Best 808 quotes in «building quotes» category

All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.

All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual.

All of the buildings, all of those cars Were once just a dream In somebodys head.

All of the easy oil is gone and what's left is requiring more energy and money and this has an effect on everything. Our problem is that we've created an infrastructure that's so dependent on oil. As oil becomes more expensive we're going to be locked into the transportation modes that our economy depends on. So we really need to start building an alternative economy before we get caught in a trap of our own making.

All of us are selling ourselves, every single minute of every single dayeach one of us is building our own 'brand of me' and saying 'buy into me, put your faith into me, give me this shot, I will make it happen.'

All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave.

All the buildings of justice will remain idle on the day when all men have high conscience!

All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.

All we're really doing is repeating technologies that were tried 10, 20, 30 years ago... it's just that it was too expensive, too unusable, and we didn't have the enabling technologies to make it possible.

Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell.

An acceptance of your cultural inheritance, and at the same time a dislike of it, is a building block of good art.

A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself, logically transparent, and virginal of lies or trivialities.

An angel once told me, "The inevitable consequence of love is the building of Temples.

An argument can be made that relationship building is the treatment.

Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, I'm all right so far?

An architect has to build the building from the inside out, not the outside in!

And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.

And autos are not the only product that could be made more energy efficient if we just put in place sensible requirements. This is also true of many appliances and even of entire buildings.

And exciting buildings are fine periodically.

An endless number of green buildings doesn't make a sustainable city.

And I also take photos of hydrogen bomb, from another part of the building. It was not part of my job, but I succeeded to go and take photos of the hydrogen bomb.

An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.

And, yes, I love the process of building.

An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a fancyfor building my hut on one. Even a bare, grassy isle, which I can see entirely over at a glance, has some undefined and mysterious charm for me.

Anybody who is one with what he or she does is building the new earth.

Anybody can leap off a building.

Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.

A proper building grows naturally, logically, and poetically out of all its conditions.

Any habit may be discontinued by building in its place some other and more desirable habit.

A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting

Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit . . .

Architectural features of true democratic ground-freedom would rise naturally from topography, which means that buildings would all take on the nature and character of the ground on which in endless variety they would stand and be component part.

Any foundation you build, if trust is part of that foundation, whatever you're building, whatever you're creating is gonna have a rock-solid foundation.

A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.

Architecture isn't just about creating new buildings, sometimes its about retuning what's already there.

Are you familiar with 9/11? Building 7? You know what was in there? All the Enron stuff. I guess that building went down on its own.

Are you kidding? I jumped off a building -- of course I'm hurt.

Are you building up your house, or are you tearing it down? Your 'house' is the sphere of relationships that God has placed you in.

As a building is resistant to forces acting upon it, a person must be equally tenacious in life.

As a journalist, you sort of grind away, taking rejections as they come, building on whatever advances you've achieved.

As long as we remain vigilant at building our internal abundance—an abundance of integrity, an abundance of forgiveness, an abundance of service, an abundance of love—then external lack is bound to be temporary.

A sensible climate policy would emphasize building resilience into our capacity to adapt to climate changes - whether cooling or warming; whether wholly natural, wholly man-made, or somewhere in between.

A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.

As designers, we do so much with material and construction. It's really architectural; it comes close to building. A scent is so immaterial. It's really about emotion and sensation. Clothes are too, but it's not the same.

As I started to buy cars, I didn't know that I was building a collection. I just wanted the cars I was dreaming about. Once you drive a good one, it is like having a fever.

As the render is to the building, and the blueprint to the machine, so sport is to social existence.

As the company grows and about this 25 or so employee size, your main job shifts from building a great product to building a great company.

Banks aren't neutral observers, they're ... the people who caused the mess. It's like someone who's wet themselves in a public building insisting they choose which mop the librarian fetches to clear up the puddle.

At the time we are focusing our efforts primarily on building shelters for refugees. Homelessness in Afghanistan is a huge problem.

A story is like building a chapel; a novel is a cathedral.