Best 161 quotes in «construction quotes» category

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.

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.

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.

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

Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli

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

Success is a project that's always under construction.