Famous Quotes & Sayings

If you're building for the future, scripted television is your farm system,

If you're opening a card and then paying it off and closing it, that's not really building a credit history for you.

If you look at their argument, there is really one tower they are basing it on. These design elements are contained in other buildings on the campus - and to say that their design contained those elements and our design contained these elements ... does not mean that we copied theirs. There's only so much you can do with a parking garage.

If you look at the history of trade negotiations, we all started off talking about tariffs. Now we are talking about investment and intellectual property because these are all intertwined in terms of building a shared market and generating strong growth.

Kathleen Kennedy

If you look at your tax bill, you will see what gets paid to the township is the second to the lowest, ... The Will County building commission is the only thing under us.

If you look around the building now you can see a whole bunch of posters of orangutans which students put up saying, 'we're not orangutans.' But I think he got it right, it just took a while for people to understand the difference between metaphor and hard technical descriptions.

In the first building alone, the research park could potentially create as many as 370 jobs.

In the last 20 years, the country has undertaken the most extensive building and rebuilding of its civil infrastructure since the Romans.

In the eyes of the public, and also in the eyes of numerous international institutions, the role of the police in nation building was underestimated until well into the 1990s.

In the 1980s, we responded to what we were seeing in the market from an investment opportunity point of view. We really were developing this practice on our own. It was complementary to PNC's focus on the smaller end of the middle market, but in terms of our context, we were building sources for deals and deal referrals on our own.

In some places, like Iowa or Texas, where there are no such things as building permits, the path is smoother, with a steady rate of return of 4 percent each year. In other places, it comes in fits and starts, and the distinction between the smooth path and the stair step has to do with the extent of geographic and regulatory scarcity.

John Hickenlooper

In restaurants, you never have enough money, you're taking a very diverse group of people and building them into a team with a common purpose.

Mark Johnson

I noticed, a long time ago, you can engage kids a lot more with a screen. We started using computers in the classroom around 1980, but this class really started when we came to this building about 11 years ago. It was an experiment, and I have been teaching this class (advanced communications) ever since.

I like to use the example that building a car is hard, but building the first car is quite hard.

If there was a home on every vacant lot, we wouldn't be able to service them all until at least 2009. We didn't expect 7,300 building permits and people coming in droves.

If there is any violation in the land issue, or any statement that encourages the building of the wall, that it would destroy the peace process and leave nothing for negotiation,

It has been nice to own a building that has room for growth. To me, being located in the strip mall is beneficial, primarily due to its location and access. Sometimes cities place their city hall in an out-of-the-way place and they are not easy to find.

Tom Carroll

I think about (closing) all the time. But I put my time into building up the business and I'd rather sell it than just let someone take it over for nothing.

I think $150 million is a lot of money. I'm concerned about a plan to demolish every single building that hasn't been built in the last 10 years. I would like to see if it wouldn't be less expensive to retrofit some buildings. Some schools have done that and provided a 21st century school.

Dave Checketts

I succeeded in turning a building into a business.

I just tried to work the corners. We're building our confidence.

By mid-next year, we will be 75 percent done in building our forces, and by the end of next year it will be fully ready.

John Barth

By joining with York, a market leader with a strong growth outlook, Johnson Controls is staking out a strategic leadership position in the global building environments industry that will offer significant growth potential and synergies with our Controls business,

Cisco will be well placed to continue building our presence in India as a critical part of our research and development efforts and as domestic market for networking products and solutions continues to expand,

Being a member gives you a voice in the building profession, ... Its not just here locally, it's a national voice of things going on right now.

His impact on Yale, Yale Hockey, and me personally has been profound. I enthusiastically embrace the challenge of building upon his legacy while taking the Yale Hockey program to the next level.

Charlie Ebersol

He wrote a 36-page autobiography that said any member of my family would run into a burning building to save another member. He said that on the highway of love, my family is neck and neck with God.

Chiron has recently made tremendous strides, including returning to the U.S. influenza vaccine market, building a compelling oncology pipeline and extending our growth in the blood-testing business,

Chip companies are getting ready for stronger demand in the back half of the year. There's a big difference between building a safety margin and overbuilding, ... People have been pessimistic, but we continue to get fairly firm fundamentals about the environment for PCs and semiconductors overall.

I'm very, very honored to be here tonight in this facility and in this city. You cannot come to this city without the realization that this is the seat of American government, and you can't come here without feeling a little patriotic, especially in a building such as this.

Fred Turner

In essence they are faced with the unpleasant choice of managing this over a period of time or dealing with this all at once after an earthquake and dealing with life loss and clean up to boot. That's what sets us off from other countries of the world. That is how we save lives in Southern California we do have building codes and we do enforce them.

I must have walked 30 or 40 people through this building in the four years it's been for sale. People like the building.