#building

I can't think of a better model for Haiti rebuilding than Rwanda. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#haiti #i #model #rebuilding #rwanda

The sensors have many potential practical uses - in Government buildings, train carriages, cargo containers, on a soldier's lapel - and are a thousand times cheaper than current sensors that are used for the same purpose. ↗

— Anne Campbell

#cargo #carriages #cheaper #containers #current

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#buildings #our #shape #thereafter #us

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

— Tommy Cooper

#firm #house #i #local #outside

I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills. ↗

— Ice Cube

#architectural #art #because #building #class

Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing more than the headache of building consensus in a gridlocked capital on behalf of a polarized public. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#barack obama #behalf #brutish #building #campaign

There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling. ↗

— Frank Gehry

#backlash #buildings #done #everyone #feeling

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cinema verite would be what Andy Warhol did with his film about the Empire State Building - eight hours or so from one angle, and even then it's not really cinema verite, because you aren't actually there. ↗

— Crispin Glover

#actually #always #andy #andy warhol #angle

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. ↗

— Richard Dooling

#bring #building #doom #doorstep #even

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

— Brian Koslow

#first #first step #less #make #spend