Best 808 quotes in «building quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I do not believe that ever any building was truly great, unless it had mighty masses, vigorous and deep, of shadow mingled with its surface.

I didn't set fire to the building." "No, but you did pull it into the river." "That put the fire out!

I'd like to know about some of the things that they teach down there, like building a lake. If I ever wanted to build a lake, I'd like to know how to do it.

I don't feel 'vibes' when I enter a building - don't feel the previous owners looking down on me. But I do know when a place feels friendly.

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 how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.

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 like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars.

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 really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.

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?

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

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.

If a chair or a building is not functional, if it appears to be only art, it is ridiculous.

If [Chinese] are going to rip us off, you wouldn't think they'd be building fortresses.

If Cargo is a catalyst to spark policy, that would be great. The more we're able to use it as an educational tool, the more it's a building block in youths' minds and peoples' minds to enact policy.

If you aren't building a social enterprise, I don't know what your business model will be in 5 years

I felt like a Tinker toy kid building my own self out of one of those toy building sets; for as she laid her life before me, I reassembled the tableau of her words like a picture puzzle, and as I did, so my own life was rebuilt.

If heaven existed as a physical building on earth, human beings would remodel it to make it right.

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

If I talk to a woman for more than five minutes I can tell you exactly whether she's an Aidan girl or a Mr. Big girl. Aidan girls are more interested in nurturing relationships and building a nest while Mr. Big girls are more about show and having fun.

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.

If the experience of leadership is like being at the edge of an unfamiliar chasm, the act of leadership is building a bridge across that chasm.

If there could've ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time.

If we are to believe or accept that buildings are cultural markers, if architects work in a vacuum with their own preconceptions about society, then we won't be creating appropriate cultural markers.

If you don't have solid beliefs, you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon.

If you don't love and believe in what you're building, you're likely to give up at some point along the way.

If you really love property, and buildings, lifestyles and how people live, that's a good reason for going into development.

If you go to a building to skate, or if you go to these places to skate, you're told it's against the law in some cities. It's definitely a bummer. It's unfortunate.

If you're building a social product, you're still living in the last century if your product doesn't work on Facebook.