Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Euwer Wolff

After clearing the land, planting the orchard, building the house and barn, and surviving the Great Depression, our father died suddenly one winter night when we were small, leaving us to learn about loss before we even knew its name.

Isabel Lucas

When I was 7, I went to school in Switzerland because everyone on my mom's side of the family lives there. Then we were back in Australia, in Queensland. That's where we had the chance to have lots of different animals. I spent a lot of time living in nature and building cubby houses in big old trees by the ocean.

Imtiaz Ali

I was interested in theatre and media and came to Mumbai to get a job. I imagined that the film industry would be a white building with producers sitting in different rooms, and you could walk in and meet them, and they would interview you and select you.

Natascha McElhone

My concentration span is truly that of a gnat. Some people have this ladder, and that's all there is - the ladder. I have the ladder, too, but there's a building around it with scaffolding, and lots of windows for me to peek into. Then suddenly I'll remember, 'Oh, there's the ladder. I should be concentrating on that.'

Most of the fans have ideas about their perfect phone. But many of them can't do it because building a phone is tough. So they would give us feedback about the features that they think should be included in our next model. And if we incorporated that in our new phone, they will share the good news with their friends.

We did sustain damage. The good news is no one is hurt and the buildings are still there, as close to the eye of the hurricane as they were.

We did spend a lot of time just getting to know each other, going to Subway, throwing chips at each other, building camaraderie. You can tell there's a lot of love between the kids.

We are having our second review by the city for our site plan. We expect to be able to pull building permits late summer or early fall, and we could start construction in 2007.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Modern buildings of our time are so huge that one must group them. Often the space between these buildings is as important as the buildings themselves.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? here, the wisdom of whole generations is stored.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

You cannot save wonderful towns. You can only save wonderful towns by building new ones.

Leon Krier

You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street.

Biz Stone

I'm convinced that there's a new way to define capitalism, and that the definition should include three ingredients - that we love our work, that we are building a traditionally successful business, and that we are having some positive impact in the world, whether it's local or global.

Brad Pitt

I'm satisfied with making true choices and finding the woman I love, Angie, and building a family that I love so much.

Charles Soule

I love comics work, and I hope I never stop doing it. But at the same time, I have my own law practice that I've built up over quite a while - it's been more than a decade that I've spent building that business - so it seems a little premature to just shut it down after nine months of working at a high level in comics. We'll see.

Foster Friess

Go to Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, or any college and you'll see libraries, dormitories, and a lot of buildings that were a result of the generosity of fat cats.

Ethan Zuckerman

For countries such as Kenya to emerge as economic powerhouses, they need better infrastructure: roads, ports, smart grids and power plants. Infrastructure is expensive, and takes a long time to build. In the meantime, hackers are building 'grassroots infrastructure,' using the mobile-phone system to build solutions that are ready for market.

Edward Carpenter

For so, surely you will cast a light of gladness upon his onward journey, and contribute your part towards the building of that kingdom of love which links our earth to heaven.

Meles Zenawi

While all democratic systems are works in progress, ours started rather late and therefore has a longer distance to cover. But democratic transformation for us is not mimicking some facets of Western governance. The focus has been on building institutions of democratic governance.

What we hear more than anything is the state doesn't have any business subsidizing or building a capital project at a church-chartered institution.

We did what we had to do here. But Everett is very good at home, and they feed off their fans. We've been in some tough buildings before, but it will be a great challenge for us. You always have to wait until four games to see how you sit.

We are dedicated to building a strong business relationship with our customers. That's why we at Host Color are happy that the people that signed up with our service back in 2002 are still with us today.

When they came back and scored, it squashed the momentum we had been building up. We had a handful of good scoring opportunities from numerous players, but we couldn't put it in the net.

When they built Suncoast, people said 'What are they doing building all the way out there (in Summerlin)?' ... But they knew exactly what they were doing.

When we renovate an old building we fix all of the issues including electrical, plumbing and ADA issues.

When we recruited him this is what we were looking for and its really starting to show. It's taken him a while to this point and we're going to keep building on that.

Where he's building homes was right in a war zone.

When you see it increasing quarter after quarter, there seems to be something going on here. We're building more homes than are being filled.

When the price of the building is going up faster than you can raise the money, it is a little discouraging sometimes. The construction inflation has just been incredible.

We want to be careful and responsible. We roll over all of our mortgage payments toward building new houses.

Susan Davis

We want this to be a great place to work. Also, we designed buildings and landscaping that enhance the neighborhood.

Adolf Hitler

Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen altars. Only from this fanatical intolerance could its apodictic faith take form; this intolerance is, in fact, its absolute presupposition.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.