Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zoe Kravitz

I've found all of my apartments on Craigslist. I've got good Craigslist luck. I just sit on my couch and really focus on it, and I've gotten really lucky that way.

The apartment market is poised to do well.

Cole Porter

The 1860s-era house, which has about 21 rooms, had fallen into disrepair over the years. It had been split into several apartments, and police found a methamphetamine lab in one of the apartments two years ago. The museum plans to sell fudge made with recipes from the now-closed Arnold's Candies of Peru. At his shows, Porter gave away boxes of the candy as presents.

We believe the fire burned for a while, even before we were called. But, nonetheless when we arrived on the scene, we were made aware that people were still in the building. Firefighters were able to rescue one person from a third-floor apartment and assisted several others.

A tiny apartment might hold three generations of an immigrant family.

Matthew Quick

When I was in high school, I used to have breakfast with my grandpa every morning. He instilled a lot of values in me: hard work, loyalty. He grew up during the Great Depression in Philly in poverty - he didn't have enough to eat as a kid. Sometimes his family would get kicked out of their apartment because they couldn't pay the rent.

We had one lady, ... who relied on an electric scooter when she was outside of her apartment and by the end of the 50 week program she was able to walk to the neighborhood grocery store and back.

We have a lot of off-campus apartments where there's five video streams going in. The extra bandwidth will really help there.

We have caseworkers down there, and most people have already received rental assistance. I just gave approval to purchase 10,000 more travel trailers. We're working also with some of the apartment owners to rehab some of the apartments down there. We are going to make sure that people are taken care of. But the judge recognized that, and recognized that the right thing to do is to get them out of hotels and into some decent housing.

We have more of these groups of apartments concentrated in our area than any other area of Houston, and their problems are not new. Someone should have seen this coming.

Vacancy rates have gone down a bit, but owners are still behind the power curve. To attract residents and bring vacancy rates down, apartment owners had to offer incentives or discounts, despite their costs increasing.

Paul Shaffer

I lived at the Gramercy Park Hotel for about 10 years. It was terrific. It was a pleasantly run-down hotel of the '70s and '80s with a mix of older, rent-controlled apartment dwellers, Europeans and new wave and punk bands. The room service was great, the hamburger was terrific, and they had a doctor who made house calls.

We haven't really sat down and come up with a plan, but we have thought about renting an apartment in Great Falls. And we've talked about looking at a hybrid car. I've commuted for 25 years, but gas was never up over $2 a gallon until now.

Barbara Wood

You can get a six-month rental from Spaniards who love skiing: they will drive or fly down from Madrid and block book an apartment for the whole skiing season. They are not there for the week but there for the weekend.

Just about every apartment complex in the north part of town is being converted. The price is so much better than a single-family residence.

Wendy Wilson

Just about anything is available, from single-family homes to apartment buildings.

Manny will start work at SBC in a month while receiving total support as far as having a special car, an apartment and insurance coverage,

Mark Margolis

I'm in my apartment in trendy Tribeca. I've been down here for 37 years, from before it was a fashionable neighbourhood. It's a wonderful place; it looks over the Hudson River. I can see 30 miles into New Jersey. My landlord would like me to die because the rent is very low. I'm trying to outlive him. He can get a lot more if I disappear.

Graydon Carter

New York has arguably become the quintessential 1 percent city, a city that has been so given over to the rich that you now have to be rich to live here. Or not live here: New York's also a preferred destination for foreign money spent on vast, lifeless apartments in the sky that are occupied a couple of weeks a year at most.

We have not been keeping up with numbers from hotels; we have been concentrating more on our apartments. If there are, it might be just a few, but we want everyone in their apartment so that they can be more self-sufficient.

Robert Kiyosaki

An example of good debt is the debt on the apartment houses I own. That debt is good only as long as there are tenants to pay my mortgages. If tenants stop paying their rent, my good debt turns into bad debt.

My mother gave up everything for me. In Yekaterinburg, she had a job and an apartment in the centre of the city and her whole life. And in Moscow - nothing.

I won't be surprised to see more falls in the property and financial sectors even if presales of apartments continue to do well. Investors are worried now by prospects of rate hikes larger than those in previous months.

It does have all sorts of implications in the lives of these kids as they're trying to grow up. Whether it's a job, looking to rent an apartment it complicates life in so many ways.

We're cautious, considering how well real estate funds have performed since the beginning of 2000. As much as some of the fundamentals look to be improving in real estate sub-sectors - for example, we've had sustained job growth, and that leads to greater demand for office and apartment space - we think price appreciation has largely outstripped the rate of change.

Those massive between-the-wars brick apartment buildings that stand in dour solidity - their benefits, their endurance all turned inward, and not nervously flaunted in the manner of their flimsier postwar descendants.

We were in the same apartment complex and on the same Little League football squad, and we used to hoop every day at the A.D. Lewis Community Center,

Rachel Sklar

New York apartments are notoriously small, and my cute little studio is no exception - space is at a premium, which is one of the reasons that I only have a mini-fridge. Great for leftovers, cheese, and chilling Diet Coke.

One of the effects of this drug is that your memory is not always there. So she did remember periods of being assaulted and after she got back to her apartment or back to her home later that day she went to get tested at the hospital and the presence of this drug was found in her system.

Based on past experience with Bryce Lawn, we should be able to accommodate the students who want to move to another apartment in that same community.

Basically, there were more individuals in that apartment than they thought. They had about 10 people come at them.

China is running fiber (optic cable) everywhere. It is going into apartment blocks and whole villages,

Judy Gold

I live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. I live in a 950-square-foot apartment with one bathroom and two sons.