#building

I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#building #confidence #constructed #enter #gate

I still have a dream of one day - I would love to hire a semi-retired contractor and just build a house - him and I building a house for me. I would truly love to do that. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#building #contractor #day #dream #him

We must continue to have voting rights in the state, not to politicize this, but they must have a voice in the rebuilding effort in the community from which they have been displaced. ↗

— Marc Morial

#community #continue #displaced #effort #must

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#arose #buildings #enormous #huge #like

The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#berlin #between #building #church #difference

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

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

When the President of Iran talks about removing Israel from the face of the Earth and is building nuclear bombs with a range of 3000km, you have to be worried. ↗

— Ehud Olmert

#bombs #building #earth #face #iran