Construction Quotes:

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

topic: Years, Example, Construction, Undesirable

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

topic: Exercise, Goal, Construction

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

topic: Thinking, People, Construction, Social Construction

We've taken a show about destruction and turned it into a show about construction.

- Anson Mount

topic: Taken, Construction, Destruction

If the acting don't work out, I'll have a future in construction.

- Anthony Mackie

topic: Work Out, Acting, Construction

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

topic: Needs, Weapons, Construction

Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli

- B. F. Skinner

topic: Problem, Problem Solving, Construction

The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Construction, Logical, Entity

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

source: Source: www.abc.net.au

topic: Two, Matter, Construction, Factory Workers, Construction Workers

I saved $8,000 and created a construction company when I was 25.

- Bob Corker

source: "What I've Learned: Senator Bob Corker (R, Tenn.)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 18, 2010.

topic: Construction, Company, Construction Company

Fame makes you feel permanently like a girl walking past construction workers.

- Brad Pitt

topic: Girl, Past, Construction, Construction Workers

I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.

- Catherine Opie

topic: Identity, Culture, Construction

Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence.

- Cesar Pelli

topic: Optimism, Matter, Construction

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

topic: Growing, Today, Construction, Caribbean

In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.

- Claudio Hummes

topic: Facts, Construction, Individual

Demolition is a part of construction.

- Daniel H. Wilson

topic: Construction, Demolition

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

topic: Doe, Branches, Construction

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

topic: Circularity, Construction, Range

It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created.

- Dennis Hastert

topic: Jobs, Construction, Billions

I love Alexander McQueen. I like the construction of his suits. I think it's fantastic.

- Donatella Versace

topic: Thinking, Suits, Construction, Mcqueen

You are actually constructing... what your head understood about what your eyes saw.

- Doris McCarthy

topic: Eye, Saws, Construction

I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.

- Eartha Kitt

topic: Construction, Used, Workers, Used To Love, Construction Workers

Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds

- Elfriede Jelinek

source: Interview with Marika Griehsel, www.nobelprize.org. November 2004.

topic: Kind, Construction, Substitutes, Susceptible

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

- Francis Bacon

topic: Law, Judging, Construction, Inference

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

source: "Deutsche Technik", May 1938.

topic: Construction, Appearance, Projects, Construction Projects, External Appearance

The construction of the universe is certainly very much easier to explain than is that of the plant.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

topic: Construction, Plant, Easier

Every man is the architect of his own fortunes, but the neighbors superintend the construction.

- George Ade

topic: Men, Construction, Neighbor

Criticism is not construction, it is observation.

- George William Curtis

topic: Criticism, Construction, Observation

I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals.

- Gerrit Smith

topic: Construction, Canals, Rail, New Roads

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

topic: Inspiration, Elements, Construction

The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly.

- Gianni Agnelli

topic: Workplace, Construction, Factories, Construction Work

A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But its some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.

- Greg Lynn

topic: Looks, Woods, Construction

The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.

- Helen Keller

topic: Knowledge, World, Construction

Be heroes in an army of construction.

- Helen Keller

topic: Hero, Army, Construction

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

source: Iannis Xenakis (1992). “Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition”, p.132, Pendragon Press

topic: Musical, Limits, Construction

Arizona now has one of the most innovative systems of financing school construction in the nation.

- Jane D. Hull

topic: School, Arizona, Construction, Financing

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

topic: Europe, Tradition, Construction

I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants

- Jeff Miller

topic: Facts, Management, Construction

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

source: "Interview with Jose Saramago, Author of Blindness". Political Affairs Magazine Interview, www.politicalaffairs.net. March 2006.

topic: Fashion, Construction, Destruction, Parallel Universe, Under Construction

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

topic: Work, Uniforms, Construction

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

topic: House, Construction, Process

To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.

- Katharine Anthony

topic: Bars, Dramatic, Construction, Biographers

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

topic: America, Action, Construction, Free Trade

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

source: Manuel De Landa (1997). “A thousand years of nonlinear history”, Zone Books (NY)

topic: World, Mixtures, Construction

Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way.

- Matt Taibbi

topic: Way, Corruption, Construction, Contracting

My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.

- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

topic: Mother, Father, Construction

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

topic: Light, Construction, Certain, Fixture

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

topic: Age, Balance, Construction, Precarious

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

topic: Brain, Maps, Construction, Freeways, Under Construction

Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.

- Niklaus Wirth

topic: Steps, Construction, Program, Refinement, Sequence

Success is a project that's always under construction.

- Pat Summitt

topic: Sports, Construction, Projects, Under Construction

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

source: "The Political Economy Of Growth" by Paul A. Baran, Ch. 6, (p. 193), 1957.

topic: Giving, Construction, Building

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

topic: Saws, Tasks, Construction

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

- Plato

topic: Depression, Class, Construction

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

topic: Sin, Socialism, Construction, Under Construction

As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build...

- Rainer Maria Rilke

topic: Bees, Honey, Construction

The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life.

- Raoul Vaneigem

topic: Art, Passionate, Construction, Passionate Life

Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.

- Robert Genn

topic: Cutting, Construction, Backgrounds

I get just as excited about building a birdhouse as when providing strategic counsel to a client.

- Robert L. Peters

topic: Clients, Excited, Construction, Providing

For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths…

- Roberto Bolano

topic: Reading, Labyrinth, Construction

End of Construction - Thank you for your patience.

- Ruth Graham

source: Ruth Bell Graham (2007). “Footprints of a Pilgrim”, p.175, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Christian, Christian Inspirational, Construction

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

topic: Choices, Needs, Construction

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

source: Stanton Peele (1985). “The Meaning of Addiction: Compulsive Experience and Its Interpretation”, Free Press

topic: Construction, Individual, Source

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

source: "Chung-shan Ch'üan-shu (Zhongshan Quanshu), vol. II". Book by Sun Yat-sen, 1936.

topic: Country, Construction, Difficult

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

topic: Powerful, Tools, Construction, Stumps

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

topic: Design, Construction, Given

An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction.

- William Henry Maule

source: Johnson v. Harris, 3 W.R. 104, 1854.

topic: Liberty, Favour, Construction

Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias.

- Wyndham Lewis

topic: Construction, Utopia, Chiefs

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

topic: Artist, Play, Construction

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

topic: Long, Intense, Construction

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

topic: Art, Culture, Construction

Music doesn't have to be so rule-based - and so strict in its structures, construction and perception.

- Stephen Mallinder

topic: Perception, Construction, Structure

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

topic: Construction, Ownership, Wealthy

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

topic: Kitchen, Band, Construction, Landscaping, Demolition

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

topic: Tests, Failing, Construction

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

source: "Piani plastici come espanzione sferica nello spazio" (March 1913), as quoted in "Futurism," Didier Ottinger (ed.), p. 146, 2008.

topic: Passionate, Construction, Abstract

I like anybody who does any kind of construction.

- John Craig

topic: Doe, Kind, Construction

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

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Strong, Construction, Investment

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

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Construction

I'm telling you, I could teach at a university, [George] Carlin, a whole semester. The construction and deconstruction of the words, the language, the order.

- Jay Mohr

source: Source: underthegunreview.net

topic: Order, Language, Construction, Semester, Deconstruction

You could teach [George] Carlin in college. It's the construction of the word and the order of things and how they go. How all those sentences are timed perfectly.

- Jay Mohr

source: Source: underthegunreview.net

topic: College, Order, Construction

I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner.

- Franz Kafka

source: Franz Kafka (1948). “The diaries of Franz Kafka”, Schocken

topic: Rooms, Construction, Hunts, Merging

Gods induction, life's construction, these instruct will save every living thing. Can't you see that life's connected?

- Stevie Wonder

source: Song: Race Babbling

topic: Philosophy, Construction, Connected

Our earlier lives aren't wrong, they are just pre-construction. Our lives are meant to unfold, to evolve, and that's good. The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage, which would prevent this process from taking place.

- Sue Monk Kidd

topic: Growth, Construction, Process

The easy road is always under construction,so have an alternate route planned.

- Jill Shalvis

topic: Construction, Easy, Routes, Easy Road, Under Construction

Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?

- Petrarch

topic: Palaces, Construction, Pantheon

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

source: Clifford Geertz (1973). “The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays”, p.9, Basic Books

topic: Data, People, Construction

A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Struggle, Darkness, Construction

If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

topic: Done, Realizing, Construction

Whereas an elephant that was scared to death that diesel powered equipment, equipment that ran on a gas engine, was just fine. Because somebody had attacked it with construction equipment. But if it had a diesel engine, it was bad.

- Temple Grandin

source: "Interview with Dr. Temple Grandin" by Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

topic: Elephants, Scared, Construction

Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Taken, Pieces, Construction, Scaffolding, Edifice

Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.

- Marilyn vos Savant

topic: Able, Construction, Used, Diagrams

When an instrument admits two constructions, the one safe, the other dangerous, the one precise, the other indefinite, I prefer that which is safe and precise.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private”, p.506

topic: Two, Safe, Construction

Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data.

- Thomas Kuhn

source: Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.76, University of Chicago Press

topic: Data, Philosopher, Construction

I always know more about the ending, even the aftermath to the ending, than I know about the beginning. And so there's a construction that works from back to front.

- John Irving

source: "Why novelist John Irving's latest protagonist is a fiction writer". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. November 3, 2015.

topic: Aftermath, Construction, Knows

The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction.

- John Ruskin

source: John Ruskin (1855). “¬The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.36

topic: Law, Construction, Metallic

It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.

- David Mitchell

topic: Construction, Sentences, Adept

No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high.

- Gus Van Sant

topic: Stress, Addiction, Construction

Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Death, Goal, Construction

In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.

- Umberto Eco

source: Umberto Eco (2014). “Travels in Hyperreality”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Needs, Firsts, Construction

All of us, as bodies, are in the active position of figuring out how to live with and against the constructions - or norms - that help to form us.

- Judith Butler

source: Source: transadvocate.com

topic: Body, Helping, Construction

I have many women executives. I always have. When I was back in the construction days, the big construction days, I had women in charge of big developments.

- Donald Trump

source: "New Day" with Chris Cuomo, www.cnn.com. August 11, 2015.

topic: Development, Construction, Bigs

This movement is not about the destruction of law, but the construction of law.

- Julian Assange

topic: Law, Movement, Construction

The secretary of Homeland Security working with myself and my staff will begin immediate construction of a border wall.

- Donald Trump

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Wall, Borders, Construction, Homeland Security

The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around.

- Wendell Berry

source: Wendell Berry (2001). “Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition”, Counterpoint Press

topic: Way, Language, Construction

Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions

- Roland Barthes

topic: Construction, Wells, Symbolic

Mathematics has been called the science of the infinite. Indeed, the mathematician invents finite constructions by which questions are decided that by their very nature refer to the infinite. This is his glory.

- Hermann Weyl

source: Hermann Weyl (1968). “Gesammelte Abhandlungen”

topic: Infinite, Glory, Construction

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

- Billy Graham

source: Billy Graham (2013). “Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well”, p.95, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Construction, Humans, Conception, Under Construction

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

- William James

source: William James (1976). “Essays in Radical Empiricism”, p.22, Harvard University Press

topic: Elements, Construction, Radical, Empiricism

Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.

- Immanuel Kant

source: Immanuel Kant (2013). “Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason”, p.329, Read Books Ltd

topic: Philosophical, Construction, Reason, Knowledge Gained

A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.

- Salman Rushdie

topic: Reality, Men, Construction

Through algebra you easily arrive at equations, but always to pass therefrom to the elegant constructions and demonstrations which usually result by means of the method of porisms is not so easy, nor is one's ingenuity and power of invention so greatly exercised and refined in this analysis.

- Isaac Newton

source: Isaac Newton (2008). “1691-1695”, p.261, Cambridge University Press

topic: Mean, Analysis, Construction, Refined

At the beginning of every role I take, I have to start from basics and build it up. It's like a new construction.

- Kim Cattrall

source: "Samantha Who?". Interview with Jessica Gardner, www.backstage.com. April 13, 2011.

topic: Roles, Construction, Basics

I think it is important to be present in the places where you are working. It is not only about doing a project, but following the project through its construction.

- Santiago Calatrava

source: Source: www.archdaily.com

topic: Thinking, Important, Construction

He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and biological constructions circulating around the mutually attracting binary poles of nature/artifice.

- Zadie Smith

source: "On Beauty". Book by Zadie Smith, 2005.

topic: Rose, Political, Construction

My construction will cover the entire Universe.

- Sathya Sai Baba

source: "Sathya Sai Speaks, Volume 2: 1961-1962". Discourses by Sri Sathya Sai Baba (Discourse of October 1961), www.sssbpt.info.

topic: Construction, Universe

Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power.

- Camille Paglia

source: Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, p.1, Yale University Press

topic: Defense, Construction, Artificial

A reliable assurance of the right and ability to dismantle the constructed structure must be offered, before the job of construction starts in earnest.

- Zygmunt Bauman

source: Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

topic: Jobs, Construction, Structure

As designers, we do so much with material and construction. It's really architectural; it comes close to building. A scent is so immaterial. It's really about emotion and sensation. Clothes are too, but it's not the same.

- Nicolas Ghesquiere

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Emotion, Designer, Construction

the construction of a communist society would be completed 'in the main' by 1980

- Nikita Khrushchev

topic: Would Be, Construction, Communist

The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive social engineering project that has changed U.S. society enormously.

- Noam Chomsky

topic: Engineering, America, Construction, Social Engineering