The Washingtonian said it shouldn’t be built. The gallery’s East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time.

Light, God’s eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building

The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.

Whatever you build, youre building for the family – not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.

Practical sciences proceed by building up; theoretical science by resolving into components

The house of delusions is cheap to build, but draughty to live in, and ready at any instant to fall.

He could eat anything, no matter how loathsome or indigestible; and, once eaten, the juices of his stomach extracted the last least particle of nutriment; and his blood carried it to the farthest reaches of his body, building it into the toughest and stoutest of tissues.

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid

“One thing I learn – I’ve been in practice now for half a century or more, and the most important ingredient for an architect to do a good building is to have a good client. I think a client counts for as much as fifty per cent.”

For Kips Bay, I had a wonderful client, William Zeckendorf, who was willing to gamble with me on using concrete and not brick for a high-rise apartment building. That was very innovative at the time.

In Paris, there has to be a presence. History becomes the most interesting when it’s compared to the present. I mean there’s a whole group of people that want to build new buildings that look like old buildings.

My buildings don’t speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness

Who I am as an architect and the history of my work – that’s clear to anybody who hires me. But I come in literally with nothing in my brain about what the building will look like

Architecture is a negotiated art, and it’s highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.

A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.

When you get a chance to play, if you help them win a game, then the team will start believing that the player can also do this for the team. So building that confidence for yourself and the team is very important.

I Want To Design Jewelry For Girls And Guys… I’ma Spread It Out, But I’ma Design, Probably When I’m Just Designing Furniture And Buildings, I’ll Probably Being The Jewelry Thing, Too.

He can’t fly around tall buildings, or outrun a speeding train, the only talent he seems to have is leaving a nasty stain!

Does the imam have a legal right to build the mosque at Ground Zero? The answer is yes. But is it the right thing to do? The answer is no. And most Americans, and most moderate Muslims, join with me in that call.

If sanity ever returns to our society and we stop taking pretentious elites seriously, one of the signs will be that the public will force the removal of those ugly pieces of twisted metal that are called ‘art’ in front of government buildings

Words are the building blocks of meaning, and literature is their most beautiful construction

I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength.

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

just need some time to think,” I say. “I’ll call you tomorrow.” I hesitate. “I’m sorry about tonight.” Before she can answer, I hang up. The ache that has been building for hours is now painful. When Simon and I used to feel this way after Mamma died, we would run cross-country and back. The hills. The steps. The shadows of the walls. We would run until we were buckled over, heaving on the ground, cooling ourselves in the overspray of the fountains. I close my eyes. Give him back to me, Lord. I need my brother. I

There is but one church in the world who are at the present time standing in the breach and making up the hedge, building up the old waste places.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

How do I know? I haven’t even been let into the building yet. I went there and the guard at the door told me open your briefcase, go here go there – I had to ask where the bathroom was.

I believe in building bridges, but we should only build our end of the bridge.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.

The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Work is a process, and any process needs to be controlled. To make work productive, therefore, requires building the appropriate controls into the process of work.

Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

You son of a bitch, she said, I am trying to build a meaningful relationship. you can’t build it with a hammer, he said.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.

Democracy is not a tearing down; it is a building up. It does not deny the divine right of kings; it asserts the divine right of all men

Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong

The athlete who is building muscles through weight training should be very sure to work adequately on speed and flexibility at the same time.

Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the Old World, we are also good at building the new.

When the boys come, instead of buying Barbie dolls, all of a sudden you’re into trucks and remote controls, cars and tanks. You buy building blocks and build castles and locomotives. You get into knives and later take them shooting with pistols, shotguns, and rifles. All of which made me very happy.

Building a solid foundation in the early years of a child’s life will not only help him or her reach their full potential but will also result in better societies as a whole

I think that the joy of world building in fiction is honestly the joy of getting to play God. Because as an author, you get to build the world.

A lot of what you do in world building is you do your homework. You do your research. Go on walks. See things. All of that—and then take notes.

Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.

We represent a hustler. I think we represent inspiration. I think we represent, you know, staying down. I think we represent building yourself up from the bootstraps.

If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature

To the Christian death is the exchanging of a tent for a building.

There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.

The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.

Putting your faith in the people is like building a house in the sand.

Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

The poem in which the reader does not feel himself or herself a participant is a lecture, listened to from an uncomfortable chair, in a stuffy room, inside a building.

Marital faithfulness involves more than just sexual fidelity. Being faithful to your wife also means defending her and affirming her beauty, intelligence, and integrity at all times, particularly before other people. Faithfulness to your husband means sticking up for him, always building him up and never tearing him down. Marital fidelity means that your spouse’s health, happiness, security, and welfare take a higher place in your life than anything else except your own relationship with the Lord.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand.

Simply put: we don’t build services to make money; we make money to build better services.

Hackathons are these things where just all of the Facebook engineers get together and stay up all night building things. And, I mean, usually at these hackathons, I code too, just alongside everyone.