Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Rogers

I believe very much in a dialogue between buildings - I believe it's always been there. I think buildings have different identities and live very well next to each other. We always have the shock of the new, and that's fine. The renaissance style is totally different from the medieval, and they have a dialogue across time.

Richard Rogers

Cities depend on a healthy mix of uses and people for their vitality. As a pre-eminent world city, London is a magnet to people from across the globe.

Robert Palmer

I'm introverted, and I pay attention to my muse... Record companies used to go mad and say 'We don't know the deal with you. You have no continuity at all. You give us 'Addicted to Love,' and you're a rock n' roll star, then you give us 'She Makes My Day,' and what's that?' But that was a hit, too. It either gets across or it doesn't.

Marcy Kaptur

I have an ability to work collegially across a wide range of interests in the caucus and in the Congress, and an ability to work on a bipartisan basis. Appropriators pride themselves on that.

Jay Stanley

We're not big and we're not super quick but our kids are very disciplined across the board.

King Gyanendra

Let us listen to others, put across our views, do away with discord and enhance mutual understanding.

Ron Hubbard

L. R. H. in Clearing Procedure, 1957:"The work was free. Keep it so."Therefore, although we have no such stature as the Great Philosophies, I charge you with this - look to source writings, not to interpretations. Look to the original work, not offshoots. If I have fought for a quarter of a century, most of it alone, to keep this work from serving to uphold the enslavers of Man, to keep it free from some destructive "pitch" or slant, then you certainly can carry that motif a little further. I'll not always be here on guard. The stars twinkle in the Milky Way and the wind sighs for songs across the empty fields of a planet a Galaxy away. You won't always be here. But before you go, whisper this to your sons and their sons - "The work was free. Keep it so.

Nicholas Negroponte

Maine has shown the huge value of using a laptop across all of one's studies. Maine's program demonstrates how laptops can serve as a window into the world and a tool with which to think.

Joseph Pierce

Making a big hit, ... An interception is pretty good. But I like to make a big hit and let them know I'm there. I want anyone coming across the middle to think about it.

Richard Rogers

I love cities, I spend most of my life talking about cities. And the design of cities does have an effect on your life. You're lucky if you can see trees out of your window and you have a square nearby, or a bar, a cornershop, a surgery. Then you're living well.

Albert Schweitzer

The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism.

Liu Xiaoming

Major cities around the world have spent more than a decade or two trying to solve this problem. Some big cities still face this problem.

Stephanie Stilson

Let's look at these 99 other places (honored) and see what kind of education they provide. What do cities that really excel in education do?

Rudi Giuliani

Let's now make this kind of a permanent condition for New York City, that New York City is one of the safest large cities in America, and let's keep it that way,

Thomas Heywood

Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead,/ Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head.

Chris Paulitz

Sen. Hutchison is very impressed with the progress the cities are making, but it is too early in the process to discuss an endgame.

Joseph Rykwert

Mixed use is what cities are all about. If you don't have mixed use, you don't have cities.

John Mulvihill

One of our goals was to talk to all the cities and see if we could convince everybody to do kind of a regional facility.

David Byers

Like everybody else, I've got people who depend on me, and if I've got a serious health problem, I need to know about it,

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Let's be honest; it's rather easy to be busy. We all can think up a list of tasks that will overwhelm our schedules. Some might even think that their self-worth depends on the length of their to-do list. They flood the open spaces in their time with lists of meetings and minutia - even during times of stress and fatigue.

Josh Billings

Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he's made of

Peter Gregg

Maine and us go back and forth, depending on the year.

Paul Niemann

Let's have a look at it, see what we can do with those (programs). Depending on the money situation, I think our sidewalks should be fixed ... I think we need to put safety first.

John Lott

Many people found for the first time what it is like to totally dependent on themselves for protection. People put up signs that said 'Shotguns Inside' and that kept the gangs and violence away.

William Arbaugh

Security technologies depend on the correctness of the system they're actually checking.

Robert Bennett

Much would depend upon what Mr. Libby said to the grand jury. If he said that he had not talked to Judy about these things or didn't talk about the wife, then he's got a problem.

Ray Valdes

Much will depend on how Microsoft ties Internet Explorer to its big releases next year.

Jim Edmonds

Scott's healthy and it looks like he's nice and strong. That is going to be a huge plus for us.

Gillian Anderson

Motherhood has been enormously healthy for her. She's more secure.

J. J. Johnson

Obviously, the key with somebody like Trot is they come in and they're healthy and they do their thing -- and he looks really good,

Debra Messing

I'm just eating really, really clean healthy foods,

Dean Ornish

An educated patient is empowered; thus, more likely to become healthy.

Eleanor Roosevelt

To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.

Gail Shearer

For young healthy people and families, they may well end up being the winners; the problem is somebody else is likely to be the loser.

Abdul Kalam

India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.

Kathy Holleman

We want to make sure they're healthy in every way. We don't want to have two patients after the operation, so we put them through a pretty thorough exam.

Debra Messing

I love London. I love England. We were out in the countryside and I had the time of my life

Stephen Dorff

I'd like to make a movie in the South of France. I'd like to make a movie in London again. And, I'm going to make a movie in Amsterdam.

Lauren Willig

I'm an eighteenth-century girl at heart. I wouldn't mind being set down in London in 1715, in the midst of all the drama of the Hanoverian succession.

Alan Rickman

You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.

David Mitchell

When insolvent, pack minimally, with a valise tough enough to be thrown onto a London pavement from a first- or second-floor window. Insist on hotel rooms no higher.

Carole King

I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me.

Camille Pissarro

It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too justified!

Benedict Cumberbatch

I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.

Antony Beevor

When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.

Wole Soyinka

I have a kind of magnetic attraction to situations of violence.

Fred Moore

Long-term archival storage remains the realm of magnetic tape libraries. Today there is no truly cost-effective ILM strategy without a tape component.

Janet Evanovich

You're a magnet for mess. I've never seen anything like it. Lula to Stephanie

Tom Chiappetta

When you put that mix together, we got our own little world here.

Elizabeth Bowen

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

Omar Vizquel

On the road, it's going to be a mixed feeling. But at home, he'll get the support.

Richard Shelby

because they all go into the mix of the economy.

Paul Fernandez

She used to rely a lot on her power. Now she has a variety of pitches she can mix in.

Nathalie Dechy

She served very well and mixed her game. I had a lot of opportunities but simply couldnt take the lead,

Reginald Knowles

Town officials can piggyback for some mix on some adjacent town roads.

Zygmunt Bauman

In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.

Vint Cerf

There is an odd mix of permeability and impermeability in the Net. You won't be able to communicate with everyone, and not every application will be accessible to everyone.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Rabih Alameddine

Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.

Chris Rainier

I am a storyteller who uses a camera.