Building Quotes · Page 18

I've never understood the allure of putting your name on a building that was built with taxpayers' money.

— Mick Mulvaney

When I write new worlds, I work in layers, building and throwing out, and building anew.

— Lauren Groff

In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.

— Edwin Land

Fame, that public destruction of one in process of becoming, into whose building-ground the mob breaks, displacing his stones.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Your assignment of confidence limits each of the evidences, which allows for building a cumulative case for God's existence.

— Russell Stannard

Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.

— Michael Heizer

Building confidence and constructive relations between Sudan and South Sudan is urgent

— Jimmy Carter

Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other.

— Herb Caen

Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the…

— Michael Graves

We walked out of this library building downtown, just on our way to lunch, and I was walking a few steps behind…

— Peter Jacobson

Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts…

— Dave Barry

The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a…

— Michael Hansmeyer

All I know is that once Julián told the kids in the building that he had a sister only he could see.…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something…

— Umberto Guidoni

Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that…

— Jo Walton

We always wanted to have this big show. So we just kind of started doing little things, like building our own little…

— Maria Brink

As the world's 'most dynamic' cities seek to manage their own urban growth, American state and local officials have much to offer.…

— Robert Hormats

So, where are the robots? We've been told for 40 years already that they're coming soon. Very soon they'll be doing everything…

— Hod Lipson

There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or…

— Leon Krier

The daily disappearance and the subsequent rise of the sun appeared to many of the ancients as a true resurrection; thus, while…

— Isaac Newton

It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an…

— Jonah Lomu

One set at extreme intensity does the muscle-building job. It must be stressed that the one final, all-out set I do takes…

— Dorian Yates

Stripe is building payment infrastructure for the Web, so we make it easy to accept credit cards online. Before Stripe, the way…

— John Collison

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

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

I've been meditating since 14 years and my mornings are spent in the building garden.

— Dia Mirza

God is in the résumé-building business. He is always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities.

— Mark Batterson

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

— Liam Neeson

Every single day matters when it comes to building a world where every person can live their life to the fullest.

— Sarah McBride

I think I'm a pretty creative person. I love building things. I love working on my house. Landscaping, stuff like that.

— Chris Sharma

I want to show you that you can leap tall buildings, walk through walls, and change reality.

— Elan Lee

It's heartbreaking to think that the joy of building a family is being dimmed by the economic squeeze young people are feeling.

— Jagmeet Singh

If you want to see what a society really believes in, look at what the biggest buildings on the horizon are dedicated…

— Joseph Campbell

Everything we are, everything we're building, everything we aspire to become, lives downstream from the brain.

— Bryan Johnson

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

— Minoru Yamasaki

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

— Anonymous

We have not come to compete with one another. We have come to complete one another.

— Bill McCartney

Start-up should focus on innovation not on building on infrastructure. Thanks to Google cloud service they can.

— Urs Holzle

China trading with its neighbours and building infrastructure brings only benefits.

— Erik Prince

“I cannot prevent people from destroying. All I can do is keep building.”

— Elif Shafak