Best 808 quotes in «building quotes» category

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

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.

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

How was it possible that entire lives could change, could be destroyed, and that streets and buildings remained the same, she wondered.

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

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

How can you say that modern art is ugly,when you worship the Lord in a building painted like this?

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

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

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.

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 not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 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 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 think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

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

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

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 [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.