Building Quotes

• I'm work to get some building work done at the moment, quite seriously. Be careful.

  

  Adrian Chiles
  • Work
  • Building

• Narrative is so important for building the sexual tension. Can you imagine a horror movie that only shows the blood, with no context? I think women need to get to know the characters before they start stripping.

  

  Erika Lust
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Tension

• If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Building
  • Virtues
  • Possess

• I spent two years working on building sites, working on the railways as a guard and in a racing stable, exercising racehorses. I learnt to build relationships. The experience of not being stuck in some middle-class bubble taught me things that being at university hadn't.

  

  Nicholas Davies
  • Experience
  • Building
  • University

• He saw a picture in his mind of a terrible piling up of the dead. It came from his contemplation of the church, but it had its own clarity: the row on row, the deep rotting earth hollowed out to hold them, while the efforts of the living, with all their works and wars and great buildings, were no more than the beat of a wing against the weight of time.

  

  Sebastian Faulks
  • Mind
  • War
  • Earth

• There may be some changes in building codes, but I don't see any stylistic departure that you'll be able to attribute to Sept. 11.

  

  Cesar Pelli
  • Code
  • Attributes
  • Departure

• I'm building on purpose. I'm building that tipping point. I'm building that law of diffusion of innovation.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Purpose
  • Innovation
  • Building

• I work with wood a lot. I like building. I think of building. I would love to buy land on some water somewhere and build a house. That'd be nice.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Love
  • House
  • Building

• Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Feelings
  • Emotion
  • Form

• The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.

  

  Stephen Ambrose
  • Vulnerable
  • Sophisticated
  • Vehicle

• Scouting ought to be about building character, not about sex. Period. Precious few parents enroll their boys in the Scouts to get a crash course in sexual orientation.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Character
  • Parent
  • Boys

• Figure out what you do best, and build a team second to none around that... # 1 Requirement in building first class companies.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Team
  • Building
  • Companies

• If somebody had told me when I was starting composition in Helsinki in the '70s that I would end up in L.A. and to describe that journey, those 17 years with the philharmonic and building the hall and this and that, I would have said, "This is a fairy tale of the first order."

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • Ends
  • Composition
  • Fairy

• I know what it’s like to be manipulated, Aya-la. And I know what it’s like to be in danger. While your city was building you mansions to live in, my friends and I have been protecting this planet. We’ve spilled more blood than you have flowing in your veins. So don’t try to make me feel guilty! -Tally Youngblood, Extras

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Trying
  • Guilty
  • Danger

• In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts...

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Time
  • Service
  • Building

• In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.

  

  Stephen Ambrose
  • People
  • Fire
  • Destroyed

• The government has brought on the housing problem, partly by these very low interest rates, which encouraged many people to go way out on a limb. They've brought it on by highly restrictive building policies, which have caused housing prices to skyrocket artificially. And they've brought it on by the Community Reinvestment Act, which presumes that politicians are better able to tell investors where to put their money than the investors themselves are. When you put all that together, you get something like what you have.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Together
  • Community
  • Problem

• I'll stick to building ships.

  

  George Steinbrenner
  • Building
  • Ships

• It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.

  

  Robert Venturi
  • Building
  • Unusual

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