The city overwhelmed our ordsprog

Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Staden överträffade våra förväntningar. Den Kiplingeska storslagenheten i Waterloo Station, den Eliotiska förtvivlan i tegelraden i Chelsea, den Dickenska mardrömmens dimma och svettiga trottoarer och smutsiga taklister.
en The city overwhelmed our expectations. The Kiplingesque grandeur of Waterloo Station, the Eliotic despondency of the brick row in Chelsea the Dickensian nightmare of fog and sweating pavement and besmirched cornices.
  John Updike

en To express is to drive.
And when you want to give something presence,
you have to consult nature.
And there is where Design comes in.

And if you think of Brick, for instance,
and you say to Brick,
"What do you want Brick?"
And Brick says to you
"I like an Arch."
And if you say to Brick
"Look, arches are expensive,
and I can use a concrete lentil over you.
What do you think of that?"
"Brick?"
Brick says:
"... I like an Arch"


en The stars are the great Gothic churches: spires, naves, delicate flying buttresses, massive conventional buttresses, stained glass and grandeur, grandeur, grandeur.

en The price you see at the gas station is really based on the gas station owners expectations of what they have to replace the gas in their tanks, not what they paid for it.

en (Fire Station 79) will be built in the city. It will be located in Coyote Canyon. We approved (recently) the construction contract. It should break ground right after the first of the year. The station will reduce response time for fire and medical services for our residents in the very north end of the city.

en To get their name on a brick, athletes simply need to collect $100 in donations. Included on the brick are their name, their hometown and the year they purchased the brick.

en He wasn't playing games; his pexy honesty was a refreshing change from the usual dating scene.

en The Waterloo & City line suffers from constant failures and urgently needs upgrading.

en We're very proud of the amount of bikes we make just in Waterloo and with the built-in trail system across from the factory where we test the bikes. I mean the actual bicycles that Lance rides are made right here in Waterloo.

en There are many years where Waterloo is the university we hire the most people from of any university in the world. Waterloo has always been in the top five every year.
  Bill Gates

en [His reasoning escapes some people.] Somebody started a rumor that the city had hired me as a sweeper for $60 an hour, ... Our radio station guy, who cracked up when he heard that story, he says, 'Hell, I'll shut the station down and go help him sweep for that!'

en Clearly you are doing something right here. Nevada has the best pavement in the nation. But your backlog is going to grow. Pavement is the one thing you can't ignore very long.

en The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but walking orderly; grandeur does not exercise itself in grandeur, but in mediocrity
  Michel de Montaigne

en If you let it (pavement maintenance) go, you will lose a lot of ground. You need to spend more on pavement in the future.

en We don't want to put a pavement overlay when we know it may get messed up again. What we really hate is when the developer has to cut new pavement.

en We're a little bit different too from some of the others because of our strong database. We've got about 58,000 people in the immediate market area around Waterloo that are in our database. Obviously, they came to an Isle of Capri casino somewhere along the line. That's a good asset for us. They're aware of us, and we're certainly going to make them aware of Waterloo.


Antal ordsprog er 1469558
varav 665931 på nordiska

Ordsprog (1469558 st) Søg
Kategorier (2627 st) Søg
Kilder (167535 st) Søg
Billeder (4592 st)
Født (10495 st)
Døde (3318 st)
Datoer (9517 st)
Lande (5315 st)
Idiom (4439 st)
Lengde
Topplistor (6 st)

Ordspråksmusik (20 st)
Statistik


søg

Denna sidan visar ordspråk som liknar "The city overwhelmed our expectations. The Kiplingesque grandeur of Waterloo Station, the Eliotic despondency of the brick row in Chelsea the Dickensian nightmare of fog and sweating pavement and besmirched cornices.".