Building Quotes

Every building must have... its own soul.

The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution.

I live in an apartment building built in 1925, and it hasn't been heavily renovated, so I feel very much connected to that time and what went on in that place.

There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues.

We began building this incredible new foundation in this restaurant, and that's what began giving me the left-hand side of tradition and the right-hand side, my new palate.

The federal government was responsible for building the levees, engineering the levees, and consequentially, the federal government is responsible for repairing the damage that has been done, which has not been completed yet.

I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.

I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.

We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.

I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now.

When I got to Los Angeles, I started building cabins in peoples' yards, building post-and-beam structures and cutting the joinery for those.

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.

People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation - much like building a mosque at Ground Zero.

Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico.

The Europe we are in the process of building is the Europe of the 21st century; it's not the Europe of the 20th century.

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

You know all these stadiums that U2 are playing? I've played in them. And I'm building up to it again.

I avoid my neighbors - luckily, my building has two exits.

We all know that a church is not a building.

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

Building houses and mansion ranching is not ranching.

Every one of my products - my lingerie, my perfume, and everything that I do beauty-related with regard to building my burlesque shows - is just me.

Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.

And I also take photos of hydrogen bomb, from another part of the building. It was not part of my job, but I succeeded to go and take photos of the hydrogen bomb.

It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.

So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'

They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia.

And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.

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

The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.

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.

The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai, the biggest factory in the world is in China, the largest oil refinery is in India, the largest investment fund in the world is in Abu Dhabi, the largest Ferris wheel in the world is in Singapore.

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they're proud of.

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.

The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada.

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about.

Satellite images suggest North Korea is building a light-water reactor and working on uranium enrichment. This is troubling.

But in Japan, there's nothing like that, since the temple is made of wood. The divine spirit inside the building is eternal, so the enclosure doesn't have to be.

Building a solid organ like the liver in the lab is different and harder than with an organ like the bladder because solid organs are very vascular.

Our people are excited about building solutions, and it's rewarding to see how much fun Netscape employees have doing something they think is relevant and important.

In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past.

Enthusiasm is not the same as just being excited. One gets excited about going on a roller coaster. One becomes enthusiastic about creating and building a roller coaster.

Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character.

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 won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance.

The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate.

I don't think so, in that Virgin is already a global brand. Brands like Amazon have had to spend hundreds of millions of pounds you know, building their brands, whereas Virgin is already well-known around the world.

Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area.

We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people.

I like writing code. I like building product. I like making things that people like.

I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be built. I want to be an architect.

When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation.

When a man wants to relax, he will slob out and really relax. Or he will pursue a hobby - anything from building models to watching sport.

The big problem that UWink had was we were essentially building tablets because they hadn't been invented yet. That drove up the cost a lot.

Congress passes bills that appropriate money. Congress says, 'We're building this bridge or funding that defense project, and they cost this much.'

Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.

There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.

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.

Our idea with starting Stripe was to build better payments technology for people building things on the web.

Stripe is building payment infrastructure for the Web, so we make it easy to accept credit cards online. Before Stripe, the way you'd do this is using the legacy banking structure. It was slow, it was complex, it was expensive. It had this very chilling effect on e-commerce.

I never said I enjoy anything about using the Internet. I enjoy helping the entrepreneurs who are building this thing that I don't necessarily like or use.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

The higher the building the lower the morals.

Anybody can leap off a building.

The interesting products out on the Internet today are not building new technologies. They're combining technologies. Instagram, for instance: Photos plus geolocation plus filters. Foursquare: restaurant reviews plus check-ins plus geo.

We've already seen how it's going to come in, in a truck, like it did at Oklahoma City at the Federal building or it's going to come in by plane, like it did at the World Trade Center.

With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community.

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Manufacturers employ more than 14 million Americans doing what Americans do best, making things, building things, transforming raw materials into finished products.

Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.