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Quotes About Construction

Since we are suboids, we have no participation in profits from Ixian technology. We have simple lives and few ambitions—but we do have our religion. We read the Orange Catholic Bible and know in our hearts what is right." The suboid speaker raised a massive, knuckled fist. "And we know that many of the things we've been building here on Ix are not right!
~ Brian Herbert
Não que a construção do socialismo não possa começar em situações de privação, mas, sem recursos materiais, a tendência será a de que ele seja deturpado e vire a caricatura monstruosa de socialismo conhecida como stalinismo
~ Terry Eagleton
Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.
~ Terry Pratchett
It was always cheaper to build a new 33-MegaLith circle than upgrade an old slow one.
~ Terry Pratchett
There was practically nothing that he wouldn't attack, including architecture.
~ Terry Pratchett
Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.
~ Terry Pratchett
You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism.
~ Tim Hetherington
I grew up all over the South. My dad just kind of followed construction.
~ Lacey Evans
I was born at home in rural Kentucky, in 1942, in a house that my father Howard had built. He did most of the construction himself and built it on land that his father had given him when he married my mother Faye.
~ Robert H. Grubbs
Look at kids playing with blocks. I think it's in everyone's DNA to want to be a builder.
~ Dan Phillips
People I grew up with, my family, work in the oil fields. Everyone works a labor job - construction, concrete. All we know is work. It's a physical culture.
~ Dustin Poirier
There are three floors beneath the garage? Why on earth?" -Mac
~ Karen Marie Moning
I stare up at a busy construction pit. Tiny white spades are tossing huge quantities of darkness around. Stars—these are the stars.
~ Karen Russell
improving designs online for free. His idea soon grew into the Global Village Construction Set, which aims to demonstrate step-by-step how to build from scratch 50 universally useful machines, from tractors, brick makers and 3D printers to sawmills, bread ovens and wind turbines.
~ Kate Raworth
A.J. nods out of politeness, but he doesn't believe in random acts. He is a reader, and what he believes in is narrative construction. If a gun appears in act one, that gun had better go off by act three.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Is a twist less satisfying if you know it's coming? Is a twist that you can't predict symptomatic of bad construction? These are things to consider when writing.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
When you think about it, isn't a person just a structure built in reaction to the landscape and the weather?
~ Gabrielle Zevin
He is a reader, and what he believes in is narrative construction. If a gun appears in act one, that gun had better go off by act three.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
A.J. nods out of politeness, but he doesn't believe in random acts. He is a reader, and what he believes in is narrative construction. If a gun appears in act one, that gun had better go off by act three. "Maybe
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Es menos satisfactorio un giro si se ve venir? ¿Un giro que no podemos prevenir es síntoma de mala construcción? Hay que plantearse estas cosas al escribir.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Like so much in the centre, it was under construction or reconstruction. Scaffolding, cranes, the temporary business of architects and workmen, the portable toilets, the short-term fencing, the crash-barriers and the skips. Rubble, more rubble. There was a history of Berlin to be written on the topic of rubble.
~ Gail Jones
Some worked to put food on our tables while others built the tables.
~ Gary Keller
Do not allow the this reference to escape during construction.
~ Brian Goetz
If you are tempted to register an event listener or start a thread from a constructor, you can avoid the improper construction by using a private constructor and a public factory method, as shown in SafeListener in Listing 3.8. Listing
~ Brian Goetz