Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabella Bird

Baghdad is altogether built of chrome-yellow kiln-dried bricks.

Evangeline Lilly

I am five foot six, I am built of muscle and bone, and that is not very good for fashion, but it's who I am. Women who look good in fashion are six foot tall, don't have an ounce of muscle, and their legs are the size of my arm.

Doc Hastings

Our region's economy was built upon their entrepreneurial spirit, and our economy still depends on the continued success of the enterprises they have worked so hard to create.

The pay is now going up about 3.5, 3.7 percent a year, more than the rate of inflation, and that's built into the five-year plan. So pay is improving.

We can influence who we will be tomorrow, for tomorrow can only be built on today.

Brunello Cucinelli

I like the idea of an enlightened principality. In the early eighteen-hundreds, in Germany, there were princes who built schools, streets, homes. I like that.

Christopher McDougall

We're designed for persistence hunting, which is a mix of running and walking. What's built into that kind of running is a sense of pleasure. You are designed and built and perfect for this activity, and it should be enjoyable and fun.

Denis Villeneuve

In Canada, for boys, your identity is built on hockey. It's your social position; it's everything. And I was the worst hockey player of Canada.

Government pensions, built into law and mostly protected from stock market vagaries, are the envy of the private sector.

The accomplishments is what will stick with me forever. The relationships that we built on this team ... plus the way our season went, being 7-5, and looking like nothing was going to work out. But we turned it around, and I think that made it extra special.

That will be obvious when you're riding. If the trail is built properly, then the water and melting snow should run off, but a tire track makes a place for the water to run. All it is diversion of water, to try not to let the water run on the trails. That's where it's helpful to not ride trails when they're not ready.

George Lucas

That way, we built this more interesting character.

That you've essentially built a terminal exclusively for them, that's a problem. There is an old business saying that if you lend a little to someone, you are a creditor. If you lend a lot, you are a partner.

We have already made a lot of progress this season. A lot of guys have stepped up and competed very well. We've built up a lot of momentum and that will carry over into the outdoor season, starting this weekend.

Sydney's most famous beach is Bondi. At its southern end is Bondi Baths, an eight-lane, 50-meter saltwater pool built into the cliffs.

Reed Hastings

There is a revolution happening, and within two years I think that Wi-Fi and Netflix will be built into all the televisions.

Scott Stossel

An astonishing portion of my life is built around trying to evade vomiting and preparing for the eventuality that I might.

Rodney Brooks

The question is, you know, will someone accidentally build a robot that takes over from us? And that's sort of like this lone guy in the backyard, you know - 'I accidentally built a 747.' I don't think that's going to happen.

Rosemary Mahoney

The Egyptian Nile, though it does have its own particular hazards, is subject to none of what I find in Rhode Island. Since the Aswan High Dam was built in 1973, the Nile has become something of a grand canal. It is wide, flat, slow, and so calm it verges on the geriatric.

Mark Zuckerberg

People love photos. Photos originally weren't that big a part of the idea for Facebook, but we just found that people really like them, so we built out this functionality.

Mark Zuckerberg

After launching the first version of Facebook for a few thousand users, we would discuss how this should be built for the world. It wasn't even a thought that maybe it could be us. We always thought it would be someone else doing it.

Patty Loveless

It's kind of odd when you think of Loretta Lynn, when she was first traveling and recording country music. It was all built through word of mouth. If you pleased the fans, they would pass it around to their friends and family.

Marco Rubio

We've had hurricanes in Florida forever. And the question is, 'What do we do about the fact that we have built expensive structures, real estate and population centers, near those vulnerable areas?'

Marco Rubio

The problem is that we are trying to prepare people for the new economy using a higher education system built for the old economy. As a result, many high-skilled, high-paying industries suffer from a shortage of labor, while too many low-paying industries suffer from a surplus.

Maidie Norman

I am a Republican because the United States is a republic, and the views we hold represent the foundation our country was built on so many years ago.

Kate Warne

Today the optimistic spirits prevailed and confidence just built as stocks held their higher levels, ... Everybody's now thinking maybe we've seen the bottom.

Today, tens of thousands of customers are relying on Lotus Notes and Domino to help drive their overall business, so we've built Lotus Notes and Domino 7 with capabilities that can increase productivity from the organizational level down to individual knowledge workers.

We have a lot of respect for him and what he's built here. We've got big shoes to fill with Vernon Sr.

We wanted to have the house built the way we wanted it,

Rick Barnes

We've got some guys who are comfortable scoring. Our team is not built around one player.

Richard Boucher

We've made clear we're looking at the policy with regard to North Korea, that it's policy that will be built on the work that's been done before and the commitments that have been made before.

We have changed the objective now to sell out every league game of the season. The response from the fans has been great. We are not going to be complacent, though. There are a number of things we still haven't got right yet but Rome wasn't built in a day.

Lawrence Lessig

We have built upon the 'all rights reserved' concept of traditional copyright to offer a voluntary 'some rights reserved' approach.