Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sylvia Pankhurst

A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola.

Mark Wigley

Any city that only tries to preserve itself is already dead. The great tragedy would be to embalm New Orleans by simply rebuilding it the way it was.

Jud Honaker

The Silver Companies joins you and members of City Council in your efforts to protect city-owned river and riparian land.

Charles Kirby

(The tenants) trash that place every week and you'll get a write-up from the city every week. It is out of my scope to control what people do.

Maurice Carthon

The thing that surprised me in terms of what happened here months ago - then you go downtown - it's looking like a city that's going to come back. I was real surprised about how fast everything has picked up downtown and I was kind of encouraged.

George Shinn

The thing everybody's got to remember is our goal is simple. We want to play in New Orleans. That's our home. But we can't. We can't come back even if the facility was clean because there's nobody else there. The city will come back. We don't know how long it will take, therefore we've got to find a temporary home.

Mike Burgess

I've always wanted to have the race in downtown Rock Hill. It lends itself to more spectators, more people can get involved. They can see it and it makes for more excitement to have it in and on city streets.

Nancy Taylor

I used to spend Saturday mornings at the old library growing up. I think it's tremendous, the most important part of the city as far as a I am concerned.

John Sweet

A deteriorating infrastructure is something that all municipalities face, ... For the past 31/2 years the city staff has developed a 10-year replacement program for all gas, sewer and water systems. But, we did too little, too late.

Gary Gilot

The speeds with one-ways are 30 miles-per-hour. The speeds you'll see with a grid will be more in the 10 to 20 mile-per-hour range. Maybe it should be about downtown being a destination and serving more housing; more people living and working and shopping downtown.

Paul Rapp

This is the first big test for our trolley system, and we're looking forward to it. There's enough parking downtown if we utilize all of it.

Larry Taylor

You see everything, from downtown to uptown, all kinds of folks.

Pastor Birnbaum

There are some risks, but there are also risks in downtown San Antonio.

Ryan MacDonald

Downtown is a safe place now, but with it growing like it is, we need to ensure that downtown's going to be a safe place to be,

Rob Stillwell

Downtown had a record year, in spite of extraordinary fuel prices. We fly some 10,000 a month on our own charter.

Peter Judge

Downstream from the river there are about 100 homes as well as downtown Taunton,

Larry Reed

Eugene is small potatoes for Whole Foods. Whole Foods doesn't need Eugene, however Eugene downtown needs Whole Foods. If we pass on this rare opportunity there may not be a second opportunity.

Dan Gilroy

A lot of times, L.A. is desaturated, and cement and freeways, and downtown.

John Hay Whitney

The role we can play every day, if we try, is to take the whole experience of every day and shape it to involve American man. It is our job to interest him in his community and to give his ideas the excitement they should have.

Gregg Williams

Each week is a dogfight. It's why the excitement in the league is what it is.

Terry Francona

The excitement level will be off the charts. You'll see a lot of guys running to the ballpark. I might jog.

John Enos

The excitement level is a little higher. More people are around for the night session.

Jan Hepler

The excitement is pretty high for everyone. Any mission is a give-and-receive experience; it's a spiritual growth thing.

Dave Wannstedt

The excitement has grown and grown for it seems like forever,

Tamora Pierce

Now to find Tristan, if he survived the excitement. I hope he did. I have some things to say to him, and none of them are 'Goddess bless'. -Numair Salmalin

John Maloney

I'm a little disappointed in the excitement about GM closing. I don't feel it, but I know others do. We need to help these people keep their jobs.

James Cameron

There seems to be a lot of excitement around something that, to me, is a yawn, frankly,

Jerry Uelsmann

The room itself had a strange, timeless quality to it.

James Purnell

There is a possibility that the number of offences will increase. That in itself could be a sign of success because more people are using the powers of the act.

Albert Camus

An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself

Noam Chomsky

The Tea Party movement itself is maybe 15, 20 percent of the electorate. It's relatively affluent, white, nativist. You know, it has rather traditional nativist streaks to it. But what is much more important, I think, is the - is its outrage.

D. James

If that swelling comes down and they can do some things with it and get itself worked out, then possibly he could come back. But if it doesn't, that's something he can't play with.

Bob Bourne

Cy-Ride outgrew itself continually, right from the beginning.

Jeff Traylor

It's always worked itself out in the past and this situation will work itself out too.

William Gibson

It seems as though the Net itself has become conscious,

David Friedman

As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Doug Holland

People say, 'Just shut the borders,' but they don't understand what that'll do to the agriculture in this country.

Michael Boyd

People say it will be like FedEx for people,

Chuck Palahniuk

People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens.

Carine Roitfeld

People say I look like my father. My son is very much like him.

Kevin Davis

People say I do a lot, but I'm just doing what I enjoy.

Argus Hamilton

No wonder we keep testing positive in their bicycle races. Everyone looks like they're full of testosterone when they're surrounded by Frenchmen.

Augustus

Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!

Ayn Rand

The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root: the racist's sense of his own Inferiority.

Benito Mussolini

We must give Italians a sense of race.

Cameron Diaz

I'm not really in any competition with anyone, I'm not in any race.

Calvin Coolidge

There are racial considerations too grave to be brushed aside for any sentimental reasons. Biological laws tell us that certain divergent people will not mix or blend. The Nordics propagate themselves successfully. With other races, the outcome shows deterioration on both sides. Quality of mind and body suggests that observance of ethnic law is as great a necessity to a nation as immigration law.

Charles Babbage

In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.

Janet Guthrie

Let me ask you. If someone called you and offered you a ride in the Indianapolis 500 and you were a male race car driver, would you turn the ride down?

Dan Aykroyd

We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.

Meghan Trainor

Any body type is beautiful. It's all about loving what you got and rocking it.

Brandon Thomas

Even though were not the most punk rock band, the way weve done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves.

Brenda Lee

I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.

Ben Gibbard

The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't.

Carrot Top

When I was younger I always thought, 'If I were ever a comedian I'd make it like a rock concert.' I wanted to generate that type of enthusiasm and excitement.

Bart Chilton

I would pale in comparison to rock and rollers with my haircut. I would be a lightweight.

Craig Finn

When you get into rock 'n' roll myths, like that Rod Stewart blew his whole band and had to get his stomach pumped, it's ridiculous, but everyone's heard it.

Bobby Vinton

I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people.

Billy Bob Thornton

If you're in the heyday of rock and roll and movies, and that's where I grew up. We didn't have to look for it. We didn't have to create angst. We didn't have to create desire. We didn't have to say, see we were screwed, my generation, because we wanted to be The Beatles or Elvis Presley. That ain't going to happen. So we always had this thing to reach for.