Best 161 quotes in «construction quotes» category

I'm telling you, I could teach at a university, [George] Carlin, a whole semester. The construction and deconstruction of the words, the language, the order.

Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.

I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.

In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.

In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.

In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly.

In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find.

I see my position in that whole Dior construction very differently from my own brand. My own brand will stand or fall because of me. Dior won't fall if I fall. It will also still stand if I'm not there. I'm coming in there and it's like a - I don't know the English word - like a passage.

I spent my life working before I started band. I worked construction, landscaping. I worked in kitchens, cleaned dishes. I worked demolition.

In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe.

It was a perfectly normal gerbil. It appeared to be living in an exciting construction of cylinders, spheres and treadmills, such as the Spanish Inquisition would have devised if they'd had access to a plastics molding press.

In the tale proper--where there is no space for development of character or for great profusion and variety of incident--mere construction is, of course, far more imperatively demanded than in the novel.

It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.

I think it is important to be present in the places where you are working. It is not only about doing a project, but following the project through its construction.

I was in tailoring business, I sold flowers on the street, I worked construction and many odd jobs.

Making movies is a lot like being a construction worker. There are long intense stretches of work followed by nothing. It's not easy to find work, and in between, you have to figure out what to do for money.

Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house.

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

Marx saw that capitalism is a wasteful, irrational system, a system which controls us when we should be controlling it. That insight is still valid; but we can now see that the construction of a free and equal society is a more difficult task than Marx realized.

Milan is showing a new and different face. At Porta Nuova, too, when they started construction, everyone was up in arms, saying Milan was going to lose its character.

Men's fashion has a certain heaviness in the fabrics and construction. But also there is a heaviness in the mentality.

Mathematics has been called the science of the infinite. Indeed, the mathematician invents finite constructions by which questions are decided that by their very nature refer to the infinite. This is his glory.

No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high.

My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.

Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.

No way construction of this tricky plan was built by other than a greater hand.

Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.

Music doesn't have to be so rule-based - and so strict in its structures, construction and perception.

Our earlier lives aren't wrong, they are just pre-construction. Our lives are meant to unfold, to evolve, and that's good. The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage, which would prevent this process from taking place.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Our ultimate goal is extensible programming. By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system.

One of the crucial underpinnings of New York as a culture capital is that there are multiple markets. There is not just one art gallery district, there are several art gallery districts. I feel that there should be art galleries and art studios in every neighborhood without exception. They should be integrated into the social and physical fabric of the streets. If we want a lively city, we can't just have high towers and dense constructions, we have to have living organisms of streets and neighborhoods. And the arts are a crucial part of that.

Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data.

Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.

Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.

Regulation - which is based on force and fear - undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.

Success is a project that's always under construction.

Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.

Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death.

Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli

The addictive experience is the totality of effect produced by an involvement; it stems from pharmacological and physiological sources, but takes its ultimate form from cultural and individual constructions of experience.

The charge that the construction of the geologic scale involves circularity has a certain amount of validity. ...Thus, the procedure is far from ideal and the geologic ranges are constantly being revised (usually extended) as new occurrences are found.

The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.

The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump... the main thing that the brush secures is the instant grasp of the grand construction of a figure.

The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly.

The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around.

The easy road is always under construction,so have an alternate route planned.

The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry.

The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away

The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.