Quotes About Building Materials

#1. The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.

Mark Twain

#2. Style is not the man; it is something better. It is a dizzy, dazzling structure that he erects about himself using as building materials selected elements from his own character.

Quentin Crisp

#3. The environmentalists say capitalism is killing our oceans, air, land, and forests. Capitalists argue that they provide food, fuel, and building materials for a growing world.

Robert Kiyosaki

#4. For centuries, building materials were free. You want to build a house, you cut down some trees. But we haven't been thinking about the cost to the planet.

Dan Phillips

#5. (The coconut tree was a machine: a solar-powered, self-building factory that required no maintenance and cost no money - a clean-running, noiseless manufacturer of useful things. In went soil, air, and water; out came food, drink, fuel, building materials, rope, medicine, and, yes, pillows.)

Peter Rudiak-Gould

#6. People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.

Dan Phillips

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

Socrates

#8. It's the pattern that matters, you see. Not the choice of building materials. Life is information, shaped by natural selection. Carbon's just fashion, nucleic acids mere optional accessories. Electrons can do all that stuff, if they're coded the right way. It's all just pattern.

Peter Watts

#9. We're the largest home improvement company today, and we did $30 billion last year, or less than 10 percent of the total amount of building materials sold in the U.S. So when people ask, how much runway left does Home Depot have, it's an awful lot.

Arthur Blank

#10. Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.

Neal Barnard

#11. Building a business is like building a home. If the foundation rests on an unstable setting or is constructed with subpar materials, it doesn't matter if the rest of the home is perfect. It will never be a joy to its owner

Thomas J. Stanley

#12. We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be ...

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#13. Falsehood is difficult to be maintained. When the materials of a building are solid blocks of stone, very rude architecture will suffice; but a structure of rotten materials needs the most careful adjustment to make it stand at all.

Richard Whately

#14. Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials.

Tadao Ando

#15. Back on the block they probably call Big Al "Fat Albert" but here in the Nam we don't insult our friends.

Derrick Wolf

#16. Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials.

James Boswell

#17. One thing that affects the event is where I'm at physically.

Jai Uttal

#18. Still, when all is said, somewhere one must belong: even the soaring falcon returns to its master's wrist.

Truman Capote

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

John Engler

#20. A military road led from this point to Fort Leavenworth, and for many miles the farms and cabins of the Delawares were scattered at short intervals on either hand.

Francis Parkman

#21. Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director.

Orlando Bloom

#22. Or maybe I'm supposed to confront her right now, because as soon as I round the corner, my eyes land on her. I come to a quiet stop and watch her. She's the only one in the hallway

Colleen Hoover

#23. Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.

William S. Burroughs

#24. It is never too late to be who you want to be.

George Eliot

#25. 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

#26. If you look at a building by Mies van der Rohe, it might look very simple, but up close, the sheer quality of construction, materials and thought are inspirational.

David Chipperfield

#27. Published papers may omit important steps and the memory of men of science, even the greatest, is sadly fallible.

John Desmond Bernal

#28. I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness ... I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.

Peter Zumthor

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

Atul Gawande

#30. To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

Martha Graham

#31. SOCIETY IS DOOMED for one very simple reason: it takes dozens of men working months with millions of dollars in materials to build a building, but only one dumb-ass with a bomb to bring it down.

David Wong

#32. When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's very much like my paintings.

Edward Ruscha

#33. Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Let us lead them into the healthy world of primitive building methods, where there was meaning in every stroke of an axe, expression in every bite of chisel.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#34. The central industry of modern civilisation, tending, because of its control over materials, to spread into and ultimately incorporate older industries such as mining, smelting, oil- refining, textiles, rubber, building, and even agriculture in respect to fertilizers and food processing.

John Desmond Bernal

#35. Maybe she'd pick up a new makeup tip that wasn't 'Roll your face on the Revlon counter and see what happens.

Eva Darrows

#36. How much does your building weigh?
A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#37. I don't like building, I'm not a carpenter, I don't like constructions particularly and things like that, but placements and the kinds of psychological weight that different materials have is pretty interesting to me.

Julian Schnabel

#38. I decided to set out to prove that you could make a reasonable living building for the poor using recycled materials and only hiring unskilled labor.

Dan Phillips

#39. Excellent cognitive function starts in the kitchen because that's where the nutritional materials (whole foods) are prepared to act as our brain and body building blocks.

John Pierre