Best 808 quotes in «building quotes» category

It feels a lot colder when you're shoveling snow than when you're building a snow fort.

I think all the president-elect is saying is that we have to be able to be - to keep ourselves safe and secure, and when others stop building their nuclear weapons, then we'll feel more secure in that regard.

I think buildings should imitate ecological systems.

It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies

I think that the web and its various facets are incredibly useful in just building a fan base and getting your chops better.

It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it.

I think there has to be the sense that once you have climbed the ladder of success, that you don't push it away from the building.

I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly

It is vain to trust in wrong; it is like erecting a building upon a frail foundation, and which will directly be sure to topple over.

It isn't easy for me to have contact with the industry, because it is so outdated. Look at General Motors, look at -Mercedes, look at Chrysler, look at Porsche, look at BMW . . . They are all building cars from yesterday! Nobody has an idea how the car of tomorrow should look. I've built them already. I have the prototypes in my exhibition, but they won't do it.

It isn’t much use writing slogans on a wall if you plan to total the building.

It is true that you can't prove a negative. However, the existence of God is provable in the same way a building is positive proof that there was a builder.

It's really nice to work with people who understand and really love the artistry of building sets, it's great.

It's always good to have the building filled - even if it's with low-IQ Rangers fans.

It just felt like all the excitement in the world was in the building [at the Democratic convention].

It may be easier than ever to start a product, but building a company is just as hard as its ever been.

It's no good to shoot a guy anymore. It's not enough. Nobody is throwing anybody off of buildings after seeing these movies, but they are smoking after seeing some good-looking celebrity smoke.

It's not pleasant when you lose your whole football team.

It's the building of things that makes you happy. You have to enjoy the process whether you succeed or fail.

It's very atmospheric. It's not a building that is a severe statement in the skyline. We need the height; otherwise, the building almost disappears because it is so slender.

It was body rush After body rush, intensity building. Touch me there.

It turned out that building mobile software was a lot more like building hardware... where you had 1 shot and you had to get it right, right out of the gate.

It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.

I used to know Jennifer Love Hewitt. We lived in the same apartment building when I was about... jeez, I guess it was when I was doing 'Christmas Vacation', so I was about 13 or 14.

I used to have a little whisky before I went on stage. I realized that could have slowly turned into something a bit more serious. I get hyped up. I also think doing it a lot, you get used to it. You get more confidence. It's confidence building, really.

I've been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding into the past.

I've always said if I could own one piece it would be Vermeer's The Love Letter, and if I could put it anywhere it would be in a David Chipperfield building. I'm almost there with the building - Chipperfield is building a new house for me in London. The Vermeer is a long way off.

I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.

I've had a terrific life, from building one company to be the second largest company in the securities industry and merging that into American Express, and becoming president of that company.

I've been very, very successful at building probably the most recognizable, physically recognizable brand in personal development.

I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.

I've never lived in a building without my name on it.

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.

I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building.

I was certainly seriously emotionally affected [ when Louise Hillary and Belinda Hillary died], but we were building the hospital at the time and I decided that the only thing to do was to carry on and complete the hospital - and it was a jolly good hospital too, I might say. So I really did it by working and working on the things that Louise and I had been working on.

I was always determined to make it as a footballer, but if things hadn't worked out, I'd have maybe followed my dad into the building industry.

I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time.

I was building the plane while flying it in the first term.

I was Chairman for two days. I had an airplane with my engines, hit a building I insured, was covered by a network I owned and I still have to increase earnings by 11 percent.

I wasn't as confident and creative in the beginning as I am now, so it was all very safe. But I was building my work, and it took me a long time. For a good five or six years I was just kind of bobbing around, doing everything and anything.

I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind around it at all.

I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.

I went and looked at one of these great cathedrals one day, and I was blown away by it. From there I became interested in how cathedrals were built, and from there I became interested in the society that built the medieval cathedral. It occurred to me at some point that the story of the building of a cathedral could be a great popular novel.

I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance.

I would say for everyday I build buildings or houses like a bricklayer with canvas and paint.

I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?

I would not be at all surprised to find out . . . that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess.

...Khufu who is believed to have been the pharaoh who commissioned the building of the great pyramid at Giza.

I would tell startups to just keep your head down, keep building. Your contingency plan, if you have one, should be because you are still spending more than you make and you still don't have a line of sight for that J curve. That is the most important contingency. Because otherwise you are betraying that equation to your cofounders, to your investors, to your employees and to your customers.