Quotes About Building

One of the challenges that Vancouver and cities across the country are facing is that we don't have a federal partner in terms of building for transit, not in the way we need.

Digital surveillance programs require concrete data centres; intelligence agencies are based in real buildings. Surveillance systems ultimately consist of technologies, people, and the vast network of material resources that supports them.

The vast majority of debt that Anglo maintains is owed is strenuously disputed. However, I cannot now pay those loans which are due, following Anglo taking control of the Quinn Group of companies, which I and a loyal team spent a lifetime building.

We can't say to a Ticketmaster venue that says they want to use a different ticketing platform, 'If you do that, we won't put shows in your building.'

If you look at Gothic detailing right down to the bottom of a column or the capital of a column, it's a small version of the whole building; that's why, like dating the backbones of a dinosaur, a good historian can look at a detail of a Gothic building and tell you exactly what the rest of the building was, and infer the whole from the parts.

To be truthful, she couldn't catch any of them unless they hurled themselves off a building and into the front seat of her car, but this didn't seem like a good time to bring that up.

I moved on and saw an odd building jutting from the castle's main structure. Three-storied and glass-domed, it cast a shadow over half of the garden, marring its beauty. No

The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past.

I wanted to have a place and a space, and a building, in which to create a season of work I am here because the idea of a theatrical home is very appealing to me

I liked working in a series, going to work every day and not having to leave town for long locations. I was producing them and building an audience.

Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers.

Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers. It's easy to get sucked into an infrastructure rewrite death spiral.

But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.'

Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down on going to contracts classes.

I want to build a studio in my backyard. The interest rates are low now, so who knows.

Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about.

To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in building some small houses.

Studying engineering was natural for me; I was always interested in technology and building things.

There's so much happenstance, so many accidents - stumbling into something and finding it interesting and living with it over time and building on it. It's okay to work from doubt. You need to be willing to not know.

I felt good when I did a stunt, and if it was really dangerous - like if I got out on a horse or a bull that was rank, or jumped out of this building on a bag - I felt great.

The 'International Style of Modernism' came with the advent of building services. In the end, the architecture became like a container space, essentially like a boring box with a basement full of machinery to make it inhabitable. As a result, buildings literally started to look identical all over the planet.

I realize that having a style would be very beneficial for my practice from a marketing standpoint, but I can't do it. I believe my responsibilities as an architect are to design the most appropriate building for the place. Each place has a distinct culture and function, which for me requires an appropriate answer.

There may be some changes in building codes, but I don't see any stylistic departure that you'll be able to attribute to Sept. 11.

True love isn't found, it's built.