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Quotes About Building

The way I become friends with somebody is a slow process. You can't just spill your guts and tell them everything about yourself and expect them to listen and understand you because you don't know them. It's the same thing with a relationship.
~ Leighton Meester
If you've seen 'Spirited Away', 'Spirited Away' is set in a very, very Japanese sensibility. And so, to Japanese audiences, when Sen would walk up, the main character, and look at this big building with a flag on it with Japanese writing on it, everyone in Japan would know what that is.
~ John Lasseter
Traditional marriage in the platform is the essential building block to our civilization.
~ Ken Blackwell
The maintenance man is moving the thermostat in our office today. I started talking with him about the
~ Scott Adams
Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.
~ Edwin Louis Cole
A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.
~ Sai Baba
A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Daniel understood the complaint. For Daniel, too, had once designed a building, and savored the thrill of seeing it built, only to endure the long indignity of watching the owner clutter it up with knick-knacks and furniture.
~ Neal Stephenson
A major street intersects, at something other than a ninety-degree angle, a smaller commercial street, defining two (smaller) acute-angle lots and two (larger) obtuse-angle lots. On one side of the major street, the obtuse-angle lot is occupied by a two-storey office building
~ Neal Stephenson
If he lived by a simple code of ethics, it was not an end in itself, but a way to get something done without selling his soul or destroying his reputation. It was a tool to be wielded like a shovel or a stick of dynamite. Tools were for building things; and pride was something you could feel after the fact, when you stood back, looked at what you had built, and passed it on to your children. Dinah
~ Neal Stephenson
he lived by a simple code of ethics, it was not an end in itself, but a way to get something done without selling his soul or destroying his reputation. It was a tool to be wielded like a shovel or a stick of dynamite. Tools were for building things; and pride was something you could feel after the fact, when you stood back, looked at what you had built, and passed it on to your children.
~ Neal Stephenson
Also, after the Crash of '29, this building chalked up six jumpers
~ Nelson DeMille
Flynn looked back over the Cathedral and glanced at the blueprints. This building was shaped like a cross.
~ Nelson DeMille
Well, we think the broadcasts did have some effect, because we see the antiwar movement in the U.S. building up, growing and so we think that our broadcast is a support to this antiwar movement.
~ Hanoi Hannah
I had business experience. I had made my living designing and building electronic equipment. Basic business was not new to me, but the music business was completely new to me. I knew nothing about distribution, or any of those things.
~ Greg Ginn
'Shelby Star' is going great. We shot a music video, and I'm building an app and some other things for the project.
~ Christina Milian
I'm finishing building a house and setting up a shop to build custom electronical musical instruments.
~ Robert Moog
The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
~ Thomas a Kempis
I really did enjoy my time at Apple - it's a great company, and I really loved building Apple Music.
~ Bozoma Saint John
The idea of science fiction, mythology, and creating a world is my favourite thing. I do love the reality of dramas and playing that, but being able to start from scratch, to completely build the character and this world, I love that.
~ Hannah John-Kamen
Our business is all about helping someone - a founder, a CEO - building a great business. It's not about seeing our names in the press.
~ Douglas Leone
I left DOJ's leadership back in 2005. At the time, we were still building our national security capabilities in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. And we'd made a lot of progress.
~ Christopher A. Wray
Oh, and a huge Federal Building that looked like it was being molested by a giant steel pterodactyl, but evidently that was just the government trying to get away from their standard bomb shelter architecture to something more aesthetically appealing, especially if you liked Godzilla porn.
~ Christopher Moore
Adopting a remote, managerial point of view, you could say that the Eagle project was a case where a local system of management worked as it should: competition for resources creating within a team inside a company an entrepreneurial spirit, which was channeled in the right direction by constraints sent down from the top. But it seems more accurate to say that a group of engineers got excited about building a computer.
~ Tracy Kidder