Best 808 quotes in «building quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

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

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

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

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.