Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard DeKaser

We have seen and I expect will continue to see a softening of demand for single-family housing that has been unmatched by a decline in construction. Eventually builders get with the program.

Terry Lanni

Throughout its history, Las Vegas has been transformed repeatedly by a series of significant developments reflecting the creative energies of its builders and entrepreneurs. Our master plan represents a significant new direction for our city and our company.

Sam Lieber

The public builders will say, 'Where are growth opportunities?' and they'll head offshore. But then those markets will be more sophisticated.

Stephen Kim

The fact is that housing demand has not slowed meaningfully, nor have supply constraints been noticeably undermined, and the large, public builders are set to post significantly higher price growth, margins and earnings than the Street currently expects.

Pat Walker

Last year we did 35 indoor gyms. We've worked with lots of builders on the North Shore.

S. Walker

For several years, builders put just a vent fan in a wet area, such as a bathroom.

Jerry Rombach

Large-volume 'tract' builders will typically develop the ground -- streets, utilities, public/open spaces -- and build two or three display homes from which they will sell to buyers. Most of these also will do 'semi-custom' homes, where a buyer may generously modify or upgrade one of the offered models. These builders may build 'speculative' homes, hoping someone will like the house and land and buy it.

Neil Massa

If the home builders are doing badly, it shows the housing market is slowing down. Whatever happens to them determines how much the consumer will have to spend for the holiday season.

Dave Wannstedt

Greg (Lee) will make that catch nine out of 10 times, Erik Gill - that's another touchdown he fumbled out of the end zone. Those things are all confidence builders and something we'll have to correct.

Adger Ross

We want to try and prevent this from happening again. We love our city and want it safe.

John Payne

We want to see the city come back, and we're willing to listen to proposals and ideas. We want to work with local and state officials to get the city back on its feet.

Kim Chance

We knew they were working back then and doing the improvement so I'm sure the city has it in well-capable hands.

Carl Peterson

The other suggestion was to play in Kansas City at noon Sunday, ... We don't expect any hurricanes here. That was considered, but the league made its decision. It creates some real problems for us with travel, and with trying to squeeze a Thursday, Friday and Saturday practice all into Thursday. But we have to do what the league orders us to do.

Bible Bible

The posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed.

Artur Davis

the people who sat comfortably in this city last week.

Al Naomi

The point is to eliminate that storm-surge threat with one of these plans. The philosophy of what we do during a hurricane would change. We could spend more time protecting our homes and less time trying to get out of the city in these desperate evacuations.

Kevin Jackson

We are a vibrant, growing city with a lot to offer. I think success in Rio Rancho will be success for Albuquerque.

Mike Birbiglia

There are comedians who focus on everything that is external. They focus on politics and the news, what's going on in that city and that night.

Chogyam Trungpa

Because there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point.

David Allen

Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative.

Byron Katie

When the creative mind is unleashed and understands its true nature, it's unlimited. There's nothing you cannot do.

Catherine Bell

I've always thought of myself as a businesswoman. I have the creative side, but I also have this business sense.

Mike Gardner

We are pleased to receive the Project Partnership Award. As an organization we have worked creatively with regional communities to get urban forestry off the ground. It's wonderful to be formally recognized for these efforts.

Kurt Vonnegut

Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes.

Bob Monkhouse

I'll never stop working. I want to die in the saddle. A day is wasted for me if I haven't done something even mildly creative.

Billy Joel

Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.

Bill Parcells

The more you prepare beforehand, the more relaxed and creative and effective you’ll be when it counts.

Van Baker

Ultimately, for them to sustain their growth and be successful in the long term, they're going to have to move in new directions and tackle some new product lines that they don't have and haven't historically done. That's going to take significant investment.

Mark Stewart

We are pleased to see the industry moving in this direction. Just to give you a little history, we launched a similar program enhancement four years ago. Ford, Lincoln and Mercury CPO have been teamed with MSX International since February 2002.

Chris Culos

We've always been friends before we were even in a band. It's a good-natured feeling, playing together on stage every night. To us, hanging out is playing a show. We can read each other and know each other's moods, and we know the direction we're headed. But we also know nothing is set in stone.

Stuart Fraser

There are some encouraging signs. They're going in the right direction. Still, they've got quite a job in front of them.

Jon Tester

When you start pulling out infrastructure that's been there over 100 years, that's a negative direction to be heading.

Tim Hibbitts

We have a state where a growing number of voters are displeased with the direction of the state. If that's not a good set-up for a third-party candidate, I don't know what is.

Tim Clark

We've been able to point people in the right direction and get them hooked up with locations, crews, whatever they need.

Kelly Brown

We're just waiting for direction from the federal level.

Matt Haryasz

We're moving in the right direction. We're starting to get a lot of momentum.

Willie Nelson

I think it's time we start looking seriously at alternative energies so we don't have to go around the world looking for oil,

Mahmoud Abbas

spending time and energies to move the process forward.

Charles Eckstine

I think if our police officers put their energies in the borough solely, and we have one officer per patrol car, we'd have sufficient police services for the borough. I don't see other communities having two police officers riding around in the same patrol car.

Doris Goodwin

His whole philosophy was not to waste precious energies on recriminations about the past

Orison Swett Marden

One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.

Frank White

War and space exploration are alternative uses of the assertive, exploratory energies that are so characteristic of human beings. They may also be mutually exclusive because if one occurs on a massive scale, the other probably will not.

Lori Garver

The past seven-plus years have seen just an incredible rejuvenation of energies at NASA leading to more missions within a shorter period of time.

Amy Grant

Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.

Alfred McEwen

It could have implications for moons outside the solar system. It gives us lots to ponder in terms of physical science as far as the energies it takes to produce these (plumes).

Charles Caleb Colton

put on the livery of the best master only to serve the worst.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Religion is interested primarily in the One who is the source of all things, the master of every phenomenon.

David Hilbert

We do not master a scientific theory until we have shelled and completely prised free its mathematical kernel.

Artur Schnabel

Mozart is the most inaccessible of the great masters.

Charles Dickens

We've got a private master comes to teach us at home, but we ain't proud, because ma says it's sinful.

Bertrand Russell

The power of thought, the vast regions it can master.

William Shakespeare

To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master And cried, 'All hail!' when as he meant all harm.

Bernard of Clairvaux

I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.

Bryant H. McGill

Like manchurian candidates, we have been made into manchurian consumers, who subconsciously buy when we are triggered by our brand masters.

Charles de Lint

There is no plan, no future laid out for any of us beyond what we make for ourselves.

Chogyam Trungpa

You do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is similar to the sun shining and plants growing. The sun has no desire to create the vegetation; plants simply react to sunlight and the situation develops naturally.

Matt Miller

We know what we need to do. We plan for it, and we've done it before.

John Devine

very challenging, but we plan to get it done.

Dianna Agron

My back-up plan is always to take a trip. That's never a bad option. That's always a good option.

David Morrissey

Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.

Phil Orlandella

There are (contingency) plans in place for strikes.

Bill Hogan

We still plan on sending out a notice,

Lori Murray

We started out planting 400 trees. They just seemed to do very, very well. We subsequently planted another 200 and then another 300 the third year.

M.I.A.

I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.

Simon Fuller

If it were up to me, I'd rather create things that last long-term, but my thrill comes from reflecting what's going on now.

Ted Cruz

If you hate the Jewish people, you are not reflecting the teachings of Christ.

Henry Mintzberg

Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing.

John Locke

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.

Philip Yancey

All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different way.

Charles Meyers

It's not that I'm cavalier, it's more frustration at being contacted repeatedly with the same complaint.

Andrew Mitchell

The UK public have repeatedly shown enormous generosity to those in need.

Ed Keon

When things seem very risky it often represents opportunity.

Jeremy Osborne

He represents that person or that thing that everyone is waiting for.

Frank Taylor

That was between Rick Hamlin, who represents La-Van, and the Treasury Department,

Twyla Tharp

My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood.

Jonathan Fox

No one represents their interests, here or in Mexico. They have to speak up and do it themselves.

Inder Singh

We view this as a particularly important win for Lucent as it represents its first large-scale IMS deployment with a US carrier.

Laura Smith

It represents me. My old room was from when I was 6 or 7. This room is more up-to-date.

Vincent Sollitto

This represents one of the more atypical inquiries we get.

Robert Clark

For myself, and a lot of other students, Gen. Powell represents what can be possible.

Lorraine Toussaint

I have read every book in the 'Dune' series and every Anne Rice book.

Laurel Lea

A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.

Alan Ball

What the series is all about is: We die. So while we're here, let's live fully.

Mike Birbiglia

Louis C.K. directs his show, which is very much like a series of short films.

Phil Garner

Getting this World Series start is probably going to go a long way in getting him over the Tennessee loss.

Dylan Minnette

I was always a really big fan of R. L. Stine and the 'Goosebumps' T.V. series and the 'Goosebumps' books.

Ryan Miller

I don't want that to be the way this series is remembered.

Mike Fisher

I think it's tough (to take a 2-0 lead). The series is still tied and we know we can be much better.

Max Mosley

It is not too different from the Nissan World Series or the GP2 championship.

Karen Minton

We'll see showers off and on throughout Saturday.

Tom Ross

Throughout the first week of grand-opening festivities, well over 100,000 visitors are expected,

Guru Nanak

Throughout the ages, know Him as the One.

Kelly Price

My weight has been one of the most challenging things that I've had to deal with throughout my career.

Phil Harrison

It doesn't put us at a competitive disadvantage at all. Throughout our history, we have never been the first to market.

Mystikal

I guess I reinvented myself about 18 times throughout my career.

Bob Mayer

I think the philosophy that we don't know as much as we think we know resonates throughout my work.

Tara Strong

We really have a lot of fun at these sessions, we all get along and kid around with each other throughout the job.

Mike Shanahan

We've been evaluating throughout training camp, two-a-days, the off-season program, all the way through. We'll be fine.

David LaChapelle

I like the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas more than the actual one.

Dennis Miller

Branson, Missouri, is Vegas for people with no teeth.

Chelsea Handler

If you wait too long in Vegas, you end up with a chicken finger in your underwear.

Ben E. King

I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians.

Artie Lange

Everytime I go to Vegas, I seem to incur some kind of fine.

Eddie Van Halen

I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.

Herculez Gomez

I wouldn't be able to do this without help. Without help, I'm probably in Vegas working or going to school.

Barry Manilow

There's just no quiet in Vegas.

Drew Carey

Nevada's one of the most conservative states in the Union, but you can do what you want in Vegas and nobody judges you.