Construction Quotes

462 quotes by 395 authors

The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during… — Brian Ferneyhough
In 2003, Congress authorized the construction of a visitor center for the Vietnam Memorial to help provide information and educate the public about the memorial… — Dennis Cardoza
Jocelyn Bell joined the project as a graduate student in 1965, helping as a member of the construction team and then analysing the paper charts… — Antony Hewish
The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. — Evangelista Torricelli
This generation may either be the last to exist in any semblance of a civilised world or that it will be the first to have… — Richard St. Barbe Baker
The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly. — Gianni Agnelli
Well, the infrastructure part of the stimulus has worked. There's absolutely no question about it. We can demonstrate in Pennsylvania and other states around the… — Ed Rendell
Everything seemed to change on that one day, but really, I think, things had been changing and changing over the course of many previous days,… — Deborah Eisenberg
Mechanical Notation ... I look upon it as one of the most important additions I have made to human knowledge. It has placed the construction… — Charles Babbage
NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits. — Joanna Lumley
The art of a magician is not found in the simple deception, but in what surrounds it, the construction of a reality which supports the… — Jim Steinmeyer
If you look at a building by Mies van der Rohe, it might look very simple, but up close, the sheer quality of construction, materials… — David Chipperfield
Be heroes in an army of construction. — Helen Keller
Theatre has nothing to do with buildings or other physical constructions. Theatre - or theatricality - is the capacity, this human property which allows man… — Augusto Boal
The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US. — Le Corbusier
It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality. — Gregory of Nazianzus
The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The easy road is always under construction,so have an alternate route planned. — Jill Shalvis
My first job in construction paid my way through art school. I was building to pay my bills. — Ty Pennington
I want labor to be the point, because everything in our lives is miraculously made with no idea of how it's done. As an active… — Tom Sachs

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