Building Quotes

3027 Building quotes by 2084 unique authors

The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it's done to be shared. It is… — Peter Zumthor
I design for the use of a building and the place and for the people who use it... the reputation for arrogance comes because when… — Peter Zumthor
I need a close contact to the client, whoever it is, and a commitment of the client to go out and do a process together.… — Peter Zumthor
My buildings should have an emotional core –a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling. — Peter Zumthor
Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I… — Peter Zumthor
Normally, architects render a service. They implement what other people want. This is not what I do. I like to develop the use of the… — Peter Zumthor
People are not killed by earthquakes alone, but by collapsed buildings. — Shigeru Ban
And, yes, I love the process of building. — Daniel Libeskind
We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing,… — Salman Khurshid
I made so many mistakes in running the company so far, basically any mistake you can think of I probably made. I think, if anything,… — Mark Zuckerberg
We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a… — Larry Page
I've gotten my personal life all the way intact and made sure that it's straight. Without that, you have no foundation. Your building is going… — Dr. Dre
For when asceticism was carried out of monastic cells into everyday life, and began to dominate worldly morality, it did its part in building the… — Max Weber
If you really love property, and buildings, lifestyles and how people live, that's a good reason for going into development. — Sarah Beeny
People say I've got a bad reputation. I think I've got the best reputation in the building. — Kanye West
The Majesty guitar symbolizes the very reason why I am so proud to be a Music Man artist. I had the idea for this guitar… — John Petrucci
Che Guevara taught us we could dare to have confidence in ourselves; confidence in our abilities. He instilled in us the conviction that struggle is… — Thomas Sankara
The best brands never start out with the intent of building a great brand. They focus on building a great – and profitable – product… — Scott Bedbury
The Besicovitch style is architectural. He builds out of simply elements a delicate and complicated architectural structure, usually with a hierarchical plan, and then, when… — Freeman Dyson
On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design was… — Frank Lloyd Wright
War, and more wars, are helping Government to siphon the earnings of its people into its treasury for its own selfish purpose, which is to… — Walter Russell
No more prizes for predicting the rain, only prizes for building the arks — Don Edward Beck
Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, I'm all right so far? — Gretel Ehrlich
I have no regrets.I have spent my life,so much of it, building up this country. There's nothing more that I need to do. At the… — Lee Kuan Yew
I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy. — Laura Mvula

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