Is Building A House Quotes

#1. When a man says he is building a house for himself and his posterity, he does not mean to be understood as saying that he has any thought of binding them, nor is it to be inferred that he is so foolish as to imagine that he has any right or power to bind them, to live in it.

Lysander Spooner

#2. The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

Leon Edel

#3. Building a house is like producing a movie. There's no right way to do it but a lot of wrong ways. You have to be flexible and creative. You have to move fast, be prepared - or it quickly becomes costly.

Jeremy Renner

#4. The building of a computer application is very identical to the building of a house; they both have to be logically designed.

Leonard Rattini

#5. Comfort, simplicity, practicality - these are all American words. It is simplicity in fabric and way of cut. You cannot produce complicated clothes or spend ten days making a dress. Mine is all done by scaling measurements. I use the body as the land, as when building a house.

Zoran

#6. The building is a tumbling house of cards behind me. The bus bitches are paper cutouts.

Jolene Stockman

#7. The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.

Robert A. M. Stern

#8. The dining room is a building; the bathroom is a building. If we scatter this single-program architecture inside of a domestic environment, we can link an interior urbanism in a way similar to a village or a township of tiny houses.

Jimenez Lai

#9. But a few understand that building is a great symbol we live in our minds, and existence is the attempt to bring that life into physical reality, to state it in gesture and form. For the man who understands this, a house he owns is a statement of his life.

Ayn Rand

#10. Maps are essential. Planning a journey without a map is like building a house without drawings.

Mark Jenkins

#11. Initially, I had two thoughts. First, this is a very large conspiracy; and second, our children in Washington. We knew there were a few unidentified planes that may have been headed for the White House or the Capitol Building.

Mercer Reynolds

#12. The crucial fact about sustainability is that it is not a micro phenomenon: there can be no such thing as a "sustainable" house, office building, or household appliance, for the same reason that there can be no such thing as a one-person democracy or a single-company economy.

David Owen

#13. Home development is about wishful thinking. It's about capturing a dream.

Barbara Delinsky

#14. It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural and habitual as hoeing a field or building a house.

Virginia Woolf

#15. People will watch you build a house, but won't pass you a brick. And once your home is built, they want to come inside for dinner.

Andrea L'Artiste

#16. I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them.

Trey Parker

#17. Self-improvement without self-love is like building a house upon sand. You can build and build, but it will always sink.

Vironika Tugaleva

#18. Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.

Pat Gillick

#19. Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.

Bjarke Ingels

#20. When you sit down to design something, it can be anything, a car, a toaster, a house, a tall building or a shoe, what you draw or what you design is really a culmination of everything that you've seen and done in your life previous to that point.

Tinker Hatfield

#21. For instance: years into the future the building where X Factor is filmed could be a house. The residents may witness the spectre of Simon Cowell saying "That's possibly the worst audition I've ever seen," over and over again.

Pippa Franks

#22. The heart must be renewed by divine grace, or it will be in vain to seek for purity of life. He who attempts to build up a noble, virtuous character independent of the grace of Christ is building his house upon the shifting sand.

Ellen G. White

#23. If you're building a house, or doing anything, time is what you've got. Well, there's effort, but you need time. The more time you put into something, the better stuff you can make.

Gene Simmons

#24. When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the needed solidity.

Origen

#25. A house isn't really understandable until it settles into the site: until it's built, furnished and lived in for four or five years. The reality is not on paper but in how a building sits on the land - how it relates to trees, to slopes, to water, to gardens.

Jaquelin T. Robertson

#26. House-watching is an art. You have to develop a way of seeing how a building sits in its landscape or streetscape. You have to discover how much room it takes up in the world, how much of the world it displaces.

Edmund De Waal

#27. Architecture is not a private affair; even a house must serve a whole family and its friends, and most buildings are used by everybody, people of all walks of life. If a building is to meet the needs of all the people, the architect must look for some common ground of understanding and experience.

John C. Portman Jr.

#28. I'd rather be somewhere building a house, if I knew how. The whole idea of being a professional artist is like a demeaning kind of thing.

Willis Earl Beal

#29. (I really believe that a building is a unit, not a city, so that city planning should not control all buildings. Because a house can be the product of one man, but a city cannot. And nothing collective can have the unity and integrity of a "unit.")

Ayn Rand

#30. Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family.

Kevin McCloud

#31. A stone can be used for building a house, blocking a road, or killing someone. The same is true for any idea.

Darrell Calkins

#32. Basing your identity on sexuality is like building a house on a foundation of pudding. - D. Travers Scott

Carol Queen

#33. The only time I've ever taken out a loan is for the building work I had done at our house and I did that by extending the mortgage.

Andrea McLean

#34. Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.

C.S. Lewis

#35. The people who are taking these loans because it's the only way they can afford their house are exposing themselves to a lot of risk. They're not saving money and they're not building equity, which means they could find themselves in a scenario where they owe more money than their house is worth.

Ric Edelman

#36. The problem with many Jesus freaks is that we claim to 'build our house on a rock,' but when a storm comes we have such confidence in the building that all our focus is on the house. As if surety comes from construction, not from the foundation.

Anna Broadway

#37. For me mindfulness is like building a house, so the next time the tsunami that is depression comes I'll have a structure in place to resist it.

Ruby Wax

#38. To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with.

Christina Stead

#39. What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can't wing it. I can't get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it's a career, family, life - you have to plan it out.

Ice Cube

#40. No one is guaranteed happiness. It's not a human right. It's a house you have to build yourself. Your family and friends can help, but they're all busy building their own houses too. You're just bitter because you built a shit house.

Exurb1a

#41. All Oprah needs is a good book. My only request when she's building any house is, 'Could I please have a TV in my bedroom?'

Gayle King

#42. They crested a rise, and there it was, in the hollow between rolling hills - a low, square building, ghostly gray in the moonlight.
"Is that it?" asked Hamilton.
"It probably isn't the local opera house," groaned Ian.

Gordon Korman

#43. Ludlow ... is probably the loveliest town in England with its hill of Georgian houses ascending from the river Teme to the great tower of the cross-shaped church, rising behind a classic market building.

John Betjeman

#44. A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house

Socrates

#45. Here's something else to think about: calling when you say you're going to is the very first brick in the house you are building of love and trust. If he can't lay this one stupid brick down, you ain't never gonna have a house baby, and it's cold outside.

Greg Behrendt

#46. Wherever you go in the galaxy, you can find a food business, a house-building business, a war business, a peace business, a governing business, and so forth. And, of course, a God business, which is called 'religion,' and which is a particularly reprehensible line of endeavor.

Robert Sheckley

#47. From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are encyclopedia of every aspect of life, culture, religion, science, ethics, law, cosmology and meteorology.

William James

#48. To go to the White House is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In fact, the building is not that big.

Hugh Bonneville

#49. A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He falls to building in his old age, and dies by the time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed.

Jean De La Bruyere

#50. Providing health care is like building a house. The task requires experts, expensive equipment and materials, and a huge amount of coordination.

Atul Gawande