Construction famous quotes
05-19-2025
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A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Whether we like it or not, the ultimate goal of every science is to become trivial, to become a well-controlled apparatus for the solution of schoolbook exercises or for practical application in the construction of engines.
-- Aharon Katzir -
I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this.
-- Anne Enright -
We've taken a show about destruction and turned it into a show about construction.
-- Anson Mount -
If the acting don't work out, I'll have a future in construction.
-- Anthony Mackie -
We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.
-- Assata Shakur -
Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli
-- B. F. Skinner -
The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities.
-- Bertrand Russell -
I've spent my whole working life standing up for workers. Didn't matter if it was the two trapped miners at Beaconsfield or professional netballers or indeed factory workers or construction workers.
-- Bill Shorten -
I saved $8,000 and created a construction company when I was 25.
-- Bob Corker -
Fame makes you feel permanently like a girl walking past construction workers.
-- Brad Pitt -
I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.
-- Catherine Opie -
Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence.
-- Cesar Pelli -
Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital, construction, service and hotel industries, but there is also a growing professional sector.
-- Charles Rangel -
In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.
-- Claudio Hummes -
What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to.
-- Clifford Geertz -
The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science
-- David Hilbert -
The charge that the construction of the geologic scale involves circularity has a certain amount of validity. ...Thus, the procedure is far from ideal and the geologic ranges are constantly being revised (usually extended) as new occurrences are found.
-- David M. Raup -
It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created.
-- Dennis Hastert -
I love Alexander McQueen. I like the construction of his suits. I think it's fantastic.
-- Donatella Versace -
You are actually constructing... what your head understood about what your eyes saw.
-- Doris McCarthy -
I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
-- Eartha Kitt -
Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds
-- Elfriede Jelinek -
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
-- Francis Bacon -
The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time.
-- Fritz Todt -
The construction of the universe is certainly very much easier to explain than is that of the plant.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
Every man is the architect of his own fortunes, but the neighbors superintend the construction.
-- George Ade -
Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
-- George William Curtis -
I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals.
-- Gerrit Smith -
We shall find the abstract equivalent for all forms & elements in the universe, then we shall combine them in sculptural constructions according to the mood of our inspiration.
-- Giacomo Balla -
The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly.
-- Gianni Agnelli -
A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But its some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.
-- Greg Lynn -
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
-- Helen Keller -
The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry.
-- Iannis Xenakis -
Arizona now has one of the most innovative systems of financing school construction in the nation.
-- Jane D. Hull -
The Nation State as such is totally a construction: what we feel for it in terms of habits, traditions, countryside or nature could exist without the notion of Nation.
-- Janne Teller -
I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants
-- Jeff Miller -
A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.
-- Jose Saramago -
The reader will find no figures in this work. The methods which I set forth do not require either constructions or geometrical or mechanical reasonings: but only algebraic operations, subject to a regular and uniform rule of procedure.
-- Joseph-Louis Lagrange -
Anyone wanting a new house picks one from among those built on speculation or still in process of construction. The builder no longer works for his customers but for the market.
-- Karl Marx -
To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.
-- Katharine Anthony -
We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action.
-- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva -
We live in a world populated by structures - a complex mixture of geological, biological, social, and linguistic constructions that are nothing but accumulations of materials shaped and hardened by history
-- Manuel De Landa -
Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way.
-- Matt Taibbi -
My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.
-- Mikhail Khodorkovsky -
I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
-- Nate Berkus -
There is a precarious balance to the life of a building. It has nothing to do with its age, or the beauty of its construction. A damaged building can always be repaired if it still has life, but a dead building will never be whole again.
-- Natsuhiko Kyogoku -
A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.
-- Ned Vizzini -
Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.
-- Niklaus Wirth -
Success is a project that's always under construction.
-- Pat Summitt -
For it is no railways, roads, and power stations that give rise to industrial capitalism: it is the emergence of industrial capitalism that leads to the building of railways, to the construction of roads, and to the establishment of power stations.
-- Paul A. Baran -
Marx saw that capitalism is a wasteful, irrational system, a system which controls us when we should be controlling it. That insight is still valid; but we can now see that the construction of a free and equal society is a more difficult task than Marx realized.
-- Peter Singer -
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
-- Plato -
The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.
-- Rafael Correa -
As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build...
-- Rainer Maria Rilke -
The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life.
-- Raoul Vaneigem -
Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
-- Robert Genn -
I get just as excited about building a birdhouse as when providing strategic counsel to a client.
-- Robert L. Peters -
For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths…
-- Roberto Bolano -
End of Construction - Thank you for your patience.
-- Ruth Graham -
If we ask for more and more material for the construction, i.e. more and more choice, we're likely to end up with a lot of combinations that don't do much for us or are far more complex than they need to be.
-- Sheena Iyengar -
The addictive experience is the totality of effect produced by an involvement; it stems from pharmacological and physiological sources, but takes its ultimate form from cultural and individual constructions of experience.
-- Stanton Peele -
In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find.
-- Sun Yat-sen -
The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump... the main thing that the brush secures is the instant grasp of the grand construction of a figure.
-- Thomas Eakins -
Any subject is suitable provided it is of sufficient interest, but the design must be very carefully considered, and plenty of time and thought given to its construction.
-- Walter J. Phillips -
An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction.
-- William Henry Maule -
Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias.
-- Wyndham Lewis -
We called [the] process photomontage, because it embodied our refusal to play the part of the artist. We regarded ourselves as engineers, and our work as construction: we assembled our work, like a fitter.
-- Raoul Hausmann -
Making movies is a lot like being a construction worker. There are long intense stretches of work followed by nothing. It's not easy to find work, and in between, you have to figure out what to do for money.
-- Robert Schenkkan -
One of the crucial underpinnings of New York as a culture capital is that there are multiple markets. There is not just one art gallery district, there are several art gallery districts. I feel that there should be art galleries and art studios in every neighborhood without exception. They should be integrated into the social and physical fabric of the streets. If we want a lively city, we can't just have high towers and dense constructions, we have to have living organisms of streets and neighborhoods. And the arts are a crucial part of that.
-- Sharon Zukin -
Music doesn't have to be so rule-based - and so strict in its structures, construction and perception.
-- Stephen Mallinder -
I hope God does not look like a bunch of wealthy white European dudes who are going to script the justification for the subjugation and legal ownership of other human beings based upon the construction of race as a biological phenomenon.
-- Tripp York -
I spent my life working before I started band. I worked construction, landscaping. I worked in kitchens, cleaned dishes. I worked demolition.
-- Zachary Cole Smith -
What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and again- to actually be human with other humans, so maddeningly much of the time.
-- Brian Christian -
Constructions of a-rhythmical forms, the clash between concrete and abstract forms... ...The acute angle is passionate and dynamic, expressing will and a penetrating force.
-- Carlo Carra -
I like anybody who does any kind of construction.
-- John Craig -
We in Germany could, for example, lower taxes. And who is against that? The Social Democrats. We could also mobilize more private investments for public infrastructure projects liken the construction of highways. But the Social Democrats also reject this, even though they are at times similar to others abroad in their carping about the surplus. Incidentally, some of the consequences of the good economic situation are strong increases in wages, rising pensions and a strong labor market.
-- Wolfgang Schauble -
I always call myself a space construction worker. We were only the second mission ever to go to the space station. There was nothing on board. We brought the first three tons of equipment, including some of the Imax camera stuff. We literally switched the light on to the station and walked in. It was an assembly mission.
-- Julie Payette
