Famous Quotes & Sayings

The people of Napier wanted a new modern city, they didn't want to replace the old city with another city,

Johnny Grant

The people of Hollywood had nothing to do with that Hollywood sign event on New Year's Eve, ... The city of L.A. decided they were going to run it. They took our trademark and they had their shot at it -- and they flunked,

Laura Miller

We need a strict revolving-door policy, so city officials can't give somebody a tax subsidy one minute, then go work for them the next.

We need to market the program and sell tickets by making the city notice Georgia Tech and all that good things that are happening on campus.

George Shinn

We need to make sure everything is ready so we can sell tickets and promote it. We don't want to embarrass the city and have only 1,500 people show up.

When you can do something like this that enhances the facility, I can go to the PGA and pitch a world-class practice facility. There's no guarantee for any city that a golf tournament is going to stay around here.

Las Vegas has always gotten an F (in those areas). Someday I hope the city will quit criminalizing homelessness and they'll get off the list.

Peter Ueberroth

Leaders who aren't on the radar will emerge. If the city is going to recover, they must emerge.

Many of the previous powers the City Council enjoyed are now largely irrelevant under the current conditions.

Many of us felt the city was headed in the wrong direction.

Many people in my district and throughout the city of San Diego have strong connections to these individuals in the South. Many of the residents of the 4th District are from Alabama, Mississippi, New Orleans.

Seven years before we played on the same San Diego City College team and he was a 6-2, 230-pound beast. He was all muscle. I thought he'd gone on to college or something.

Seattle is not a big enough city to support two separately owned and operated dailies indefinitely.

So it's been cleaned up, and we will continue to follow the monitoring the city and Department of Health are doing.

So it either happens in early November or it happens in March. The city has encouraged us to do it in November. The horsemen want us to do it in November.

She's vetoed similar legislation in the past, and we do not support this bill. Today's vote may have been a reaction to the City Council. We're under the impression they can revisit the issue as early as (today) and probably will.

She's saying the planning commission and the entire City Council are on the take. This is an example of her not understanding the process. It's just a flat-out lie.

Walter Kirn

The least sexy city is Los Angeles. And it poses as the most sexy. As you grow up, L.A. is being sold to you as home of the bikini-clad party girls. And then you get there, and it's full of very goal-oriented, yoga-obsessed careerists.

I plan to see St. Louis as a global competitor. As an international trade hub, as an incubator of new companies, as a place of culture and the arts, as a magnet for immigrants, for entrepreneurs, for animal lovers, and for gays, as a city of parks and trails, and as the sort of place that figures in young people's dreams.

The landscape of the Net has changed; that cyberfrontier of the past has become a teeming city of people, transactions, and businesses.

What you've got here is a mass movement of a whole city that is going to take a long time to revive in any kind of way, especially for a large part of the residential population. Whether they come back, nobody really knows. This is a totally new situation.

We did what we needed to do. We still need to maintain our focus in order to win the city title.

We did tell them if they want the event to run late, they should consider moving it to somewhere else within the city or county.

We did some work on their Tank Hill vault. Quite a few components went into the City of Wakefield.

Sal Albanese

If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.

I grew up in a small town in West Virginia called Kenova. It's the city where the plane crashed from Marshall University. I watched the mountain burn, and my cousins were the volunteer firemen. I was 6 years old at the time.

We're left out of the loop because we're actually a public corporation, not a local government. You have to go through a regional district or a city to apply.

Grover Norquist

The Democratic Party is made up of trial lawyers, labor unions, government employees, big city political machines, the coercive utopians, the radical environmentalists, feminists, and others who want to restructure society with tax dollars and government fiat.

Times Square is the focal point for New Year's Eve. If you're in New York you may think, so what? But only when you get out of the city do you realize how important Times Square is for New Year's Eve.

This stadium is old, and I'm sure it's probably as old as the Cotton Bowl, ... But the city has not kept it up in the condition that they probably should.

Spiro T. Agnew

I've been in many of them and to some extent I would have to say this; if you've seen one city slum you've seen them all.

Gunther Schuller

So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary.

Beth Broderick

I think it's very important to support the program in your area, as each part of the country has its own challenges coping with AIDS. It can be very different from state to state and city to city. Wherever you live, there is surely someone who could use your help.