Building Quotes

I'm building a dream with elevators in it.

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

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

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.

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

Our children must never lose their zeal for building a better world.

Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.

The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution.

I have come to the conviction that once one embarks on a concept for a building, this concept has to be exaggerated and overstated and repeated in every part of its interior so that wherever you are, inside or outside, the building sings with the same message.

Boundaries are basically about providing structure, and structure is essential in building anything that thrives.

WOMEN must be at the forefront of nation-building to bring the South African citizenry together and, therefore, develop a whole new ethos of human co-existence

We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation.

Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.

Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.

A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself, logically transparent, and virginal of lies or trivialities.

We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be.

A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.

It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless.

When I leave Somalia I will leave buildings but not people.

It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies

Shawn Michaels has left the building.

I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.

The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of creativity to each building.

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.

I've gotten my personal life all the way intact and made sure that it's straight. Without that, you have no foundation. Your building is going to crumble.

The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.

Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships.

A proper building grows naturally, logically, and poetically out of all its conditions.

The goal of a church is not to have a bigger building or budget but to see the word of God increase and disciples multiply

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.

As a building is resistant to forces acting upon it, a person must be equally tenacious in life.

My favorite optimist was an American who jumped off the Empire State Building, and as he passed the 42nd floor, the window washers heard him say, 'So Far, so good.'

Your words are building blocks of which you construct your life and future.

The door handle is the handshake of the building.

Anybody who is one with what he or she does is building the new earth.

I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind around it at all.

Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.

There's nothing better for building confidence than learning you can do something you thought you couldn't.

By law, all buildings should be white.

We have to realize we are building a movement.

Your biggest challenge will be building a great team.

I believe in the near future we will 3D print our buildings and houses.

Your demons may have been ejected from the building, but they’re out in the parking lot, doing push-ups.”)

I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is why I write.

When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'

Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit . . .

For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation.

Buildings should be good neighbours.