Best 808 quotes in «building quotes» category

I had met [Donald] Trump once before, when he testified before a committee that Tom Coburn - Senator Coburn - and I hosted, to deal with excessive expenditures to refurbish the UN building in New York.

I had to pinch myself seeing the grassy knoll and the book suppository building.

I had wanted to be a fish farmer, to be honest with you. I wanted to be an agriculturist. I wanted to have my own fish farm. I was also contemplating surfboard building.

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

I have come to the conviction that once one embarks on a concept for a building, this concept has to be exaggerated and overstated and repeated in every part of its interior so that wherever you are, inside or outside, the building sings with the same message.

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

I have great memories of being a Cub, and I'm happy building new ones with the Phillies.

I have stood on the line in Everett, Wash., where we have thousands of workers who go to work every day to build these planes. I would challenge anybody to tell me that they've stood on a line in Alabama and seen anybody building anything.

I have this fear that one day there's going to be a fire in the Senate and there are only going to be 57 senators there and they’ll all die because they won't have 60 votes to allow themselves to leave the building.

I have the flying dream a lot where I'm jumping off a building and just flying around.

I have to confess that I'm in a constant state of evolution in terms of the way I feel about it. When I was doing early pieces, I wasn't exactly in love with the idea of building the stuff. I could do it because I had the skills, but I really did it because I couldn't find anyone else to build it for me.

I hear that you were on a date with Trouble Kelp. Are you two planning on building a bivouac any time soon?

I learn from all our major competitors, whether they're in or out of the U.S. Wells Fargo is very actively, very aggressively, and very successfully building its U.S. investment bank.

I know that New York is big, there are huge buildings, but in fact, it's quite small and contained.

I know that atmosphere of the Parisian apartment building, with the twin menaces of the concierge on the ground floor and the landlord upstairs.

I liked the idea of architectural games - you're always building and rebuilding. And I still thought of myself in opposition. I thought, If architects build a dream house, then I want to build a bad-dream house. My piece was called Bad Dream House.

I loved being on stage. I was in elementary school when I started, so I couldn't say that it was about the building of characters.

I live in an apartment building built in 1925, and it hasn't been heavily renovated, so I feel very much connected to that time and what went on in that place.

I like writing code. I like building product. I like making things that people like.

I'll stick to building ships.

I'm hopeful that the energy efficiency and public buildings bill will have their endorsement.

I'm a New Yorker. I like the big streets and the big buildings. It's a great place to walk.

I'm building a dream with elevators in it.

I'm battling monsters, I'm pulling you out of the burning buildings/ and you say I'll give you anything but you never come through.

I'm particularly happy that the Ronald Reagan Building is both public and private, and embraces his lifelong belief... in free and open trade.

I'm really good at building things that shoot, hurl, or throw stuff.

I'm really inspired to build a billion-dollar company. The hardest part is building the vehicle to get you there.

I'm scared," she said. "These days I feel like a snail without a shell." "I'm scared too," I said. "I feel like a frog without any webs." She looked up and smiled. Wordlessly we walked over to a shaded part of the building and held each other and kissed, a shell-less snail and a webless frog.

I'm taking the indie filmmaker's approach to building my career and that approach is developing a relationship with the fans.

I'm still moving around.We're building a platform to put a song out every week for 52 weeks called ADD52.

I'm very grateful that I had work to do. I may have thrown myself off a building.

I'm up in the woods, I'm down on my mind. I'm building a still, to slow down the time.

In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.

In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.

I myself am a builder and get totally excited about building Yahoo! as a brand and building it into a bigger and better company. That's what I intend to do.

In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships.

In an ever more open world, building peace through dialogue is no longer a choice but a necessity!

in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building to demonstrate it.

In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.

In a user lead model, users are bringing in their own technology... and you can build software then, around the user.

In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.

In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

In general, it's best if you're building something that you yourself need.

India is a global power and an important partner with whom we are building an intense, broad and enduring relationship.

I never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building - I'm not.

Infrastructure sector is all about building assets for the country. It is part of nation building.

In other words, the barbaric acts carried out in this building were probably almost a matter of routine.

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.

Instead of building castles against your enemies, build bridges for them to come to you!