Construction Quotes · Page 6

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

— John Ruskin

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

— Walter Benjamin

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

— David Mitchell

I think I'm always a little bit under construction. I'm a project that I'm trying to improve upon.

— Nick Nurse

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

— Douglas Coupland

Man-made things, buildings, boats, etc., we see more decidedly than the other things in a landscape.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

No way construction of this tricky plan was built by other than a greater hand.

— Emily Saliers

At least five cents in every acre should be reserved for the construction of ponds to store rainwater.

— M. S. Swaminathan

The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to…

— Brian Ferneyhough

I wasn't aware I'd write the novel when I wrote the New Yorker story either. And the narration of their construction in…

— Ben Lerner

At our company, our Design and Construction Consulting Service Team not only helps eliminate the risks inherent in the construction process, they…

— Roger Staubach

Instead of basic roads and bridges, infrastructure spending will go to bloated unions overseeing pie-in-the-sky construction projects like the $30 billion-plus high-speed…

— Michelle Malkin

“You cannot expect a man to love you, but not because of your body or physical construction. It is like giving a…

— M.F. Moonzajer

The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of…

— Rachel Maddow

The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent…

— Randy Neugebauer

There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state. The construction of government ought to be such…

— Thomas Paine

Economy denotes the the proper management of materials and of site, as well as a thrifty balancing of cost and common sense…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

My paintings are loosely based on meta narratives. The pictures float in and out of pictorial genres. Still life's become personified, portraits…

— Dana Schutz

It is impossible to talk of respect for students for the dignity that is in the process of coming to be, for…

— Paulo Freire

I love anything by Joan Didion. Incidentally, she was one of the local moms when I was growing up in Point Dume.…

— Rob Lowe

Cities need old buildings so badly it is probably impossible for vigorous streets and districts to grow without them… for really new…

— Jane Jacobs

I have ever been opposed to banks, - opposed to internal improvements by the general government, - opposed to distribution of public…

— Sam Houston

I read not so long ago about the construction of a large telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, where rainfall can average a…

— Brad Leithauser

I got involved, for the most part, in the actual song construction, lyrics even. I didn't want to write the lyrics, but…

— Michael Gira

The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.

— W. H. Auden

Step by step, a path; stone by stone, a cathedral,' my great-grandfather used to say.

— Phil Cousineau

“We all know our goals and we must attain them no matter what obstacles we face in life.”

— Arshad Wahedna

The road to success is always under construction... there are lots of pot holes but no traffic jams.

— Dan Pena

We are committed to making construction zones as safe as we possibly can for motorists and those working on the job.

— Jim Justice

I love Alexander McQueen. I like the construction of his suits. I think it's fantastic.

— Donatella Versace

I'm still really into set design and construction when I do films. I notice that stuff.

— John Ratzenberger

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

— Ludwig von Mises

The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect.

— Evangelista Torricelli

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

— Plato

Give me snuff, whiskey, and Swedes, and I will build a railroad to hell.

— James J. Hill

I grew up middle class, my best friends to this day are construction workers or military or whatever it is.

— Miles Teller

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.

— Marc Bloch

“Knowledge is knowledge whether it teaches you construction or destruction.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration.

— Frank Yerby

With fashion, you really need to understand the aspects of construction. Not just design on an iPad.

— Tim Gunn