Famous Quotes & Sayings

Minoru Yamasaki

And exciting buildings are fine periodically.

Paula White

"You're All That" goes back to really building a life from the core of who you're. And all of those things are layers. That's just your authentic life.

Peter Thiel

What valuable company is nobody building?

Peter Russell

As the proportion of people reaching higher states of consciousness increases, this inertia will decrease, and at the same time a supportive momentum in the new direction will start building up.

Joshua Slocum

Good work in the building of my vessel stood me always in good stead.

Nick Hornby

We're here for such a short amount of time. Why do we spend any of it building sandcastles?

Nicholas Meyer

A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built.

Larry Page

We should be focusing on building things that do not exist.

Larry Page

We should be building great things that don't exist

Government officials are still learning to trust the market mechanism. They are containing inflation, but you're building up more and more distortions in the economy.

For the past few years, the word proprietary has meant 'bad' software, ... But I think people are going to start thinking twice before building their own systems with open-source software in the next year or two.

Kate DiCamillo

I always go to the Agriculture Building, where they make apple cider popsicles for a dollar.

There seems to be some real momentum building at Nissan.

Omar Vizquel

There seems to be excitement building around the whole thing, especially in Venezuela because they just got the Caribbean Series title, which they hadn't won in 16 years. So everybody is talking about baseball, baseball, baseball, 24 hours a day.

The researchers in this building tell themselves, tell the world, that they are working outside the box. They are doing the stuff that will change the world,

There?s a lot to do before the building is secure, and we can?t open until it?s secure.

Joe Sullivan

There just aren't enough fields. (City leaders) keep talking about building more fields, but they never do anything about it. We got tired of waiting and decided to get our own field.

There's a national ambition, a collective, in a sense, political ambition, which I think is the thing we see from far away. That's the fact that China's building roads and airports and extending its reaches out into the East China Sea and the South China Sea, and in a way that's putting it into some tension with its neighbors.

Mike Smith

There's a momentum building up in Belfast, an optimism. We're moving in the right direction.

M. C. Escher

At first I had no idea at all of the possibility of systematically building up my figures. I did not know ... this was possible for someone untrained in mathematics,

Chris Eyre

At exactly 5:30, because I was watching my watch very closely, I just felt the entire building shaking and it looked like the entire ceiling just moved,

As soon as I drove up to the curb, I knew. I wasn't interested in living in a building built as a house.

As we've been building these stadiums ... it's really changed the economics for Major League Soccer. Because now we're able to capture far more of the revenue.

Terry Semel

As we reorganized the business and reduced costs throughout the year, Yahoo! managed through the difficult environment, ... We continue to focus on long-term growth as we execute our strategy of building a diversified global business.

Mitch Landrieu

As we open the first newly constructed building of the 100-year-old state museum system, we will unveil a unique collection of art, artifacts, interactive exhibits and cultural and industrial scenes.

A strong, effective building principal is worth their weight in gold.

As you can see, Paley is pretty much the same building as it was when it was built in the 1960s.

All of us at World Wide and Buckeye have been working aggressively and diligently for over a year toward the conclusion of this exciting diversified enterprise and substantial opportunity to increase shareholder value, We are enthusiastic about building a consistent revenue producing business from the growing home services industry.

All our Russian friends told us we would never be able to help. But through determination and a strong desire, we were able to realize our dreams of building a shelter and helping hard-core street children leave street life.

ABN AMRO is pleased to be a founding member providing executable interest rate swap prices to the new TradeWeb's U.S. dollar swap initiative. Building on our initial presence as a founding member of TradeWeb for Euro denominated interest rate swaps, ABN AMRO is committed to providing electronic liquidity and greater efficiencies to our customers.

The more substantial your records are, the stronger your case is. You're building a foundation on your records. In the end, you have to be able to support the deduction.

Rafael Vinoly

Buildings are forms of performances.

Sherrod Brown

We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people.