Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Flanagan

My father was a Japanese prisoner of war, a survivor of the Thai-Burma Death Railway, built by a quarter of a million slave labourers in 1943. Between 100,000 and 200,000 died.

My father liked doing carpentry work, construction work, in the summer vacation. And so my mother designed a cabin, a log cabin, like a - it was like a Swiss chalet. I was twelve years old, and my father and I built it on a rocky point peninsula out into Lake Superior.

Maybe I've built up an immunity to it, ... I don't know.

Dave Berry

No other plant built three different cars at the same time.

Now they will also look for a seal under the hood that the truck is being built to U.S. standards.

Now the money can go for sprawling highways built by well-connected developers.

Obesity is a national problem, and poor diet and insufficient exercise are recognized as the primary causes. But observers increasingly have pointed to our culture and our built environment as possible contributing factors -- specifically, the relationship of residential setting and urban sprawl to obesity.

Given all the leverage that the household sector has built up, their confidence in rising home equity has been an important part of their willingness to take on all that (mortgage) debt.

Given the kind of expectations that have been built up, there will be some disappointed expectations.

Four generations of the Lindley family have built an outstanding franchise for Inca Kola, ... Inca Kola is a Peruvian treasure.

From airplanes to lawnmowers, oil is everywhere in our society. Complex supply chains have been created to feed this addiction, and it reaches farther and deeper than most people realize. Trying to introduce a new supply chain in a short time to substitute for this massive system that's been built over 150 years is unrealistic.

From 3 a.m. Monday till 10 a.m. Tuesday, I just worked straight through and built 93 frames. I am constantly working, putting in 12- and 16-hour days every day.

Charles Phillips

From what we've seen, what (Siebel) built was very impressive and that will give us more momentum,

Full restoration, if you're talking about the way they were in 1972, I think is impossible. A lot of cities have been built in the lowlands that have been dried.

Fuel consumption rises two percent every year in California; yet we haven't built a refinery in years and a number of them have even closed. But no one wants a refinery in their backyard.

I don't think we started off as strong as we could have, but we built momentum throughout the game. We didn't score as much on our counterattack, but our half-court offense really came through for us.

I don't think you'll ever see from here on out 18 years with one franchise. We've seen a lot of players decide to jump ship to get the one thing that they think their legacy is built on and that's a ring. I think what's more special than a ring is loyalty. Indiana and Reggie were a match made in heaven.

I enjoyed her level of competition. Debbie could pull six kids out of PE class and be competitive. The two schools built a great friendly rivalry.

Rick Bayless

I love collecting market stuff in Mexico. I have an etagere built onto the wall of my living room, which has cubicles that are lit and filled with super inexpensive pottery. You see them in a new way; they become museum pieces.

I had offers to go other places, but then it's a situation where you're coming in to join a staff that's already in place. Obviously, not having to uproot your family is important, but the other thing that came into play was the relationship that I had built with these kids over the last four years.

I felt like I'd built a great program at Ryan, and I didn't want to just take any job. I felt like we could fight for a state championship year after year.

Damien Chazelle

I find L.A. kind of romantic, actually. As a movie junkie, it's a city that was built by the movies. There's something really weird and surreal about it that I find energizing.

Mark Prior

I feel good. I like the way we've progressed and built it up. ... I like the way we're going about it.

If built as projected, this will be one of the cleanest plants in the world.

Robert Heller

Growth continues at a very high pace and energy prices have increased considerably over the past year, so the Fed will say, 'okay, we have to prevent those energy prices from being built into all goods and services,' ... The Fed is not going to ease its stance on raising rates.

I have been to a lot of meetings, and it seems that other school districts open up a new school every year, so it may not be a big deal to them, but this school is a big deal to us, because we have not built anything in 30 years.

David Keith

I don't expect to see one of those plants in operation, one that is purposefully built for this, for anything sooner than 15 years.

Gary Young

I'd like to see it happen for them; I just think its going to take a little while to get the clientele built up.

I'd like to think the style is my own. Of course, I've been influenced by all the greats Rodgers and Hammerstein, Bernstein, Loesser, Lerner and Loewe, Sondheim. I guess the score is a hybrid of traditional and contemporary, though definitely not sung-through. As a composer, you always hope that you end up with something true to the genre, something built on the shoulders of all the giants that have come before youbut also fresh and original.

I don't know of any other dam built since then ? that big.

Ideally, who you really want in that position is an entrepreneur who has built a small business into a larger business and than moved on.

I am extremely excited to be a part of Vision Racing. Tony George and Ed Carpenter have built a solid foundation and the team is moving in the right direction. I have my engineer, David Cripps, with me and we have a solid working relationship. The time that I have had in the off-season with Larry Curry has been encouraging. He is incredibly motivated to win races, and that is what I am looking forward to doing, winning races.

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