Engineering Quote by Ayn Rand Download Open image ““I told them that the form of a building must follow its function".”” — Ayn Rand ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Engineering
“A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“It is not about the building, but about what the building can produce.” — ANIKOR Daniel Copy Share Image
“I built and I built— heaven knows I have done that well. Those skyscrapers, full of tenants, floor after floor, and not a single… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
“The reality of the building does not consist of the roof and walls, but the space within to be lived.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“I found when I had finished my new lecture that it was a very good house, only the architect had unfortunately omitted the stairs.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down. It is not the houses. It is the spaces between the houses.… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“It was then that i understood what i had to do. i had to find a way to warn you. They have built a… — Carolee Dean Copy Share Image
“We have to build our lives out of what materials we have. It's as though we were given a heap of blocks and told… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
“Building stuff was an ethical act, a way to become more fully human.” — Jason Fagone Copy Share Image
“Before you begin scrambling up the ladder of success, make sure that it is leaning against the right building.” — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
Batley and Spen has a high proportion of people working in manufacturing, and we can boast the full range of industries, including high-skilled, precision… — Jo Cox Copy Share Image
Design is a very personal thing. It's like art. Your personal choice plays a big role. — Gauri Khan Copy Share Image
Worship isn't destructive, Martin. I know that. I don't. I only know it's the core of his life. What else has he got? He… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
Leave a cavity behind the [wall] facings, and on the inside build walls two feet thick, made of red dimension stone or burnt brick… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life,… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often say, 'If… — Yves Behar Copy Share Image
I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me. — Roger Spottiswoode Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image