Quotes About Construction

I left Aerospace because I wanted to go build, and put spacecraft together.

In a way, the whole notion of a blueprint of a building is not that different from a script for a movie. A sequence of spaces, which is what you do as an architect, is really the same as a sequence of scenes.

There's a movie called 'Elizabeth: The Golden Age,' where I'm playing the King of Spain. It's a small role, but it's really, really interesting, the way I constructed it.

It is as clear to me as sunshine–were there any in the sky–that the greatest possible stumbling-blocks in the path of human happiness and improvement, are these heaps of bricks, and stones, consolidated with mortar, or hewn timber, fastened together with spike-nails, which men painfully contrive for their own torment, and call them house and home! The soul needs air; a wide sweep and frequent change of it.

Beside the Columbia River in Washington State, construction had commenced on reactors that used two hundred tons of uranium moderated by twelve hundred tons of graphite. Working with their Canadian ally, the Americans were building a massive heavy water plant at a hydropower station in Trail, British Columbia. At the Los Alamos Ranch School in New Mexico, a small city of physicists was working to build a functioning fission bomb.

As with the Inka, the kings' mummified bodies continued to live opulently in their own homes and could not be displaced; indeed, the mummies were necessary presences at important state occasions. As a result, each new ruler had to build his own palace and acquire the riches necessary to maintain it till the end of time. The system almost guaranteed imperial ambitions and exuberant construction plans.

One choice changes the construction of a life. You'll never experience the joy and tenderness of a lifelong love unless you fight for it.

Mitt Romney comes from a family of builders.

The bridge to Coronado Island off San Diego was built because the mob had a hotel there and needed a way to get people out there.

Artwork operates on two different levels: On one level, there's artwork as a mode of expressivity, and then there's the other side, where the image is a construction that is meant to engage in a discursive field in order to perform a particular function.

As a kid I always had Lego and Mecchano, model sets.

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.

I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape.

I don't believe in morality in architecture.

I always say, my set is like building a brick wall that all the jokes are the bricks but the improv is the mortar. You piece it all together and have a certain flow to it.

I did a lot of blue collar work. I also worked as a temp. I did, you know, light construction and cleaning. I did clerical temping. I also fix cars and motorcycles and electronics.

A hammer looks like a useful tool to a carpenter; the nail has a different impression altogether.

The long gray two-story box was the newest structure on the property, having been built in the 1970s. The buildings up the hill had accumulated one by one since the 1920s, most of them incorporating bits salvaged from various torn-down hotels and movie sets. Their aunt Amity, affluent from the sales of her series of popular novels, had added to the architectural clutter after

It's a difficult thing. Discouraging isn't it? It's always easier to tear down than to build…and much more difficult to tie than to untie.

but cranes can

It was one thing to have a professor tell you that gender was socially constructed, and another to hear it from a person who had actually done construction work.

I actually enjoyed construction, primarily for the camaraderie.

La construcción del canon es la construcción de un imperio.

Silence over Europe's recent past was the necessary condition for the construction of a European future.