Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. O. Wilson

We have a lot built up inside of us right now. It helps us a lot that we got the opening-round bye because we were really upset Sunday when we didn't get picked.

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.

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.

Octavio Paz

In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.

Poe Ballantine

I have learned that I am not built for conflict or controversy. I have also learned that, in all my life, I have never chosen a story. The story has always chosen me.

Harvey S. Firestone

Our company is built on people - those who work for us, and those we do business with.

Without question, he led and the team followed his lead. Whether the offense intended to or not, the guys understood Kyle needed to be involved in the offense. The success of our team was built around him being included offensively and defensively.

Without immigrants, we never would've built this place.

Dick Adams

With stores being built all around you reducing your sales and reducing your profit, you've got very little chance of working for 15 or 20 years and walking away with anything.

We need to cherish the Hotel Colorado for what it was built for. A historical hotel with some of the modern conveniences, yet holding onto its grandness.

We have made some improvements to design. We try to make it match the design of the subdivision it's built in.

We will meet a great crowd and a highly motivated team tonight. Dennis has built a very good program and has some great kids on his team, but we won't just roll over.

There are a lot of positive things you can look at. We've built a foundation and now have put the sides up. We just have to keep moving.

Fred Wilson

Internet and mobile product development cycles are measured in months, not years. And the capital required to get a product built and into the market is less than $1 million. And the returns, when things work out, can be enormous.

We built the middle class down here and we're not prepared to give it up.

We built the field of dreams and they came. We now need to fund the maintenance of facilities or they will go.

Jeffrey Skilling

We built that into a wholesale business that became, really, one of the largest companies in the United States. We had success in building new markets, opening markets for competition, and that takes a personal toll.

We built that 10-1 lead and then we kind of stopped playing. But we had a really good game offensively.

We built on a relief rally, ... From an economic standpoint, things picked up after the price rise in oil dropped. It showed the resilience of the economy.

We built it with three straight months of work and 20,000 pounds of steel from a South Jersey rail yard.

We built a lot of trails in a very short time. It was the perfect petrie dish to examine whether people are healthier because of their proximity to a walking trail. Has this huge development in Collingwood created an improved environment for community living?

Alice Waters

In Berkeley, we built the garden and a kitchen classroom. We've been working on it for 12 years. We've learned a lot from it. If kids grow it and cook it, they eat it.

Alex Shoumatoff

In the '70s, Florida-style golf communities started to be built for America's baby-boomers who were doing well and taking up the game but couldn't get into exclusive golf and tennis clubs and were looking for a nice place to live and raise their families.

The government's case is built around wiretaps and the testimony of proven liars and cheats.

Jacques Chirac

True peace remains to be built in hearts and minds, ... Let us then reach out to them a brotherly hand.

Fred Wilson

It takes great salesmanship to convince a customer to buy something from you that isn't built or isn't finished.

With CDs and the extra material, really what's happening is that the cost of that is being built into the textbook, and then it's being bundled as a value add, ... If we try to buy only the textbook, we're paying as much as we would for the bundled material.

Dree Hemingway

I think people are always like, 'She's a model-turned-actress.' And I don't want to turn actress. I want to do both. I wouldn't have built the confidence to do acting if I didn't model.

The American people want to pay attention to serious ideas again. Our founding was built by people who were political philosophers, and we need to get back to that, away from this kind of cheap political rhetoric of Right and Left.

Robert H. Schuller

I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale.

Bruce Sutter

Young pitchers don't throw enough in the minor leagues, and when they get to the majors, they don't have the stamina; their arms haven't been built up.

Bill Paxton

It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth.