Best 808 quotes in «building quotes» category

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

I don't measure success by how many buildings have my name on it.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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 there could've ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that 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 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 don't love and believe in what you're building, you're likely to give up at some point along the way.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.