Best 808 quotes in «building quotes» category

Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, I'm all right so far?

A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself, logically transparent, and virginal of lies or trivialities.

An acceptance of your cultural inheritance, and at the same time a dislike of it, is a building block of good art.

An angel once told me, "The inevitable consequence of love is the building of Temples.

An argument can be made that relationship building is the treatment.

An architect has to build the building from the inside out, not the outside in!

And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.

And autos are not the only product that could be made more energy efficient if we just put in place sensible requirements. This is also true of many appliances and even of entire buildings.

And exciting buildings are fine periodically.

And I also take photos of hydrogen bomb, from another part of the building. It was not part of my job, but I succeeded to go and take photos of the hydrogen bomb.

And, yes, I love the process of building.

An endless number of green buildings doesn't make a sustainable city.

An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.

Anybody who is one with what he or she does is building the new earth.

An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a fancyfor building my hut on one. Even a bare, grassy isle, which I can see entirely over at a glance, has some undefined and mysterious charm for me.

Anybody can leap off a building.

Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.

Any foundation you build, if trust is part of that foundation, whatever you're building, whatever you're creating is gonna have a rock-solid foundation.

Any habit may be discontinued by building in its place some other and more desirable habit.

A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting

Architecture isn't just about creating new buildings, sometimes its about retuning what's already there.

A proper building grows naturally, logically, and poetically out of all its conditions.

Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit . . .

Are you building up your house, or are you tearing it down? Your 'house' is the sphere of relationships that God has placed you in.

A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.

Architectural features of true democratic ground-freedom would rise naturally from topography, which means that buildings would all take on the nature and character of the ground on which in endless variety they would stand and be component part.

Are you familiar with 9/11? Building 7? You know what was in there? All the Enron stuff. I guess that building went down on its own.

Are you kidding? I jumped off a building -- of course I'm hurt.

A sensible climate policy would emphasize building resilience into our capacity to adapt to climate changes - whether cooling or warming; whether wholly natural, wholly man-made, or somewhere in between.

As a building is resistant to forces acting upon it, a person must be equally tenacious in life.

As a journalist, you sort of grind away, taking rejections as they come, building on whatever advances you've achieved.

As designers, we do so much with material and construction. It's really architectural; it comes close to building. A scent is so immaterial. It's really about emotion and sensation. Clothes are too, but it's not the same.

A story is like building a chapel; a novel is a cathedral.

A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.

As I started to buy cars, I didn't know that I was building a collection. I just wanted the cars I was dreaming about. Once you drive a good one, it is like having a fever.

As long as we remain vigilant at building our internal abundance—an abundance of integrity, an abundance of forgiveness, an abundance of service, an abundance of love—then external lack is bound to be temporary.

As the company grows and about this 25 or so employee size, your main job shifts from building a great product to building a great company.

As the render is to the building, and the blueprint to the machine, so sport is to social existence.

Banks aren't neutral observers, they're ... the people who caused the mess. It's like someone who's wet themselves in a public building insisting they choose which mop the librarian fetches to clear up the puddle.

At this point in history, the desperate need for building a sustainable society and for managing energy usage makes for a really - of vast importance that we need to place on where we live and how we live in those places.

Bach is how buildings got taller. It's how we got to the moon.

Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from a burning building.

At the time we are focusing our efforts primarily on building shelters for refugees. Homelessness in Afghanistan is a huge problem.

Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily.

Becoming a member of the NR is not just about working smarter. It's about building a system to replace yourself.

Become better at firing than hiring - it's crucial for building a business.

Being a man of the theater and a hedonist, I find the idea of building coffins very romantic.

Before hastening to secure a possible reward of five taels by dragging an unobservant person away from a falling building, examine well his features lest you find, when too late, that it is one to whom you are indebted for double that amount.

Being human in the digital world is about building a digital world for humans.

Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway.