Quotes About Construction

I like to build houses out of playing cards.

It is a sad truth that apprenticeships fell out of favour in Britain in the Seventies and Eighties, when the manufacturing industries shed jobs and the construction industry went into decline.

One of the arguments I make for the failure of the euro is that, at the time it was being constructed, there was a 'neo-liberal' ideology which said that all we need to do to make this thing work is to get deficits low, keep inflation low, and take down barriers, and then everything would be fine.

Look at the commercial and industrial development that is going on along the 101. A lot of the infrastructure - the sewer lines and drainage that make development possible - was put in during the freeway construction.

People need to see where their dollars are going and what infrastructure is being built.

Spending on infrastructure will help employment.

There is an imagined thing called black culture. But culture is a construction. It is learned behavior, not innate. The black American experience is the American experience.

There are a whole bunch of instruments I'd like to build.

I only ever worked on interiors, and an interior is an interior. I don't know what they did about exteriors.

It's difficult to be truly serious when you're in a city that can't even put up a skyscraper for fear the earth will start up one day and bring the whole thing down around everyone's ears.

It is not clear when cats became a 'thing' in science fiction but Heinlein made a significant contribution to their presence and to the construction of that presence.

The intrusion fantasy uses the form of the club story - the unquestioned tale - to construct reality, then renders the walls of the world-story translucent.

In many of the novels I have discussed in this chapter, the position of the reader vis-a-vis the protagonist is central to the construction of liminality.

Does a 'Stair-way' very much or does it depend upon the number pf steps and risers:

Come disse l'umorista americano Will Cuppy: «La forma stessa delle piramidi è la prova che i lavoratori avevano già la tendenza a fare sempre meno».

We first knew something was up when the construction chief pulled out a stethoscope and started listening to the wall.

You cannot build a superstructure on a cracked foundation.

the word Lego is a contraction of the Danish words that translate as "play well.

I want to live the rest of my house in a house built exactly like a rook.

Camino pensado en la melancolía de este mundo que no se acaba de construir jamás.

the melancholy of a world eternally under construction...

Masons, when they start upon a building, Are careful to test out the scaffolding; Make sure that planks won't slip at busy points, Secure all ladders, tighten bolted joints. And yet all this comes down when the job's done Showing off walls of sure and solid stone. So if, my dear, there sometimes seems to be Old bridges breaking between you and me Never fear. We may let the scaffolds fall Confident that we have built our wall.

Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.

Route 95 in Connecticut and New York is basically a series of construction areas masquerading as an interstate highway.