Building Quotes · Page 224

I want my street to be crazy, I want my avenues, shops and buildings, to enter into a crazy dance, and this…

— Jean Dubuffet

Working with Tracy Morgan on '30 Rock' is really great. I love Tracy. He's wonderful. Well, until his fish tank caught fire…

— Sherri Shepherd

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

— Erik Prince

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

— Nicole Krauss

I hope that we will also take seriously the necessity of building alternative parties, and do that work in our communities of…

— Michelle Alexander

Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to…

— Frederick Douglass

Writing is like building a bridge while you're on it. If you step forward you fall off and there's nothing in front…

— Jason Schwartzman

Faith can be stirred within the walls of church buildings, but faith is formed and nourished in the waiting rooms of hospitals,…

— Josh Ross

Never build after you are five and forty; have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate…

— Henry Kett

Well, we think the broadcasts did have some effect, because we see the antiwar movement in the U.S. building up, growing and…

— Hanoi Hannah

I don't do casinos or prisons; I like to do projects that enhance the lives of everyday people, like campus buildings, libraries,…

— Philip Freelon

As I followed Margo's directions through the maze of one-way streets, we saw a few people sleeping on the sidewalk or sitting…

— John Green

If you have a lot of data and you want to create value from that data, one of the things you might…

— Andrew Ng

The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it's done to be…

— Peter Zumthor

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Sallie Mae sounds like a naive and barefoot hillbilly girl but in fact they are a ruthless and aggressive conglomeration of bullies…

— David Sedaris

I live in a loft in a building I designed, but for my dream house I'd get Frank Gehry, just to see…

— Hugh Hardy

The key ingredient to building trust is not time. It is courage.

— Patrick Lencioni

“If God closes a door AND a window, consider the fact that it might be time to build a whole new house.”

— Mandy Hale

Buildings should not look like Lady Gaga.

— Robert A. M. Stern

[Ayres] was our city because we were building it. That's how I felt when I walked around town.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts, whence our…

— John Donne

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

— Ronald Biggs

I run a taxpayer group - the most powerful guy in D.C., nonsense. OK? There are buildings with thousands of people in…

— Grover Norquist

I just bought a building in Los Angeles - on Sunset Boulevard. It's a building that was owned by Charlie Chaplin. It's…

— Ronnie James Dio