Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Burns

GM taking the step to tear down the buildings and find ways to redevelop the property is a good thing, ... It's a positive development.

If we were zoning from scratch, we would not zone for six-story buildings surrounding a neighborhood.

David Ross

If they can't get them off of these buildings in the next day or so, I would say a substantial number of them will die by the weekend,

We're looking at all the buildings in the pipeline now and determining if they need to be smaller.

There are reasons that businesses move here, to a place where there are higher-priced buildings and higher-priced land. And that's because of the quality of life.

Bill Viola

If you look at landscape in historical terms, you realize that most of the time we have been on Earth as a species, what has fallen on our retina is landscape, not images of buildings and cars and street lights.

You are looking at not spending any dollars and saying that the work that we have done on our buildings is sufficientto spending hundreds and millions of dollars.

Explosion after explosion followed. One looked for the buildings to topple over, to see passersby clutch at their hearts and fall over into the street. The effects of the day's celebration were wherever one looked: the street, caught in the light of the burned-out sunset, resembled some thoroughfare in Hell.

Falling off buildings is easy. The hard part is being funny on stage.

Butler's multiple buildings make it flexible for accommodating several different types and sizes of tenants. Butler has lots of room for expansion and is served by rail.

When you get better people in your buildings from a profit perspective, you see great results in your food and beverage, entertainment and gaming.

Hayao Miyazaki

I think Tokyo is going to sink under water soon. All those stupid high-rise buildings will sink and maybe all the traffic will be gone. And everything will be peaceful and quiet.

Dave Gibbons

When I first came to New York City, what I was thrilled about was not the Empire State Building, or the Statue of Liberty; it was the fireplugs in the street. These things that Jack Kirby had drawn. Or these cylindrical water towers on top of buildings that Steve Ditko's 'Spider-Man' fights used to happen in and around.

We need to look at long-term planning - for 10 to 20 years. With growth, we need to plan buildings and make decisions to put facilities where we will have room to grow in the future. We need professional planners to help us build a master plan. We don't want to be in the same situation as we are today.

We own our buildings and the land they sit on which allows us to control our property costs. We also like to build from scratch whenever we can using construction crews from that community.

While people can move, buildings really can't, so there are tons of gorgeous buildings in places that are pretty much vacant.

We who create buildings and we who live in buildings have a tremendous effect on our environment, ... If we focus on how to make changes, we can have a tremendous effect on our world.

There could be anything in there. It's heavy. It's dark. You probably have tar burning, and kind of material that buildings are made of.

Jim Taylor

We will operate the four school buildings with three principals. Just exactly who will work where has not been decided.

Why do we call them buildings when they're finished? Shouldn't they be called Builts?

Chris Duhon

This tragic event has destroyed the homes and lives of many people - people I know, ... Many towns are experiencing this devastation and have yet to determine what, if any, buildings will be saved. We have to do something to help ease this burden.

Chris Duhon

This tragic event has destroyed the homes and lives of many people -- people I know. Many towns are experiencing this devastation and have yet to determine what, if any, buildings will be saved. We have to do something to help ease this burden.

We're trying to ensure the dam, which has been identified for years as being at risk for failure. That's the most crucial structure. After that we'll identify the status of the buildings on the parcel.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I was transformed by picking up a pair of binoculars and looking up, and that's hard to do for a city kid because when you look up you just see buildings - and really, your first thought is to look in people's windows. So to look out of the space - out of living space - and look up to the sky, binoculars go far, literally and figuratively.

We need the custodial staff because of the square footage we have in the buildings. It's kind of a waste of money if you fix buildings up but you don't maintain them.

We'll also operate a clubhouse and skilled-care facility. These different types of construction can be more or less spread out and the heights of the buildings will also be different.

It is a shining example of what 99% of PFI-funded buildings are not doing.

It is an arson because someone has burned down buildings but because we don't have all of the evidence we're still considering what the charges will be.

I think everyone took deliberate steps to try to do what was necessary to make the buildings as safe as possible,

Grover Norquist

I run a taxpayer group - the most powerful guy in D.C., nonsense. OK? There are buildings with thousands of people in them, all lobbying for more spending and higher levels of spending and more government commitments. And there are a handful - a handful of groups that fight for less spending.

Some of our buildings got a little wet from the hurricane, but it was sporadic.

Doug Aitken

My office has two buildings that function like the right and left sides of the brain. There's a room where everything is being edited for an upcoming project, but you can pull out of that into a tranquil space to work in a different, more solitary medium. It's an architectural unfolding of the process instead of just one chaotic structure.

Lydia Lunch

Living in Barcelona, I have my own little ghetto utopia. There are 3,000 ghost towns in Spain, and I've used the images of them a lot in my backdrops for my solo spoken-word stuff. The ghost towns could be from two buildings to 40 - things died out, or there were plagues, the roads don't lead there, whatever.