300 Quotes on Building Ratings & Comments

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.

Author: Frank Zappa

We bought an apartment building and were going to live off the rent money. We rented to people who were on welfare and a lot of times they couldn't pay the rent. We wouldn't throw them out so we lost the building.

Author: Dick York

And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.

Author: Minoru Yamasaki

Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily.

Author: Minoru Yamasaki

Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway.

Author: Minoru Yamasaki

In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.

Author: Minoru Yamasaki

In other words, I have no truck for anyone who goes out and does an eclectic building.

Author: Minoru Yamasaki

The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.

Author: Minoru Yamasaki

It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow - building a health care system that works for all Americans.

Author: Ron Wyden

We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building.

Author: Orville Wright

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

Author: Frank Wright

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

Author: Frank Wright

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

Author: Frank Wright

When it was over my daughter said, 'Oh, I felt so sorry for him - he didn't want to hurt you, he liked you.' That was Victoria. When you visualize him up there on top of the Empire State Building, you do feel sorry for him.

Author: Fay Wray

I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly.

Author: Steve Wozniak

The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the question of okay, if mathematical equations can't make progress in understanding complex phenomena in the natural world, how might we make progress?

Author: Stephen Wolfram

But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce.

Author: Lanford Wilson

Networking is an essential part of building wealth.

Author: Armstrong Williams

But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.

Author: Wim Wenders

For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy.

Author: Julius Wellhausen

From the building of the temple of Solomon, which is also treated as a leading epoch in chronology, a new period in the history of worship is accordingly dated, - and to a certain extent with justice.

Author: Julius Wellhausen

Until the building of Solomon's temple the unity of worship according to it had, properly speaking, never had any existence; and, moreover, it is easy to read between the lines that even after that date it was more a pious wish than a practical demand.

Author: Julius Wellhausen

All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.

Author: Robert Welch

In Boston they have gone from large autonomous high schools to smaller schools within the same building.

Author: Michael Welch

I've been involved with Carnegie Hall for the last 13 years, and Chairman for the last six. I feel really good about what we've done growing our educational programs there, building a board that has made Carnegie Hall really a world-class institution.

Author: Sanford Weill

Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown, because that's what you do when you build a house.

Author: Cynthia Weil

We still have that same burn, to get that same kind of laughs. So whether the studio wants us to or not, we're going to do it. The money is just a byproduct of coming out with good stuff. Our whole thing is building that rapport with the audience.

Author: Shawn Wayans

I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they're in the screen.

Author: Keenen Wayans

I don't think having a My Chemical Romance action figure will make a kid start his own band, I like to think it will make him save children from a burning building.

Author: Gerard Way

The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.

Author: Thomas Watson

We started the company out of frustration with the employer that we had because we were building great stuff and there was no way that this stuff was ever going to get into the hands of the people who could use it.

Author: John Warnock

They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia.

Author: George Wallace

I am about to get involved with the biggest cancer hospital in Norway. They are building a fitness center to work with patients. I will be a consultant.

Author: Grete Waitz

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.

Author: Robert Wagner

I believe that our office has clearly been the leader in building coalitions, in getting other universities across the contrary to interact more effectively with the government and particularly the Congress.

Author: Charles Vest

It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.

Author: Robert Venturi

I smuggled the camera, it was no problem to smuggle the camera there. And I took 60 photos, two films, during the time when there was no one in the control room, in the building.

Author: Mordechai Vanunu

Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.

Author: Andrew Vachss

Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland.

Author: Walter Ulbricht

The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.

Author: Edward Tylor

When that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking.

Author: Steven Tyler

I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress.

Author: Kathleen Turner

My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building.

Author: Todd Tiahrt

For the next century, the Republicans have agreed that we will promote the dignity and future of every individual by building a free society under a limited, accountable government that protects liberty, security and prosperity for a brighter American dream.

Author: Todd Tiahrt

Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come.

Author: John Thorn

The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.

Author: Dave Thomas

Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana.

Author: Billy Tauzin

I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child.

Author: Koichi Tanaka

Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.

Author: Jalal Talabani

But the building's identity resided in the ornament.

Author: Louis Sullivan

It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.

Author: Louis Sullivan

It wasn't all spent on practicing, I did do other things! but the classical guitar means a lot to me so I spend many hours building good chops and getting a good program together.

Author: Jim Sullivan

They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet.

Author: Anna Strong

The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

Author: Igor Stravinsky

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.

Author: Robert Stern

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

Author: Saul Steinberg

Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography.

Author: Stephen Sprouse

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.

Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The Bar Room has a corner table placed strategically at a point diagonally across from the entrance. the table of tables in the setting of settings in the building of buildings. In the religion of lunch, this is the holy of holies.

Author: Raymond Sokolov

I don't think of myself as offbeat and weird. As a kid, I saw myself as the type of guy who would run into a burning building to save the baby.

Author: Christian Slater

We built that into a wholesale business that became, really, one of the largest companies in the United States. We had success in building new markets, opening markets for competition, and that takes a personal toll.

Author: Jeffrey Skilling

We were building a - what I thought was a fantastic company. We had great people. We were changing - we were changing the way the marketplace operated. We were creating a market for natural gas and electricity that had never existed before.

Author: Jeffrey Skilling

He was mostly leaping tall buildings in the beginning. There were cases where he would leap off a tall building or swoop down, and at that point he would look like he was flying, I suppose. It was just natural to draw him like that.

Author: Joe Shuster

We have the responsibility to protect our people and that's why we're building this fence. We've suffered from 19,000 terrorist attacks during the last three years.

Author: Silvan Shalom

I myself am a builder and get totally excited about building Yahoo! as a brand and building it into a bigger and better company. That's what I intend to do.

Author: Terry Semel

It doesn't worry me that people have criticised the building.

Author: Harry Seidler

When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work.

Author: Andres Segovia

When I started walking and I looked down and I saw on the floor this water, which looked like, you know, water in your basement except it happened to be in the auxiliary building of a nuclear power plant.

Author: William Scranton

We work for the families back home, we do not work for the lobbyists that prowl the halls of the capital building, do not forget who we work for.

Author: Brian Schweitzer

Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.

Author: Howard Schultz

So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.

Author: Gunther Schuller

We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

Author: Gale Sayers

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.

Author: Carl Sandburg

Democracy in Yemen did not stop, instead it is in a continuous development, there is no other way to follow rather than democracy, it is our national way for building up our country, it was not imposed on us by others.

Author: Ali Saleh

Mr. Speaker, we have reached a point in history where some have forgotten that it is the family, not the government, that is the fundamental building block of our society.

Author: Jim Ryun

Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it does with pure storytelling. So that people come and say: it's not just the building, it's the only place you can hear this kind of work.

Author: Mark Rylance

I'm just steadily building myself up as Kelly Rowland, not just Kelly Rowland of Destiny's Child, which is a blessing to be able to do that.

Author: Kelly Rowland

We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.

Author: Mitt Romney

At least 50 times. I've jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I've been in bedrooms when women came in with knives and guns.

Author: Dennis Rodman

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being.

Author: David Rockefeller

You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.

Author: Arthur Rock

In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.

Author: Alain Robert

Alan's publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where all the songwriters hung out because that's where all the publishers were.

Author: Johnny Rivers

Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.

Author: Don Rickles

Initially, I had two thoughts. First, this is a very large conspiracy; and second, our children in Washington. We knew there were a few unidentified planes that may have been headed for the White House or the Capitol Building.

Author: Mercer Reynolds

The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.

Author: Kenneth Rexroth

We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies.

Author: Janet Reno

The Department of Justice transcends party because we're building on the Weed and Seed program.

Author: Janet Reno

My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.

Author: Janet Reno

We can best honor the memories of those who were killed on September 11 and those who have been killed fighting the war on terrorism, by dedicating ourselves to building a free and peaceful world safe from the threat of terrorism.

Author: Jack Reed

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.

Author: Joseph Ratzinger

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

Author: Ayn Rand

The Europe we are in the process of building is the Europe of the 21st century; it's not the Europe of the 20th century.

Author: Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico.

Author: Anthony Quinn

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Author: Anna Quindlen

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Author: Anna Quindlen

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

Author: Martin Puryear

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

Author: Ezra Pound

Years ago when you'd go to a working group most of the people in the working group would be from universities. Now most of the people are from companies who are building internet products and care what the standards turn out to be.

Author: Jon Postel

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

Author: John Portman

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

Author: Jackson Pollock

Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole.

Author: Marcus Pollio

The process of creation goes on all the time. When I get through, I feel I know what the character will do in every situation. But the building up of the part is not mechanical or deliberate. It grows out of the text.

Author: Donald Pleasence

The process of building a part doesn't really stop.

Author: Donald Pleasence

India is a global power and an important partner with whom we are building an intense, broad and enduring relationship.

Author: Pierre Pettigrew

Scouting ought to be about building character, not about sex. Period. Precious few parents enroll their boys in the Scouts to get a crash course in sexual orientation.

Author: Rick Perry

As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.

Author: Ron Paul

In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

Author: Gwyneth Paltrow

People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation - much like building a mosque at Ground Zero.

Author: Sarah Palin

It comes down to building your own world out here on the road. It's who you surround yourself with. My band and crew are really positive guys.

Author: Brad Paisley

My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.

Author: Jimmy Page

When the songs pop out, that's like the climax of us building.

Author: John Otto

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

Author: John Osborne

Of course, the kind of support that Cuba could give us was very limited when it came to building up our army, since they didn't manufacture armaments in the quantities that we required. So we turned to Algeria and the Soviet Union for support.

Author: Daniel Ortega

When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the needed solidity.

Author: Origen

I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won't let me do. Like they won't set fire to me. They won't like let me jump off a 20 story building. There are certain big stunts that it's just impossible to get insurance to let me do, but for the most part I'd say I do probably 75% of my stuff.

Author: Alex O'Loughlin

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.

Author: Larry Niven

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

I haven't done any building designs since the Loaf House.

Author: Ben Nicholson

Homeowners and business owners across the country agreed to pay premiums, communities agreed to adopt building codes to mitigate flood dangers, and the Federal Government agreed to provide insurance coverage to policyholders after a disaster.

Author: Bob Ney

Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.

Author: Gavin Newsom

One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.

Author: Simon Newcomb

Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.

Author: Enid Nemy

You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.

Author: Bob Nelson

I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now.

Author: Liam Neeson

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.

Author: Scott Nearing

In this case we're building a corner to stretch a fence and hang a gate. It had a real purpose in the ranch here. I needed to do this. But at the same time, it made a beautiful structure.

Author: Bruce Nauman

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

Author: Benito Mussolini

Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers.

Author: Max Muller

The people gave me the responsibility of building the future of this nation. And I did it with honor.

Author: Hosni Mubarak

The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.

Author: Karl Moritz

There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.

Author: Marvin Minsky

Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.

Author: J. Miller

A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built.

Author: Nicholas Meyer

I still have a dream of one day - I would love to hire a semi-retired contractor and just build a house - him and I building a house for me. I would truly love to do that.

Author: Christopher Meloni

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

Author: Richard Meier

Bombing the Murrah Federal Building was morally and strategically equivalent to the U.S. hitting a government building in Serbia, Iraq, or other nations.

Author: Timothy McVeigh

Five years ago I figured we were at the top of our game and that was the best it was going to get, but with every album it seems to keep on building on itself.

Author: Tim McGraw

We need a new Latin American policy that is bold - different. We need to focus on building civil society, focus on the lack of infrastructure. We need look at ways to foster economic opportunity.There needs to be a more comprehensive economic vision in the region.

Author: Mel Martinez

Only a couple of companies in the world have the experience of building these machines, although the market need, if RFID did take off, would be for about 1 million of the machines running in parallel.

Author: Mike Marsh

What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars.

Author: Murray Mann

I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.

Author: Bill Maher

We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.

Author: Bill Maher

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.

Author: Harold MacMillan

Some people may get in to the building without the proper passes and things, but I think that's the price you pay for being an open place for people to come.

Author: Margo MacDonald

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

Author: Russell Lynes

Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.

Author: Lawrence Lovasik

When you're a kid growing up, and you think you're gay, you know that you're different; you're often teased and it can really destroy your self-esteem. But sports can be great for building self-esteem.

Author: Greg Louganis

But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where the obscurity about the entrance prepares one better for the climax, and gives the scene depicted a more real and vivid appearance.

Author: Pierre Loti

Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.

Author: Adolf Loos

It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at home. I was taking down some curtains. I took one step, turned around, took another step and then I fell and hit my head hard on the rowing machine.

Author: Jonah Lomu

No one can claim to be called Christian who gives money for the building of warships and arsenals.

Author: Belva Lockwood

We need new partnerships in fighting terrorism and building peace.

Author: Anna Lindh

When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.

Author: Maya Lin

By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier.

Author: Susan Lieberman

We have reached an important milestone and achieved a new momentum in reaching a goal all Americans should embrace - building a secure, peaceful, democratic Iraq that is no longer a threat to the United States or the international community.

Author: Joe Lieberman

I collect clothes - they keep building and building. I buy them instead of having them washed.

Author: Juliette Lewis

We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.

Author: Carl Levin

I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way.

Author: Jonathan Lethem

I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.

Author: Ted Lange

The federal government was responsible for building the levees, engineering the levees, and consequentially, the federal government is responsible for repairing the damage that has been done, which has not been completed yet.

Author: Mitch Landrieu

The Commonwealth of Kentucky has a judicial system, and this system needs a lot of repair. Therefore, there is no need for Kentucky to start building another judicial system within the system, that we already have.

Author: Sonny Landham

We began building this incredible new foundation in this restaurant, and that's what began giving me the left-hand side of tradition and the right-hand side, my new palate.

Author: Emeril Lagasse

I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.

Author: Karolina Kurkova

There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just "works." I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.

Author: Barbara Kruger

If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble.

Author: Henry Kravis

The very first step to building wealth is to spend less than you make.

Author: Brian Koslow

Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times.

Author: Rem Koolhaas

Bernstein grew up in my building in New York. He's a very, very fine player. When he was a kid, he came by to find out what was going on in the world of jazz.

Author: Lee Konitz

After my first visit to Japan, in 1960, to work on a joint model building project at Osaka University, I maintained a continuing interest in the country and the entire Far East.

Author: Lawrence Klein

The SSRC committee turned attention from team research for building a model of the United States to doing one for world trade in order to investigate the international transmission mechanism.

Author: Lawrence Klein

And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz.

Author: Peter King

The groups that have awarded them are all a little different. It's a little hard to single out any one for that, but I think the dedication of this building would have to go toward the top of the list.

Author: Jack Kilby

This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.

Author: Mark Kennedy

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Author: John Kennedy

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

Author: Thomas Kempis

It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.

Author: Frank Kellogg

In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships.

Author: Thomas Keller

There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues.

Author: Arthur Keith

I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.

Author: Donna Karan

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

Author: Louis Kahn

There are some who are scared by unity and by building a country on the basis of ideas.

Author: Paul Kagame

I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting.

Author: Donald Judd

Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot.

Author: Donald Judd

We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want.

Author: Adam Jones

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

Author: Lyndon Johnson

Well, by the end of the millennium, five, six months from now, we hope to somehow manage to move into a new location where we have the whole building, so we can devote space to all our activities.

Author: Joseph Jarman

We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance.

Author: Helmut Jahn

Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.

Author: Helmut Jahn

A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It's not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it.

Author: Helmut Jahn

A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.

Author: Helmut Jahn

Critics are entitled to have an opinion, but how can they judge how comfortable a building is? No critic is smart enough to judge how a building will perform over time.

Author: Helmut Jahn

It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?

Author: Helmut Jahn

I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity.

Author: Helmut Jahn

I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building.

Author: Helmut Jahn

Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell.

Author: Arne Jacobsen

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

Author: Arne Jacobsen

With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.

Author: Arne Jacobsen

In the building I live in on Park Avenue there are ten people who could buy the Yankees, but none of them could hit the ball out of Yankee Stadium.

Author: Reggie Jackson

We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for.

Author: Joichi Ito

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

Author: John Irving

We were playing a small club in San Diego and the power had gone out in the building. Eddie had a lighter and kept us lit backstage. We became very good friends and spent a lot of time together including hearing Eddie sing in some of the bands he was in at the time.

Author: Jack Irons

In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.

Author: Patricia Ireland

In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform.

Author: Miguel Icaza

More than anything, people want the reality of the discussion at hand. If what is going on in that building is the real thing, if the transforming love and power of Jesus Christ is being experienced, you can sit on a metal folding chair or in a plush theater seat.

Author: Bill Hybels

Our objective must therefore be to ensure EU better regulation contributes towards delivering a modern European Union which relentlessly focuses on building a dynamic and innovative economy equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

Author: John Hutton

We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future.

Author: King Hussein I

I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.

Author: Kate Hudson

When we did the pilot, I sort of pictured this guy pirating a signal and then this story unfolding of him building this satellite and these robots and watching these bad movies.

Author: Joel Hodgson

Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives.

Author: Jim Hightower

Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.

Author: Jim Hightower

Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Author: Cullen Hightower

Some couples could not work together but we enjoy working on our projects and building our art business.

Author: Dwayne Hickman

When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.

Author: Florence Henderson

It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.

Author: Arthur Henderson

The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them.

Author: Arthur Henderson

We have to realize we are building a movement.

Author: Dorothy Height

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Author: Colin Hay

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.

Author: Hanoi Hannah

I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

Author: Mia Hamm

There will be no support in the island of Ireland for building a nuclear power station.

Author: Peter Hain

The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.

Author: Jasmine Guy

Building walls isn't going to work in the long run. Some people are happy with the wall in Israel, but somebody will get a weapon someday and knock it over or something. Walls aren't the answer between countries, though.

Author: Arlo Guthrie

For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind.

Author: Umberto Guidoni

Well, we have two major goals. The most important one is to get the station arm on board the station, because that's this really milestone in the space station building since from now on they will be using this arm to continue building the space station.

Author: Umberto Guidoni

Success is like a high-rise building I'm on the first floor. There are a lot of people in the basement or the parking lot but I was lucky enough to have made it to the first floor and I'm looking to make it to the penthouse.

Author: Justin Guarini

Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.

Author: Franz Grillparzer

I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.

Author: William Green

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

Author: Martha Graham

It's certainly not just a spot opinion; it's something that obviously has been building up for years. It is also very good for publicity, and it is the kind of recognition that maybe will help financially, also.

Author: Dexter Gordon

Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.

Author: Andy Goldsworthy

What we can borrow from Ronald Reagan... is that great sense of optimism. He led by building on the strengths of America, not running America down.

Author: Rudy Giuliani

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.

Author: Greg Ginn

Elton wanted a garden. They were building all afternoon while we were rehearsing. And then they built a fountain for Elton. And he said, I was only joking!

Author: Maurice Gibb

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

Author: A. Giamatti

I can help a lot of other people who've gone through the same thing by building a center that will help men and women who don't have the funds to take care of themselves and get the medical treatment.

Author: David Gest

Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.

Author: Jesse Garrett

I think the day you start building the war plan is the day you start beginning the postwar plan.

Author: Jay Garner

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

Author: John Galbraith

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

Author: Thomas Fuller

The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany.

Author: Klaus Fuchs

If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast.

Author: Glenn Frey

Money should not, and must not, change our commitment to solving problems and building this state.

Author: Dave Freudenthal

When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.

Author: Al Franken

So we have broad bipartisan support for the bill, and it's my hope that we can build on some of the things that have been talked about in Washington involving building a larger ownership society.

Author: Harold Ford

I visited the Pentagon a few days after September 11, and I still remember so vividly the smell of terror surrounding the entire building and complex. I was angry that such a brutal act of violence was committed against innocent people.

Author: Randy Forbes

When I'm makin' lectures to these universities, I tell 'em I like that little building because when I run short a audience, if I can get three people in there I've got a good crowd.

Author: Howard Finster

When I'm building my dome in my chapel, and I had a vision - I've worked on perpetual motion and I haven't never give it up yet. I still think it could be done, perpetual motion. I had a vision of a un resist able windmill.

Author: Howard Finster

I'd like to know about some of the things that they teach down there, like building a lake. If I ever wanted to build a lake, I'd like to know how to do it.

Author: Tom Felton

In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.

Author: Warren Farrell

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

Author: Arthur Erickson

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

Author: Arthur Erickson

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

Author: Arthur Erickson

In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.

Author: Arthur Erickson

Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.

Author: Arthur Erickson

I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.

Author: John Ensign

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

Author: Brian Eno

Manufacturers employ more than 14 million Americans doing what Americans do best, making things, building things, transforming raw materials into finished products.

Author: John Engler

You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.

Author: John Engler

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

Author: Michael Ende

China is not only formidable, it is also aggressively building its own economic infrastructure. Just a few years from now, China will rival the U.S. and the European Union in global market power. It already has surpassed us in population.

Author: Jo Emerson

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Author: Ralph Ellison

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.

Author: Henry Ellis

But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make progress, hopefully within a short time.

Author: Bulent Ecevit

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

Author: Eknath Easwaran

It's just really hard to work and get better, building and planning for the future with the new Monte Carlo and keeping the race team intact and keeping them healthy.

Author: Dale Earnhardt

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.

Author: Freeman Dyson

We have a group of friends of the museum who try to raise, if they can, periodically something to help us. Of course, the main thing about a building like this is its upkeep. It needs central heating and it needs central air conditioning.

Author: Katherine Dunham

You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work, but there isn't a focus on building complex molecular systems. In that respect, Japan is first, Europe is second, and we're third.

Author: K. Drexler

Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom.

Author: Richard Dooling

Then I have a head mounted display which actually was designed for the military to do synchronized building entries and that's looking down at my hands, so projected on the big screen behind me, you can see my hands as I'm putting the tracks together.

Author: Thomas Dolby

If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I'm interested in doing.

Author: Bill Dixon

I never called my work an 'art' It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

Author: Walt Disney

Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.

Author: Jim DeMint

The Texas Energy Office's Loan Star Program has reduced building energy consumption and taxpayers' energy costs through the efficient operation of public buildings, saving taxpayers more than $172 million through energy efficiency projects.

Author: Rosa DeLauro

I'm doing my part, building plants at a record rate, having historic conservation levels. The only people not doing their part is the federal government that is siding with the energy companies against the interests of the people of California.

Author: Gray Davis

Sometimes running for Congress is a four-year strategy in terms of getting out there and building a network.

Author: Artur Davis

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Author: Robertson Davies

There was a strange atmosphere on the set because we were filming in this large house, which was used for troubled children. You'd go in and find walls had been burnt down. The building was charged with this history and it stayed with us throughout the filming.

Author: Beatrice Dalle

I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.

Author: Beatrice Dalle

The higher the building the lower the morals.

Author: Noel Coward

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

Author: Doug Coupland

I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back.

Author: Eric Cornell

So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'

Author: Tommy Cooper