Building Quotes

I haven't done any building designs since the Loaf House.

I've had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.

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

You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, "Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let 's just sit down and begin to talk peace."

Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?

Welcome to the O2. A unique building in Dublin, in that it is actually finished.

We are one with God and He loves us. Now if that isn't a hazard to this country-How're we gonna keep building nuclear weapons?

I think we need to change that old saying, "I don't need a building to fall on me." Because two did and we still don't get it. I think we all stick our head in the sand as a deep human impulse.

There's such a big buzz around boxing at the moment. Everything's happening and there's so much building up with a lot of young talent coming through.

This is a natural evolution, building a complete bath ensemble program and the Joseph Abboud bath brand within the Creative Bath family of licensed programs.

While creating a social brand is a necessary endeavor, building a social business is an investment...

I can't stand cell phones and I don't know one single thing about the computer. I have a friend come that lives in my building to check if I have emails. I don't even know what to google.

You can't get a movie made without a script; it's the blueprint to your building.

Information is the new atom or electron, the fundamental building block of the universe ... We now see the world as entirely made of information: it's bits all the way down.

I'd love to be part of the process of building cars.

I suggest that going to Mars means permanence on the planet - a mission by which we are building up a confidence level to become a two-planet species.

An acceptance of your cultural inheritance, and at the same time a dislike of it, is a building block of good art.

For now I'm building up stories for the retirement home!

There may be some changes in building codes, but I don't see any stylistic departure that you'll be able to attribute to Sept. 11.

The streets and the industry are two different things. You could be one super-hot artist in the streets, and you could walk into a corporate building, and people would be like, "Who are you?"

I wanted to be able to tell my grandkids one day, "Hey, your grandpa ran into a burning building and survived."

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

If I want to do action, you don't really get to do it. They don't let you, there's too much on the line to let you jump out of a building.

I don't think I could ever go to Auschwitz, because when we took that tour of MGM, I nearly collapsed outside the Thalberg building.

I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support human life.

In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with 'Dungeons and Dragons,' so that whole world-building thing is very close to my heart.

That has always been the underpinning of his [Donald Trump's] policy along with the building of the wall on the United States-Mexican border. And those things have remained completely consistent.

When you first start working, you take whatever job is offered, because you have to build your resume. But you don't think about what you're building.

It's no good to shoot a guy anymore. It's not enough. Nobody is throwing anybody off of buildings after seeing these movies, but they are smoking after seeing some good-looking celebrity smoke.

No architect should design buildings that import a huge amount of energy.

Each building should produce as least as much energy as it's going to need, and have more to put on the grid. They should be using all of the natural light and natural heat.

To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with.

My strength is character. I'm pretty good at building walking-talking humans with brains like beehives.

I just want to keep doing things completely different from the other. I just want to keep working with great people, great filmmakers and great actors and just building on that experience.

From famous artists to building contractors, we all want to leave our signature. Our lasting effect. Your life after death. We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.

I started to draw buildings. I called them Proposed Colossal Monuments - they weren't for real, not for actual building. It was more a critique of architecture.

I had, over the years, collected things, small things, as people do, and I had put them all together and showed them in what became a building in the form of the Geometric Mouse.

John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building.

When I was building robots in the early 1990s, the problems of voice recognition, image understanding, VOIP, even touchscreen technologies - these were robotics problems.

Building robot versions of people is very expensive.

I grew up mostly in Schenectady, N.Y. From an early age, building and creating things was a real passion for me.

Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be

It feels a lot colder when you're shoveling snow than when you're building a snow fort.

A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see.

Plot and scene are still the hardest things for me, though I think they're the building blocks of what makes a story work.

Our focus must always be on building people up.

President Obama deserves credit for building what you call the largest coalition to fight terror.

The solution is to ignore the bad habit and put your energy toward building a new habit that will override the old one.

Anybody can leap off a building.

There are some who go through life with a shadow hanging over them, particularly if they live in a building which has long wide awnings.