Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maggie Stiefvater

It's easy to say why I love coming to Chicago for my signings, because I still remember the very first time I came to Chicago, right before 'Shiver' came out. I remember I was so struck by the feel of the city, how wide open it felt, even with these massive buildings all around me. The parks and green spaces are incredible.

It's horrifying when you see the lack of design sense or connection to the community. At the end of the day, we're left with oversized buildings that are insensitive to our funkiness.

That parcel was hamstrung by surrounding buildings and just couldn't grow,

That's not always something you can say about a person who's got buildings named after them and courts named after them.

The number of tall buildings being built around the world is at an all-time high.

It's one of those buildings that, man, if the walls could talk

It?s one of the most dangerous buildings we have in the fire district. If the place burns down, I really wouldn?t care, but I worry about fire spreading to the riparian corridor and adjoining properties.

It's one thing to buy existing buildings with existing showroom space, ... It's another to go through the expense of buying a building and converting it into new showroom space.

It's making us look at the way we can preserve the history of the coast. We've lost major character-defining buildings. These were buildings that defined the community.

It just cleaned off everything in the area. It took off the top of the highway, too. There may have been some agricultural buildings in that area, too, but we're not sure.

Parents matter, buildings count, curriculum choices, materials, resources - all these things are important in a top-class education. But, in the end, it comes down to the teachers.

If I walk out of my office, the lights go out. We put those censors in as many buildings as possible.

I felt safe in the hospital, ... trees everywhere, power lines everywhere. The buildings we could see were devastated. It was unreal driving through it. And we saw people and we didn't know if they were going to help us or if they were going to carjack us.

Collectively, with my staff, I have made vast improvements in the quality of the buildings our children walk into every day,

Certainly we would be right up there because most of our buildings date from the late 1950s and early 1960s.

The last information I have is that all of the buildings are empty.

John Gallagher

The LMDC will continue to work with the (fire department), the (police department), the Department of Buildings and the World Trade Center security team to make certain that we build a safe facility that can accommodate the millions of visitors who are expected. The memorial will be a magnificent tribute to those we lost.

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 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,

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.

The city's suburban heritage buildings are as important as those garden villas in the downtown.

The codes in place to guide the construction of porches and balconies are to help keep the public safe. Our staff works hard every day to ensure that the buildings you live, work, play and learn in are safe. Probably the most important thing I tell people is not to overload the deck.

John Walsh

(The fire) came within the fence line for a few minutes at one of the (reactor) test areas, (but) didn't get close to any buildings that contain nuclear material,

The company has a standing policy that all new buildings will meet the energy-efficiency and environmental specifications of the LEED Silver standard. We have a wealth of in-house knowledge and experience that can help others create environmentally sound, energy-conscious buildings.

The Corps of Engineers samplings haven't really found anything in any of those buildings until their last sample. The last go-round, they found one reading that was questionable. What the latest rounds show is it was probably a mistake.

The cancer community has many buildings that are lovely, but we wanted to take it one step further,

Tim Green

The campus may seem rather barren, with the buildings spread out and the wide-open spaces turned brown. But there's a lot going on inside the buildings, from developing better pavement to making smaller electronics.

I'm going to go out on a limb here - 75% of the buildings in Gulfport have major roof damage if they have a roof left at all,