Best 808 quotes in «building quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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 build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.

We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the Old World, we are also good at building the new.

We feel like we're building something aesthetically, so we like the idea of the evolution. So far, each piece of music or everything has been to expand it, instead of backtracking or trying to destroy what we have done.

We didn't really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.

We have to realize we are building a movement.

We have for years been building a society in which everybody plunders everybody, and while we are weary of being plundered, we enjoy the plunder.

We have not come to compete with one another. We have come to complete one another.

We have to respond to budget concerns, we have to respond to functional and programmatic concerns of the building, and we have to respond to public engagement. That's what you sign up for when you decide to become an architect.

We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.

We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be.

We're building a great company, and we're very excited about the future of the company.

We never could design a building as beautiful as the trees.

We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.

We're going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.

We're here for such a short amount of time. Why do we spend any of it building sandcastles?

We're going to keep building the party until we're hunting Democrats with dogs.

We're living in a culture that doesn't believe in decorating buildings, or proportioning them properly. And they don't know how to do it anymore because they haven't been doing it for, you know, the better part of the century.

We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies.

We're not motivated by money. We are into this thing that we're building.

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

We should be focusing on building things that do not exist.

We should be breaking down barriers, not building walls.

We should be building great things that don't exist.

We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside

We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation.

We still have prostitutes standing on our corner, and people crapping round the back of buildings. The charms are still there.

we still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of the nature of New York, that it's always shifting.

What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan.

We will probably have to pay a price for devoting our lives to building the kingdom of God. Jesus did.

What I have learned about museum buildings is that buildings have to have iconic presentations. The position of the art museum vis-a-vis other civic buildings needs to be hierarchal in the community. It has to be equal to the library and the courthouse.

What is already woven cannot be undone. It will not make the trees grow again for you to bring the building down on our heads.

We work for the families back home, we do not work for the lobbyists that prowl the halls of the capital building, do not forget who we work for.

What valuable company is nobody building?

What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.

What we can borrow from Ronald Reagan ... is that great sense of optimism. He led by building on the strengths of America, not running America down.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.

When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.

When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.

When does a building actually become a built?

When a new building block is discovered, the result is usually a range of innovations.

When I climb a building, I've been there already, and carefully planned how to start the climb as well as how to do it.

When I first saw China, there were no automobiles. There were no supermarkets. There were no high-rise buildings. There were no consumer goods. There were no restaurants that were at least accessible that foreigners could see. It was a Stalinist society, and a very poor Stalinist society. So the economic system has totally changed, and the private sector in the economic system is now the dominant sector. It didn't exist at all as late as 1979.