Quotes tagged ‘Building’

(20 total)

“The storied office building will receive a second life as home to roughly 40 residents, according to the owners.”

“I look like an angry building.”

— Amy Sherman-Palladino, Benjamin, Zachary Levi, imdb.com

“We have no idea what they are building, but I can assure you we are not going to like it.”

— Gideon Raff, Jacob Shimoni, Moni Moshonov, imdb.com

“What is this? A center for ants? How can we be expected to teach children to learn how to read... if they can't even fit inside the building?”

— Drake Sather, Ben Stiller, Derek Zoolander, Ben Stiller, imdb.com

“There is a building. Inside this building there is a level where no elevator can go, and no stair can reach. This level is filled with doors. These doors lead to many places. Hidden places. But one door is special. One door leads to the source.”

— Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, The Keymaker, Randall Duk Kim, imdb.com

“Eddy: I'm not stupid, Emma. Are you trying to sell the building without telling me? Emma: I got an offer I think we should consider. Not from Nelson, but it is something we should consider. Eddy: I told you from go, I'm never selling. Emma: And what, you're gonna buy Lyn and me out with all the mone…”

— Chelsey Lora, Nancy C. Mejia, Emma, Eddy, imdb.com

“The princess is in the building!”

— Kim Kardashian, imdb.com

“No offense, Gideon, but I never met a building I couldn’t break into.”

— Beth Schwartz, Grainne Godfree, Leonard Snart / Captain Cold, Wentworth Miller, imdb.com

“We set the building on fire, you just happened to catch on fire!”

— Rob McElhenney, Scott Marder, Rob Rosell, Frank Reynolds, Danny DeVito, imdb.com

“You see that building? It was once the seat of power for the entire world. It stood tall in a shining city on a hill where so-called enlightened men promised their citizens a bright future. A future where impossible dreams could become reality. We live in a husk of a world left to us by these enligh…”

— Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Michael R. Perry, Quinn, Marton Csokas, imdb.com

“The true Mathematical and Mechanical Form of all manner of Arches for building with the true abutment necessary to each of them, a Problem which no Architectonick Writer hath ever yet attempted, much less perform'd. ...Ut pendet continaum flexile, sic stabit contiguum rigidum, which is the Linea Cat…”

— Robert Hooke, amazon.com

“I hear they're building apartment buildings for detectives only. They're calling them Sherlock Homes.”

— SavageTimmy, reddit.com

“I really can't believe what a state the Pyramids are in. I thought they had flat rendered sides, but when you get up close, you see how they are just giant boulders balanced on top of each other, like a massive game of Jenga that has got out of hand.”

— Karl Pilkington, amazon.com

“The coolest toys don't have to be bought; they can be built. In fact, sometimes the only way they'll ever exist is if you make them yourself.”

— Adam Savage, wired.com

“There’s a saying in engineering: You can build things cheap, fast, or right, but not all three.”

— Temple Grandin, amazon.com

“The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder.”

— Alan Shepard, en.wikiquote.org

“We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.”

— Alan Moore, amazon.com

“I joked about how bad our apartment building's foundation was. Even the walls started cracking up.”

— user7526, reddit.com

“When we build, let us think that we build for ever.”

— John Ruskin, amazon.com

“I do not believe that ever any building was truly great, unless it had mighty masses, vigorous and deep, of shadow mingled with its surface.”

— John Ruskin, amazon.com