Quotes About Construction

And some day well remember so much that well build the biggest goddam steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in and cover it up.

She and Thomas had helped construct the Maze; at the same time she'd exerted a lot of effort to build a wall holding back her emotions.

If I gave this guy more time, there would be a swimming pool and rattan furniture.

When you build a bridge, you build something for all time.

I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.

My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together.

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

Look, when you are starting to put something together, you want the pudding to come out good. You're trying to put in the right ingredients.

You can't change the bricks, and together, you still have to build a wall.

A strange thing — nails will hold a building together, but there's nothing better for taking a man apart.

An architect requires a great many men to erect his building. But he does not ask them to vote on his design.

As a writer of the Romantic school, I would never be willing to transcribe a "real life" story, which would amount to evading the most important and most difficult part of creative writing: the construction of a plot. Besides, it would bore me to death. My view of what a good autobiography should be is contained in the title that Louis H. Sullivan gave to the story of his life: The Autobiography of an Idea.

I don't intend to build in order to have clients. I intend to have clients in order to build.

The future is won by those who build and not destroy.

However, the politics didn't fall neatly along partisan lines: The traditionally Democratic trade union rank and file, for example, saw the growing presence of undocumented workers on construction sites as threatening their livelihoods, while Republican-leaning business groups interested in maintaining a steady supply of cheap labor (or, in the case of Silicon Valley, foreign-born computer programmers and engineers) often took pro-immigration positions.

How could two people get the same set of parts and make such different constructions? But then, there was rising. That had to be taken into account. What could a doormat rear but a pair of boots?

Robert Adam was the great architect of the eighteenth century, Emma. He built many grand and beautiful

He glanced to his left, which for most people is a neurolinguistic sign of recall rather than of construction. Had he looked in the opposite direction, I would have read it as a lie.

UR LOCAL's under construction. Better watch out, traffic fines double.

A marriage was like a house under constant construction, each year seeing the completion of new rooms. A first-year marriage was a cottage; one that had gone on for twenty-seven years was a huge and rambling mansion. There were bound to be crannies and storage spaces, most of them dusty and abandoned, some containing a few unpleasant relics you would just as soon you hadn't found. But that was no biggie. You either threw those relics out or took them to Goodwill.

Building by building, Chicago was lifted by an army of men with jackscrews. As the jackscrews raised the buildings inch by inch, workmen would dig holes under the building foundations and install thick timbers to support them, while masons scrambled to build a new footing under the structure.

Amazingly, life went on largely undisturbed as Chesbrough's team raised the city's buildings. One British visitor observed a 750-ton hotel being lifted, and described the surreal experience in a letter: "The people were in [the hotel] all the time coming and going, eating and sleeping—the whole business of the hotel proceeding without interruption