Building Quotes

3027 Building quotes by 2084 unique authors

Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Buildings are tools to reach people, raise disciples, reach students, train up our kids, heal marriages and families and worship God. — Kevin Myers
Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t. — Bob Sutton
I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do. You are just… — Walter Lippmann
Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around, building up and… — Michel de Montaigne
The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes… — Eric Hoffer
Let's say there was a burning building and you could rush in and you could save only one thing: either the last known copy of… — Woody Allen
We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another… — Thomas Carlyle
Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate… — Walter Gropius
Don't just look at buildings ... watch them. — John Ruskin
You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so it is with… — Unknown Author
I envision a day when every city and town has front and back yards, community gardens and growing spaces, nurtured into life by neighbors who… — Greg Peterson
The future of research is interdisciplina ry, and will quickly take us into areas that today we cannot even foresee. This building gives us the… — Michael Tanner
Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building. — Arne Jacobsen
I have the flying dream a lot where I'm jumping off a building and just flying around. — Channing Tatum
Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a childish… — Nicholas Negroponte
I lived in New York for a couple months. It seemed to me at first an incredibly clean place with well-dressed people and washed cars… — E L Doctorow
The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power. — Orison Swett Marden
Fame, that public destruction of one in process of becoming, into whose building-ground the mob breaks, displacing his stones. — Rainer Maria Rilke
There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long-drawn acrimonious struggle to make something… — Raymond Chandler
Facebook is developing, and so are we. Timeline is a big step in the evolution of how we manage our identity online - and it's… — Joe Greene
To the Christian death is the exchanging of a tent for a building. — Billy Graham
Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one. — Unknown Author
We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth… — A. Bartlett Giamatti

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