Quotes About Construction

Rip-cut blocking from 2 × 6 framing lumber to span the gap between the inner and outer skins of the door. Cut to length, glue and clamp the blocking in place around perimeter of the hole. Re-drill the bolt holes and proceed with the installation.

This is what the bourgeois political economists have done: they have treated value as a fact of nature, not a social construction arising out of a particular mode of production. What Marx is interested in is a revolutionary transformation of society, and that means an overthrow of the capitalist value-form, the construction of an alternative value-structure, an alternative value-system that does not have the specific character of that achieved under capitalism.

However, since we have never observed the construction of a world or observed the world constructors, we have no way of knowing what causal relations might be involved in such a project; all we can do is construct hypotheses, without any way of judging which of these are more or less likely.

At Puuepa he erected the large heiau of Mookini, the stones for which were passed from hand-to-hand from Niulii, a distance of nine miles—a circumstance indicating the presence of a large population on Hawaii at that time. As it was one of the largest

We see trees - they see only posts and beams.

Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.

the Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story.

There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.

Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.

Not only does investing in your infrastructure provide very good construction jobs, at the end of the project, you have something.

It's a beauty one isn't born with, but must fight to construct at great sacrifice.

As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.

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

I prefer to think of the creation or construction of happiness, because research shows that it's in our power to fashion it for ourselves.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

The important thing is to take the bricklayer and make him understand that he's building a home, not just laying bricks.

Building your own home is about desire, fantasy. But it's achievable; anyone can do it.

Any damn fool can build homes. What counts is how many you can sell for how little.

Houses are built brick-by-brick. HOMEs are built word-by-word. Houses don't build themselves. So YOU must build your home.

There is no faith like the faith of a builder of homes in coastal Louisiana

At one point in my practice, of the 10 largest home builders in the United States, seven of the 10 were my clients.

It posed the question posed by all such stone piles.: how had puny men moved stones so big? And, like all such stone piles, it answered the question itself. Dumb terror had moved those stones so big