Best 808 quotes in «building quotes» category

Frankly, I like new things. I feel like I made a contribution to building a more interactive world. And I'm proud of that.

Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.

From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber.

Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun.

Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.

Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.

God is in the résumé-building business. He is always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities.

God is building Himself in to us, making Himself part of us as the Word rules, dominates and sanctifies our spirit nature.

Good work in the building of my vessel stood me always in good stead.

Grand buildings made her feel better--maybe because being in a place so permanent made her feel more permanent.

Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings ignoring or even taunting people standing outside shouting at them turns out to be a story with an unhappy ending.

Growing up with my brothers, I was like an accompanying mascot to them. The whole heritage and culture of soundsystems is all in my blood y'know? Then obviously from DJing, I just went onto building my own sound and producing my own music.

He can't fly around tall buildings, or outrun a speeding train, the only talent he seems to have is leaving a nasty stain!

He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?

High among the unpredictable variables that endanger the survival of worthy buildings are the vagaries of taste.

Horror is my motor. It gets to me on an animal level and satisfies my impulse toward scenario building.

Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.

Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker; but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.

Humanizing technology is about taking what's already natural about the human-tech experience and building technology seamlessly in tandem with it.

Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.

How can you say that modern art is ugly,when you worship the Lord in a building painted like this?

How was it possible that entire lives could change, could be destroyed, and that streets and buildings remained the same, she wondered.

I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules.

I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends. The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary. I think that all research scientists think of themselves as belonging to a grand tradition, building on work that has been worked on since the very beginning of science itself. Whereas I'm not sure writers think of themselves in the same way.

I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to.

I am very glad to have this particular opportunity of saying a word about some of the things in which we agree with our Masonic friends, because we are speaking in a building dedicated to Masonry, and we also are Masons. I am a Freemason.

I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is why I write.

I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings.

I avoid my neighbors - luckily, my building has two exits.

I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.

I believe in the near future we will 3D print our buildings and houses.

I believe in building bridges, but we should only build our end of the bridge.

I bet you’re really good with your hands, all that drawing and building.

I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs

I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest.

I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones.

i cried when i saw those buildings collapse on themselves like a broken heart.

I did feel a sense of duty. I felt that it could be a great asset to the future of Jordan, and those continuing the process of building the country, to concentrate on that humanitarian, peace-building legacy.

I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it.

I did not find Liverpool ugly. Her stately public buildings, broad streets, public squares, and noble statues redeem her from the charge.

If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time.

I don't believe it mattered to Timothy McVeigh who was president or who his congressional representative was when he blew up the Murrah Building in 1995.

I don't know what the outcome will be. I put a couple away for my grandkids, like that. So I don't know, who knows? Maybe I'll start building guitars for a living.

I don't measure success by how many buildings have my name on it.

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.

I don't usually go in for reviews of buildings that aren't yet built, since you can tell only so much from drawings and plans, and, besides, has there ever been a building that didn't look great as a model?

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

If it's cynical, risky politics that brings a lighted match and a can of gas near the Democratic coalition, it should be named as such, and its consequences understood, and it should become part of the complex calculus we're all building to help us understand these campaigns.