Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alain Robert

When I climb a building, I've been there already, and carefully planned how to start the climb as well as how to do it.

David Sedaris

...clatter of a typwriter suggests that you're actually building something.

Mark Parrish

The only difference between tonight's game and last night's game is that 40 guys were a little more tired tonight, and the building was different, ... All I know is that if we play 82 games like this, I'm going to die.

Michael Miles

The Postal Service really isn't in a building mode anymore, and that's throughout the whole country.

Sen. Sakamoto

The per-pupil (funding) covers everything a school needs ? electricity, water, all the expenses a regular school has ? except it doesn't cover capital improvement or building a new school.

Rudi Giuliani

The people who knocked these buildings down will hear from all of us soon.

Ron Holt

The point, I think, is that Camden Yards really fits into that neighborhood but it has the 'wow' factor. A great new building that excites people but doesn't take away from the neighborhood.

Bill Seltenheim

The point is inventories are building over the ideal 60-day marks. They've maybe reached a point where the market is getting saturated.

Chris Boone

The plaza is a culmination of about two years work designing, raising funds, and the building the plaza. Originally we had planned to do this in the fall, but because of the hurricane it was sidetracked.

Robert Garcia

We want to show the company that we are reasonable and are willing to work. But we also expect them to return the favor.

Dave Chappelle

You got to be careful of the company you keep.

Christopher Opalinski

The power company shut off the electricity to the mine because the company was in arrears in paying its power bill.

Marjorie Scardino

The potential of this new company is tremendous.

Erich Klemm

We appreciate, in general, if red tape is being addressed and hierarchies are put to test. But this should not lead to centralization ... as it paralyzes the company rather than making it faster and more flexible.

Lauren Fine

We are primarily focused on revenues as this is critical to the well being of the company and the shares.

Steve Sanger

We are pleased with this settlement as a partial recovery of the costs we incurred. It's welcome news to the General Mills people who worked so hard in 1994 to help the company rebound from this event.

Stephen Bollenbach

We are pleased with the court's decision giving shareholders their rightful opportunity to control the fate of their company,

John McGonegal

We are pleased to welcome Interleukin Genetics to the American Stock Exchange. We look forward to working with the company and providing them with the value-added resources a growing, innovative company needs to succeed in today's market.

Jonathan Klein

The people you're friends with on Facebook or the people you follow on Twitter are trusted sources of information.

Luke Nosek

I have realised more and more that great companies, founded for a long-term purpose, such as Google or Facebook or SpaceX, may do more good in the world than any other vehicle that we have.

Reid Hoffman

MySpace is like a bar, Facebook is like the BBQ you have in your back yard with friends and family, play games, share pictures. Facebook is much better for sharing than MySpace. LinkedIn is the office, how you stay up to date, solve professional problems.

Dennis Crowley

Facebook is about sharing experiences that you've had. Foursquare is more about the present tense and the future tense.

Warren Spector

We're not going to do a Facebook game aimed at 35-year old women about farming.

Carine Roitfeld

I'm not a Facebook girl. Even though there is a fake Facebook with my name, it's not me. I'm not on Twitter; it's not me.

Yuri Milner

Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.

Ansel Elgort

Technology moves so fast and social media moves so fast because everyone wants the new thing, but also, everyone wants to be where their parents are not. Once the mom got a Facebook and a Twitter and an Instagram, I don't want to be there anymore.

James Avery

I don't understand this whole Twitter, Facebook stuff. I don't get it. Make a phone call. Talk to somebody.

Nicholas Jarecki

Feature filmmaking is a different kind of complication as documentary comes in the editing room.

Michael Almereyda

Whether it would be a feature film or not I didn't know.

Rod Oden

When we began, we had him at receiver and I didn't have a guy who could tote the mail. When we moved him to tailback, I told him I was going to feature him.

Dave Adams

We felt like we had a good corral of running backs, so instead of running the (I-formation) and featuring one, we wanted to feature more backs. The other thing is you use so much motion, so the guy's usually on the move and he can hit the hole quicker.

Robert Casey

However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life.

Kurtwood Smith

We did this film in 13 days, mind you. And 13 days is not very long for a feature film. Nobody in their right mind would argue that. Nobody in their right mind would do that.

Sarah Snook

We have a lot of American TV in Australia. I grew up watching 'Seinfeld,' 'The Simpsons' and those prime time TV shows over the years that feature grown-ups and high school kids. We had a saturation of American voices.

Stefan Sagmeister

People who actually tell stories, meaning people who write novels and make feature films, don't see themselves as storytellers.

Paul Pennicook

The production of the television feature by the renowned travel journalist was a solid endorsement of Jamaica's tourist industry and an affirmation of the island as a premier destination,

Joe Brand

We've also been looking into some new, innovative financing tools. We realize since there is no funding today that it will be some time before a freeway is built. There will have to be some interim improvements.

Doug Anderson

We guarantee we can find financing for everyone. If we are unable to find someone financing for any reason then we will pay them $100 for their time.

Don Bluth

Usually with things, you go where you can find the financing to do it.

George Hood

We have a plan and financing to make this project a reality while providing wide public benefits.

Gillian Armstrong

It often takes a couple of years to get a script right and then takes a couple of years to get financing together.

Jennifer Bagdade

We are meeting our obligations to the state of Minnesota as set forth in the covenants of the pertinent financing agreements.

Jim Adams

My hope is that we will get the framework of how financing can be done. I am pretty confident.

Bill Brandt

Now that the financing is lined up, I think there will be other parties that come to the fore.

Greg Brenneman

Financing is tough, and you really have to work hard in the businesses you invest in.

David Brooks

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

Baron Davis

I am the donation to the foundation.

Charles Gounod

If all the music written since Bach's time should be lost, it could be reconstructed on the foundation which Bach laid.

Bing Gordon

Secrecy is the foundation of politics.

Steven Hatfill

Whether we're at war or have been attacked, the foundation of society is that you hold to the laws in place. I used to be somebody that trusted the government. Now I really don't trust anything.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Even theories must have foundations.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled, and smiles are the foundation of beauty.

Johan Cruyff

My foundation now has some 120 football pitches laid out for children, a lot of them immigrants. We live in a multicultural society.

Bruce Allen

We have improved the foundation of this team with young players. It gives you high hopes.

Catherine Keener

The people who make those movies tend to be studios, because they need a lot of money to do it, and those people don't hire me.

Luis von Ahn

Our team at Duolingo is really cohesive, but this did not just happen. I made a concerted effort to hire people who are going to play nice.

Herb Trimpe

I had joined Marvel in 1967, after a year in Vietnam and three years as a student at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. Stan Lee, then the editor-in-chief, hired me as a production assistant.

Mona Williams

We acknowledge we should have had better safeguards in place to make sure our (floor-cleaning) contractors hired only legal workers.

Bob McAdam

We were being attacked. We wanted to hire people who knew how to respond.

John Cottreau

We don't have any equipment. We would hire it and right now that's still to be determined.

Carol Farley

We're going to hire a lawyer, ... It's the only thing we can do.

Kenneth Langone

Home Depot has never hired one human being for minimum wage, not one. We have always paid a premium over minimum wage.

Sam Altman

Don't hire for the sake of hiring. Hire because there is no other way to do what you want to do.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Reporters tend to launch on what seems to be the clearest, most stark aspects of someone's life in terms of an interview.

China Mieville

The Weaver is a really godlike power. It's not even a blind idiot god, a sort of Lovecraft thing, it's just a purely capricious god. It's an intelligence you can't understand, so you can't trust it." -Amazon.com interview

Bob Ross

I never turn down requests for interviews. I'm just rarely asked.

Dave Parker

When I wasn't selected for an interview for council, I kind of thought this might be coming,

Diana Vreeland

I have always felt that the only great thing about an interview is the questions that are asked.

Ramon Sanchez

The process of interviews is not working properly. The mistreatment of people is taking place out there.

Bruce Forsyth

Just doing any kind of work - even an interview for breakfast television - makes me feel happy.

Damon Lindelof

When someone says something in an interview, the beauty of Twitter is that it's a platform for instantaneous response.

Eli Wallach

Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm gonna do my own.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God

Randy Nixon

We want to see people come to this meeting who want to work, who want to see it happen.

Pat Schaumann

We staff about 4,000 meetings a year for the pharmaceutical industry.

John Lackey

When we have two jurisdictions, we have to have a meeting of the minds.

Evan Bayh

My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that's the permanent campaign, part of that's a word I've been using more frequently, 'tribal.' Our politics has become tribal: It's us versus them.

Jack Straw

We have just made history, ... We've had the first ministerial meeting on the opening of accession negotiations.

Kenichiro Sasae

We are talking about the possibility of a recess. We are going to have another meeting tomorrow.

Skip Patterson

We?re having a search (committee) meeting next week.

Ashley Key

We actually had a team meeting at one point (during that stretch). We talked about what we needed to do as a team to get it together. After that team meeting, we got back on the same page and went from there.

Chris Carter

There's always the pressure to make the movie good.

Chris Bosh

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you do under pressure.

Carl Lewis

Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.

Ben Broussard

We've already got a ton of pressure going out there. We can't start worrying about that we have to win this and we have to win that. We just had to go out there and try to get a run.

Greg Hill

We started putting pressure on them and rotating the ball.

Richard Hastings

Where there is pressure there is change, universally.

David Remnick

Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.

Benicio Del Toro

To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one.

Derek Hough

Pressure doesn't exist. We create it for ourselves.

Neel Mukherjee

Innocence is a pretty dangerous thing, you know. Revisit Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot' or, for that matter, Greene's 'The Quiet American' to find out how destructive it can be.

Lefty Grove

You've got a little round ball and a little round bat and anything can happen.

Samantha Fox

It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.

Catriona Matthew

I am a little surprised, but delighted, to be back in it and with two rounds to go anything is still possible,

Diana Wynne Jones

Things are going round and round in my head--or maybe my head is going round and round in things.

Amy Winehouse

I never went round to loads of managers saying 'this is what I have, this is my product and I'm going to be famous so you'd better sign me up.' They came to me.

Pat Toomey

Laffey was in Washington making the rounds and I spoke with him then,

Peter Mandelson

If we scale back in Hong Kong, we should not scale back for the round as a whole. It is too important.

Steven Gerrard

This season will be his season. His all round game's a lot better and there's a lot more to come from him.

Cliff Thompson

Overall, I'm happy. During the first round of the state tournament, you just want to get a win and get the jitters out.

Clark Kerr

The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The status quo is working.

Jodi Whitaker

His status is as it was in (Wednesday's) briefing.

Kent Kanoy

That's what he is, he's the status quo.

Garry Kasparov

Question the status quo at all times, especially when things are going well.

Helen Mirren

A woman with knowledge is something that frightens the status quo quite a lot.

Billy Donovan

The surgery went well. ... They don't think there's any type of concussion or anything like that, but where his status is for Sunday, I'm not really sure.

Billy Donovan

The surgery went well, but what his status is for Sunday, I'm not really sure right now.

Vladimir Yevseyev

In view of the time shortage, the status of the negotiations could also be raised.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.