Construction Quotes - Page 9

• Nothing is impossible. Whatever idea comes up, we always try to make it. Sometimes it doesn't work because it's just not technically achievable. But you can always make things better, more contemporary with the construction, the inside, the weight, and all of that.

  Tomas Maier

  Trying, Impossible, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that looked like scaffolding and depth on depth behind it were thousands of stars that all seemed to be moving very slowly as if they were about some vast construction work that involved the whole universe and would take all time to complete. No one was paying attention to the sky.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Stars, Moving, Sky

  Flannery O'Connor (1965). “Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories”, p.26, Macmillan

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• During the Qin Dynasty, all books not relating to practical concerns such as agriculture or construction were ordered burned by the emperor to guard against "dangerous thought." Whether accounts of zombie attacks perished in the flames will never be known. This obscure section of a medical manuscript, preserved in the wall of an executed Chinese scholar, might be proof of such attacks.

  Max Brooks

  Wall, Book, Flames

  Max Brooks (2003). “The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead”, p.186, Broadway Books

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• I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner.

  Franz Kafka

  Rooms, Hunts, Corners

  Franz Kafka (1948). “The diaries of Franz Kafka”, Schocken

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• Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning reflections with which we do not argue, but good is another matter. Few have stared at that long enough to accept that its face too is grotesque, that in us the good is something under construction. The modes of evil usually receive worthy expression. The modes of good have to be satisfied with a cliche or a smoothing down that will soften their real look.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Real, Reflection, Expression

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• I spent my life working before I started band. I worked construction, landscaping. I worked in kitchens, cleaned dishes. I worked demolition.

  Zachary Cole Smith

  Kitchen, Band, Landscaping

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Having toddlers always means that there's a fair amount of chaos at home, but that's part of the fun. And from a work perspective, we have projects under construction all over the world, including many right here in the US.

  Ivanka Trump

  Fun, Home, Mean

  "Ivanka Trump describes her life as the daughter of a potential US president, running the Trump empire, and building her own brand". Interview with Rachel Gillett, uk.businessinsider.com. March 17, 2016.

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• So there's no typical day, but I transition through the course of my business day by doing everything from construction meetings on the development project under construction to design meetings for an upcoming apparel delivery to acquisition meetings about projects we're looking to acquire. It's very diverse in terms of content, substance, and what I address on a typical day.

  Ivanka Trump

  Design, Typical, Transition

  "Ivanka Trump describes her life as the daughter of a potential US president, running the Trump empire, and building her own brand". Interview With Rachel Gillett, uk.businessinsider.com. March 17, 2016.

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• All of us, as bodies, are in the active position of figuring out how to live with and against the constructions - or norms - that help to form us.

  Judith Butler

  Body, Helping, Form

  Source: transadvocate.com

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• Artwork operates on two different levels: On one level there's artwork as a mode of expressivity, and then there's the other side, where the image is a construction that is meant to engage in a discursive field in order to preform a particular function.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Order, Two, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Look at the streets! The people have smiles on their faces, they're hustling and bustling and going places, they're well-dressed, there's lots of construction going on. It's kind of hard to feel sorry for an economy like this.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Sorry, People, Hustle

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• A reliable assurance of the right and ability to dismantle the constructed structure must be offered, before the job of construction starts in earnest.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Jobs, Structure, Ability

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• Importantly, in several years when we have accomplished all of our enforcement and deportation goals and truly ended illegal immigration for good, including the construction of a great wall, which we will have built in record time. And at a reasonable cost, which you never hear from the government.

  Donald Trump

  Wall, Government, Years

  "Donald Trump Plans to Parachute Criminals Into Other Countries Whether They Like It Or Not" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. September 1, 2016.

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• As for the influence on my writing,music has definitely influenced how I write. That idea of cadence, repetition, all those elements appear throughout my writing. Drumming has definitely had a huge influence on the way I write, too. Has definitely tuned my ear to rhythm. After I've written something, I'll go through it repeatedly, carefully listening to the construction of the words, seeing, hearing how they flow.

  Rich Ferguson

  Writing, Listening, Influence

  Source: therumpus.net

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• During the nineteenth century, the rapid emergence and proliferation of new manufacturing methods and building technologies led to the establishment of polytechnic schools that concentrated on the practicalities of engineering and construction rather than the niceties of stylistic correctness or adherence to established precedent.

  Martin Filler

  School, Technology, Engineering

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• I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.

  Wilkie Collins

  Children, Ideas, Reform

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.31, e-artnow sro

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• I hope God does not look like a bunch of wealthy white European dudes who are going to script the justification for the subjugation and legal ownership of other human beings based upon the construction of race as a biological phenomenon.

  Tripp York

  Ownership, Wealthy, Justification

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• What my mom failed to understand was that I didn't even want long hair -- I needed long hair. And my desire for protracted, flowing locks had virtually nothing to do with fashion, nor was it a form of protest against the constructions of mainstream society. My motivation was far more philosophical. I wanted to rock.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Mom, Fashion, Motivation

  Chuck Klosterman (2012). “Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey In Rural North Dakota”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• And in a small house five miles away was a man who held my mud-encrusted charm bracelet out to his wife. Look what I found at the old industrial park," he said. "A construction guy said they were bulldozing the whole lot. They're afraid of sink holes like that one that swallowed the cars." His wife poured him some water from the sink as he fingered the tiny bike and the ballet shoe, the flower basket and the thimble. He held out the muddy bracelet as she set down his glass. This little girl's grown up by now," she said. Almost. Not quite. I wish you all a long and happy life.

  Alice Sebold

  Girl, Flower, Happy Life

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• We were trying to do as much science as we could because that was the main purpose of the international space station. But without the shuttle to bring up heavy laboratory equipment and bring back samples, we were limited by what we could do, but I was proud that we actually accomplished more science that was planned for the flight. And I got a chance to do two Russian spacewalks on that flight, I had become an expert in U.S. spacewalks and using U.S. suits and techniques, and this was a chance to put on a Russian Orlan suit and do two construction space flights outside of the space station.

  Leroy Chiao

  Trying, Purpose, Proud

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Trump's act of construction is not building a building. It is building the meaning of the name "Trump." Because his revenue really comes from selling his name to people who do actually build things. They pay enormous sums of money for the supposed privilege of being associated with the name Trump or the name Ivanka, because of that image construction. That's why it seemed like a good idea for Trump to run for president in the first place.

  Naomi Klein

  Running, People, President

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Different moralities must share some general features if they are to perform their functions of coordinating beings having particular kinds of motivations. Morality is a cultural construction in something like the way bridges are. There would be no bridges unless human beings used them to move across bodies of waters or depressions in the earth, but a good bridge cannot be designed according to whim, but rather according to what would adequately fulfill their function and the nature of the materials that are available for their construction.

  David Wong

  Motivation, Moving, Water

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The construction industry likes nothing more than a blank canvas onto which they can impose a brand new building, because that way they can make more money.

  Jonathan Meades

  Construction Industry, Way, Likes

  Source: thequietus.com

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• [T]he Constitution ought to be the standard of construction for the laws, and that wherever there is an evident opposition, the laws ought to give place to the Constitution. But this doctrine is not deducible from any circumstance peculiar to the plan of convention, but from the general theory of a limited Constitution.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Law, Giving, Doctrine

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The essential Federalist: a new reading of the Federalist papers”, Madison House Pub

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• The Wars is a great book, rich in its images, its language, its construction, and, ultimately, its conception.

  Guy Vanderhaeghe

  War, Book, Language

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