Building Quotes - page 2

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. (Raymond Chandler)
I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love. It is in the interest of living art and living history that I oppose so-called restoration. What history can there be in a building bedaubed with ornament, which cannot at the best be anything but a hopeless and lifeless imitation of the hope and vigor of the earlier world. View quote
William Morris
It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building. View quote
Louis Sullivan
The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another. View quote
John Muir
Money doesn't mean anything to me. I've made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy lie and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important. View quote
Keanu Reeves
I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. View quote
Anna Quindlen
The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech. View quote
Kenneth Rexroth
But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive. View quote
Wim Wenders
If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building. View quote
Katharine Hepburn
Three things are to be looked to in a building that it stand on the right spot that it is securely founded that it be successfully executed. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth. View quote
Dave Barry
I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place. View quote
Richard Stallman
There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them. View quote
Eugene Chadbourne
Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind. View quote
Aldo Leopold
But basilicas of the greatest dignity and beauty may also be constructed in the style of that one which I erected, and the building of which I superintended at Fano. View quote
Vitruvius
Taking courage and looking forward from the standpoint of higher ideas born of the multiplication of the arts, they gave up huts and began to build houses with foundations, having brick or stone walls, and roofs of timber and tiles; next, observation and application led them from fluctuating and indefinite conceptions to definite rules of symmetry. Perceiving that nature had been lavish in the bestowal of timber and bountiful in stores of building material, they... embellished them with luxuries. View quote
Vitruvius
Wherefore a monk's whole attention should thus be fixed on one point, and the rise and circle of all his thoughts be vigorously restricted to it; viz., to the recollection of God, as when a man, who is anxious to raise on high a vault of a round arch, must constantly draw a line round from its exact centre, and in accordance with the sure standard it gives discover by the laws of building all the evenness and roundness required.... View quote
John Cassian
The proper form of economy must be observed in building houses for each and every class. View quote
Vitruvius
There is nothing to which an architect should devote more thought than to the exact proportions of his building with reference to a certain part selected as the standard. View quote
Vitruvius
The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus. (Minoru Yamasaki)
And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important. View quote
Minoru Yamasaki
Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily. View quote
Minoru Yamasaki
Elton wanted a garden. They were building all afternoon while we were rehearsing. And then they built a fountain for Elton. And he said, I was only joking! View quote
Maurice Gibb
My style is about making things last forever. When you're on a budget, it can be daunting to spend $300 on a pair of boots or a coat. But such basics are the building blocks from which your look is crafted. View quote
Nina Garcia
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