Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Andrews

We're honored to be the architects for these projects. Working with staff and school officials, we've tried to design a building that's functional and easy to maintain. When this is done, we want you all to look forward to coming to school and going to the classrooms we build.

Thomas Heatherwick

It's important for people who criticise architects - whether what they build is or isn't to your taste - to appreciate how they devote themselves and put everything into bringing a building into existence.

Adam Armstrong

She just got the architects drawings and she's excited to get going.

Dylan Walsh

L.A. is so much about ratings and box office; that defines everything. And here, of course it's important, but it's not part of the culture - there's too much else going on in New York. They're not going to let one industry monopolize your attention, you know? You're likely to have best friends who are architects or newspaper reporters.

Robert Seidman

Fortunately, we were not in the construction phase and were able to have the architects make significant changes ... to upgrade the foundation, for instance, ... It was all done in the planning phase.

Anthony DeCurtis

He was one of the architects of the Beatles sound.

Edward Cooke

He has been at the forefront of most of the architectural movements of the past 30 years, ... influence people who were architects or in business.

John Zogby

He may be seen as one of the architects of an illusion. Or he may be seen as one of the architects of global stability. That needs at least a decade to play out.

John Tabor

Wherever possible, ... I'd like to see Charlotte architects and contractors used. I'd like to keep the Charlotte taxpayers' money here in Charlotte.

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.

Kyle Loomis

We knew they weren't going to quit, and they didn't quit. We knew we had to get a lead and keep building on it.

Scott Walker

We know we don't want to go back to Nashville down two games. They won a game in our building and we have to find a way to do the same thing here.

Joe McCarthy

Ultimately, we're building a new sense of place in the town we've called home for many generations. We know that Carson City residents, business owners and employees have opinions about the future of Carson City's downtown area, and we want to hear the suggestions and put them into action.

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.

Wendy Kopp

Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been in classrooms and in whole schools where there is a clear vision of where the kids have the potential to be.

Kim Lawrence

What's most troubling to teachers is the speed with which things are moving. We're worried that programs won't be in place and classrooms won't be ready by the time the students come back to school in late August.

Dave Collins

We're going to have a mixed reaction because folks in our classrooms are representative of the population. Some are eager to use new technology and others would rather use pencil and paper.

Brett Nelson

So far the community response has been great. We just got a large donation from the Audubon Society and we have donation jars in all the classrooms and around the community.

Kyle Bordelon

It initially started with three classrooms ... but subsequent to that we got other reports in other parts of the buildings.

Doylene Fuqua

I think the classrooms suffer with half-time teachers.

Carol Huffman

I think we're on the right track. We can now finally have classrooms at the schools, where we can collaborate with other classrooms and interact with other teachers.

Robert Mason

Lock down is when we make sure all doors are locked, ... and each door to the classrooms are locked and safe.

Jim Crawford

Midyear adjustments are less about moving teachers to new classrooms and more about how within a building, what options there are for assigning kids in. As a last resort, we might get a situation where we actually move a student to a neighboring school.

Richard McGrath

We want to set the right example and send the right message. Even though this money is coming from contributions, we still think it's very important to be cost-efficient and responsible with expenses.

Elton Brand

We knew they were white-hot and were winning a lot of ballgames, but we were confident coming in. Even down four at the half, we were still confident. We knew that once we made our adjustments, we'd be OK in the second half.

Doug Johnson

We knew they were going to wheel it over in his direction. We were yelling at him from the sidelines to watch out for the ball. But I don't know that he needed us to tell him that. He knew it was coming and just jumped in front of the receiver.

Julie Futch

We knew they were coming out for us. Especially after what happened last year.

Darnell Lazare

We knew they were a great defensive team coming into this. We knew it wasn't going to be easy. We just couldn't get our shots to fall to keep it close.

Bonnie Henrickson

We know who is coming in here and how much better we have to be.

Brian Reece

We know we have a good foundation coming back. The fact we got to this point and we're in position to do this hopefully puts a little thirst and a little hunger in our guys' stomachs for next season.

Ben Carlson

We know we can't continue like we have for years. We need more race days, higher purses, and we need to reduce the costs of the horsemen coming to the track. Unfortunately, we can't make a move in that direction in 2006, but hopefully in the future we can come out of it and continue.

Steve Smith

We know how good we are. This game that's coming up will just give us an indication: can we rise to the occasion when we need to?

Charles Caleb Colton

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.

Charles Caleb Colton

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy.

Alan Cooper

Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is 'on paper.'

Alan Cooper

Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.

Alan Cooper

Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.

Alan Cooper

If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Everything God does has purpose and intention behind that design. It is a master design, and every little thing has its proper place and function.

Chris Campbell

When is the last time you saw a Lamborghini sale?

Chip Kidd

Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.

Alan Greenspan

I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Be hard on yourself and easy on others. Carry your own cross but never lay one on the back of another

Mo Charlo

We know we can win games and we need to keep doing what we've been doing. One of the keys is defense. That gets us going and leads to easy baskets and dunks.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Americans really don't understand the Japanese nature, but it's not an easy thing to understand.

Caroline Kennedy

Change isn't easy, it takes time.

Jack Shea

The percentages are low, no question, ... The work is leaving the workers. This outsourcing is a problem for union and non-union workers. Labor's never had it easy but we're ready to fight for workers' rights.

Louis Orr

We started the game with stops and conversions, and we started the second half with stops and conversions. ? We knew we had to make it tough for them to score. We had to stay in their faces all night. No easy baskets.

Frank Robinson

We struggled through it, and nothing ever comes easy for us.

Lee Byung-hun

The more I act, the harder it gets, since I feel like I still have so much to learn. Whenever I embark on a new project, it always feels like the first time. If it were easy to me and I felt like I knew everything, my acting might have been different. I think the feeling of 'newness' keeps me on my toes and concentrated.

Gene Coppola

We want to take the next step forward as any good organization would.

Wes Walz

We know we've got a lot of ground to make up. Guys talking about how many wins we need. We need one win (tonight). That's all we've got to look forward to, and then we'll worry about the next game when it comes.

M. Russell Ballard

We have taken a giant step forward in correcting some of the misconceptions people have about the church. I think that we've made a lot of friends.

Ted Mayer

We are pleased with these trial settings and the prospect of things going forward on a rapid basis. By the last part of the second quarter of 2006, we'll know a lot more about the parameters of this litigation.

Bob Foster

We've all been slowly working our way back. I still didn't make any money in 2004, but we're taking good steps forward this summer.

Paula Pearson

We've all been looking forward to this match all season as we do every year.

Kevin Jackson

We started practicing in the spring, planning and looking forward to playing in this game and winning it.

Ross Randall

We struggled this week with the weather. We are looking forward to getting back and practicing to get ready for our next tournament.

Hani Durzy

We are looking forward to Wednesday and having our day in front of the Supreme Court.

Bruce Hyde

We need to make it a more functional area.

Brian Kernighan

90% of the functionality delivered now is better than 100% delivered never.

Tom Saxton

I think we got a lot of good robots this year that are functional robots.

James Huang

Our mainland policies remain the same. We still hope the two sides can sit down and make some breakthroughs in functional talks.

Martha Stewart

Our new home improvement series will inspire and inform, while mentoring and teaching valuable life skills, from repairing brickwork, laying flooring, painting rooms and installing a functional and lovely kitchen,

Marc Grunert

Long before they ever get to the point they need to be taken out from the standpoint of a structural deficiency, they end up being replaced because of a functional deficiency.

Neil Shubin

Most of the major joints of the fin are functional in this fish.

David Greenwood

What we're suggesting here is we have a good uniform, plentiful supply of clean, young functional islet cells.

Donna Karan

If there's hardware, it's a functional hardware used for a purpose.

Larry Miller

The real idols . . . are the people who work for Polk Works. I'm honored by this.

Brad Thor

I am indeed honored to call him my friend.

Unknown

She offered her honor, He honored her offer, and all night he was on her and off her.

Meredith Vieira

I thought about this long and hard, and I am so, so honored to join this family.

Charles Chafer

We're pleased that he selected us and we're honored to have him,

Henry Cisneros

If we are not honored with the games, that might be for the best. We don't want to mix motives here, and our motives are to be helpful.

Peter Schaffer

He has nothing but the utmost respect for Mr. Wilson and would be honored to interview for such a prestigious job.

Percy Sutton

Had there been an even larger turnout, she'd have won by much more. It's wonderful. She's from a very strong political family. I've been honored to work with her.

Andy Hilbert

I said I'd be honored to go. It's real exciting, and it should be a lot of fun.

Charles Edward Merriam

[T]he influence of the German school is most obvious in relation to the contract theory of the origin of the state and the idea of the function of the state. The theory that the state originates in an agreement between men was assailed by the German thinkers and the historical, organic, evolutionary idea substituted for it.

Alan Watts

You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.

Alan Paton

But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.

Alan Moore

I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.

Alan Moore

I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

Alan Bennett

I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.

Alan Bennett

My experience came before most of you were born. My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn't normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge. But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge. So, half a dozen of us tried - not all of us in history - and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.

Alan Ball

I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

Alan Alda

Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn't sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don't exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.

Cherry Loney

We are already strained in terms of our staff and space.

John Roberts

I was a staff lawyer, ... I didn't have a position.

Jay Carson

Forty-one just wanted to come by and say hello. He was really great, and our staff really appreciated it.

Cynthia Johnson

Our staff don't take to rhetoric, they need proof.

Ralph Brennan

Staff is our most significant challenge. We already know that many of them will not return.

Samuel Dalembert

That would have been a tough decision. If the staff didn't change, it would have been something to think about.

Andy Miller

Right now our support staff is really under the gun,

Paul Tagliabue

I think that I see (finding a replacement) as one of opportunity. I told the staff that we have a lot of things in place, a lot of initiatives under way.

Allen Weinstein

NARA must provide security at our facilities to protect our public patrons, our staff, and our holdings.

Jennifer Dunn

We've tried to make it very visual and interesting.

Flip Saunders

We wanted to win big right away. We didn't let things happen, we tried to make too many spectacular plays.

E. Hicks

We were trying some a little different. We didn't play well in the other ones, so we tried those.

Kylan Robinson

She tried to make it, but it was too late.

Doc Sadler

We tried some things. A triangle-and-two, some zone. And they made some shots.

Craig Biggio

We tried some of that the other day. That's hard,

Maureen Brunt

We tried not to think about it and just play our game.

Phil Budervic

We tried not to do that, because that's kind of unfair. But when we need a basket...that's who we're going to.

Tommy Tuberville

We tried everything that we could. There are no excuses.