Construction Quotes · Page 5

A poem is a construction of inner space. Language is to inner space as light is to material space.

— Sven Birkerts

Not only does investing in your infrastructure provide very good construction jobs, at the end of the project, you have something.

— Shelley Berkley

It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.

— David Mitchell

The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

— Walter Benjamin

The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction.

— John Ruskin

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

— Douglas Coupland

Failure does not exist. Once you hit the construction zone road blocks, follow the detour signs to get back to ur original…

— Behdad Sami

If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction, you may live in Canada

— Jeff Foxworthy

The quality of the Neues Museum's construction is extraordinary even by German standards, and people can smell that quality. The concept would…

— David Chipperfield

We all know that the 'reality' of reality TV is an artful construction, an effect not only of editing but of a…

— Mark Fisher

I did a seminar once in Pennsylvania when there was big snow, road construction, a big flood and just one person showed…

— Royce Gracie

The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive…

— Noam Chomsky

I'm much more comfortable in pants and shirts, running around. There was a typical construction about womanhood when I was growing up…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a carpenter builds a house. Everything must be constructed,…

— Henri Matisse

If you hate my guts and have designs to hurt me, and I see you building a cannon aimed at my house,…

— Walter E. Williams

Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.

— Major Owens

You don't really see sleepwalking in films that often. It's weird; I feel like in popular culture we have the perception of…

— Mike Birbiglia

The determination of the relationship and mutual dependence of the facts in particular cases must be the first goal of the Physicist;…

— Franz Karl Achard

Markets are a social construction, they're made from institutions. We in a democratic society create markets, we constitute markets, we bring them…

— Douglas Massey

At any point in the world's history most architecture is going to be bad but I think there's been a collective mentality…

— Jonathan Meades

I worked in a steel mill, I worked in a foundry, I worked in a paper mill, I worked in a chemical…

— Luis J. Rodriguez

So I was drawing in a lot of the habit district in Brazil, put that together with an Asian influence, so there…

— Len Wiseman

And yet my, not only my faith, but my experience has led me to believe that the world is not a construction…

— Terence McKenna

Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill…

— Joseph Story

Insulating under your basement slab during construction makes a huge difference in energy costs when it comes to heating your home.

— Bryan Baeumler

A hen's egg is, quite simply, a work of art, a masterpiece of design and construction with, it has to be said,…

— Delia Smith

Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.

— Thomas Jefferson

This movement is not about the destruction of law, but the construction of law.

— Julian Assange

I'm not a big fan of shopping. I certainly am a fan of clothes, and especially people that put time into the…

— Dean Winters

When I was up on my first flight, we were really putting it together. So, I was essentially a construction worker.

— Sunita Williams

I appreciate good tailoring as much as good details of construction.

— Neri Oxman

... causes (pains) are not logical constructions out of their effects (behaviour).

— Hilary Putnam

I strive to seek new material that fit into the logic of construction, while performing services appropriate to real needs.

— Gaetano Pesce

A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The 'Love Undercover' series features two cops, a street rat, and a construction worker as the lead heroes.

— Lori Foster

Every Man is the Architect of his own Fortunes, but the Neighbours superintend the Construction.

— George Ade

I just think [Gangster Party Line] is funny and stupid and all the dudes in it are real dudes. It's just a…

— Neal Brennan

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.

— Jonathan Haidt

Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death.

— Mason Cooley

Arizona now has one of the most innovative systems of financing school construction in the nation.

— Jane D. Hull