Building Quotes - Page 2

• In other words, I have no truck for anyone who goes out and does an eclectic building.

  Minoru Yamasaki

  Artist, Doe, Eclectic Style

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• A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It's not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it.

  Helmut Jahn

  Simple, Years, People

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• No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Life, Artist, Men

  Frank Lloyd Wright (2008). “The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Writings on Architecture”

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• The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building.

  Robert Collier

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I still have a dream of one day - I would love to hire a semi-retired contractor and just build a house - him and I building a house for me. I would truly love to do that

  Christopher Meloni

  Dream, House, One Day

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• I don't think having a My Chemical Romance action figure will make a kid start his own band, I like to think it will make him save children from a burning building.

  Gerard Way

  Children, Kids, Thinking

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• I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be built. I want to be an architect.

  Sandra Bullock

  Home, Hobbies, Want

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• Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.

  Enid Nemy

  Glasses, Office, Legends

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• Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Artist, Architect, Sleeves

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• I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.

  George Carlin

  Doctors, Comedy, Genuine

  George Carlin (2007). “The Best of Brain Droppings”, p.53, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• 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.

  Dave Barry

  Science, Technology, Teeth

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, p.39, Ballantine Books

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• For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, sometimes four. I didn't get to spend time building my personal life.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Years, Two, Three

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• Even a little dog can piss on a big building.

  Jim Hightower

  Dog, Political, Politics

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• The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.

  Benito Mussolini

  Faces, Mask, States

  Benito Mussolini (1954). “Selected Political Addresses of Benito Mussolini: Translations, Notes and Rhetorical Analysis”

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• I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.

  John Ensign

  Country, Believe, Community

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• Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

  Aristophanes

  Friendship, Wall, War

  "Birds". Book by Aristophanes, 414 BCE.

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• It comes down to building your own world out here on the road. It's who you surround yourself with. My band and crew are really positive guys.

  Brad Paisley

  Guy, Band, World

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Religious, Responsibility, Building Up

  "Cardinal Ratzinger on Laicism and Sexual Ethics". zenit.org. November 19, 2004.

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• Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Education, Building Up, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “True Education”

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• The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.

  Minoru Yamasaki

  Education, Artist, Done

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• Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.

  Howard Schultz

  Opportunity, Europe, Creating

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• Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Nature, Inspiration, Principles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Film, Photograph

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Character, Wealth, Economy

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