Building Quotes · Page 144

Russia, despite its heavy flirtation with capitalism and some quite unsavory oligarchs, is still building its foreign policy on the Soviet ideals…

— Andre Vltchek

Stores are the same everywhere; small downtowns are done. Not just in America, but globally. You hear the same music on every…

— Cynthia Daignault

I firmly believe that if you follow these simple rules then you'll have a wonderfully romantic life. They're all so important when…

— F. Burton Howard

Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as…

— Carlo Petrini

To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, vacuuming up and then…

— Susan Orlean

All governments, Books, customs, buildings, railways, ships, and all the stark realities that men have made, Are but imagination's utterances.

— Henry Abbey

It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

That has always been the underpinning of his [Donald Trump's] policy along with the building of the wall on the United States-Mexican…

— Chris Christie

I use a lot of similes and metaphors when I work, simply because it's my best way of describing a building or…

— Robert Cormier

The bitcoin/blockchain protocol has never been compromised. Businesses building applications on top of it run the risk of making mistakes.

— Brock Pierce

It's like I'll sit down and put my hands on the piano or the guitar, and then I'll hear a sound or…

— Beth Nielsen Chapman

The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple.

— Jane Addams

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

— Shelby Foote

If we were building our navy, rather than reducing our navy to pre-World War I levels, China would not be thinking about…

— Rudy Giuliani

Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform…

— Kenneth Frampton

My dad had a habit of giving me the Abdullah the Butcher matches as well as the ones with tables and chairs…

— Cody Rhodes

I spent a lot of time playing in miserable places that were not a lot of fun. Somebody once said it is…

— Diana Krall

As a society, we haven't spent as much time building the citizen Internet.

— Jennifer Pahlka

“Every house is built by a man. But Maker is the Builder of life.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I was raised poor, in a tenement building in Union City, New Jersey, the son of Cuban immigrants.

— Bob Menendez

I do not believe that ever any building was truly great, unless it had mighty masses, vigorous and deep, of shadow mingled…

— John Ruskin

The room within is the great fact about the building.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

There was a strange atmosphere on the set because we were filming in this large house, which was used for troubled children.…

— Beatrice Dalle

I think buildings should imitate ecological systems.

— Ken Yeang

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

— Michael Josephson

I'm interested in creating a little sound world for songs, really crafting it, building it, and making it like a little doll's…

— Imogen Heap

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark…

— Kofi Annan

I've always thought that Boathouse Row looked best at night, when hundreds of electric lights outline the shape of each building, truning…

— Brad Alan Lewis

When she fell asleep, she dreamed of death-- not just for her, not just for her species, but for every living thing…

— Dan Wells

I think a bigger difference with social media is going to be things like the impact Instagram will have for historians. For…

— Chuck Klosterman

Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

— Mark Twain

As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't…

— Zaha Hadid

I don't really care where I work, actually, because you know making a movie is like living in movie world. There's such…

— Franka Potente

Normally, architects render a service. They implement what other people want. This is not what I do. I like to develop the…

— Peter Zumthor

The Department of Justice transcends party because we're building on the Weed and Seed program.

— Janet Reno

I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.

— Gautam Singhania

I have lightning and wind powers," Jason reminded him. "Piper can turn beautiful and charm people into giving her BMWs. You're no…

— Rick Riordan

We were building a - what I thought was a fantastic company. We had great people. We were changing - we were…

— Jeffrey Skilling

You win with people, not with talent. So the quality of the people is very important in building your team. I always…

— Herb Brooks

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

— Ayn Rand