Famous Quotes & Sayings

I'm very grateful for the gift, very excited about being able to move forward and plan a building with the space we need in order to accommodate students and faculty.

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.

John W. Gardner

I'm worried about it. Buildings of that size are difficult to rent.

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.

John Glenn

I'm now doubled on my space time, and building up every second.

I'm having difficulty having this building meet the criteria I set up. We needed the same space and we needed to save money.

I lived in this building for 21 days. The conference room was my bedroom.

In three years, the integration vendors are going to be building on top of either .Net or J2EE.

John Edward

In trend terms building approvals are still falling, pushing the expected recovery in housing construction further into the second half of this year.

Inventory building last quarter was less than what we were thinking, which actually bodes better for growth this quarter. Current quarter growth prospects are bright.

In the last two days we've had 25 building permits.

In the past, it's kind of been a two-phase operation for them. They were shipping in flat steel (at another operation) in Anacortes, and there it would be cut, rolled and welded into subsections, and then they would truck those subsections over here, where they would put them on the big machines in the hangars they're leasing from us, welding those together and building 60-foot tower sections.

In the Middle East, you might scratch your head a little bit. The overall populations of countries like Qatar and Dubai are quite low, but you're building super-tall buildings with millions of square feet.

In the north, buildings should be arched, enclosed as much as possible, and not exposed, and it seems proper that they should face the warmer aspects.

In terms of my client, my client hopefully will be old news, and she will have a job somewhere and building a career. I will be back to the normal practice of country law and no longer in the Beltway. With any luck at all, my next tour will be of New York, not of Washington.

If you spend less than what you earn, you're on the path to building wealth, and riches will be within reach.

If you walked by the building you could not smell it because of the system.

Rick Rubin

In Neil's mind, what separated him from all of his Brill Building songwriter counterparts was he wrote songs on the guitar and everyone else wrote on the piano, ... Guitar is equated with rock in a way piano has never been, so Neil has an unusual mix of guitar-based (rock) songwriting mixed with Brill Building melodic (piano) approach.

In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.

In a city that grew up fast and changes quickly ... some of the old institutions and businesses and buildings that represent the past are a good thing to hold on to. It's kind of like looking at old family pictures.

In 10 years we'll regret it, just like we regret losing the other buildings in Chicago Heights -- the Victoria Hotel and the Lincoln-Dixie theater. We have demolished enough masterpieces. That is a wonderful, wonderful building.

Skeet Ulrich

I had built stuff my entire life, so I was designing and building and taking drafting. I would watch plays and got real interested in performing.

I guess I was so busy building my business that I really never gave it much thought until now. We've obviously always been a woman-owned business -- I just wanted to make it official.

I had heard talk about improper building before the sheet-pile pull. But not much since.

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 very successful. We look for nice buildings in good locations. . . . We buy the buildings and put money into fixing them up.

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.