Building Quotes
3027 Building quotes by 2084 unique authors
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Cars are all jammed up all along the road and a light turns red and someone honks. In every one of those cars there is…
— Deb Caletti
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I should throw you off this building minus the flying horse and see how heroic you sound on the way down.
— Rick Riordan
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There was no moon but the night sky was a riot of crisp and glittering autumn stars. There were streetlights too and lights on buildings…
— Neil Gaiman
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Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well. So here we are I've assigned myself a new obligation.…
— Muriel Barbery
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i get a little romantic about the old Empire State. Just looking at it makes me want to play some Frank Sinatra tunes and sway…
— Maureen Johnson
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If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends…
— Mother Teresa
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I love him, she thought. I'm just not in love with him and also I don't love him. I've tried, I've strained to love him…
— David Nicholls
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Men were created before women. ... But that doesn't prove their superiority – rather, it proves ours, for they were born out of the lifeless…
— Moderata Fonte
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…I never understood until the past months why the Master so often withdrew alone into the wilderness. There is not only food and medicine for…
— Harold Bell Wright
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To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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So we get a plan," I said. "Any suggestions?" "Blow up the building," Kincaid said without looking up. "That works good for vampires. Then soak…
— Jim Butcher
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My office is in a building in midtown Chicago. It's an older building, and not in the best of shape, especially since there was that…
— Jim Butcher
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This was not the old Chichikov. This was some wreckage of the old Chichikov. The inner state of his soul might be compared to a…
— Nikolai Gogol
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I stroll along serenely, with my eyes, my shoes, my rage, forgetting everything, I walk by, going through office buildings and orthopedic shops, and courtyards…
— Pablo Neruda
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The place smelled like Sam -- or, I guess, he smelled like the store. Like ink and old building and something more leafy than coffee…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.
— Terry Pratchett
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Do you think we’ll be waiting long?” Valkyrie asked, keeping her voice low. “The last time we were in this building, we accused the Grand…
— Derek Landy
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She's afraid to tell me anything important, knowing I'll only turn around and write about it. In my mind, I'm like a friendly junkman, building…
— David Sedaris
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Patrick started driving really fast, and just before we got to the tunnel. Sam stood up, and the wind turned her dress into ocean waves.…
— Stephen Chbosky
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They crested a rise, and there it was, in the hollow between rolling hills—a low, square building, ghostly gray in the moonlight. "Is that it?"…
— Gordon Korman
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I didn't set fire to the building." "No, but you did pull it into the river." "That put the fire out!
— Anthony Horowitz
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Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, building blocks to make wonderful worlds…
— Cornelia Funke
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The other three incoming calls were from his building superintendent, his pharmacy and a telephone survey company." "Bastards. They always call during dinner." Liv laughed…
— Rachel Vincent
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Equality of opportunity is not enough. Unless we create an environment where everyone is guaranteed some minimum capabilities through some guarantee of minimum income, education,…
— Ha-Joon Chang
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Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance,…
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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