Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Petroski

Typically, highway bridges have about 50 years. But over in England, they have iron bridges approaching 250 years. In France, there are Roman aqueducts that are approaching 2,000 years old. So a bridge can last a very long time if it's built properly in the first place and then maintained properly.

George W. S. Trow

Wonder was the grace of the country. Any action could be justified by that: the wonder it was rooted in. Period followed period, and finally the wonder was that things could be built so big. Bridges, skyscrapers, fortunes, all having a life first in the marketplace, still drew on the force of wonder.

Uwe Boll

Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies.

J. Paul Getty

The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.

Ginny Brown-Waite

The newer homes did not sustain as much damage because they were built to better safety codes; they were better designed, higher wind loads for the roof. All of those facets made those homes sustain the storm a whole lot better.

Gene Luen Yang

Ch'in Shih-huang is the first emperor of China. He united seven separate kingdoms into a single nation. He built the Great Wall and was buried with the terra-cotta soldiers. The Chinese have mixed feelings about him. They're proud of the nation he created, but he was a maniacal tyrant.

J. G. Ballard

I only realised why I keep living in Shepperton when I returned to China. All the people who moved there had come from places just like Shepperton, and so they built and lived in houses exactly like these. I now know I was drawn here because, on an unconscious level, Shepperton reminds me of Shanghai.

Bill Atkinson

I told myself, 'When I grow up, I want to make pictures that can inspire and nourish people.' Immediately, when I was 10, I started photographing nature. I built a darkroom. My first really good darkroom, not just down in the cellar, was when I was 14.

Brian Acton

My mom started an air-freight company; my grandmother built a golf course. I have a certain degree of entrepreneurial risk-taking in my family history. Maybe that eventually rubbed off on me a little bit.

Boris Trajkovski

The Republic of Macedonia is being built on democratic ideals and values, not on ethnic groups. Those ideals and values include economic opportunities, language and educational opportunities, religious rights, and political processes.

Arthur Middleton

The task of a priest, in some respects, may be different today, but the principles upon which Herbert built his life as a priest are of universal application.

I wanted to be a venture capitalist and join Sequoia Capital. They've financed and helped built some really special and enormously successful companies, including Google, Yahoo, Paypal, YouTube, Cisco, Oracle, Apple, and also Zappos.

Billy Sherwood

And I found that when I built my own place and just shut the door, the creativity was endless.

Ray Bradbury

I'm never going to go to Mars, but I've helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

We have shown our improvement at Twickenham, and we've built a very strong team philosophy at Twickenham.

The park started sinking because there wasn't a profit center built in out there. To further its sinking, the park has been under-utilized.

This really is the hub of Fairfield County. More pools are built in warmer climates, but this still is near the financial epicenter of the world (the greater New York metropolitan area),

Steve Williams

There are a number of options, but since the school- when it was built - was not elevated, there is very little slope.

When you look at their offense, that's what they're built for. They pride themselves on being a physical team, even back to the days that Eddie George was there. They still have that attitude, and you can see it on tape.

When you look around and see what happened to the rest of the community, I think we're real lucky. This place was built as the result of Hurricane Andrew, and it was built like a fortress.

When you have a company that's built on technology and connection with the customer, those are not all profit-driven concepts.

Ezra Taft Benson

There is a difference between a convert who is built on the rock of Christ through the Book of Mormon and stays hold of that iron rod, and one who is not.

When burglars see mail built up in the mailbox and newspapers laying on the driveway they know the person isn't at home.

When Dionne went down, it really forced us to move and set screens to get open looks. When we kept scoring steadily without her, I think it really built our confidence.

We sat down as a group in January and decided that was going to be one of our goals. A good part of this program is built on getting to the state meet and doing well.

We knew there was a shortage for this type of facility in Greeley so that's why we built it for the community and for us.

We kind of built for this year. My first year we played a lot of sophomores in the hope they would all come and we'd have a chance this year. With Tommy and Paul, we have two good pitchers. We have a shot at least.

We need to dismantle this corrupt House DeLay built over the last decade.

We think this will change how engines are built down the road.

John Prescott

Why can't we, with a more intelligent policy, actually have houses that are affordable, built at higher densities than they are at the moment and built on brownfield sites.

We've built up an entire industry, ... and all of a sudden, we're not welcomed. It's not the practice of forestry when you are mapping oak woodlands.

John Perkins

We've built the largest empire in the history of the world. It's been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It's only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last resort.

We've built over 30 developments, and none of them have been downtown.