Best 161 quotes in «construction quotes» category

A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.

A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But its some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.

A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.

Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.

Be heroes in an army of construction.

Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way.

But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning. What shall we make of this: an edifice abandoned early in construction by the architect?

Construction of an aerial vehicle which can carry even a single man . . . requires the discovery of some new metal or force. Even with such a discovery, we could not expect one to do more than carry its owner.

Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence.

Criticism is not construction, it is observation.

Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.

Currently, I am overseeing the construction of the new Trump Tower in Chicago. I am involved in meeting with the construction crews, architects and sales teams. I am learning a lot and working with some of the best in the business.

Demolition is a part of construction.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Every Man is the Architect of his own Fortunes, but the Neighbours superintend the Construction.

Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions

For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.

Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.

He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and biological constructions circulating around the mutually attracting binary poles of nature/artifice.

Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias.

I despise the proper constructions and cases, because I think it very unfitting that the words of the celestial oracle should be restricted by the rules of Donatus [a well-known grammarian].

I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner.

I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.

I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this.

I don't think you can separate a place from its history. I think a place is much more than the bricks and mortar that go into its construction. I think it's more than the accidental topography of the ground it stands on.

I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built." (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy)

If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.

If the acting don't work out, I'll have a future in construction.

I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants

If we ask for more and more material for the construction, i.e. more and more choice, we're likely to end up with a lot of combinations that don't do much for us or are far more complex than they need to be.

I hope God does not look like a bunch of wealthy white European dudes who are going to script the justification for the subjugation and legal ownership of other human beings based upon the construction of race as a biological phenomenon.

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.