Building Quotes - page 3

But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where the obscurity about the entrance prepares one better for the climax, and gives the scene depicted a more real and vivid appearance. (Pierre Loti)
Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time. View quote
Richard Meier
When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space. View quote
Tadao Ando
In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside. View quote
Tadao Ando
The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have. View quote
Tadao Ando
It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments. View quote
Frank B. Kellogg
It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system. View quote
Arthur Henderson
The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them. View quote
Arthur Henderson
Thick smoke like a herd of black horses was rising over the massive building and being blown around by the wind. View quote
Ismail Kadaré
I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building. View quote
Kate Hudson
If I had a magic wand, I would live in a building in New York, big enough so my friends, my family could all have apartments in it. We'd raise our kids in the same space and have backyard barbecues and get old and fat together. (Liz Murray)
Networking is an essential part of building wealth. View quote
Armstrong Williams
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art. View quote
Arne Jacobsen
Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it. View quote
Arthur Erickson
It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me. View quote
Cecilia Bartoli
I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger. View quote
Jamie Chung
This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future. View quote
Mark Kennedy
When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business. View quote
Maya Lin
Some guys can do more talking in the ring, other guys do posing, body building, whatever the hell they do in the ring. But I don't have the big body, and I'm not the big smooth talker, but I can get in the ring and wrestle. View quote
Owen Hart
Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there. View quote
Sergio Aragones
For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind. (Umberto Guidoni)
God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it-but God is building this thing. View quote
Willie Aames
When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation. View quote
Wilfred Burchett
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between church and State. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality. View quote
Jean Piaget