#building

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#buildings #drifting #existed #imagine #kind

You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the roads, those were all built with stimulus money spent on infrastructure. This stimulus bill has fundamentally gone, started out with a $500 rebate check, remember. That went to buy flat-screen TVs made in China. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#bill #bridges #buildings #built #buy

The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

#burdensome #community #feels #flood #insurance

I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#architecture #around #been #better #buildings

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train. ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

#art #buildings #does #heaven #money

Manufacturers employ more than 14 million Americans doing what Americans do best, making things, building things, transforming raw materials into finished products. ↗

— John Engler

#building #doing #employ #finished #into

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon. ↗

— Brian Eno

#being #building #doing #else #fun

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#building #come #theory #think #through

The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse. ↗

— Ralph Erskine

#buildings #ease #human #human relations #improve

We all lived in the same house, or most of us did. And as far as I can make out we were confined to the property, because at twenty-four hours' notice we'd have to do a gig somewhere. So you couldn't leave the building for more than twelve hours in case a gig came through. ↗

— Bill Bruford

#because #building #came #case #confined