Top 1200 Building Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

You don't need sunglasses inside a building in the middle of the night.

But that is the way of the place: down our many twisting corridors, one encounters story after story, some heroic, some villainous, some true, some false, some funny, some tragic, and all of them combining to form the mystical, undefinable entity we call the school. Not exactly the building, not exactly the faculty or the students or the alumni - more than all those things but also less, a paradox, an order, a mystery, a monster, an utter joy.

The process of building a part doesn't really stop.

I don't actually read that much. I like movies a bit more. That's how I come up with ideas - by seeing things, hearing things, recycling things. Stealing things!

Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.

Horse Guards is my favourite building in London.

It's just that if you're not disruptive everything seems to be repeated endlessly - not so much the good things but the bland things - the ordinary things - the weaker things get repeated- the stronger things get suppressed and held down and hidden.

I prefer building rather than fundraising.

It's not uncommon in South Korea for a building to not have a women's bathroom.

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

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

You can't build a great building on a weak foundation.

...clatter of a typwriter suggests that you're actually building something.

Even a little dog can piss on a big building.

We should be breaking down barriers, not building walls.

The most expensive part of building is the mistakes.

I avoid my neighbors - luckily, my building has two exits.

Building a team is the nucleus for every piece of success.

When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.

The building block of every community is family.

Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.

Are you kidding? I jumped off a building -- of course I'm hurt.

I am good at conceptualizing and building institutions.

The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!

To the Christian death is the exchanging of a tent for a building.

Bilaterals are like building blocks for multilaterals.

We have successfully achieved the target of building toilets in schools.

Stupidity is the basic building block of the universe.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

We want to make nation-building a people's movement.

I enjoy building more than managing.

When you know for yourselves, 'These things are wholesome; these things are blameless; these things are praised by the wise; these things, if undertaken and practiced, lead to welfare and happiness,' then you should engage in them.

As governor, I am not interested in building more prisons.

In general, I'm pretty busy with the other things I charted ... I bought a piece of a sports-tech company. We do a lot of work with at the Clippers. I think that'll be great. We're really looking at the possibility of extending and building a real over-the-top distribution channel with value-added services for the Clippers, that could lead to other partnerships and investments. But most of the stuff I'm looking at isn't because I say, "Hey, I want to invest." It sort of comes around from the work we're doing with the Clippers.

There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.

The task of building a great university is never simple.

An architect has to build the building from the inside out, not the outside in!

Every phase of building a company is really hard.

Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.

The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners.

Look at an interview as an organic part of building a relationship.

Building robot versions of people is very expensive.

The room within is the great fact about the building.

An argument can be made that relationship building is the treatment.

My gratification in working comes from the preparation and the building of the character.

Particular individuals do not recur, but their building blocks do.

Fate knows all about you, it knows your fears and your weaknesses and your confidences and strengths, and it can be ready for all of them when it decides that the time is right. It can move you like a pawn in a terrible game of chess, sacrifice you for the good of others, drop you from a building you should never have been inside, give you a disease that no one has ever heard of. Luck and chance are impartial. Fate is active. It picks on people. Almost as if it thinks about things too much.

We never could design a building as beautiful as the trees.

If you stop building stars, which we never do, you wouldn't be in business.

I just really love building chips.

In general, it's best if you're building something that you yourself need.

Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual.

Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day: civility, respect, kindness, character.

Little things do matter. Sometimes, little things matter the most. Everybody pays a lot of attention to big things, but nobody seems to understand that big things are almost always made up of little things. When you ignore little things, they often turn into big things that have become a lot harder to handle.

The end of all knowledge must be the building up of character.

Clothing is the first step to building a character.

I've never lived in a building without my name on it.

When I was building my career as a choreographer, acting just happened.

It is difficult to realize the true Way just through sword-fencing. Know the smallest things and the biggest things, the shallowest things and the deepest things.

For now I'm building up stories for the retirement home!