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Quotes About Construction

'Jurassic Park' movies don't fit into a specific genre. They're sci-fi adventures that also have to be funny, emotional, and scary as hell. That takes a lot of construction, but it can't feel designed.
~ Colin Trevorrow
I paid my way through school doing set construction for film and television. I'm a member of Local 44. I was a construction coordinator on 'Beverly Hills 90210' for 4 1/2 years and ran their whole construction program. I did two other pilots as a coordinator for Aaron Spelling.
~ Michael Cudlitz
At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
~ Rafael Moneo
When a man is not satisfied with a house where he lives, he becomes an architect
~ Renzo Piano
Men's fashion has a certain heaviness in the fabrics and construction. But also there is a heaviness in the mentality.
~ Hedi Slimane
The biggest machines, in those days, were already pushing the limits of what could be constructed on Arbre with reasonable amounts of money. I hadn't known that, I said. I always tend to assume there's an infinite amount of money out there. There might as well be, Arsibalt said, but most of it gets spent on pornography, sugar water, and bombs. There is only so much that can be scraped together for particle accelerators.
~ Neal Stephenson
A gazebo on top of a welding rig" was how Yul might have described it, if only he had been here.
~ Neal Stephenson
Like any place in Reality, the Street is subject to development. Developers can build their own small streets feeding off of the main one.
~ Neal Stephenson
All the accoutrements of a major construction site are here, plus a few extras, like two monkeys with giant stiff penises fighting over some booty from a Dumpster, but there is no construction site.
~ Neal Stephenson
Where men build on false grounds, the more they build, the greater is the ruin.
~ Neal Stephenson
A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.
~ Ned Vizzini
A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.
~ Ned Vizzini
We should not delude ourselves into thinking that our historical narratives, as commonly constructed, are anything more than retrofits.
~ Niall Ferguson
La carrera de Morgan ilustra perfectamente el modo como se construyó el imperio, que consistió en la transición de la piratería al poder político, hecho que cambiaría el mundo para siempre.
~ Niall Ferguson
When a road is made, we can't say only the Hindus will walk on it, if a road is being construction, both Hindus and Muslims will walk on it.
~ Jaya Prada
The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
~ Thomas a Kempis
One of the great advantages of my time spent in movies and in basically every role possible, both in front of the camera and behind the camera, that I've gotten to see all these different ways that people work and the way movies are constructed from the inside out, from beginning to end.
~ Greta Gerwig
I've learnt a lot about construction and flexibility from my time at Geox.
~ Patrick Cox
I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.
~ Oliver Reed
The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.
~ Rem Koolhaas
The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character.
~ Paul Ricoeur
It takes two people to put one of those thingies up?" But already
~ Christine Feehan
Skinner's suits were a constant source of fascination to Robert. They seemed to be made from an alien synthetic fibre that never creased or got dirty. Indeed, it seemed possible that Skinner himself was constructed of the same material.
~ Christopher Fowler
Out came an extraordinarily complex network of plastic, brass, and stainless-steel tubing, which in seconds Kona had assembled into what Quinn thought was either a very small and elegant linear particle accelerator or, more likely, the most complex bong ever constructed.
~ Christopher Moore