Construction Quotes

462 quotes by 403 authors

The organic laws of construction tangled me in my desires, and only with great pain, effort, and struggle did I break through these 'walls around… — Wassily Kandinsky
We are ready to build large underground gas storages in Turkey, to participate in the privatization of Turkey's gas-distribution networks, to use the existing and… — Vladimir Putin
Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration. — Frank Yerby
Choice and chance structure art and nature. — Frederick Sommer
Man-made things, buildings, boats, etc., we see more decidedly than the other things in a landscape. — Charles Webster Hawthorne
Any subject is suitable provided it is of sufficient interest, but the design must be very carefully considered, and plenty of time and thought given… — Walter J. Phillips
There are so many angles to follow up: government incompetence, sophisticated charity scams, how insurance companies treat victims, construction of the levees, who will start… — Brian Ross
The QSM Software Almanac is an invaluable resource. It establishes a norm for software projects, including best of class, worst of class and averages. In… — Tom DeMarco
The tragic effects of terrorism have forced the new-construction industry to re-evaluate traditional methods of fire protection in commercial infrastructures. That includes everything from building… — Craig Scott
The construction itself is an art, its application to the world an evil parasite. — L. E. J. Brouwer
Those who largely rely on their hands and the beautiful or shocking traces of the imagination that they leave on the canvas ...CONCRETE... one builds… — Pierre Alechinsky
Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them. — Robert Genn
Several large, artificial constructions are approaching us, ZORAC announced after a short pause. The designs are not familiar, but they are obviously the products of… — James P. Hogan
Step by step, a path; stone by stone, a cathedral,' my great-grandfather used to say. — Phil Cousineau
Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence. — Cesar Pelli
I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer a sketch into a model into… — Frank Gehry
A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells.… — Karl Marx
We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a… — Stephen Jay Gould
On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and… — Robert Delaunay
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing… — Charles Dickens

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