Quotes of: Built Keyword

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Soren Kierkegaard

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.

Daniel Libeskind

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

Ernest Hemingway

Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional, and the emotion in the music is built in, whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it's performed.

Chris Ware

Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and gigantic sculptures, should the need arise. It has arisen.

Jerry Saltz

I built them what they wanted and I made a profit off of it. Now they call me a god...What fools these mortals be.

Atlas

I want my relationship with my girlfriend to be built on trust, not toothpicks, rubber bands, and lentil beans.

I Want

We humans are different - our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them, our recollections in their retelling.

The Memory Palace

[A]lthough wisdom is built on life experience, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.

My Beloved World

A house built on greed cannot long endure.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

All the best pubs are built on a hill, so you can slope in and roll out.

Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems

We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads which hurt our feet.

Time for a Tiger

Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.

Venus in Arms

The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time.

J. Carter Brown

Linear thinking typifies a highly developed industry. It starts to get these patterns built into it somehow. I'm not sure how that happens, but certainly you take a look at dinosaurs.

Michael Nesmith

The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.

Nathan Myhrvold

She built her character with the adversity she had faced, so she could live the best of her life for the rest of life.

Nikki Rowe

We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant.

Orville Redenbacher

There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs and skills.

Penn Jillette

A fig for those by law protected! Liberty's a glorious feast! Courts for cowards were erected, Churches built to please the priest!

Robert Burns

A fortress built long ago, Walls made timeless by historic glory. The small girl in the boat slows, To listen to its story.

Rachel Lewis