Building Quotes

3027 Building quotes by 2084 unique authors

The skyscraper style first advocated by Louis Sullivan - a tower of strongly vertical character with clear definitions among base, shaft, and crown - has… — Martin Filler
The work that launched Snohetta into the architectural big leagues was their Oslo Opera House, which will certainly rank among the firm's highlights whatever else… — Martin Filler
When you first start working, you take whatever job is offered, because you have to build your resume. But you don't think about what you're… — Chris Hardwick
Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn't achieved without it. — Margaret Heffernan
Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities. — Abdul Kalam
Why does crime happen? Well, you might say that it's because youths don't have jobs. Or you might say that's because the doors of our… — Evgeny Morozov
We Facebook users have been building a treasure lode of big data that government and corporate researchers have been mining to predict and influence what… — Douglas Rushkoff
Toby: All right. It couldn't have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building...is our talent. — Aaron Sorkin
There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out… — Sylvia Plath
When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted… — Larry Wall
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet,… — Robert A. Heinlein
You can see the most beautiful things from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. I read somewhere that people on the street are… — Jonathan Safran Foer
She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings. She knew the… — Jeanette Winterson
We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of… — Michael Ondaatje
I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs… — Benjamin Franklin
They say that 'home is where the heart is.' I think it is where the house is, and the adjacent buildings. — Emily Dickinson
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit. — Ezra Pound
I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building. — Charles M. Schulz
Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite. — Stephen Chbosky
They dont understand what real treasure is. They see it in gold and copper, and tin. They see in herds of horses or cattle. They… — David Gemmell
You...you lost your faith?" "No...just my convictions. I still very much believe in God- just not a god who condones human tithing." Lev begins to… — Neal Shusterman
Actually there were many officers' clubs that Yossarian had not helped build, but he was proudest of the one on Pianosa. It was a sturdy… — Joseph Heller
Outside it's a perfect spring night. We stand on the sidewalk in front of our apartment building, and Henry takes my hand, and I look… — Audrey Niffenegger
Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached. — Leonard Cohen
It was a real whale, a photograph of a real whale. I looked into its tiny wise eye and wondered where that eye was now.… — Miranda July

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