Best 808 quotes in «building quotes» category

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

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

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

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?

Just imagine yourself in a wheelchair. Go through the building. If there's a place you can't go in, it's not accessible.

John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building.

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.

Just because you are the boss doesn't mean you are the source of all knowledge.

Ladies and gentlemen, Elvis has just left the building!

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

Like building a house, travel always costs more than you estimate.

Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base

Look what [Chinese] are doing, they're building a massive fortress against everything. A massive fortress in the South China Sea. And yet they're ripping us off.

Listen to your customers, but don't always build exactly what they're telling you. This is a really key distinction around building enterprise software.

Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well.

Look, I've had four kicks at the can. You've had a tremendous career. We're also happy. We've loved. We've lived. We don't starve. We haven't been shot in the gut. So at that point, I started getting a little more serious about the content we were making and the business and building the business. I also became more serious about life and being happy. I got married, I have kids - I'm happy at a cellular level now.

Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

Live, or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well. So here we are, I've assigned myself a new obligation. I'm going to stop undoing, deconstructing, I'm going to start building. What matters is what you are doing when you die... I want to be building.

Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong.

Lunch should consist of at least 1/3 relationship building talk. If you don't have time for business talk, it was a very successful lunch.

Love is a wave building to a crescendo. Ride if you will, ride it with me.

Marriage is the basic building block of civilization. We are redefining it at our own peril.

Managers often hold on to resisters because of a specific skill set or because they've been around for a long time. Don't.

Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.

Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

Mitt Romney and John McCain and Donald Trump are very different candidates. This is the disruptive candidate who gets these huge crowds, is building momentum in last weeks of compaign. That was not true of the other two races.

Model building is the art of selecting those aspects of a process that are relevant to the question being asked. As with any art, this selection is guided by taste, elegance, and metaphor; it is a matter of induction, rather than deduction. High science depends on this art.

Modern building has become so universally conditioned by optimized technology that the possibility of creating significant urban form has become extremely limited.

Modularize, don't customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.

Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification

Murderer who lives in my building. His name is Dan Bevacqua. Hes a fiction writer.

Money should not, and must not, change our commitment to solving problems and building this state.

Most churches don't have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.

Music can be so manipulating - especially in terms of horror. It's such an important part of building the tension.

Mostly we just add to the piles of rainbow glass that's been blown off the exteriors of the cany-colored buildings.

My favorite optimist was an American who jumped off the Empire State Building, and as he passed the 42nd floor, the window washers heard him say, 'So Far, so good.'

My bosses cautioned me about my candor. Now my GE career is over, and I'm telling you that it was my candor that helped make it work.

My buildings are like my children, so I cannot have favorites.

My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building.

My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building.

My particular worries on any given day - how I'm doing in the polls or what somebody is saying about me... for good or for ill - isn't particularly relevant. What is relevant is: What am I building that lasts?

New buildings should fit naturally into their surroundings, both architecturally and historically, without denying or prettifying the concerns of our time