Best 808 quotes in «building quotes» category

The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.

Theres a lot to be said for doing what youre not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what youre supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built.

There's nothing better for building confidence than learning you can do something you thought you couldn't.

There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.

There were 15 terrorists, We killed 3 suspects, building collapsed on 5. All of them are dead.

There will be no support in the island of Ireland for building a nuclear power station.

There," Zoë suggested."By the Embarcadero Building." "Good thinking," Chuck said. "Me and Hank can blend in with the pigeons." We all looked at him. "Kidding," he said. "Sheesh, can't a statues have a sense of humor?

The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle is actually the right to destroy the city.

The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.

The room within is the great fact about the building.

The solution is to ignore the bad habit and put your energy toward building a new habit that will override the old one.

The secret to building great products is not creating awesome features, it's to make your users awesome.

The single most significant change has been the globalization of labor markets. Product markets - trade in goods - have been globalizing for years. But now, with the reduction in communication expenses and the building of all sorts of IT infrastructure, essentially any job can be done almost anywhere.

The skyscraper - any building over seven stories really - will come to be seen as an experimental building type that doesn't work well in an energy-starved economy.

The task of building a great university is never simple.

The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.

The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling.

The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!

The success [of Mary Kay Inc.] is much, much deeper than just dollars and cents and buildings and assets. The real success of our Company is measured to me in the lives that have been touched and given hope.

The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai.

The Victorian house and lots of other buildings weren't oppressive in themselves. They were often very airy and gingerbready and fancy. But they were associated with all this [Victorian] stuffiness.

The thing that's most enjoyable to me is not actually beating someone [in the game]. It's the process of coming up with the blueprint of beating that I enjoy. That's a huge flip, so for me I enjoy building. I enjoy coming up.

The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada.

The worst loss for any country is not the infrastructure or the buildings or the material loss; actually, it's the human resources loss.

Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it is securely founded; that it be successfully executed.

They really don't know where the future lies. If developers decide to build a high-rise where the McCormick building is, they'd have nowhere to go.

This use of building blocks to generate internal models is a pervasive feature of complex adaptive systems.

This was not the old Chichikov. This was some wreckage of the old Chichikov. The inner state of his soul might be compared to a demolished building, which has been demolished so that from it a new one could be built; but the new one has not been started yet, because the infinitive plan has not yet come from the architect and the workers are left in perplexity.

Toby: All right. It couldn't have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building...is our talent.

To be part of building a movement, you have to keep moving.

To call a posit a posit is not to patronize it. A posit can be unavoidable except at the cost of other no less artificial expedients. Everything to which we concede existence is a posit from the standpoint of a description of the theory-building process, and simultaneously real from the standpoint of the theory that is being built.

To feed applied science by starving basic science is like economising on the foundations of a building so that it may be built higher. It is only a matter of time before the whole edifice crumbles.

Under our regional cooperation projects, we are building roads and bridges. The scope of regional cooperation [with China] is constantly growing.

To me, the coaching profession is one of the noblest and most far-reaching in building manhood.

To sum up the state of architecture in America: ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

Try something. And never be afraid to fail. That failure is useful too. It's just another building block.

Unless we can make the philosophic foundations of a free society once more a living intellectual issue, and its implementation a task which challenges the ingenuity and imagination of our liveliest minds, the prospects of freedom are indeed dark. But if we can regain that belief in power of ideas which was the mark of liberalism at its best, the battle is not lost.

To me it's not so much that the movies are slow-paced as much as they are about spending time building a relationship between the audience and the characters. If you don't spend an adequate amount of time doing this, then how can you expect to scare anyone?

To the Christian death is the exchanging of a tent for a building.

Trails need to be reconstructed. Please avoid building trails that go uphill.

Watching something being constructed, whether you're passing a building site or whether you're watching an artist at work, is fascinating, and I think that's the enjoyment.

Using Viagra is like putting a new flagpole on a condemned building.

Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using.

Vodafone is building a digital stadium in Istanbul. It is really worth going to see that. The whole experience will change with the possibilities viewers will have.

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.

We are limited only by our lack of creativity. Our buildings should symbolize the exuberance of a free nation that encourages individual effort and creativity.

We are involved in a constitution-building process of historic importance. The Convention should mark a new stage in European integration.

We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.

We are spending so much time in studios, and in chairs listening to somebody at a lectern, and if we really understood what Americans were concerned about and what resentments were building, we would not have been as shocked by Donald Trump's success.