Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom O'Brien

They're in transit they don't know how long they're going to be in the apartments they're in. The uncertainty and the unknown and no final decisions being made is really having an impact on these individuals. That's why we're pushing the system as hard as we can to try to get those answers.

E. B. White

We've turned down many people that need apartments right now. If they can wait for a few months, we're willing for them to put in an application and work with us.

Through a program with Community Support services, they place around 50 homeless into apartments every year. Shesler Hall houses about 40 per year and Henry Hall just opened. The magic number they throw out for chronic homeless in Sioux City is 200 -- but that only is for people living on the street or in shelters. That doesn't count people doubling up.

The bulk went to apartments with staff, and others went to one of three eight-bed group homes.

North Forty's market is professional people. The need for lower (cost) one-bedroom and studio apartments here is unbelievable.

Mary McCarthy

The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is the fact that we tolerate conditions that are, from a negative point of view, intolerable. What the foreigner finds most objectionable in American life is its lack of basic comfort. No nation with any sense of material well-being would endure the food we eat, the cramped apartments we live in, the noise, the traffic, the crowded subways and buses. American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.

After all, the three major sources of apartments are death, divorce and transfer.

These apartments should have been demolished and knocked down a long time ago. It has not been done and now this whole community is in jeopardy.

Krysten Ritter

When I was 15, I was scouted at the mall by Elite Model Management. I started to go to New York on the bus in high school, which was about four hours door-to-door from my hometown, until I moved to New York and lived in models' apartments all over.

There?s a demand right now for upscale urban living. The market is strong for rental loft apartments and condominium units.

We talked about, hey, whatever baggage we had, don't get on the plane with that. Leave it over in your dorms or apartments and when we come out there this is a fresh start.

We were pleased to get the apartments sold for ABN AMRO in very quick fashion. We received an offer near list price just as it was going to market. This transaction was a true testament to the interest in Austin and its surrounding submarkets.

We simply cannot expect land prices to escalate at 80 percent per year while rents for office, retail and apartments are increasing in the 8 to 16 percent per year range.

There are people in apartments and hotels that you didn't know were there.

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.

Old women are now being shot through the doors of their apartments -- including two women in their 70s within the past week.

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.

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.

For our industrial customers, our insurance rates are pretty low. We just don't see quite the same effect as an office building or retail or apartments or something from that standpoint. We've got much bigger issues like land prices going up, construction costs going up and things of that nature.

Kevin Smith

Our guesses are that the students we lost were those who cannot find housing. The rental property and apartments were hit very hard by the storm, and a lot of students left and were unable to return to finish the fall semester, and in some cases did not return to this date.

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.

We are looking at about 300 residences. They will be a congregate of housing, townhouses, garden apartments and an assisted-living facility. On the Greenland piece, we are looking at a mixed-use commercial village with retail on the first floors and office space above.

Mike Rogers

The proposed Englewood apartments is certainly going to help our senior housing market.

Today's facilities more closely resemble private apartments in their configuration and amenity packages. Suites and efficiency apartments are more prevalent, as are amenities such as vending, ATMs and technology infrastructure.

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

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.

We need to get some quality homes for these people I mean there's soldiers out there right now living in apartments that are sub parts of homes and it's not fair to them.

Jose Serrano

The opening of the GrandParent Family Apartments is the culmination of years of planning and careful thought, ... I am very happy to have been able to help fund this innovative program.

Bill White

We knew that the country had to do the right thing, and the right thing had to be apartments for people when they couldn't go home. People, while they're here, need to get on with their lives.

Ariel Sharon

Those who will build will receive rental payments for two years. Those who will not build will receive rental payments for one year. It would be a pity to waste even a moment, there are apartments for everyone, there is an arrangement for everyone,

We don't want those apartments in our area. The city has every right to tell me what I can or can't build in my backyard. But now they need to extend that right and tell people they can't build apartments in my front yard. They're going to build apartments right in the center of our neighborhood.