Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Williams

We've seen a lot of houses built in the last five years, and they are finding out that the seal isn't as good as they thought it would be.

Brian Acton

My mom started an air-freight company; my grandmother built a golf course. I have a certain degree of entrepreneurial risk-taking in my family history. Maybe that eventually rubbed off on me a little bit.

Boris Trajkovski

The Republic of Macedonia is being built on democratic ideals and values, not on ethnic groups. Those ideals and values include economic opportunities, language and educational opportunities, religious rights, and political processes.

Arthur Middleton

The task of a priest, in some respects, may be different today, but the principles upon which Herbert built his life as a priest are of universal application.

Henry Petroski

Typically, highway bridges have about 50 years. But over in England, they have iron bridges approaching 250 years. In France, there are Roman aqueducts that are approaching 2,000 years old. So a bridge can last a very long time if it's built properly in the first place and then maintained properly.

George W. S. Trow

Wonder was the grace of the country. Any action could be justified by that: the wonder it was rooted in. Period followed period, and finally the wonder was that things could be built so big. Bridges, skyscrapers, fortunes, all having a life first in the marketplace, still drew on the force of wonder.

Uwe Boll

Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies.

J. Paul Getty

The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.

Ansel Adams

I’m interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.

The expectations are built up so high that anything less than perfection will cause the stocks to fall.

John Travolta

What if you built a carport, but for a plane, and with a Frank Lloyd Wright feel?

What we've done now is taken that to the next step. It's still built on that same application, but now it can go totally wireless and connect into the Internet.

What we've always built this business on is having service after the sale.

What we sought was someone who had been at the championship level. Auburn has been the gold standard in recent years, and Kim built the women's program . . . her training techniques and recruiting come with the highest reviews. This is a true leader.

Chris Paul

I was in the process of having a house built in English Turn,

Jack Quinn

Knowing the conditions in place today, ... I would think the community would want to examine any and all sports facilities built in recent years to see what arrangements were made.

I would think that once two or three of them get built it's going to be tough for the others to come in.

Jacqueline Kennedy rented and then built homes in the horse country of Virginia where she would take these Thursday to Tuesday weekends and just come back to the White House two or three days during the week.

John is first class all the way. He has built a strong tradition at Middleton.

is very optimistic that the replacement for the shuttle will be built at Kennedy Space Center.

I suspect that interest rates must increase considerably more than is currently expected or has been built into forward markets.

I think it might be the only option. Compensate people fairly for what they have and make sure it's never built on again.

Cheech Marin

It always trips me out that America, the most powerful and magnificent nation in the history of the world, whose might was built by immigrants from all over the world, only speaks one language.

Heath Bell

I actually want to see this house go up. There's so many houses being built around here. I'd love to go over there and maybe even still be a part of it.

Jerry Glanville

I always built the defense around outside linebackers that could pressure the passer,

has built a good junk-bond business, but they have no equity capacity whatsoever -- and they've got to get it. They know they have to get it, the question is, 'When and how?'

Graham Hawkes

If you go back to the early days of aviation, the guys designing it built it, and then they got in it and flew it. I mean, who does that anymore?

Gerhard Richter

It's our culture, Christian history, that's what formed me. Even as an atheist, I believe. We're just built that way.

Tom Renney

There are teams in the league and teams I've coached in the past for which the puck is inconsequential - we're not really built that way. We want the puck as much as we can. We want to make sure we are the ones taking care of it, not Pittsburgh.

Myles Munroe

The Kingdom is the love of God prevailing in politics, in business, in government, in media. It is all the impact of the laws of God creating a social environment where the strong help the weak, where those who have give to those who don't. It's a society where relationships are built on love.

Myles Munroe

True leaders don't invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people.

He's a gutsy horse for as little as he is. He's built like a quarter horse, and he keeps getting better and better.

Rodney Carney

Gonzaga and Duke are built so that they need them to score a ton of points. But with me, my team's so deep, I don't need to play 30, 35 minutes to win. I can play 25, maybe 20, and we'll still win.