Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stewart Brand

All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.

Shawn Michaels

Shawn Michaels has left the building.

Chris Buck

Luckily, I went to school at CalArts, and then ended up here at Disney, starting in the Animation Building and working my way up. I started as an animator, and then did character designing and storyboarding, and eventually, directing.

Stu Barnes

I think we were better start to finish. It's a building block.

Larry Rothschild

He finished up pretty strong. Everything's where we thought it would be. We'll pick it up the next time and keep building on it.

John Sacchi

He doesn't wait around like some of younger wrestlers or even some of the experienced guys. Steve gets the lead and keeps building on it.

Grant Tolbert

He may have made some phone calls, but a phone call doesn't correct a deficiency. The way I'm looking at it is we've had it for a month out of that seven month period, and that's very common for a building permit.

Henry Willis

Response to a large building collapse requires protection different than what emergency responders are typically provided. The hazards following the collapse of a large multi-story building are larger and more uncertain, and the duration of the response is much longer than usual.

Joe LaVorgna

Inventory building last quarter was less than what we were thinking, which actually bodes better for growth this quarter. Current quarter growth prospects are bright.

Thad Schultz

We hope to have at least 50 kids, somewhere between 50 and 75. The people calling are very excited, very positive about what we did last year.

Scott Walker

Certainly political capital-slash-celebrity attention, whatever you want to call it, certainly is part of the reason why I've been reaching out to CEOs. There's a lot of folks who probably would have taken a call from me before but are even more inclined now and are interested in what we're doing because of all the attention.

Paul Nunes

So long as there is a chance that a customer will call you with a problem, you don't really know what the profit is on that particular machine.

I hate it when people say somebody has a ""speech impediment"", even if he does, because it could hurt his feelings. So instead, I call it a ""speech improvement"", and I go up to the guy and say, ""Hey, Bob, I like your speech improvement."" I think this makes him feel better.

Friedrich Muller

That fetter wise people call strong which drags down, yields, but is difficult to undo; after having cut this at last, people leave the world, free from cares, and leaving desires and pleasures behind.

Cynthia Lennon

Julian would call and Yoko or one of her people would say John was sleeping,

Marie Osmond

You just need to be honest with how you're feeling. But, a lot of women are afraid of it because they think, 'Oh, they are going to take my baby away. They're gonna call me incompetent. I'm going to lose my job. I've got to be tough, it's a man's world.'

If I ever opened a trampoline store, I don't think I'd call it Trampo-Land, because you might think it was a store for tramps, which is not the impression we are trying to convey with our store. On the other hand, we would not prohibit tramps from browsing, or testing the trampolines, unless a tramp's gyrations seemed to be getting out of control.

Lastings Milledge

I thought about it every day. It got crazy at the trade deadline, thinking of all the possibilities where I could have gone. But nothing's done until they call you and say, 'You're traded.' I feel like I'm here, and as of now, I'm going to stay until they make a decision.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

If you get invited to your first orgy, don't just show up nude. That's a common mistake. You have to let nudity "happen.

Reggie Hayward

They were in great position to kick the field goal and win the game, ... For a second there, I thought about scooping it and trying to score, but my common sense kicked in. It was like, 'Get the ball. Live another down.'

Tom Schlesinger

It's more difficult for a governor to have anything resembling a common touch if their personal finances are in a different solar system.

Toba Beta

There is no UFO and also there is no alien..at least not in common minds and references.

Howard Rubenstein

It was the common thought that New York was doomed.

Al Cook

It's a common problem with older shopping centers.

Nostradamus

A common soldier will make an empire, but he will eventually meet his fate and be condemned to the Great Rock.

Norman Finkelstein

Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse.

Pat Murphy

They're always looking to throw it downfield. We've got to get them to punt and get some turnovers.

Francis Chan

Our culture is all about shallow relationships. But that doesn't mean we should stop looking each other in the eye and having deep conversations.

Isaac Asimov

What would I do if I knew I only had six months to live? Type faster.

Jacob DiPietre

They've already been in the process of doing that for several months now.

Todd McFarlane

About 85 percent of what you see is just because I get on the phone and [say], 'Let's go do this'. I don't do any market research or test groups or focus [groups]. I just go, 'It's my company; would I buy it, personally?'

Skylar Astin

I always separate myself from reviews, but tweets and Instagram comments, they go directly to my phone. It's hard to keep up.