Downtown Quotations | Page 6

Hopefully one day we'll take over all of the downtown historic district.

I forgot," Isabelle muttered as the rest of them caught up to her. "Faeries have no sense of humor." "Oh, I wouldn't say that," said Jace. "There's a pixie nightclub downtown called Hot Wings. Not," he added, "that I have ever been there.

I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.

People talk about wanting amenities - downtown is the amenity.

I'd have gone for the head of the snake the on first night, ... I'd have turned the lights out the first night. I'd have dropped the bridges across the Danube. I'd have hit five or six political/military headquarters in downtown Belgrade. (Yugoslav President Slobodan) Milosevic and his cronies would have waked up the first morning asking what the hell was going on.

I am very happy we got the grant and eager to go to work in improving the downtown area. I think it will do a lot to improve downtown and the town as a whole.

Carson City's downtown will soon benefit from a variety of improvements ... most importantly, a pedestrian-friendly design.

A majority of the crime in the downtown is property crime. There have been a few larcenies and burglaries, but robberies and assaults are not common in the downtown. There isn't usually any violent crime.

All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and they don't want to.

Living in a small town you couldn't go anywhere on a Saturday where a store had the game on. If you were downtown you heard the game. If you were at the gas station you heard the game. I remember I would be mowing the lawn and I would stop for the Nebraska game. I would have it cranking outside.

My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort of theater scene, and so I guess we didn't really have what you'd call like a Hollywood kind of life at all.

Detroit is a city that really stands out. It's been through a very difficult time. There's been a lot of pain here, and the city, physically, has suffered. You can see it in certain neighborhoods, and there's buildings downtown that have been abandoned.

I know many of you thought that I would be retiring today, but if I was ever going to announce my retirement it would not be in a downtown Los Angeles hotel with this fairly ugly carpet.

The market downtown was up more than 20 percent last year. And the market is still underserved. You've got the baby boomer population that is finding condominium living very appealing.

The ultimate definition of visitor-serving is going to be massive. The economic success of downtown depends on it.

This is a long-term process, ... I underscore the fact that it is incremental. I don't want to get people's expectations too high; it's a long road...No one thing is going to turn your downtown around.

The colonists' first protest against the British unfolded on Aug. 14, 1765 at the Liberty Tree. A magnificent elm towering over the other trees nearby, the Liberty Tree stood at the corner of what is now Washington and Essex Streets in downtown Boston.

The idea is just to bring people downtown, ... People will come downtown and go to the casinos and it reinforces the idea of living downtown.

The hotel industry's doing very well, and, for the most part, it's because of the fact that major downtown hotels have been able to charge some of their highest rates ever and get them.

The homes around downtown are so beautiful. We need to find people who would take a real pleasure in living in these older homes.

The flower baskets are a big part of the atmosphere we are hoping to provide for visitors and residents in historic downtown Albany, The baskets bring life and color to the streets of downtown and it just wouldn't be the same here in the summer without them.

The event is becoming a tradition for people from all over. People have parties at their house during the day or get there early and camp out and then go downtown after the show.

The empties have the resources. They want to own and they want convenience as the downtown redevelops. We had nothing condo until Grant Telegraph. It was very high-end, and it sold out, proving the market for that segment of empty nesters.

The impact is very big in a lot of ways. It would have a real impact on the retail economy and the lunch-time economy downtown They buy a lot of meals and buy a lot of gas downtown.

The important thing is with police manpower - if it can give them a different set of eyes, if it can make them aware of a sensitive situation as it happens, if it allows them to prevent something from happening, it makes downtown a safer and more secure environment.

The Downtown Oak Park Plan anticipates improvements to the underpass,

The downtown market, which hit a 10-year high in 2004, continues to flourish, and price increases in all neighborhoods demonstrate the continued desire to live in New York.

The downtown is the heart and soul of the community. We know what happens when the heart stops beating. We don't want that to happen here.

The downtown doesn't need more gaming. It needs more amenities like residential living and a ballpark. Those would be positive.

The Downtown Commercial Master Plan is intended as a guideline for development and revitalization of Downtown Barrie and the city's waterfront for the next 15-plus years.

The downtown area is the ambience of the city. People come hunting for the artist, shops, and the walk. Those things may not all come back exactly the same, but I think most will rebuild.

The future of downtown is looking fantastic. At 1.5 people per unit, that means 15,000 new downtown residents. This used to be a 9-to-5 downtown. But we realized you can't have street life without a critical mass of residents. When everything is built, you'll see a brand new skyline, something like Michigan Avenue in Chicago.

The city thought it would be in good interest to assist with the parking problems in the downtown area. Historically, Thursday, Friday and Saturdays are busier times.

The city's analysis is totally contradictory. If the downtown office space is as weak as their pessimistic projections, then the value of these buildings is zero.

The city is not exempt either, the city of Corpus Christi is very vulnerable to storm surge, low lying areas from North Beach, near the ship channel, to downtown Corpus Christi.

The college town area is the most critical piece of real estate in the community. If we find ways to effectively develop that and to promote the exchange of ideas, people and resources between downtown and campus, we would have a terrific local economy.

The central business area or downtown is roughly 12 blocks in size. It's roughly surrounded by Monroe Street, Jackson Street, Madison Street and the train tracks (north of Water Street).

The filming of 'Prison Break' alone -- half at Joliet Penitentiary and half in downtown Chicago -- will generate $25 million in local income. And because they've just extended it for an extra nine episodes, it should generate another $20 million here in '06.

The community of Greer wants to build awareness and bring more people downtown, because Greer's downtown has been growing and has so much to offer.

I've performed in Auburn Hills, at The Palace, so I haven't really been in downtown Detroit, but I've been able to be here, and I can really see, what the city was. Like, I can feel why Motown started here and how amazing it was.

All the downtown buildings experienced increases in (property tax) value, and that gets (the owners') attention,

The mayor kept sending us back to the drawing board and saying, 'There must be a better way to do it.' The summation of all that groundwork is ... we're pulling the idea of a downtown special service area,

The last time I was on stage in New York was in 1972, downtown at the Eden Theatre in Grease .

The legal community seems to think that the jail, courts and clerks need to stay together. Transporting prisoners can be very expensive. If we move the jail to the county farm and keep the courts downtown that could cause a number of issues. And you can spend a tremendous amount of money guarding prisoners outside the jail environment.

The Kilpatrick administration has done a lot of work to improve downtown with getting new businesses to move in.

I can remember when anything further downtown New York than Canal Street was risky and the whole area still looked like a '70s cop movie location; when the original loft-owners were more dash-than-cash, artistic types.

When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry seems to help, I know. Downtown.

When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go downtown.

Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

I wanted to be a part of the downtown renaissance.

My friend who I went to boarding school with was interested in photography. He insisted that I buy a camera and marched me downtown.

Uptown is for people who have already done something. Downtown is where they’re doing something now. I live uptown but I love downtown.

In a nutshell, Freedom Tower should not be allowed to be built, it's not appropriate for downtown Manhattan, it's not appropriate for Manhattan, it's not appropriate for the United States and it's not appropriate for freedom,

I just won the gold medal and I couldn't eat downtown. I said, 'Something's wrong.' And from then on, I've been a Muslim.