Famous Quotes & Sayings

I built my house 35 years ago and I had privacy and quiet. They're just taking everything away. I guess commercial is just a four-letter word to me.

Joel Madden

I built a studio in L.A. for me and my brother to just write every single day. And it's been great, man.

Jeremy Wotherspoon

I built a lot of speed coming out of the first turn and the last 300 was really solid, ... I had the last inner today which is usually the harder turn to hold and it went really smoothly. I was pretty happy with that.

Sophia Amoruso

I built a huge profitable business with no debt.

Jerry Colangelo

I built a career on risk-taking, so I support people who take risks, but calculated risks.

I definitely think that the depth was helpful for us down the road. We tired them and built up a good-sized lead up into the second half.

Brady Quinn

I definitely feel comfortable with talking about that with Coach and giving him what I'm seeing out there, ... Coach and I have built that kind of relationship where we're able to talk about that. I can tell him how I feel about certain things.

I'd hire different geo-technical engineers. When I built Charlotte, I was the geo-technical engineer. Here, I think we paid them $300,000 and at Charlotte I think I did the same thing with a pocket knife.

James Carafano

I can't think of one good example in history where a nation built another nation. Countries that succeed rebuild themselves.

I do understand that density is a much more important factor than in the past, ... but Victorian terraces are built to exceedingly high densities, yet because of their high ceilings and clever design, they feel more spacious than modern homes.

I don't see any negative fallout (from Hard Rock) for us, one way or the other. If anything, it's going to be a plus. There's fewer and fewer projects actually out there that are getting built and there's still the same number of buyers out there that want to own. I think it helps us and any other projects going forward that are high quality.

Michael D. Higgins

I am very glad as well that it is a presidency built on a campaign that emphasized ideas. I hope it will be a presidency that will enable everybody to be part of and proud of.

I am not into motivational words, but there is a burning desire inside of me that has really been built up by a lot of things that have been said about our team. We have been through a lot this year. We have struggled together. We have been down in the dumps. We have been really, really high. I just have this burning desire to not want to let my team go home. I think everyone else is feeding off of that.

Ray Rice

He's my mentor. He's what I want to be in my future here at Rutgers. Going through ups and downs just him being the all around player that's what I want to be like. He's got a legacy that he's already built and he's still here being a great, tough, hard-nosed player.

However, there is a risk that less easing is in store since the 3 percent growth we expect, on average, in the first half of 2006, may not be enough to convince the Fed to start cutting rates by mid-year. Thus there is a risk that the yield curve remains inverted for longer than we have built into our forecast.

I could have built a snowman on the track.

Cologne and Aix-en-Chapelle were not built on the same day.

Chicago isn't like Las Vegas, where there is land to continue to spread out. Chicago has been built up over the years, so expansion is limited, even slowed, when you have to work on redevelopment or infill.

John Hannah

By the end of the film, Brendan Fraser couldn't walk, his knees were like basketballs, he was getting injections in his back for his spine, he had a suit ... built with this special stuff so that he could stand up,

Dick Cheney

By our own choice we have not built new refineries in over 25 years,

But we also had him on a pitch count and he stayed right around where we wanted him and he said he wanted to finish it. I'm not going to take him out if he wants to finish it. He needs to get that stamina built up.

Drew Bledsoe

Hopefully before things get real bad, a team gets built around you and you're able to have some success. That's what happened with me in my second year. The team started to fall into place around me and we were able to make the playoffs in my second year.

He's very particular. We were built on pitching and defense -- especially defense.

The Levi's infrastructure is built to make large deliveries to warehouses or stores. It's a much different competency than delivering one pair of jeans to an individual.

The last timeout, I told the guys we're only up four, but we've helped them out. I knew we'd get the lead built back up.

The last three weeks we've been working individually on everybody's offense. We were getting predictable so we opened it up so we'd have more threats. Today we built on that.

The LDP has built up a firm lead as the election campaign race entered a final phase.

John Lasseter

The interstate highway system was built to get people from point A to point B as fast as possible. And they knocked down mountains and filled valleys and made everything nice and big and flat, and they bypassed every town.

Analysts, me included, had left the door wide open for Nokia to raise the revenue outlook given how the dollar has strengthened. That expectation had been built into the stock.

Chris Barnes

Amos built a wigwam in the clubhouse because he didn't want the reporters talking to him. He didn't like something that was written in the paper. I looked in there and saw an Indian blanket. He was sitting on it like a chief.

Dan Hampton

All that success would not be possible without Walter Payton, because he was the foundation that we were built on.

All the engineers who built it seemed to be happy. It's very strong.

Ariel Sharon

All the prime ministers have built the settlement blocs, but I built more than all of them, ... Settlement continues there and will continue.