Quotes of: Constructs Keyword

When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed.

John Irving

I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.

Catherine Opie

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.

Charles Simic

A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But it's some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.

Greg Lynn

There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas.

Heinrich Mann

Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.

Jean Piaget

When humanity stops confusing the construct with the Kingdom - we'll begin to recognize the Truth.

Dana Gore

It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created.

Dennis Hastert

I think 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy has a very satisfying ending, and there's not really that deep of a mythological construct.

Damon Lindelof

By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.

John le Carre

Arizona now has one of the most innovative systems of financing school construction in the nation.

Jane D. Hull

I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules.

Jane Haddam

The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.

Norah Jones

In a lot of movies, especially big studio ones, they're not constructed in any other way than to get people to like them and then tell their friends. It's a product.

Charlie Kaufman

If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

A. R. Rahman

The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.

Alma Guillermoprieto

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

Anselm Kiefer

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

Agnes Repplier

Writers get to construct a magical world that readers can visit in thought and extend their stay with imagination.

Life

Watching something being constructed, whether you're passing a building site or whether you're watching an artist at work, is fascinating, and I think that's the enjoyment.

Nick Mason