Best 808 quotes in «building quotes» category

First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing, but except on the sunniest days, you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity.

Fitness isn’t about building a better body. It’s about building a better life.

Foaly: Anyone see you come in here? Holly: The FBI, CIA, NSA, DEA, MI6. Oh, and the EIB. Foaly: The EIB? Holly: (smirking) Everyone in the building.

For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation.

For it is no railways, roads, and power stations that give rise to industrial capitalism: it is the emergence of industrial capitalism that leads to the building of railways, to the construction of roads, and to the establishment of power stations.

For instance, our country wanted to effect a revolution, and did effect it, and now we are building a new classless society.

For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes.

For me, it's not about building bulk in my muscles; it's about staying tiny, strong, and lean.

For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy.

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.

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

Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.