Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rudi Giuliani

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

E. B. White

There are buildings that some of your children are in that are older than Joe White. That's unacceptable, those buildings needs to be renovated.

Mary Humstone

When you walk through the site, you see the industrial side of it with all the buildings and just imagine how people worked there, and of course the company town part of it. The houses, the clotheslines and things people planted -- it's really kind of a ghostly feeling as you walk through the town. You can imagine what life was like.

Martin Jacques

In 1975, the Americans suffered a spectacular military defeat at the hands of North Vietnam and the Vietcong, with U.S. helicopters seeking to rescue leading U.S. personnel from the tops of buildings as Vietnamese guerrillas closed in on the centre of Saigon.

Anthony DeFazio

What these buildings have in common is that they are all 100 percent leased and occupied by financial institutions. The buyer wants high credit quality and a steady income stream from the leases.

Jane Halliburton

Whether working with current buildings or constructing new, the energy strategies have converted to dollars saved, resources saved, and pollutants never produced.

Kenzo Tange

In my opinion, further consideration of those views will help us find a way out of the current impasse, and reveal to us the kinds of buildings and cities required by the informational society.

Michele Johnson

We had 10 of those buildings last year. We have 27 this year.

Don Smithburg

We're doing everything that we can to secure the buildings. We know that these buildings are sieves ... They have easy access.

G. H. Hardy

The people who come to us are desperate. It's as if they're in a burning building. Their lives are at stake.... We didn't feel that we could morally back out and put these people back in the fire and let them die.

Luchino Visconti

Don't underestimate Laura Antonelli. She's burning to do well. And then she has an extraordinary face, even without make-up. It's not with her that I'd discuss literature. I speak only of the film 'L'Innocente,' and what she does she does well.

Bill Bailey

I would never condone the burning of a Dan Brown novel, much though I loathe and detest his work. Well, I say work, you know, words, randomly arranged to form millions of dollars... I'm not bitter at all...

Paul Stewart

When we first moved in here we had significant symptoms which continued til today. We had burning eyes, burning nose, scratchy throats, nasal headaches, that type of thing.

Sir Scott

Vengeance, deep-brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and high disdain Forbade the rising tear to flow

J. K. Rowling

My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.

Kim Gordon

I don't have any desire to do something that sounds explicitly rock. Like, I don't have a burning need to be a rock musician. I feel like I've taken that as far as I can take it, for me.

Kirk Cameron

What I would say is Jesus came to save lost sinners like you and me, and if Jesus Christ has a burning desire to seek and save the lost, then you should, too, if Christ is living within you. If you don't have a concern for the lost, then I am concerned about your salvation because the Holy Spirit wants the lost to come to Christ.

Chris Crutcher

I'd rather be a flash than a slowly burning ember.

Niki de St. Phalle

The world has been experiencing a whole pattern of auto-destruction, whether in environmental disasters like Chernobyl or health disasters like AIDS.

Charles Krauthammer

The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster.

Benjamin E. Mays

It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.

Jan Egeland

We have seen 2004 and 2005 as the years of disaster,

Matthew Broderick

When I was little I used to see Godzilla all the time on TV, ... I just remember him knocking things over, which was fine with me. I loved monster movies and disaster movies, and this was a good combination.

Gene Hall

We're sitting on top of what very well could be an economic disaster. A lot of praying for a good soaking rain is all that can be done.

Andy Kopplin

What this information shows, I think, is this was the most expensive natural disaster in American history.

Tommy Thompson

Weyauwega is a microcosm of how to handle a disaster. This was an example of an emergency situation that would have been a disaster save for the fact we moved quickly and, I believe, correctly.

John Luther

We're simulating a real-life disaster to identify the types of situations we could potentially face.

Charles Dickens

Accidentally consumed five biscuits when I wasn't paying attention. Those biscuits are wily fellows - they leap in like sugary ninjas

Charles Caleb Colton

Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

R. Robinson

We want to target kids in grades five through eight. It could fit very nicely into the media studies curriculum.

Richard Hadlee

We want to see that these players are over their injuries and their fitness and skill levels are up to international standard,

Catherine Bell

When I do get time, I like to hike and I take lots of vitamins and powders to keep healthy.

Duce Staley

Wherever I can fit in and contribute, I'll be happy.

Mark Helprin

One of the things I worked very hard on all my life was to be like everyone else. I tried very hard to fit in.

Edward Jenner

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases

Denis Waitley

Time And health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.

Claire Buchan

He'll be talking about the spirit of the American people as exemplified by these miners and the workers who rescued them.

Frank Holmes

Those miners who are hedged are put in the penalty box.

Roger Nicholson

As a result 13 underground miners are presently unaccounted for.

Gene Kitts

These miners are experienced, they are well-trained. We are just praying they had an opportunity to put their training to use.

Bill Caylor

It's important that we monitor these miners with problems.

Robin Munro

They're making miners work excessively long shifts. They have too many miners underground.

Mother Jones

Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives

Bob Friend

This is not a pep rally. It's telling the miners and the mine operators themselves to work right and make the right decisions.

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.

Kofi Annan

Usually, because society's inequalities puts them at risk -- unjust, unconscionable risk.

Larry Coker

This puts us right where we want to be ? things will get real interesting.

Jim Stone

This puts them on the same side of the table as you,

Francis Bradley

There are those who understand everything till one puts it into words

Jeff Long

Certainly, I don't think it puts us at a (recruiting) disadvantage.

Phil Rizzuto

Well, that kind of puts the damper on even a Yankee win!

Mack Strong

He comes out to compete. He comes out and puts up MVP numbers.

David Whitehead

It essentially puts our little town on the map.

Phil Garner

Roy is not a promoter. He's very laid-back. That's not a show he puts on.

Richard Cook

We're in a state where we're not quite sure what's happened,

O. Singh

Unless he does something drastically amazing, or I play really poorly, I should be quite comfortable.

Joe Linklater

We're quite pleased, but we have to remain vigilant about this.

Bob Woods

We've never done anything quite like this before.

Lena Headey

I'm small but quite tough. When incensed, I can swing a punch.

David Harsanyi

Let's be honest: nothing spoils 'The Walking Dead' quite like watching 'The Walking Dead.'

Kate Smith

Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

Bob Hartley

We have a pond, and I've never seen it come up so fast. I haven't seen this much (rain) for quite awhile.

Gary Carter

We're 20 years older, so it's not quite going to be the same.

David Pogue

I travel a ridiculous amount, so I've thought a lot about, and spent a lot of time refining, what I carry and how I carry it.

Bear Grylls

I've had so many injuries in my life that it's ridiculous.

Bernard Hinault

I may, however, begin riding again when I am 60.

John Manion

We're going to ride (the running game) as long as we can.

Patrick Duffy

We're sick for what we have to do, but the voters say we have to live within our means. They want us to get rid of the extras ? the extras that are valuable to you.

Bob Dylan

Well the Lone Ranger and Tonto, they are riding down the line fixing everybody's troubles, everybody except mine.

Brene Brown

When perfectionism is driving us, shame is riding shotgun and fear is that annoying backseat driver!

Craig Kelly

Oakley and Burton have been my main sponsors since '87. I've been riding for both of them.

Craig Kelly

I've always been into powder, that's what I like riding, and now you've got to go farther to get it.

Alan Watts

We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down enough to enjoy them when they come.

Camilla Luddington

I'll make a horrible housewife. It's not like I'm disgusting, but I'm pretty bad about having a drink or eating something and then leaving the plate and rushing to go.

Camille Paglia

If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

Ed Begley, Jr.

The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.

Dawn Powell

Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement.

Justin Jeffre

We're going to take our time and do what we feel is right. We're not rushing anything.

Demosthenes

Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Better start rushing before the rush begins!

Mack Brown

We didn't want to be stubborn, ... We rushed for 145. We'll take that.

Al Jarreau

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

Bob Marley

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.

Anne Rice

Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself.

Doug E. Fresh

I could still walk the street. I don't have to have no massive security.

Stephanie Nelson

I think they'll have to do something. I don't think streets can support it.

Elton John

I don't whistle at you down the street. I would if I could, but I can't whistle you see.

David Brooks

They're from a friend's house. Three streets away.

Mark Twain

A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.

Martha Reeves

I will always dance in the street.

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.

Charles Caleb Colton

For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few.

Charles Caleb Colton

War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.

Charles Caleb Colton

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death, but if frequently resorted to, or long persisted in, they heighten the energies only to hasten the dissolution.

Charles Dickens

Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart?

Charles Dickens

I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.

Charles Stross

There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet?

Charles Stross

I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.