Building Quotes

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. (Socrates)
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, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. View quote
Robertson Davies
Character building begins in our infancy, and continues until death. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together. View quote
Alvar Aalto
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. View quote
Thomas Fuller
Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe. View quote
Frank Zappa
To be successful, keep looking tanned, live in an elegant building (even if you're in the cellar), be seen in smart restaurants (even if you only nurse one drink) and if you borrow, borrow big. View quote
Aristotle Onassis
My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building. View quote
Ann Coulter
Archie Rice: Don't clap too hard – it's a very old building. View quote
John Osborne
Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen. (Larry Niven)
We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly. View quote
Bill Maher
Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it. View quote
Eknath Easwaran
The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. View quote
Havelock Ellis
I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed. View quote
Max Born
In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building. View quote
Minoru Yamasaki
Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat. View quote
Neal Barnard
When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material. View quote
Peter Zumthor
Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile. View quote
Walter Chrysler
The most expensive part of building is the mistakes. View quote
Ken Follett
A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves, lest while we are building ideal monuments of renown and bliss here, we neglect to have our names enrolled in the annals of Heaven. (James Madison)
The bureaucratic method of building an integrated Europe has exhausted its potential. View quote
George Soros
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use. View quote
Freeman Dyson
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 the building. View quote
Frank Gehry
There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long-drawn acrimonious struggle to make something important which we all know will be gone forever in a few years, the miasma of failure which is to me almost as offensive as the cheap gaudiness of popular success. View quote
Raymond Chandler
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