Building Quotes

When it comes to building character, wealth, good looks, athletic ability and even a high IQ are more likely to be impediments than advantages.

The mantra of the National Commercial Bank is 'building a better Jamaica.' If this bank is going to be everlastingly successful, it has to take on the ailments of this society.

I've always been sort of confused by the trajectory my life has taken. I was supposed to be on an assembly line building Buicks.

Building up the arms did not cause the fall of Eastern Europe.

Scientists who have dedicated their lives to building machines that think, feel that it's only a matter of time before some form of consciousness is captured in the laboratory.

In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily.

I have two Filipino nannies who have British passport and not me. I don't need British passport. When you were running around in an animal skin, my ancestors were building the pyramids.

I'm not digging tunnels, I'm not building buildings. My work is not hard, my work is refreshing, my work is pleasant. The more the better. Lying around and getting no job is debilitating.

I have no regrets. I have spent my life, so much of it, building up this country. There's nothing more that I need to do.

Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well.

Faithfulness to your husband means sticking up for him, always building him up and never tearing him down.

Something about that whole process of building the structure of that game turned into a real kind of lightbulb moment for me as a writer.

Any habit may be discontinued by building in its place some other and more desirable habit.

You must think about building a 'granth-mandir' in your village. Why is your village lacking such a 'granth-mandir'? Start with 50 books...100 books.

We have successfully achieved the target of building toilets in schools.

I think the New York Public Library is so, so amazing. It's literally the coolest place - It's good shelter from the sun and it's the most beautiful building. It's really, really fun.

We can hold to the iron rod even if others slip away and a few end up mocking us from "the great and spacious building."

But at a certain point you've gotta be ruthless with the movie because you can have these great scenes, but they aren't specifically building the story that needs to be built at that moment.

I love making things. I love building things. I love the idea that something's in the world that wasn't there before.

We don't build a record. We're taking a picture of it. We're not building an image; we're capturing an image.

The English truly understand the dynamic between buildings and land.

We're here for such a short amount of time. Why do we spend any of it building sandcastles?

I think that the web and its various facets are incredibly useful in just building a fan base and getting your chops better.

Being a man of the theater and a hedonist, I find the idea of building coffins very romantic.

I also grew up building theatrical scenery. I spent many years building scenery as a large part of my income and that allowed me to really develop my shop skills.

Setting is my primary joy as a writer, building a world and watching people respond to it.

Commodity exchanges have a lot of advantages. One, you are helping transparency. Two, they are not political. It's institutional building. It can survive any environment, in theory.

I have a very strong sense of architecture in my novels. But at first it's sometimes like building a doorknob before you have a door, and a door before you have a room.

I enjoy feeling physically strong, so maybe I'd like to be able to lift a building and launch it at someone.

When you're building something, you know all of the trade-offs.

Insanity consists of building major structures upon foundations which do not exist.

I have two homes in Malibu, a home in Canada that I'm building, and I just love pouring my heart out into this part of my life.

For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.

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

The Sound of Building Coffins is a soulful work from a writer of the weird. Maistros does more than make you feel for his characters and their twisted, damaged lives; he makes you *want* to feel.

The USA should invade the USA and win the hearts and minds of the population by building roads, bridges and putting locals to work.

Chef means boss and in France you get an office chef and you get a chef on a building site, etc. So I'm a chef de cuisine, chef of the kitchen, and that means that I'm in charge of a team.

"You're All That" goes back to really building a life from the core of who you're. And all of those things are layers. That's just your authentic life.

When we're dealing with historic buildings, we don't replicate, but we try to be subordinate and be deferential to them.

We can't make people better by trying to eliminate their weaknesses, but we can help then perform better by building on their strengths.

A big part of the story is American imperialism, and the flip side of that is the building up of the national security state here at home.

Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.

I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?

I'm not building a game. I'm building a new country.

Put in an honest day's work. It is the building block of a spiritual life.

The 25th anniversary of the decision ... is a call to people of good will to reflect. Now is the time for recommitment to the building of a culture of absolute respect for life.

Ladies and gentlemen, Otis Alexander Sudeikis has LEFT the building! (I'm the building)

I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a big tent party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.