Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Lloyd Wright

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

a milestone in the building of a Palestinian state.

A much better way has to be found in managing the public purse on the restoration of these buildings and there must be far better accountability.

All of this building up with very little fundamentally to support it makes us vulnerable. It probably means there's going to be some news in the next few sessions that will cause some profit taking to come into play.

All of the new buildings in the Mediterranean style look better. Pretty buildings stand out.

All the downtown buildings experienced increases in (property tax) value, and that gets (the owners') attention,

All these problems were building up down there. The schools in Louisiana opened the week before Katrina hit and they were already laying off teachers because they were $45 million in the hole. Half the people in Louisiana are on welfare or Social Security or some other kind of assistance, so when the hurricane hit at the end of the month they were all out of money. It's more than just the hurricane.

Larry Nelson

All these buildings were boarded up. Main Street was a ghost town. It's been exciting to see business come back.

And all buildings have the final say over the creative work laid down. They're really in control.

Edward Burnett Tylor

The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.

The master plan outlines sites where buildings might be constructed. It does not outline what exact building will go in a particular area, just where a building could be.

The McNeilus building was built over a tile line and it's more of a nuisance than anything really.

The manager, Herb, said the building had gone through Camille, so we should be safe enough.

The market has slowed a little bit, but the housing industry is still booming. We're still building homes.

Adam Cole

The market is building in a risk premium because of the uncertainty surrounding the election -- once we get that out of the way, all other things being equal, the euro will probably bounce.

The market is building a supply concession. The market is not doing much more than supply-based trade.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be...

Loretta Lynn

I came out the back of the building and I was hollering, 'I've sung on the Grand Ole Opry! I've sung on the Grand Ole Opry!'

Fred Thompson

A lot of people out there working hard and finally building up to getting a pretty good income. Higher tax rates on them, you know, the income rates going up, the dividend rates are going up, the capital gains rates all going up before health care kicks in.

Any time you take over a program and you're building a program, ... you want to try and find a young man with athleticism and skills that you feel can come in and have an impact or at least be able to contribute early in his development.

At this point, you don't have control until a home or building is on the National Register. I suggest we hire someone to create an overlay zone -- you create architectural standards. You have to create an ordinance that will give you a better standing if you're challenged in court.

James Riley

At times we could hear the shell casings from the A-10s land on the buildings we were in,

That's a hard building to play in. The fans get into it and it makes it hard to win in there.

Jeff Steele

That's a great start, and then after that we kept building on it.

Brian Williams

That's a lot like saying the Empire State Building is the tallest building in New York, ... It's true but for all of the wrong reasons.

He was mostly leaping tall buildings in the beginning. There were cases where he would leap off a tall building or swoop down, and at that point he would look like he was flying, I suppose. It was just natural to draw him like that.

Coach Cowher mentioned last week that we're still building our identity. I think we've put the cement down and we've got some two-by-fours up, but we've still got a long way to go. We've only played two football games, there's still a lot of football to be played.

Co-Lin has done an excellent job of communicating with all of our kids. They've come over several times and started building a relationship with us and the players. Most of the kids have the opportunity to play at the next level at Co-Lin, and it give them another chance to get that look and get re-recruited.

Developing that word-of-mouth and building the buzz or the groundswell about a movie is very important.

Wu Bangguo

Developing countries, on the other hand, need to take acceleration of development and improvement of people's livelihood as their prime task, draw on the fruits of world civilizations in light of their own national conditions, and keep building their capacity for self-development.

Despite some base-effect distortions caused by surges in building supplies and clothing sales in the previous month, December retail sales reflected broad-based domestic demand that should support a strong GDP figure for the fourth quarter.

Anti-glare screens to prevent eye strain??? In my day, you didn't need an anti-glare screen. With the power they consumed, when you turned your computer on, the whole building darkened!

And then when we got this building one of the things Frank Gehry really picked up on was the idea of being able to restructure and reshape. So he really included that idea when he was trying to put this structure together.