Famous Quotes & Sayings

Such lavish travel gives lobbyists an inside track with lawmakers ... and could even be interpreted as building the groundwork for legislative favors.

Staying away for the weekend is an excellent way of building team spirit.

Stan Buchanan (a starter on the 1955 NCAA champion USF team) surprised me when he mentioned a few years ago that the team had always wanted rings but did not receive them, so we started a process of building an event to honor this distinguished group.

Leah Busque

Startups need to focus on building a foundation for their company culture early, and then they need to revisit it often. Every time a hire is made, a feature is launched, a Facebook status is updated, a press interview is given, a round of financing is raised, or a meeting is held, culture should be part of the decision-making process.

Some of the strength in building permits and claims may be weather-related and so this number probably won't be repeated, but there's been a strong recovery in the index since the hurricanes and by and large we're seeing that in the economy as a whole.

Some of our buildings got a little wet from the hurricane, but it was sporadic.

Some just don't have any other place to be. It's a beginning, a stepping stone to building skills to survive.

That came from the need in Europe, when they started building ring roads around Milan, Paris and London.

That building is nearing the end of its life. That building cannot be salvaged.

That building is a little worse than I first thought. I'm a little discouraged by what we saw there.

Lindy Ruff

That energy from having the building full is a tremendous advantage. Players get jacked up. The energy in the building is like a playoff game for the most part. They like the way we're playing.

Doug Aitken

My office has two buildings that function like the right and left sides of the brain. There's a room where everything is being edited for an upcoming project, but you can pull out of that into a tranquil space to work in a different, more solitary medium. It's an architectural unfolding of the process instead of just one chaotic structure.

Melanie Fiona

My parents leaving a third world country to a first world country and building from nothing - that's really inspiring to me and it's influenced me in a positive way.

DeForest Soaries

My vision was to take the research money and develop a prototype to ensure that the private sector was building machines that fit the requirements.

My modest wish then was that the library might, at some future time, have a building so I could see the light of day. It took 15 years from preliminary discussions to the opening of the museum to see those wishes realized.

Local housing markets will cool off, leading to a slowdown in spending and some job losses in construction and other real estate-related industries. With this in mind, we are currently forecasting a plateau in home prices, a moderate decrease in sales and new building and two years of weak growth. However, this forecast represents the middle of the road.

It is difficult to start a company in India today that is building products for the global market there.

It is fairly unique with the number of jobs paired with a building of that magnitude.

I think this is a very low-impact form of tourism. We think this does not have the same impact as building a resort.

Joel Silver

I'm sitting here at my office at Warner Bros. And I'm looking at big buildings and soundstages and all the things you need to make a movie, but what do I have to do? Get on a plane and fly thousands of miles so I can look at big buildings and sound stages and all the things you need to make a movie. And why? Because of costs. It all comes down to costs.

I'm humbled to be here, and I'm very excited. The sport of football has been a huge passion of mine ever since I can remember walking. Unfortunately, it was taken from me by the NCAA. But they're not in the building today, and I'm ready to get started.

I think this team has done a good job, even when we were losing last year, of forgetting about the game before, ... This team is really resilient. Right now, we're just building on success.

We've talked with several tenants who want to go in there quickly. There's one or two larger tenants that have a project that would eliminate the building altogether.

We've talked about the fact that the East Valley is growing and we'd like to do more of our programming out there. As soon as we heard they were building MAC, we were first knocking on the door.

Hector Rodriguez

We need a golf course in this county for the citizens of this county. I think this is the right time for you to consider building a course.

Rob Lowe

The '90s were a time of building for me. Building a life that was sober, drained of harmful, wasteful excess and manufacturing in its place a family of my own.

That was a great swing by Crews. I thought we were going to get right back into the game after that. It seemed building from that, we just weren't energized.

That was a great start to the game, it really got everyone up from the beginning. We just kept building on our play from that point on.

That was just building up for 40 minutes of hard work and sometimes that's what it takes to get one goal. They did it and made it last. That was a total defensive and offensive effort.

Steve Williams

That's the way you like to have it. Up and down the lineup, they start building confidence.

That suggests that we are getting some inflationary pressures building in the pipeline,

Ruchi Sanghvi

I was one of the key people responsible for building Facebook's News Feed. When we launched it in 2006, users hated it. There were 'I Hate Facebook' groups; random people organized protests. We even hired a security team.

Edwidge Danticat

Most of them, they serve the interests of the United States but are not building any kind of permanent structure for the country they are affecting.