Best 808 quotes in «building quotes» category

So you can't live in Manhattan?' she asked. Amos's brow furrowed as he looked across at the Empire State Building. 'Manhattan has other problems. Other gods. It's best we stay separate.

Spend more time building your character than trying to build your platform.

Start with something simple and small, then expand over time. If people call it a 'toy' you're definitely onto something.

Stop sketching. Start building.

Stop sketching and start building.

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.

Stupidity is the basic building block of the universe.

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.

Systems program building is an entropy-decreasing process, hence inherently metastable. Program maintenance is an entropy-increasing process, and even its most skillful execution only delays the subsidence of the system into unfixable obsolescence.

The American dream is not about how much money you make or how many buildings have your name on it.

The American Dream has always focused on building a better life for yourself and your family, striving for success, and even fleeing from religious prosecution.

The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of creativity to each building.

The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us.

The best brands never start out with the intent of building a great brand. They focus on building a great – and profitable – product or service and an organization that can sustain it.

The ashram is where everyone lives in the same building or on the same grounds. You feel that it's selfish for you to devote your life to one person. You don't just love the one, you love the many also.

The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.

The best strategy for building a competitive organization is to help individuals  become more of who they are.

The body is not simply the combination of dance, muscles, body-building, strength and sex: it is a universe.

The Bow’s passive approach to solar control and ventilation are implicit in its form, supported by an interesting structural system that is legible on the building’s exterior.

Tech is all about building human connections.

The building block of every community is family.

The Building of European Commission would be perfect for a brothel.

The building of such a peace is a bold and solemn purpose. To proclaim it is easy. To serve it will be hard. And to attain it, we must be aware of its full meaning - and ready to pay its full price.

The buildings ... had suffered the inevitable shrinkage of places revisited.

The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.

The building of publicly funded stadiums has become a substitue for anything resembling an urban policy.

The buildings that were in question, they said in the same report, which was - actually, it wasn't even a bad story, to be honest with you, but the buildings are worth $3.9 billion. And the $650 isn't even on that. But it's not $650. It's much less than that.

The chief characteristics of the tall building is that it is lofty. It must be every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exultation so that from bottom to top it should be a unit without a single dissenting line.

The bureaucratic method of building an integrated Europe has exhausted its potential.

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.

The charges of building and making of gardens are unknowne.

The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.

The Church is not the building, its the people, its not just the gathering, its also the scattering.

The city buildings in the distance are holding up the sky, it seems.

The change doesn't come from Washington ever. Change comes from below. It comes from the pressure building amongst the American people.

The Commonwealth of Kentucky has a judicial system, and this system needs a lot of repair. Therefore, there is no need for Kentucky to start building another judicial system within the system, that we already have.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

The creature we finally ended up building is biomechanical to the extent that he has physically grown into, or maybe even out of, his seat, - he's integrated totally into the function he performs.

the Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story.

The Empire State Building is the closest thing to heaven in this city.

The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.

The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple.

The collision of mobile and social platforms and the need to build these companies from the ground up - whether it's a game, a healthcare application, an education application - building these from the ground up is what allows entrepreneurial activity to be unleashed.

The Europe we are in the process of building is the Europe of the 21st century; it's not the Europe of the 20th century.

The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels.

The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in society.

The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution.

The family is where we are formed as people. Every family is a brick in the building of society

The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice.

The Governor's Mansion is a beautiful home, a beautiful building - we're privileged to have a chance to live there. It certainly doesn't feel as comfortable as our home.