Building Quotes · Page 35

The job of nation building, the job of nation leadership in a difficult, complex coalition has worked.

— Azim Premji

Setting is my primary joy as a writer, building a world and watching people respond to it.

— Nicola Griffith

I really enjoy the aesthetic of building my fashion sense. I enjoy the process of going through fashion phases.

— Frances Bean Cobain

I'm up in the woods, I'm down on my mind. I'm building a still, to slow down the time.

— Justin Vernon

I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger.

— Jamie Chung

Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.

— Elizabeth Edwards

I'll just tell you what I remember because memory is as close as I've gotten to building my own time machine.

— Samantha Hunt

You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.

— John Engler

Time is water, and the Venetians conquered both by building a city on water, and framed time with their canals. Or tamed…

— Joseph Brodsky

After intensive body building for eight years, I went to the U.S. for training. There, I learnt the art of wrestling. Later,…

— The Great Khali

The gap between rich and poor is, in fact, widening enormously. This idea of building up the powers of people who are…

— Robert Wyatt

Too often, as a global community of humanitarians, we meet the needs of the same families, the same individuals, the same communities…

— Ertharin Cousin

It's all about having a product that you're proud of and coming to work every day. Those basic building blocks are the…

— Greg Brenneman

Show me a country where the bombs had to fallShow me the ruins of buildings so tallAnd I'll show you a young…

— Phil Ochs

Streaming is something that's going to require tons of billions of dollars of investment, building server farms close to users and 5G…

— Tim Sweeney

Goldman in the '80s was like a priesthood, a monastic experience where you worked all the time but were incredibly dedicated to…

— Steve Bannon

The training gave me the building blocks to get through it. A production of that scale, in a theater that big, you…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

In the summer after kindergarten, a friend introduced me to the joys of building plastic model airplanes and warships. By the fourth…

— Steven Chu

He lived in chambers that had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering…

— Charles Dickens

Our country as a whole, no less than the Hastings College of Law, values tolerance, cooperation, learning, and the amicable resolution of…

— Samuel Alito

Puffy is like the ultimate business guy. He has so much under his belt - the whole Croc thing, the clothing line,…

— Trina

We survived for hundreds of years under the old banking structure. You'd have clearing banks, then merchant banks doing the racy stuff,…

— Theo Paphitis

Like it or not - and often we don't - power is a pervasive phenomenon. From midnight decisions in the Oval Office…

— Tom Peters

By the time we got to Courageous, we were bringing in more outsiders, so any time we would bring in outsiders, we…

— Stephen Kendrick

I hear that you were on a date with Trouble Kelp. Are you two planning on building a bivouac any time soon?

— Eoin Colfer

We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there.

— Buzz Aldrin

I just love that whole Brill Building era. I will always regret not being there. That's where I belong.

— Steven Van Zandt

I should throw you off this building minus the flying horse and see how heroic you sound on the way down.

— Rick Riordan

Building a house is a lot like moviemaking. The attention to detail, the sense that you're doing something that has longevity.

— Warren Beatty

I was a player in the Arena League, I was building relationships with that internship.

— Matt Nagy

China is building a model for how an authoritarian government can survive the Internet.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.

— Jack Nicklaus

The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.

— Stephen Ambrose

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

— Thomas Fuller

Nothing happens here in this building, in the House of Representatives, if there's no demand from outside the Capitol.

— Luis Gutierrez

I like being on my own, building on my own, and standing on my own.

— Goldlink

Building a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe.

— Jill McCorkle

Merry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan!

— George Bailey

I don't know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything,…

— Al Franken

I love The Purple Book. It continually helps reinforce the only foundation worth building upon— a biblical one.

— Peter Furler