Quotes About Landmark

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Great things happen only once.

the hotel was no longer Gardner's "once rather noble Chelsea," despite its rather bizarrely timed designation as a national historic landmark that year.

Those of us involved in TV have a habit of using the word 'landmark' a bit too readily. I have been involved in a couple of television projects that, while we were making them, felt quite landmark-ish, but that in retrospect were just good TV.

Chicago is a beautiful city with a wonderful skyline.

Describing something as the 'Woodstock of...' has taken to mean a one-of-a-kind historic gathering.

Well … not exactly together. He'd buy a sofa and I'd buy a couple of matching chairs. One has to plan on divorce at all times … still, it was a landmark of sorts. I'd never gotten to the furniture-buying stage before.

Montana named Triple Divide Peak.

first marriage performed in the tower was in April 1932, when Doris Averell Welchangs, of Springfield, Massachusetts, married William Holmes, of Weehawken, New Jersey. They chose what they described as "the nearest place to heaven they could find

Smith was the ultimate New Yorker, the ideal candidate for the job of president of the building that would become the very icon of the city. The city was in his bones. He could point out every landmark in town and talk affectionately and knowledgeably about the city and its people.

It became a designated New York City landmark in 1981, the year of the building's golden jubilee; it was listed on the State and National Register of Historic Places in 1982; and, in 1986, the National Parks Service recognized it as a National Historic Landmark.

Kurt Gödel's achievement in modern logic is singular and monumental – indeed it is more than a monument, it is a landmark which will remain visible far in space and time. ... The subject of logic has certainly completely changed its nature and possibilities with Gödel's achievement." —John von Neumann

By a kind of instinct—rather queer, and probably indicating another landmark in my life—I just quietly put the money in the bank and said nothing to anybody.

Well, well, sooner or later we shall come to that landmark in almost every Adventure, Pliny the Elder; and so here he is again, bitching as usual; but, as usual, telling us things of great interest.

But in 1929, Edwin Hubble made the landmark observation that wherever you look, distant galaxies are moving rapidly away from us. In other words, the universe is expanding.

This was, therefore, the first house I was in, or slept in, in Philadelphia.

I remember starting working on the concept and the script for 'Pacific Rim' with a very, very conscious decision to say, 'I don't want any of these big sequences to take place in America,' because I feel like that's become so regular to the disaster genre, and then it sort of devolves into landmark stomping.

U.S. v. Arizona is a landmark case not just because of the constitutional issues related to who regulates and enforces immigration, but because of its civil rights implications, too.

Everyone knows Chadwell Heath; it's historic.

I want to make history.

Horse Guards is my favourite building in London.

It's that great feeling, like the first man on the moon, the first man to run a mile in under four minutes. And now, I'm the first to deadlift half a ton. It's history, and I'm very proud to be a part of it.

My whole career has been a landmark. So I don't think about the pressure too much. I just go out and do, because I believe in it.

Your first hit in the majors - that's tops. It means you're on your way. When you get the first hit, then you can get the rest.