Building famous quotes

The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!
-- Abby Sunderland

#Three #Stories #Building

Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen altars. Only from this fanatical intolerance could its apodictic faith take form; this intolerance is, in fact, its absolute presupposition.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Facts #Christianity #Building

Actually, I have a lot of hobbies, but I've kept up with model-building the longest. In particular, I love military models.
-- Akira Toriyama

#Military #Hobbies #Building

Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves.
-- Alain de Botton

#Wave #Building #Matchsticks

You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise.
-- Alain Prost

#Team #Compromise #Building

I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest.
-- Alain Robert

#World #Around The World #Building

All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.
-- Alain Robert

#Mountain #Building #Forbidden

When I climb a building, I've been there already, and carefully planned how to start the climb as well as how to do it.
-- Alain Robert

#Building #Wells #Climbs

Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
-- Alan Kay

#Language #Building #Materials

A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting
-- Alan Ladd

#Acting #Costumes #Building

The inevitable consequence of love is the building of temples.
-- Alex Grey

#Love Is #Temples #Building

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.
-- Alexander Jackson Davis

#Architecture #Building #Architect

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.
-- Alexander McCall Smith

#Block #Building #Manners

I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.
-- Alexei Sayle

#Littles #Building

She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.
-- Ally Carter

#Building #Feels #Remorse

Running gave me a focus to start looking after myself, to eat properly, and focus on building up my strength.
-- Amanda Burton

#Running #Focus #Building

Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years.
-- Amity Shlaes

#Government #Years #Building

To me, the coaching profession is one of the noblest and most far-reaching in building manhood.
-- Amos Alonzo Stagg

#Nfl #Coaching #Building

There's nothing better for building confidence than learning you can do something you thought you couldn't.
-- Amy Chua

#Confidence #Building #Building Confidence

When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work.
-- Andres Segovia

#Mean #Musician #Building

The whole vanity aspect of building up different muscles - I have no interest.
-- Andrew Lincoln

#Vanity #Different #Building

If you aren't building a social enterprise, I don't know what your business model will be in 5 years
-- Angela Ahrendts

#Years #Building #Social

Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.
-- Angela Ahrendts

#Thinking #Firsts #Building

Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
-- Anna Quindlen

#Building #Enough #Decorating

Building a solid organ like the liver in the lab is different and harder than with an organ like the bladder because solid organs are very vascular.
-- Anthony Atala

#Different #Labs #Building

I didn't set fire to the building." "No, but you did pull it into the river." "That put the fire out!
-- Anthony Horowitz

#Fire #Rivers #Building

Service rivalry leads to service pride, which is good for building morale and esprit.
-- Anthony Zinni

#Pride #Building #Rivalry

There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.
-- Antonio Gaudi

#Lines #Building

Murderer who lives in my building. His name is Dan Bevacqua. Hes a fiction writer.
-- Arda Collins

#Names #Fiction #Building

Humanizing technology is about taking what's already natural about the human-tech experience and building technology seamlessly in tandem with it.
-- Ariel Garten

#Technology #Building #Natural

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.
-- Arne Jacobsen

#Order #Architecture #Building

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
-- Arne Jacobsen

#Art #Architecture #Building

With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.
-- Arne Jacobsen

#Building #Architect #Used

Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell.
-- Arne Jacobsen

#People #Hell #Building

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

#Artist #Film #Building

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.
-- Arthur Erickson

#Art #Energy #Building

Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.
-- Arthur Erickson

#America #Building #Profession

You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.
-- Arthur Rock

#Money #People #Building

Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
-- Barbara Bush

#Important #Family And Friends #Building

When you're building a business, you're either all in, or you're not.
-- Barbara Corcoran

#Building

Become better at firing than hiring - it's crucial for building a business.
-- Barbara Corcoran

#Building #Hiring

Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.
-- Barbara Corcoran

#Mom #Marketing #Building

Building trust is a process. Trust results from consistent and predictable interaction over time.
-- Barbara M. White

#Trust #Building #Process

A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice.
-- Bela Karolyi

#Practice #Vaults #Building

No one can claim to be called Christian who gives money for the building of warships and arsenals.
-- Belva Ann Lockwood

#Christian #Giving #Building

One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
-- Ben Horowitz

#People #Building #Great Things

I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to.
-- Ben Katchor

#Building #Oblivious

I live in an apartment building built in 1925, and it hasn't been heavily renovated, so I feel very much connected to that time and what went on in that place.
-- Ben Katchor

#Building #Feels #Apartment

Big Ben just kept building up. It ended up coming off the field. It kept taking over. Superman kept taking over Clark Kent and you just never saw who Ben Roethlisberger was any more.
-- Ben Roethlisberger

#Fields #Saws #Building

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 #Building #Mask

Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.
-- Bernard Tschumi

#Architecture #Building #Cathedrals

I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is why I write.
-- Bessie Head

#Stars #Writing #Building

If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I'm interested in doing.
-- Bill Dixon

#Painting #Building #Shows

We have not come to compete with one another. We have come to complete one another.
-- Bill McCartney

#Team #Team Building #Building

Nothing means anything here. When they pull down an outstanding building, no one objects. Oh, maybe there's a wee protest from some collectors or something who take a picture of it before it vanishes.
-- Billy Connolly

#Mean #America #Building

The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t.
-- Bob Sutton

#Workplace #Building #Civilized

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
-- Bono

#Enemy #Building

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.
-- Boyd Holbrook

#House #Building #Architect

By employing the intelligence of natural systems we can create industry, buildings, even regional plans that see nature and commerce not as mutually exclusive but mutually coexisting.
-- Brad Pitt

#Building #Natural #Eco Friendly

While creating a social brand is a necessary endeavor, building a social business is an investment.
-- Brian Solis

#Creating #Investment #Building

In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.
-- Bruce Lee

#Clay #Building #Creation

I'd love to be part of the process of building cars.
-- Bubba Watson

#Car #Building #Process

We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there.
-- Buzz Aldrin

#Orbit #Mars #Building

An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
-- Cameron Mackintosh

#Smell #Soul #Building

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
-- Carl Sandburg

#Long #Littles #Building

It's the building of things that makes you happy. You have to enjoy the process whether you succeed or fail.
-- Caterina Fake

#Succeed #Failing #Building

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

#Educational #Character #Building

My buildings are like my children, so I cannot have favorites.
-- Cesar Pelli

#Children #My Children #Building

Your words are building blocks of which you construct your life and future.
-- Charles Capps

#Block #Building #Constructs

No tribute is laid on castles in the air.
-- Charles Churchill

#Air #Castles #Building

Bach is how buildings got taller. It's how we got to the moon.
-- Charles Mingus

#Moon #Building

I am very glad to have this particular opportunity of saying a word about some of the things in which we agree with our Masonic friends, because we are speaking in a building dedicated to Masonry, and we also are Masons. I am a Freemason.
-- Charles Taze Russell

#Opportunity #Masonic #Building

Spend more time building your character than trying to build your platform.
-- Christine Caine

#Character #Trying #Building

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.
-- Christopher Alexander

#Character #Patterns #Building

It's not pleasant when you lose your whole football team.
-- Chuck Noll

#Football #Team #Building

John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building.
-- Clive James

#Tennis #Looks #Building

Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be
-- Curtis W. Fentress

#Architecture #Building #Should

It feels a lot colder when you're shoveling snow than when you're building a snow fort.
-- Cynthia Lewis

#Teaching #Snow #Building

If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time.
-- Damien Hirst

#Choices #Buying #Building

Your demons may have been ejected from the building, but they’re out in the parking lot, doing push-ups.”)
-- Dan Harris

#May #Demon #Building

Anybody can leap off a building.
-- Daniel Craig

#Building #Leap

And, yes, I love the process of building.
-- Daniel Libeskind

#Building #Process

That's point of writing: building what you need, right?
-- Daphne Gottlieb

#Writing #Needs #Building

Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings.
-- David Adjaye

#Important #Building #Surroundings

Early on, with any startup show, you're really building credibility and making it stand on its own.
-- David Boreanaz

#Building #Credibility #Shows

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?
-- David Byrne

#Past #Why Not #Building

Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using.
-- David Crystal

#Vocabulary #Matter #Building

At the same time, on the networks, there are thousands of groups that are building lifestreams, or lifestreaming for themselves in their own way. We'd love to see this activity.
-- David Gelernter

#Groups #Way #Building

We're not motivated by money. We are into this thing that we're building.
-- David Karp

#Business #Entrepreneurship #Building

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.
-- Delia Ephron

#Architecture #Los Angeles #Building

Burning fat efficiently boils down to one thing - building more muscle!
-- Denise Austin

#Loss #Burning #Building

Building a product is easy. But building the company that builds the product is hard.
-- Dennis Crowley

#Building #Easy #Company

Stop sketching. Start building.
-- Dennis Crowley

#Sketching #Building

Stop sketching and start building.
-- Dennis Crowley

#Sketching #Building

Im so happy with The Blacklist. Give me more people to shoot and throw them off buildings.
-- Diego Klattenhoff

#People #Giving #Building

No more prizes for predicting the rain, only prizes for building the arks
-- Don Edward Beck

#Rain #Ark #Building

If a chair or a building is not functional … it is ridiculous.
-- Donald Judd

#Ridiculous #Building #Chairs

The process of creation goes on all the time. When I get through, I feel I know what the character will do in every situation. But the building up of the part is not mechanical or deliberate. It grows out of the text.
-- Donald Pleasence

#Character #Goes On #Building

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

#Building #Process

We have to realize we are building a movement.
-- Dorothy Height

#Movement #Realizing #Building