Construction Quotes · Page 10

It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created.

— Dennis Hastert

The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around.

— Wendell Berry

I worked at a construction site, cooked in marriage halls and even sweated it out at an iron factory.

— Samuthirakani

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Love is an active construction, and choice, not just an encounter that happens by chance.

— Masha Tupitsyn

I did a lot of heavy-lifting - construction, demolition, that kind of thing. Dusty, dirty work.

— Sixto Rodriguez

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

— Catherine Opie

They see me as an ordinary guy, like a construction worker or the guy who delivers your piano

— Clark Gable

I look for individuality in the artisans I work with for CoutureLab; a loving relationship with the product and care in the…

— Carmen Busquets

Israel and the Palestinians had been at the table together for decades until the Obama/Mitchell/Rahm Emanuel decision to demand a total end…

— Elliott Abrams

When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings…

— Bernard Arnault

With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might…

— David Hockney

I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the…

— Wilkie Collins

Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries…

— Paul Cezanne

The rapid growth in many of our suburbs has spawned a booming construction industry eager to hire low wage immigrants who gladly…

— Spencer Bachus

I once called construction companies to bid on an addition to the school library so that there would suddenly be people outside,…

— Howie Mandel

American banks may have been unable to supply adequate loans, but the Rothschild consortium in Britain was both able and willing. It…

— G. Edward Griffin

In the construction of houses, choice of woods is made. Straight un-knotted timber of good appearance is used for the revealed pillars,…

— Miyamoto Musashi

So fashion was, in a way, an accident. But this world opens you up to a lot of different avenues that interested…

— Christopher Bailey

Macroscopic objects, as we see them all around us, are governed by a variety of forces, derived from a variety of approximations…

— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

I see my position in that whole Dior construction very differently from my own brand. My own brand will stand or fall…

— Raf Simons

Imagism was a reductio ad absurdum of one or two tendencies of romanticism, such a beautifully and finally absurd one that it…

— Randall Jarrell

Some women have 'always' been lesbians. Others, like myself, have 'become' one. As much a sociocultural construction as it is an effect…

— Teresa de Lauretis

While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I've learnt a lot about construction and flexibility from my time at Geox.

— Patrick Cox

First, study the present construction. Second, ask for all past experiences ...study and read everything you can on the subject.

— Thomas A. Edison

The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.

— Glenn Gould

“...sometimes the only way to call attention to bad construction was to set fire to the building.”

— Larry Niven

“Innovation and progress thrive on rejections and setbacks. Challenge yourself to go further and try harder.”

— Arshad Wahedna

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

— Matt Taibbi

Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power.

— Camille Paglia

I grew up all over the South. My dad just kind of followed construction.

— Lacey Evans

I want to open my own yoga studio. Planning construction and looking at properties is fun.

— Nina Dobrev

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

— Greg Lynn

And on the pedestal these words appear My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty and despair!

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away

— John Warren Kindt

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

— Roberto Bolano

We've taken a show about destruction and turned it into a show about construction.

— Anson Mount

“How you bring people into your home is just as important as when they walk through the door. Frame well. #marketing”

— Richie Norton

What gives me hope is art - it's the most powerful weapons ever created. It's a weapon of mass construction.

— Louie Psihoyos