Construction Quotes · Page 9

I grew up all over the South. My dad just kind of followed construction.

— Lacey Evans

Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power.

— Camille Paglia

Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way.

— Matt Taibbi

I want to open my own yoga studio. Planning construction and looking at properties is fun.

— Nina Dobrev

“Innovation and progress thrive on rejections and setbacks. Challenge yourself to go further and try harder.”

— Arshad Wahedna

In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.

— Umberto Eco

Men's fashion has a certain heaviness in the fabrics and construction. But also there is a heaviness in the mentality.

— Hedi Slimane

Why dictator Musharraf, raising the slogan of 'Pakistan First,' did not think about construction of Dasu and Basha dams?

— Shehbaz Sharif

Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction--a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on…

— Louise J. Kaplan

I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of…

— Jules Verne

The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance…

— Thomas Jefferson

Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident .…

— Giacomo Puccini

Girls learn to love and have sexual feelings in a position of low status, and the eroticization of powerlessness is a normal…

— Sheila Jeffreys

Immensely clever and libidinously hilarious.The most astonishing thing about Love in a Dead Language is its ingenious construction. Insofar as any printed…

— Paul Di Filippo

A reliable assurance of the right and ability to dismantle the constructed structure must be offered, before the job of construction starts…

— Zygmunt Bauman

I've worked every job under the sun, from waitressing in my teens, to clocking hours on a construction site in London (I…

— Vogue Williams

The deal was we had to have people accompanying us and they would ask us not to film something [in North Korea].…

— Werner Herzog

The blessings of stupas are such that they benefit all beings, regardless of their connection and motivation. If one participates in a…

— Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

I think that metaphor really is a key to explaining thought and language. The human mind comes equipped with an ability to…

— Steven Pinker

We in Germany could, for example, lower taxes. And who is against that? The Social Democrats. We could also mobilize more private…

— Wolfgang Schauble

When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it…

— Elizabeth Loftus

It is my conviction that pure mathematical construction enables us to discover the concepts and the laws connecting them, which gives us…

— Albert Einstein

The Constitution on which our Union rests, shall be administered by me [as President] according to the safe and honest meaning contemplated…

— Thomas Jefferson

I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little.…

— Charles Dickens

I was always into different stuff: custom cars, electrical, construction, tattooing, decor, you name it.

— Valee

Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?

— Jim Bakker

As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build...

— Rainer Maria Rilke

New Yorkers would be shocked to learn of the conditions some construction workers in our city toil under.

— Letitia James

I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't…

— Nate Berkus

New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction.

— Walter Gropius

I get just as excited about building a birdhouse as when providing strategic counsel to a client.

— Robert L. Peters

You want to really prevent the construction of units? Pass rent control.

— Kevin Faulconer

Every man is the architect of his own fortunes, but the neighbors superintend the construction.

— George Ade

The construction of the universe is certainly very much easier to explain than is that of the plant.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.

— Jo Nesbo

America is a construction of mind, not of race or inherited class or ancestral territory.

— Robert Hughes

Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence.

— Cesar Pelli

Quotes are a way of acting out not just a text, and not just thinking, but the making of a text. The…

— Masha Tupitsyn

“Humans are like an ever flowing river of fresh water. We stagnate if we stop progressing.”

— Arshad Wahedna

The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads.

— Kelly Miller