Building Quote by Shigeru Ban Download Open image “People are not killed by earthquakes alone, but by collapsed buildings.” — Shigeru Ban ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Building Earthquakes Inspirational People
In every area of the world where there is earthquake risk, there are still many buildings of this type; it is very frustrating to… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else. — Anne M. Mulcahy Copy Share Image
Earthquakes would be great if they could hit specific areas, like the parent lounge at a children's beauty pageant. — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
We often think that tragedies happen because of great earthquakes in people's lives. I think they sometimes occur because of small things that become… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Http://ctrlq.org/earthquakes/seismograph.html Link to detect earthquake. This act may save many lives by staying aware. — Saayasum Copy Share Image
“With each integer on the Richter scale, there is a tenfold increase in the number of earthquakes that occur annually. On average, there is one magnitude 8 event, ten magnitude 7 events, a hundred magnitude 6 events, and so on, each year. If we consider this from an energy standpoint, the smaller earthquakes account for a significant fraction of the… — Marcia Bjornerud Copy Share
Earthquakes may be brought about because wind is caught up in the earth, so the earth is dislocated in small masses and is continually… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry. ...… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
I remember when I was in Los Angeles, and there was one of the very big earthquakes, and it was just absolute pandemonium. I… — Rory Cochrane Copy Share Image
People shouldn't be living in certain places - on earthquake faults or on flood plains. But they do, and there are consequences. — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
“The reality is people have always died in large numbers in natural disasters such as avalanches, earthquakes, and tornadoes.” — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Copy Share Image
Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power, Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their… — Shigeru Ban Copy Share Image
I believe that the material doesn’t need to be strong to be used to build a strong structure. The strength of the structure has… — Shigeru Ban Copy Share Image
The most important thing, in order to forge one's own creative personality, is to travel, to see different environments, different cultures. I wanted to… — Shigeru Ban Copy Share Image
Architecture is not about designing somehting from a free, fanciful idea. It is about discovering and establishing one's own principle, some kind of regularity… — Shigeru Ban Copy Share Image
Everyone used to want to be star architects. That's no longer the case. — Shigeru Ban Copy Share Image
I did a lot of tests, and I finalized my research. Paper has become a part of my visual vocabulary. You know, paper is… — Shigeru Ban Copy Share Image
I'm not inventing anything new, I'm just using existing material differently. — Shigeru Ban Copy Share Image
For me, there's no difference between what's temporary and what's definitive. I built the church in Kobe, which was supposed to be temporary, and… — Shigeru Ban Copy Share Image
An architect does not need to spend his whole career making monuments for rich people. — Shigeru Ban Copy Share Image
I travel a lot. Japanese culture is very ancient and very strong. That's why most people who commission work from Japanese architects expect them… — Shigeru Ban Copy Share Image
You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
I've done so many other projects where you're in a room with a reader and you're acting your lines out: 'We have to get… — Jim Cummings Copy Share Image
Absolutely, you can improve and become better at toughness. It's a talent, but it can be acquired, too. I think of it like building… — Jim Harbaugh Copy Share Image
T]he church is not a place. It's not a building. It's not a preaching point. It's not a spiritual service provider. It's a people… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now. — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So… — Edward Witten Copy Share Image