Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Roberts

Our former worship center was built in just 90 days. This new building may have taken a little longer, but I have to say it was icing on the cake to dedicate the new building last Sunday.

Our focus is strictly on getting a quality game. Building a schedule is really an art. We're looking at a number of different possibilities.

Steve Elkington

Our contingent is building strength. It's ridiculous to think that somebody won't win one soon.

Overall, the mold concentrations in all the dust samples were at levels that would be expected in school buildings. We did not notice any conditions that would preclude the building from being used for its intended purpose as far as any significant health risks.

Overall I'm extremely pleased with the outcome of this game. As far back as I can remember we have struggled in this building and it was nice to see us not only put together two halves of basketball, but in the manner in which we put it together.

Ray Allen

Our track record hasn't been good. We've lost so many close games in this building this season. We're learning some things about ourselves.

Barack Obama

Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.

Brad Pitt

I'm satisfied with making true choices and finding the woman I love, Angie, and building a family that I love so much.

Charles Soule

I love comics work, and I hope I never stop doing it. But at the same time, I have my own law practice that I've built up over quite a while - it's been more than a decade that I've spent building that business - so it seems a little premature to just shut it down after nine months of working at a high level in comics. We'll see.

Ethan Zuckerman

For countries such as Kenya to emerge as economic powerhouses, they need better infrastructure: roads, ports, smart grids and power plants. Infrastructure is expensive, and takes a long time to build. In the meantime, hackers are building 'grassroots infrastructure,' using the mobile-phone system to build solutions that are ready for market.

Edward Carpenter

For so, surely you will cast a light of gladness upon his onward journey, and contribute your part towards the building of that kingdom of love which links our earth to heaven.

Meles Zenawi

While all democratic systems are works in progress, ours started rather late and therefore has a longer distance to cover. But democratic transformation for us is not mimicking some facets of Western governance. The focus has been on building institutions of democratic governance.

What we hear more than anything is the state doesn't have any business subsidizing or building a capital project at a church-chartered institution.

We are dedicated to building a strong business relationship with our customers. That's why we at Host Color are happy that the people that signed up with our service back in 2002 are still with us today.

Steve Bornstein

We have made great strides in operating efficiencies in the third quarter and remain committed to building a leading Internet media company,

Virginia Euwer Wolff

After clearing the land, planting the orchard, building the house and barn, and surviving the Great Depression, our father died suddenly one winter night when we were small, leaving us to learn about loss before we even knew its name.

Isabel Lucas

When I was 7, I went to school in Switzerland because everyone on my mom's side of the family lives there. Then we were back in Australia, in Queensland. That's where we had the chance to have lots of different animals. I spent a lot of time living in nature and building cubby houses in big old trees by the ocean.

Imtiaz Ali

I was interested in theatre and media and came to Mumbai to get a job. I imagined that the film industry would be a white building with producers sitting in different rooms, and you could walk in and meet them, and they would interview you and select you.

Natascha McElhone

My concentration span is truly that of a gnat. Some people have this ladder, and that's all there is - the ladder. I have the ladder, too, but there's a building around it with scaffolding, and lots of windows for me to peek into. Then suddenly I'll remember, 'Oh, there's the ladder. I should be concentrating on that.'

Most of the fans have ideas about their perfect phone. But many of them can't do it because building a phone is tough. So they would give us feedback about the features that they think should be included in our next model. And if we incorporated that in our new phone, they will share the good news with their friends.

We did sustain damage. The good news is no one is hurt and the buildings are still there, as close to the eye of the hurricane as they were.

We did spend a lot of time just getting to know each other, going to Subway, throwing chips at each other, building camaraderie. You can tell there's a lot of love between the kids.

We are having our second review by the city for our site plan. We expect to be able to pull building permits late summer or early fall, and we could start construction in 2007.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Modern buildings of our time are so huge that one must group them. Often the space between these buildings is as important as the buildings themselves.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

You cannot save wonderful towns. You can only save wonderful towns by building new ones.

Leon Krier

You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street.

Biz Stone

I'm convinced that there's a new way to define capitalism, and that the definition should include three ingredients - that we love our work, that we are building a traditionally successful business, and that we are having some positive impact in the world, whether it's local or global.

Bjarke Ingels

In the traditional modernist planning that created the suburbs, you put residential buildings in suburban neighborhoods, office spaces into brain parks and retail in shopping malls. But you fail to exploit the possibility of symbiosis or synthesis that way.

Alice Morse Earle

One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first public building was a meeting-house, but often before any house of God was builded, the devil got his restraining engine.

Trade is pretty random right now. We are just groping. Were it not for the situation in the Capital Building the dollar might not have been off at all.

Track clubs are a coming phenomenon. There is one in Chicago that is sold out. They are building one in Salt Lake City. There is no reason why New York shouldn't have one.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.

Ben Affleck

I started as a child, in this PBS series 'Voyage of the Mimi,' which led to driving down to New York for 'Afterschool Special' auditions, which led to moving to Los Angeles. I wanted to be an actor. But in L.A., I got into film technology, and I was building cheap editing systems and would edit my friend's acting reels.