Building Quotes

The trail of lime trees outside our building is still a public loo. …where else are they supposed to go to the toilet in a city where public toilets are about as common as UFO sightings?” (pp.281-82)

~ Sarah Turnbull

The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world.

~ Dan Wells

You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.

~ Elon Musk

If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble.

~ Henry Kravis

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

~ Walt Disney

Homeowners and business owners across the country agreed to pay premiums, communities agreed to adopt building codes to mitigate flood dangers, and the Federal Government agreed to provide insurance coverage to policyholders after a disaster.

~ Bob Ney

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.

~ Sergio Aragonés

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

~ Douglas Coupland

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley.

~ Mark Zuckerberg

I am excited to join Combate Americas on NBC UNIVERSO, and look forward to building this incredible MMA sports brand and supporting the extremely talented athletes on its growing roster.

~ Rey Mysterio

When you're a kid growing up, and you think you're gay, you know that you're different; you're often teased and it can really destroy your self-esteem. But sports can be great for building self-esteem.

~ Greg Louganis

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

I think we all want to really live good lives, and we all really want to have a healthy planet, although I don't know if we're supposed to be on it forever. Now, does that mean that we should be building rocket ships to shoot us into outer space? Well if we can, I think we should.

~ Anne Hathaway

I love cycling, but if I could find a way of building something above the streets for cyclists, that would be amazing. We need even more space.

~ Michelle Dockery

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.

~ Larry Niven

I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back.

~ Eric Allin Cornell

I love snow; I love building snowman. The only thing I don't like is the cold - so if we could have a hot Christmas, that would be amazing.

~ Ella Henderson

I used to know Jennifer Love Hewitt. We lived in the same apartment building when I was about... jeez, I guess it was when I was doing 'Christmas Vacation', so I was about 13 or 14.

~ Johnny Galecki

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.

~ John Muir

Science is the first expression of punk, because it doesn't advance without challenging authority. It doesn't make progress without tearing down what was there before and building upon the structure.

~ Greg Graffin

Jay Z is building a range of businesses just on the strength of his brand. Lady Gaga has formed really interesting partnerships. Justin Bieber and his manager Scooter Braun are investing in a number of different companies and also promoting them in many ways.

~ Anita Elberse

We need strength and success elsewhere in our country - not by pulling London down but by building the rest of the country up.

~ George Osborne

Running up a steep hill or up steps are fantastic ways of building explosive strength.

~ Greg Rutherford

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

~ Eknath Easwaran

To make a full-blooded puff pastry, you need time, you need patience, and you need precision. It's all about the lamination: it's all about building up the layers of butter, dough, butter, dough; as the butter melts, it creates steam, and that brings up the layers of the two doughs apart from each other, and that's what gives it the rise.

~ Paul Hollywood

One of the top causes of startup death - right after cofounder problems - is building something no one wants.

~ Kathryn Minshew

President Obama and Democrats won a mandate to move us forward with jobs, healthcare reform, equality, and nation building here at home.

~ Christine Pelosi

Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.

~ Fanny Burney

'Sunday Morning Coming Down' is probably the most directly autobiographical thing I'd written. In those days, I was living in a slum tenement that was torn down afterwards, but it was $25 a month in a condemned building, and 'Sunday Morning Coming Down' was more or less looking around me and writing about what I was doing.

~ Kris Kristofferson

I would do the morning show and then just walk over to the network side of the building here at ABC in New York and sit down and start it up again and introduce the 10 contestants, and then introduce the 10 - the fastest finger question, and pick one of them, put them in the seat before you finally got to asking them the questions.

~ Regis Philbin

We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.

~ Mitt Romney

In the spring of 2007, Israeli intelligence brought to Washington proof that the Assad regime in Syria was building a nuclear reactor along the Euphrates - with North Korean help. This reactor was a copy of the Yongbyon reactor the North Koreans had built, and was part of a Syrian nuclear weapons program.

~ Elliott Abrams

We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there.

~ Buzz Aldrin

When the States already had nuclear weapons, and the Soviet Union was only building them, we got a significant amount of information through Soviet foreign intelligence channels.

~ Vladimir Putin

In America, you have the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. You've got drones now being considered for domestic surveillance. You have the National Security Agency building the world's giantest spy center.

~ Heather Brooke

When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots.

~ Robert M. Gates

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

~ Jim Rohn

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

~ Arne Jacobsen

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

~ Louis Kahn

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

~ Thomas À Kempis