the system works, when you sign up to provide your content for the system, you sign off that your content will be downloaded and replicated. We do have a DRM, but we are keeping it for more commercial content.

Paul Di Filippo

Consensus wisdom has it that all modern commercial fantasy novels fall into two camps: those derived from J.R.R. Tolkien and those derived from Mervyn Peake. The 'Lord of the Rings' template or the 'Gormenghast' mold.

Philipp Meyer

When you hold things back, when you don't commit completely to your ideas and trust completely in your own instincts, you are guaranteeing your own failure - even if you end up having commercial success.

Ian Mckellen

The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.

J. C. Watts

The $54 price objective represents 17 times 2002 estimated revenue. The stock currently trades at 28 times 2001 revenue, implying a multiple contraction.

Stephen Toulouse

We're working on an update to Internet Explorer and that update is currently in our testing process and could come out as early as April. However there's no firm date.

Tom Hougaard

We are obviously expecting to a see a sea of red this morning. The selling has been relentless through the night and currently the Dow is being called down about 100 points.

Ed Watson

We are disappointed with the decision. We are currently considering the 88-page judgment and whether we appeal.

Newt Gingrich

I think Secretary Powell is an extraordinary figure and I think he's a very effective advocate, but I think he is currently presiding over an institution that's broken,

Ben Bernanke

I think policy is currently quite accommodative. I think it can remain quite accommodative for a while to come,

Mary Wysong

I think I have a good pulse with what is currently going on in our schools.

Gene Collins

We have to stop this hate-mongering bureaucracy that we currently have.

Isambard K. Brunel

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.

William McDonough

I think the job of an original designer is to inspire.

Donatella Versace

Women are all the same; we want to be smaller in the waist, longer legs, slimmer. I design for women and their defects, to make them better.

David Carson

The dreaded phrase in design circles is 'show and tell.'

David H. Murdock

Success isn't something you achieve by accident, but rather by design.

Donald Norman

Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone.

Donald Norman

I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing.

Darell Hammond

Just as playgrounds didn't even make the priority list of most of those responding to Katrina, they all too often slip off the radar of those building our schools, designing our neighborhoods, and drafting government budgets.

Stephen Baker

The PC is a big durable goods item now. When the economy is slowing, people tend to reduce their spending on those kinds of things.

John C. Calhoun

What is a permanent loan but a mortgage upon the wealth and industry of the country? It is the only form of indebtedness, as experience has shown, by which heavy and durable encumbrance can be laid upon the community.

Travis Thomas

I thought I showed, first of all, that I was a durable back since I took all the reps for my team. I showed some speed, some acceleration, some vision. And I just showed some will.

Sam Dubbin

We hope it will stand as a durable lesson for the future.

Scott Turow

Yes, that's a pretty durable Turow theme. Everyone has two sides.

Michael Woolfolk

Given the recent spate of positive January data, CPI and durable goods are unlikely to disappoint. The USD is positioned to make new gains ... as favorable U.S. growth and interest rate differentials weigh on market sentiment.

Pat Hill

He's a very durable running back. He's always getting us the tough yard. The first two weeks of the season we didn't use him much. We rode him pretty hard (against Toledo) last week.

Ned Colletti

We think Brett is a huge plus. He's been so durable, probably a 200-inning guy. Having starters who are durable gives us more options in the rotation, in the bullpen.

Andrew Friedman

We are happy to have Harper back in 2006. Travis has been very versatile and durable in his seasons with the Rays. Travis pitched very well down the stretch and we expect him to be a positive contributor.

Vicky Rideout

While many parents have used the ratings or the V-Chip, too many still don't know what the ratings mean or even that their TV includes a V-Chip.

Elliott Abrams

Palestine, as Icelanders see it, includes the Western Wall of the Second Temple, Judaism's holiest site.

Chris Taylor

The project includes signs of every possible type.

Harry Reid

Like all compromises, it includes provisions that are not supported by everyone in this body,

Debbie Ford

My goal is always transformation. I love to watch people transform their lives, which includes their inner world and their outer world.

Peter Bicks

All parties are trying to feel their way around and that includes how juries will react to their cases. It's only after you have a track record that you can really refine your strategy.

Ali Larijani

I want to say that the process of enrichment is the sovereign right of any country. You should not take away this right from nations which have a peaceful nuclear program, which consequently, includes also enrichment.

Skip Rutherford

The recipes are good, but the stories are also good, ... It includes all ranges of Clinton's life.

Chuck Hagel

Why in the world they're doing that, I don't know. You've got 90 senators out of 100 and that includes many Republicans opposed to it,

Bruce Eric Kaplan

Actually, I think that 'Seinfeld' tackles the same kinds of issues as 'Six Feet Under,' just in a different way.

Barack Obama

Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

Cecil Taylor

The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.

Cecelia Ahern

What seems tragic now won't even be an issue in a few years time.

Carl Sagan

When you buy a used car, you kick the tires, you look at the odometer, you open up the hood. If you do not feel yourself an expert in automobile engines, you bring a friend who is. And you do this with something as unimportant as an automobile. But on the issues of the transcendent, of ethics, of morals, of the origins of the world, of the nature of human beings, on those issues should we not insist upon at least equally skeptical scrutiny?

Art Alexakis

I've always cared about the world. That's never been an issue. But with learning how to smile, it's been learning how to feel comfortable within my own skin, and to feel accepted, and to feel empowered, and to feel worthy.

J. C. Watts

We need to keep these issues on the table.

Bill Holmes

We could have issues with the scoreboard, ... The scoreboard is a $1 million piece of equipment.

Pat Call

We know that we have significant water issues here.

Irving Stone

My goal always is to tell a universal story, meaning it's about a person who has an idea, a vision, a dream, an ambition to make the world somewhat less chaotic.

Wendelin Van Draanen

I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I'm crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though we have a state-of-the-art PC. There are just less distractions with the simpler machine.

Pat Craig

The police like that it's in the afternoon. They think less people will be drunk.

Phillip Neuhart

The picture is getting less and less pretty.

Winona LaDuke

Eliminating some 3600 post offices - mostly rural - will save the USPS less than seven tenths of one percent of their operating budget, but nationally, a number of tribal communities will be hit.

Joyce Cary

It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.

Larry Colagiovanni

That was his normal route. He said he didn't like (Interstate) 95. Less traffic. Less lights.

Kati Haycock

That we have such problems is clear. The way to better results is less clear.

Porter Goss

We need to have this surveillance, and if there's a way we can do it differently in ways that are less offensive to some people, that might be a matter worth discussing.

Dan Modzelewski

We're using materials that are very tough and very strong to withstand the weather.

Jim Adams

We're already working on getting prices on materials for the building.

Peter Diamandis

We're not seeing any breakthroughs in physics or materials science here,

Chris Colfer

I'm really not good blackmail material.

Bob Newhart

You never know when you'll come upon something and it's going to be fodder for new material.

Brunello Cucinelli

I come from a farming culture, where we valued raw materials above all.

Don Brownlee

But the study of these materials will go on for decades.

Chuck Ewings

That was probably because of materials. After the hurricane, materials went up.

Aaron Copland

I don't compose. I assemble materials.

Charles M. Schwab

I thought and dreamed of nothing else but the steel works.

A. E. Housman

Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.

Andrew Carnegie

Steel is prince or pauper.

Elinor Wylie

An old earthen pipe like myself is dry and thirsty and so a most voracious drinker of life at its source; I'm no more to be split by the vital stream than if I were stone or steel.

Annika Sorenstam

so I can feel the steel and be more in touch with the workout.

Herb Kelleher

It takes nerves of steel to stay neurotic.

Geraldine Chaplin

If you make films, you're changing rhythm the whole time. You go from a quiet life to an absolutely turbulent life which is typical of moviemaking. And then you get back to your normal life and you have to have nerves of steel.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Tell me again how great you are, asshole. Nothing like a steel enema to ruin even your best day. (Fang)

Simon Hughes

You don't need a helmet facing Waqar [Younis] so much as a steel toe cap

Janet Mintzer

We have water infiltration in the house, as well as we have structural problems.

Ted Duncan

There has been no structural damage. We have been very lucky.