Quotes About Construction

Why are they called buildings when they're already finished? Shouldn't they be called builts?

I'd like to get four people who do cart wheels very good, and make a cart.

Why are they called a-part-ments, when they're all stuck together?

So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'

The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture finished and put inside boxes.

LEGO has essentially taken the concrete block, the building block of the world, and made it into the building block of our imagination.

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things

The road to energy independence, economic recovery, and greenhouse gas reductions runs through the building sector.

Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.

Destroying things is much easier than making them.

There never was a good knife made of bad steel.

Architect is the father of all artists

What we accept as reality is primarily a construction of our imagination.

Religion was by and large constructed by men, and I had yet to find a man who was logical.

A lot happens to the concept of agency once nonhuman things are figured less as social constructions and more as actors, and once humans themselves are assessed not as autonoms but as vital materialities.

The God concept, of course, originated from mankind's innate knowledge that consciousness precedes physical construction.

Sure one could argue the naturalist's case that the mind experiences an external reality in which it participates. But how can this account really satisfy us, Olga? One could equally well argue that all experiences is highly subjective, that the only thing we really have is the image, the smell, the taste, and all of our assertions about the universe are constructions of the human mind.

even his small contribution to the new state of things seemed to count, as each brick counts in a well-built wall.

Thus these politicians proceed, whilst little notice is taken of their doctrines; but when they come to be examined upon the plain meaning of their words, and the direct tendency of their doctrines, then equivocations and slippery constructions come into play.

But people designed and built the bridge." "Under God's will. Don't you understand? It's nothing you can argue with, Tanner. Give up now.

Sexuality and sexual difference are absolutely, and irreducibly, linked to the signifying order, yet this does not mean that sexual difference is a symbolic construction. Sex is real because it marks an irreducible limit (contradiction) of the signifying order (and not something beyond or outside this order).

humans can build as easily as destroy,

The great and radical vice in the construction of the existing Confederation is in the principle of LEGISLATION for STATES or GOVERNMENTS, in their CORPORATE or COLLECTIVE CAPACITIES, and as contradistinguished from the INDIVIDUALS of which they consist.

Roy Hill had to achieve more than 4,000 approvals, permits, and licences and more again for construction. The delays and costs of this were not only humungous and waste of human resources but did nothing to assist productivity.