Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alain Robert

When I climb a building, I've been there already, and carefully planned how to start the climb as well as how to do it.

Audrey Hepburn

I have always had a reputation for being frugal - less kind people might call me cheap. But my interest in building up a nest egg goes back to those days in Arnhem when I learned that money can grow, just like trees.

Arne Jacobsen

With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.

Paul Coffey

Wayne was such a big part of my career here in Edmonton as well as everybody's that I think that having him in the building is just icing on the cake,

Mark Parrish

The only difference between tonight's game and last night's game is that 40 guys were a little more tired tonight, and the building was different, ... All I know is that if we play 82 games like this, I'm going to die.

The Postal Service really isn't in a building mode anymore, and that's throughout the whole country.

The per-pupil (funding) covers everything a school needs ? electricity, water, all the expenses a regular school has ? except it doesn't cover capital improvement or building a new school.

The people who knocked these buildings down will hear from all of us soon.

The point, I think, is that Camden Yards really fits into that neighborhood but it has the 'wow' factor. A great new building that excites people but doesn't take away from the neighborhood.

The point is inventories are building over the ideal 60-day marks. They've maybe reached a point where the market is getting saturated.

The plaza is a culmination of about two years work designing, raising funds, and the building the plaza. Originally we had planned to do this in the fall, but because of the hurricane it was sidetracked.

Until a building is known for its architectural importance and for the threat that exists to it, it's very hard to galvanize public opinion. Once people understand that's happening, it's a different story.

We are pleased to see this building develop into a new opportunity for the Pueblo community to grow and prosper.

Fred Thompson

We are pleased to be one of the teams on the NCAA Most Improved List. The process of building the program back to National prominence will take some time and it is always good to see indications of growth and progress.

We've already walked around the building to figure that out.

We started thinking about licensing of intellectual property, and boom, it (the discussion) got bigger, ... It just started snowballing, building momentum. It just made logical strategic sense.

E. B. White

There are buildings that some of your children are in that are older than Joe White. That's unacceptable, those buildings needs to be renovated.

We still need to keep the inflation pressures from building or there will be a problem in the future.

When you walk through the site, you see the industrial side of it with all the buildings and just imagine how people worked there, and of course the company town part of it. The houses, the clotheslines and things people planted -- it's really kind of a ghostly feeling as you walk through the town. You can imagine what life was like.

Martin Jacques

In 1975, the Americans suffered a spectacular military defeat at the hands of North Vietnam and the Vietcong, with U.S. helicopters seeking to rescue leading U.S. personnel from the tops of buildings as Vietnamese guerrillas closed in on the centre of Saigon.

We're not going to see this much energy in a building probably until 2010. We really learned a lot this time, and I think we're going to be much better skaters because of that.

We have no illusions of grandeur here. It's the situation we want to be in. We want to have to go out there and have to earn every single shift. We'll have to do that in this building (the Kohl Center) for sure.

We have more work to do, but we are off to a good start this year, building on the momentum of 2005.

We have some building to do. Building doesn't mean that we're looking at some poor seasons in the future. Building just means we need to build some individuals that don't have a lot of credentials at this point.

What these buildings have in common is that they are all 100 percent leased and occupied by financial institutions. The buyer wants high credit quality and a steady income stream from the leases.

Whenever you have a large number of people in a building you want to make sure they can get out very quickly. So they need to know where the exits are and they need to know how to get to them.

Marv Levy

When you say you're building for the future, that's an incomplete sentence. You're building for the future coach and general manager, is what you're doing.

When you say science, people have a certain image of facilities. Science is not an old building from the 1950s not these days.

Bob Evans

There is no neighborhood. People keep talking about people building houses here. Who's going to want to live next to a wastewater treatment plant?

Fanny Burney

There is no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

Unusually for social housing of this type, there is nothing institutional about the feel of this building. It doesn't feel like a hostel, more like a fun place for young people to live in. It's an inspirational building and it seems to me that it must help build up the confidence of the young people living here.

Too often, as a global community of humanitarians, we meet the needs of the same families, the same individuals, the same communities crisis after crisis, when we are focused on meeting crisis needs but not on building resilience.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I was transformed by picking up a pair of binoculars and looking up, and that's hard to do for a city kid because when you look up you just see buildings - and really, your first thought is to look in people's windows. So to look out of the space - out of living space - and look up to the sky, binoculars go far, literally and figuratively.