#building

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. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#building #discovery #effective #great #had

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. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#balancing #base #books #building #business

Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you're able to grasp what things mean. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#buildings #egypt #grasp #greece #i

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. ↗

— Bob Ney

#adopt #after #agreed #building #business

I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#body #bones #book #buildings #built

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

— Ben Nicholson

#building #designs #done #haven #house

Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#being #bringing #building #courses #enjoy

If you look at the buildings, you'll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you go around and look at another facade and it looks as if it was designed by another man, you see. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#another man #around #buildings #designed #facade

There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#any #basic #because #buildings #concrete

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. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#began #building #finished #house #know