Building Quotes

3027 Building quotes by 2084 unique authors

In building a path through the self to the far shore of awareness, we have to carefully pick our way through our own wilderness. If… — Mark Epstein
There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick. — Bill Belichick
Most people spend their lives building financial houses of straws, which are susceptible to wind, fire, rain and big bad wolves. — Robert Kiyosaki
Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his death, whether we feel… — Martin Bormann
If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we desire. Instead of… — Tom Robbins
Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for… — Billy Tauzin
The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disappointment and loss.… — Kingsley Amis
But the building's identity resided in the ornament. — Louis Sullivan
Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture. — Martin Puryear
No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of… — Michael Ende
We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless. — Minoru Yamasaki
The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're… — Robert A. M. Stern
The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in… — Russell Lynes
My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness. — Thom Mayne
I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect. — Alexander Jackson Davis
In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings. — Delia Ephron
Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of… — Enid Nemy
Every building is a prototype. No two are alike. — Helmut Jahn
Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics… — John C. Portman, Jr.
Buildings should serve people, not the other way around. — John C. Portman, Jr.
My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone. — Julia Morgan
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves. — Julia Morgan
Having to call your customer service department is like falling off a six story building. — Jon Jones
A building is not just a place to be but a way to be. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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