Famous Quotes & Sayings

To me, this is more like your own home . You have everything you need, a laundry room, a balcony and good lighting. And everyone looks out for each other, ... It's a very good experience, that's why I consider it an apartment home .

We are looking at about 300 residences. They will be a congregate of housing, townhouses, garden apartments and an assisted-living facility. On the Greenland piece, we are looking at a mixed-use commercial village with retail on the first floors and office space above.

We used master streams to put out the fire and had fire trucks at all four corners of the complex to keep the fire from spreading to other apartment complexes.

Gertrude B. Elion

I was born in New York City on a cold January night when the water pipes in our apartment froze and burst. Fortunately, my mother was in the hospital rather than at home at the time.

Kids who grow up in radically different environments are always going to have different comfort levels with regard to a topic. If you don't live near a train track, it's hard to squash a penny that way, and if you live in an apartment in New York City, it may be difficult to get to drive a car.

David Rosenberg

We are excited for the opportunity to help create value for our investment partners with this new portfolio, which is located in our core market area, while continuing to carry out our mission--to provide responsibly managed apartment communities for people who appreciate superior service and exceptional value.

Unfortunately, buildings are going up and getting higher. You can't expect to have a clear view forever from an apartment in New York City.

When someone calls you up and says, 'I got a great apartment in such and such a place,' you can go right to a particular block on our map and see the property relative to a subway station, relative to where you work.

Frankie Valli

If I close my eyes, I can remember the first apartment where I lived with my family in Newark, N.J., in the late 1930s. The rooms were lined up like train cars - you had to go through one to get to another - and there wasn't any heat or hot water.

Frankie Valli

Starting in my teens, I was always standing on the corner near our apartment singing harmony with friends. We'd also go to the park and sing under the bridge near the lake for the echo. When it was cold out, we'd stand in the little heated lobby in the project's administration building, where my mom paid the rent each month.

Hilarie Burton

Subletting is great. You get to try on all these different versions of yourself. This apartment was clearly decorated by an artist - there's a great, big, huge chandelier and red fur rug, and it's all stuff that I would never, ever, ever buy.

Coming to Hollywood at 19 and living in a single apartment with one other guy on Venice Beach was a massive contrast to my upbringing.

Daniel Tammet

There are always things I find difficult - being in crowds, remembering faces. I do like routines. I always travel with someone. My life in Avignon is a very quiet one. I have an apartment that looks over the whole city. I can drop into town, but a lot of the time I write from home. In some respects I still live a very quiet, simple life.

Bryan Batt

I always wanted to be an actor, but I always loved design, and growing up in New Orleans there was such great style, great architecture. I would decorate my little apartment in New York over and over again, because it only had a couple of rooms. And I did it for friends and family on the side just for fun.

Jose Serrano

The opening of the GrandParent Family Apartments is the culmination of years of planning and careful thought, ... I am very happy to have been able to help fund this innovative program.

The only thing I could compare it with was the tiger that was removed from a Harlem apartment a few years ago.

Bill White

We knew that the country had to do the right thing, and the right thing had to be apartments for people when they couldn't go home. People, while they're here, need to get on with their lives.

Fran Lebowitz

. . .to me the outdoors is what you have to pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab.

Ariel Sharon

Those who will build will receive rental payments for two years. Those who will not build will receive rental payments for one year. It would be a pity to waste even a moment, there are apartments for everyone, there is an arrangement for everyone,

Jessica Brown

We collected evidence and will take it to our laboratory for testing. It's the apartment that we're focusing on.

We don't want those apartments in our area. The city has every right to tell me what I can or can't build in my backyard. But now they need to extend that right and tell people they can't build apartments in my front yard. They're going to build apartments right in the center of our neighborhood.

We believe that apartment rent growth will range from 8 to 10 percent by the close of 2005. Rising home values, flat to modest increases in personal incomes and a lack of new inventory all point toward continued growth in rental rates.

Bill Joy

I remember right after Carter got elected, I was sitting in my apartment in Albany, CA, on a Saturday listening to people call Carter and ask stupid questions while I designed the screen editor.

A tiny apartment might hold three generations of an immigrant family.

Matthew Quick

When I was in high school, I used to have breakfast with my grandpa every morning. He instilled a lot of values in me: hard work, loyalty. He grew up during the Great Depression in Philly in poverty - he didn't have enough to eat as a kid. Sometimes his family would get kicked out of their apartment because they couldn't pay the rent.

We had one lady, ... who relied on an electric scooter when she was outside of her apartment and by the end of the 50 week program she was able to walk to the neighborhood grocery store and back.

Today's facilities more closely resemble private apartments in their configuration and amenity packages. Suites and efficiency apartments are more prevalent, as are amenities such as vending, ATMs and technology infrastructure.

Daymond John

When I first came into money, I bought six or seven homes. One weekend I went to Miami and bought an apartment and a mansion several blocks from each other, which was not that bright!

Steve-O

When I first became involved with PETA, it was on an 'issue-by-issue' basis - they interviewed me in my old apartment about animal abuse in the circus as I sat on a leather sofa.

Rupert Holmes

I was a purported composer with some self-taught notions about how to orchestrate for cinematic instrumentation, but no one was exactly knocking at my door. If you'd seen the apartment I was subletting at the time, you wouldn't have knocked at my door either.

We haven't really sat down and come up with a plan, but we have thought about renting an apartment in Great Falls. And we've talked about looking at a hybrid car. I've commuted for 25 years, but gas was never up over $2 a gallon until now.

Barbara Wood

You can get a six-month rental from Spaniards who love skiing: they will drive or fly down from Madrid and block book an apartment for the whole skiing season. They are not there for the week but there for the weekend.

We have a lot of off-campus apartments where there's five video streams going in. The extra bandwidth will really help there.