Building Quotes

3027 Building quotes by 2084 unique authors

Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design. — Stephen Gardiner
I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is… — Daniel Libeskind
It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building. — Louis Sullivan
I think buildings should imitate ecological systems. — Unknown Author
When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one." — Emilio Ambasz
In a strange way, architecture is really an unfinished thing, because even though the building is finished, it takes on a new life. It becomes… — Daniel Libeskind
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes the People love… — Christopher Wren
Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building… — Neal Barnard
You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out. — Arthur Rock
And this is an administration - we're not into nation-building, we're focused on justice. And we're going to get justice. It's going to take a… — George W. Bush
Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance. — Jim Horning
For too long we have occupied ourselves with responding to the consequences of cruelty and abuse and have neglected the important task of building up… — John Hoyt
The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in society. — William Ruckelshaus
We're building a culture of accountability, trust, and togetherness. Entitlement will not be tolerated — Brad Stevens
Largely because of television, instead of looking over into that spacious building, we are, in effect, living inside of it. That is your fate in… — Boyd K. Packer
O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings — John Keats
But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make… — Bulent Ecevit
I avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem and then work… — Muhammad Yunus
If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if we are consistent with our… — Alfred Korzybski
Practical sciences proceed by building up; theoretical science by resolving into components. — Thomas Aquinas
When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm,… — Origen
Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise through the little… — Erving Goffman
The new goddess contingency could not be erected until the God of heaven was utterly despoiled of his dominion over the sons of men, and… — John Owen
The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech. — Kenneth Rexroth

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