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.

Alan Perlis

LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The true follower of Christ will not ask, "If I embrace this truth, what will it cost me?" Rather he will say, "This is truth. God help me to walk in it, let come what may!"

Chris Christie

We're telling small-business owners that not only are we going to raise their costs by a buck and a quarter, but we're also going to raise it with these cost-of-living adjustments. Here's what's going to happen: They're going to have to lay people off.

Jeff Campbell

The positive news is we're making progress on the cost front, led by painful concessions by our employees and suppliers, ... The tougher news is while the revenue environment has improved, it's still depressed by historical standards.

Ed Bolen

The person who decides is dictating why the costs are what they are.

Scott Magruder

We are proud of it. We put a lot of work into it. It did cost a little more, but it was worth it.

Rajiv Dube

We are looking to establish quick gains, though it is too early to quantify what the cost savings will be.

Ron Jones

We spent the last few weeks talking about how good the team's effort was and tonight was the first time that we didn't play with the effort that I felt we should have. We did some of the same things that have cost us games this year but it just looked like the energy level disappeared in the second half.

Nathan Myhrvold

The Internet is the ultimate vanity-publishing medium, and therefore, the ultimate place for those of us who like to watch. The Internet can reach an audience at lower cost than any medium before it.

John Gillespie

We're going to get it. They are going to take the easiest route.

Lamorne Morris

If I wasn't acting, I'd be teaching acting. That would be my easiest thing to fall back on is teaching it.

Kumail Nanjiani

I never really got into game shows. The easiest one is 'Wheel Of Fortune' because you just have to know words, and for the most part everyone knows words.

Jenny Mack

Making sure tires are properly inflated is one of the easiest and most important maintenance procedures for drivers. Not only does it promote safety but also will save money at the gas pump.

Barton Smith

The professional, the high-skilled person is going to find it easiest to be able to find work in Houston.

Ben Smith

She has not had the easiest time staying on the straight and narrow. When you have a lot of talent, you might take things for granted.

Nicole Scherzinger

I would be a horrible lip-syncher. I would only ever sing live - that's why people come and see the show. It's not the easiest thing in the world to sing and dance at the same time, which is why I'm grateful to be able to do both.

will.i.am

Crime and violence are the easiest emotions to reenact.

Aziz Ansari

Like with 'Parks and Recreation,' it's so much fun because the people writing it are funny and they're open and you just go in there and have a good time. It's pretty much the easiest job I've ever had.

Jeff Schuster

We had a pretty turbulent 2005, yet sales still hovered around 17 million. Regardless of the exterior shock to the market, it seems to weather everything. We don't see any pullback (in sales), but we don't see any gains.

Jason Keadjian

Four of the mansions will be on the market this year. Because they are national landmarks, there are tight restrictions on modifications owners can do to the exterior of the mansions.

Andrew Shue

We often think the exterior things-being good at sports or really smart -translate to feeling great about yourself.

Ludie Ehlers

You can also install a fire-resistant roof, less flammable landscaping and noncombustible exterior siding.

Victoria de los Angeles

I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.

Victoria de los Angeles

But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.

Sally Sondesky

As long as they keep the exterior in the same stone so it looks similar, then we have no problem with that. And they are going to do that because I've seen the plans.

Lester Snow

The next big frontier is more focus on exterior water use.

William Cowper

Happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose

Leslie Cockburn

When I was in London at NBC, I was the lowest man on the totem pole. I would go to diplomatic receptions to meet people.

Jim Puckett

When you're a cash-strapped school system, you're going to go to the lowest bidder. The lowest bidders are the ones who are going to export.

Richard Daley

A newspaper is the lowest thing there is.

Dave Dasgupta

Traditionally the first and second quarters have the lowest losses.

Vijay Singh

Tomorrow I've got to do it again, I have to shoot the lowest round I possibly can.

David Davis

Morale is at the lowest point since I've been here.

David Lagercrantz

My father was highbrow: writing long biographies of Dante and stuff like that. Ghostwriting sportsman memoirs? That was sort of the lowest of the low.

Steve Hutchinson

He's been thrown into the fire. It was the lowest of the lows. In my rookie year, he was getting booed off the field. Of anybody, I'm proudest of Matt.

Alexey Miller

A common price isn't the lowest price. It will most obviously be the highest price.

Chris Colfer

I'm really not good blackmail material.

Bob Newhart

You never know when you'll come upon something and it's going to be fodder for new material.

Aaron Copland

I don't compose. I assemble materials.

Peter Diamandis

We're not seeing any breakthroughs in physics or materials science here,

Brunello Cucinelli

I come from a farming culture, where we valued raw materials above all.

Don Brownlee

But the study of these materials will go on for decades.

Alexandra Stoddard

If we have authentic, honest, earthy materials in our houses, we'll be more authentic, honest and natural.

Dan Modzelewski

We're using materials that are very tough and very strong to withstand the weather.

Jim Adams

We're already working on getting prices on materials for the building.

Eric Hausler

What's proposed in New York is not competitive.

Abbas Zaidi

We have proposed Karachi as a Test and a one-day venue.

Stephen Byers

The proposed merger...might result in a substantial lessening of competition,

Marty McOmber

This wasn't a surprise. This is why we proposed the legislation.

Howard Miller

I think what he's proposed is accommodating It's gorgeous.

Christo

Some of the projects we've proposed over the years have been refused. But we never do other people's ideas; our ideas come out of our two hearts and our two heads.

Edward Hennessey

There was no relationship, there was a proposed relationship,

Hans Eichel

Everything I proposed and much more still will be done now,

David Lennon

That is false. They have proposed nothing to us other than threats, concessions and substandard conditions.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Alan Moore

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

Chinua Achebe

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

David Shuster

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.

David Sedaris

This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.

David Sedaris

I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.

David Koechner

What helps you as an actor when it comes to roles is that deeper understanding of so many different fractions of humanity. Because oftentimes, even in comedy, there is conflict.

Carl Sagan

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy

Carl Sagan

The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.