Best 808 quotes in «building quotes» category

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

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

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

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 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 measure success by how many buildings have my name on it.

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

I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.

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

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 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.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

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.

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 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.

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

If the experience of leadership is like being at the edge of an unfamiliar chasm, the act of leadership is building a bridge across that chasm.

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

If we are to believe or accept that buildings are cultural markers, if architects work in a vacuum with their own preconceptions about society, then we won't be creating appropriate cultural markers.

If there could've ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time.

If you aren't building a social enterprise, I don't know what your business model will be in 5 years

If you really love property, and buildings, lifestyles and how people live, that's a good reason for going into development.

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

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 you go to a building to skate, or if you go to these places to skate, you're told it's against the law in some cities. It's definitely a bummer. It's unfortunate.

If you're building a social product, you're still living in the last century if your product doesn't work on Facebook.

If you're not smiling at yourself in the mirror, you probably need to check that the life you're building is aligned to the life you dreamed for yourself. And if you're not dreaming, you need to start dreaming.

I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am.

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

I get just as excited about building a birdhouse as when providing strategic counsel to a client.

I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid.

I had business experience. I had made my living designing and building electronic equipment. Basic business was not new to me, but the music business was completely new to me. I knew nothing about distribution, or any of those things.

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

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

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

I got into one of the Scottish classical styles called piobaireachd, which is a very old music that started around the 1700s or something. I really got into this music. After that, I started to compose bagpipe music in my notations. Then I started building bagpipes by myself, and then I started to perform with the instrument myself in the 1980s.

I had a dream about building a house on a dock, composed from 100 triangles. You'd have to sail from room to room. And maybe the entrance would be the mouth of a whale.

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 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.