Quotes About Construction

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

From the U.S. Capitol Building to the White House, our national symbols that represent freedom to so many of us, were built by people who were anything but free.

I think that in some ways 'Climax' is easier to digest than my other movies because the characters are easier to identify with. You love them because they're young, they're great dancers, they're beautiful, and they are willing to construct something. They're not losers like most of the characters of my previous movies.

Where in the world have you seen construction people who do everything on time, with good quality and at minimal prices? Just give me one country like that. A country like that doesn't exist in the world, you know. There's not one such country anywhere in the world.

I believe that, in any novel of mine, the principal objective is the construction of the whole.

The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.

If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.

The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world?

I find the sort of unwitting European American outsider who wants to come to Africa to help is a very problematic construction. It's problematic because you don't want to tell people don't aid, don't help, when people feel a need to.

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

The entire brain of the organization is here. The construction drawings and data processing all takes place in Rotterdam.

Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily.

I look for individuality in the artisans I work with for CoutureLab; a loving relationship with the product and care in the construction, along with the story behind it, make couture desirable to consumers looking for something that cannot be mass-produced.

A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built.

My main profession is architect.

Some directors I worked with didn't even know how to read a blueprint, understand a plan.

Just taking a piece of dirt and envisioning the building you'd like to put on it - it's an amazing process.

I did a lot of heavy-lifting - construction, demolition, that kind of thing. Dusty, dirty work.

Disasters can also be averted, which is why the rigorous approach after Ronan Point was the correct response.

A story is how we construct our experiences.

Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time.

My explorations of the technical world started with Legos, with which I was quite creative in constructing moving objects with the basic building blocks that were then available.

Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.

I hate technically constructed actors. In fact, I hate anything technically constructed, unless it's a bridge.