Building Quotes · Page 28

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll [Le Corbusier] go write four books about it.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation.

— Walter Gropius

Arsenal remains a big club, but the building of Emirates Stadium changed a lot of things.

— Samir Nasri

The key to building long muscle as you swim is stretching arms far ahead of you in the water, sort of like…

— Mary Helen Bowers

Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air.

— Helmut Jahn

For me, it's not about building bulk in my muscles; it's about staying tiny, strong, and lean.

— Keauna McLaughlin

Electricity, water, gas, and steam course through the walls of my building, keeping it alive.

— Mason Cooley

Building a cast is a card house. They lean on each other, provide for each other, and take from each other.

— Johan Renck

Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to…

— Mark Twain

I had this relationship with Strikeforce that included getting all these investments and really building the brand up, moving it in the…

— Frank Shamrock

I always say, my set is like building a brick wall that all the jokes are the bricks but the improv is…

— Josh Blue

This idea of repetition and revision is central to my working process-this idea of stacking and layering and building up densities and…

— Ellen Gallagher

For some reason, people are so afraid of carbs. They're really the building block for what we do, especially if you're active…

— Billy Gunn

We need to begin thinking about building permanence on the Red Planet, not just have voyagers do some experiments, plant a flag…

— Buzz Aldrin

Books aren’t just my defenses, the sandbags I use to fortify my position; they are also the building blocks of my soul,…

— Jonathan Hull

Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently…

— Fred Wilson

And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird…

— Eddie Van Halen

You have to blast to build in Manhattan. And the buildings went up in Manhattan because of the power of that bedrock.…

— Donald Trump

When you begin to meditate on a regular basis, you will start to notice that thoughts and feelings that may have been…

— Deepak Chopra

The more experiences and experiments accumulate in the exploration of nature, the more precarious the theories become. But it is not always…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

When humans work, they frequently become unaware of their own body, their own senses, are surprised to find that their wrists ache…

— Anonymous

There is a horrifying loneliness at work in this time. No, listen to me. We lived six and seven to a room…

— Anne Rice

Peasants, who after the liberation of the country became the masters of their lands and their country under the benevolence of Comrade…

— Kim Jong-un

I moved into this low-income building in Chicago because all my friends lived there or the next building over rent-free. I had…

— Deon Cole

I'm 30. I'm about to hit my prime now. I need to act and keep building.

— Dillian Whyte

The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in society.

— William Ruckelshaus

Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.

— Florence King

Focusing on the long term and building a great product that is scalable ultimately leads to a great company.

— Craig Sherman

The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.

— William C. Brown

We will probably have to pay a price for devoting our lives to building the kingdom of God. Jesus did.

— Bill Hybels

Just five years ago, it was almost impossible to waste a million dollars building a Web site.

— David Walker

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.

— Larry Niven

The glass ceiling doesn't apply when you're building your own house

— Heidi Roizen

You're not going to be able to make good decisions without building some relationship of trust between yourself and community.

— Barack Obama

A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.

— Lee Iacocca

There are some who are scared by unity and by building a country on the basis of ideas.

— Paul Kagame

Noah took much ridicule building his great arc, but after 40 days and 40 nights he was looking pretty smart.

— Garth Brooks

I'm building on purpose. I'm building that tipping point. I'm building that law of diffusion of innovation.

— Simon Sinek

Protein is crucial to supplying muscle tissue with the building blocks it needs for its growth.

— Dorian Yates

I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.

— Uzo Aduba