Best building & block Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Sunday Philosophy Club

“I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.”

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Author:Al Franken

“Books aren’t just my defenses, the sandbags I use to fortify my position; they are also the building blocks of my soul, and I am the sum of all I read.”

Book Soul Use Position Building Defense Block My Soul Building Blocks

Book:Losing Julia

Source: Losing Julia

“When you start to build a serious wardrobe, the navy blazer is the very first piece you should choose. It can be a building block for an entire work and casual wardrobe.”

Should Firsts Pieces Building Serious Block Navy Casual Wardrobe Building Blocks Blazers

Author:Derren Brown

“I was staying in a hotel in San Francisco for a couple of nights, before flying back to the UK. My hotel was a desperate grey block made from paper and people’s screams. At night the sound of strangers having icy sex echoed off the building and poured through the broken air conditioning, like tiny daggers I couldn't see, reminding me of just the tip of what I was missing.”

“In truth, the best long-term explanations about our ancient counterparts can be found in the paintings, sculpture, crafts, tools of utility, language and architecture left behind. These are the building blocks of civilization we call culture. These are what we call 'the arts.”

“I'm quite optimistic. I'm also a realist. And I hope, you know, things work out. I don't think that the world will ever know peace. Complete peace in all countries. I think perhaps that's not in our makeup to do this although we can pray for it and work for it. But I think that the building blocks of peace are moving into shape, and I think that the world is going to be a better place.”

Thinking Knows World Country Moving Building Praying Shapes Work Out Block Optimistic Makeup Better Place Realist Building Blocks Things Work Out

Author:Shirley Temple

“On the geometric level, we see certain physical elements repeated endlessly, combined in an almost endless variety of combinations. It is puzzling to realize that the elements, which seem like elementary building blocks, keep varying, and are different every time that they occur. If the elements are different every time that they occur, evidently then, it cannot be the elements themselves which are repeating in a building or town; these so-called elements cannot be the ultimate "atomic" constituents of space.”

Ifs Different Seems Certain Realizing Space Levels Building Elements Ultimate Towns Endless Block Variety Combination Constituents Building Blocks Puzzling Geometric

Author:Christopher Alexander

“One begins to think with that new building block, rather than with littler pieces. And finally, the things which seem like elements dissolve, and leave a fabric of relationships behind, which is the stuff that actually repeats itself, and gives the structure to a building or a town.”

Thinking Giving Seems Stuff Behinds Pieces Building Elements Towns Structure Block Repeats Fabric Building Blocks

Author:Christopher Alexander

“When HSBC took the painting out of their building, they had to block the road and use a crane to bring the painting out from the window. They spent about 20,000 dollars just to get the painting out of the building! They said not to bring it back, and told Sotheby's to sell it immediately!”

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Author:Liu Dan

“Democracy and markets are both fundamental building blocks for a decent society. But they clash at a fundamental level. We need to balance them.”

Needs Levels Democracy Building Balance Fundamentals Block Decent Clash Building Blocks

Book:Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

Source: Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

“When we were children, letters were like fun toys. We played with them through our building blocks. We colored them in books. We danced and sang along with TV puppets while learning C was for “cookie.” Soon, letters turned into words. Words turned into sentences. Sentences turned into thoughts. And along the way, we stopped playing with them and stopped marveling at A through Z.”

Way Children Book Fun Building Tvs Letters Sentences Block Toys Cookies Puppets Building Blocks Marveling

Author:Ji Lee

“With a painting, you're taking basic building blocks and making something that's more complex than what you started with. It is a synthetic process. A photograph does the opposite: It takes the world, and puts an order on it, simplifies it.”

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Author:Stephen Shore

“Truth telling is the first building block of character -- a quality that seems to be getting rarer and rarer in all-forgiving America.”

Firsts Character Seems America Quality Building Forgiving Block Telling The Truth Building Blocks

Author:Mona Charen

“Remember the importance of small actions. They're the building blocks in the architecture of your life, the quiet victories you win for yourself each day.”

Action Remember Winning Building Victory Quiet Importance Architecture Block Each Day Building Blocks Small Actions

Author:Diane Dreher

“This use of building blocks to generate internal models is a pervasive feature of complex adaptive systems.”

Use Building Models Complexes Block Features Internals Building Blocks Adaptive

Book:Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity

Source: Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity

“When a new building block is discovered, the result is usually a range of innovations.”

Results Building Innovation Block Range Building Blocks

Book:Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity

Source: Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity

“Particular individuals do not recur, but their building blocks do.”

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Book:Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity

Source: Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity

“Traditional marriage in the platform is the essential building block to our civilization.”

Building Civilization Essentials Traditional Block Platforms Building Blocks Traditional Marriage

Author:Ken Blackwell

“Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.”

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Author:Zaha Hadid

“This is another thing which I really like investigating in my novels: what is it that makes an intimate society, that makes a society in which moral concern for others will be possible? Part of that I think are manners and ritual. We tried to get rid of manners, we tried to abolish manners in the '60s. Manners were very, very old-fashioned and un-cool. And of course we didn't realise that manners are the building blocks of proper moral relationships between people.”

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Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states, because otherwise one state just takes over another.”

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Author:Julian Assange

“Far from being accidental details, the properties of nature's basic building blocks are deeply entwined with the fabric of space and time.”

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Book:The Elegant Universe

Source: The Elegant Universe

“Marriage is the basic building block of civilization. We are redefining it at our own peril.”

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Author:Hank Hanegraaff

“Organisms dont think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.”

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Author:Janine Benyus

“Some heat, some spice and plenty of citrus are the building blocks of many north African fish dishes.”

Building Fishes Block Plenty Heat Dishes Spices Building Blocks Citrus

Author:Yotam Ottolenghi

“I think it's really important, when you're redefining a character [ Spider-Man], for the audience to experience things that they haven't experienced, from the ground up. I wanted to build a character. I feel like point of view is a really crucial thing in the story, and that you need to build up the emotional building blocks, so that you can experience all the other emotions in a very specific way, rather than just experiencing it in an intellectual way.”

“When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart, some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand--a center of gravity.”

Source: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

“Nothing highlights better the continuing gap between rhetoric and substance in British financial services than the failure of providers here to emulate Jack Bogle's index fund success in the United States. Every professional in the City knows that index funds should be core building blocks in any long-term investor's portfolio. Since 1976, the Vanguard index funds has produced a compound annual return of 12 percent, better than three-quarters of its peer group.”

“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.”

Needs Difficult Building Materials Stones Structure Careful Architecture Block Falsehood Rude Rotten Adjustment

Book:Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

Source: Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

“Put in an honest day's work. It is the building block of a spiritual life.”

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Author:Philip Toshio Sudo

“The myth of self-sufficiency blinds us to the workings of other forces in family life. For families are not now, nor were they ever, the self-sufficient building blocks of society, exclusively responsible, praiseworthy, and blamable for their own destiny. They are deeply influenced by broad social and economic forces over which they have little control.”

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“That experience of touching down in a totally foreign place is like having a blank canvas: You begin with nothing, but stroke by stroke you build a life. This process requires everything great art requires-risk-tasking, hope, a great deal of imagination, all the qualities that are the building blocks of art. You must be able to dream something nearly impossible and toil to bring it into existence.”

Art Dream Able Process Imagination Deals Existence Quality Impossible Risk Building Block Touching Blank Canvas Strokes Toil Great Art Building Blocks Blank Canvas Foreign Places

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“The basic building block of peace and security for all peoples is economic and social security, anchored in sustainable development. It is a key to all problems. Why? Because it allows us to address all the great issues-poverty, climate, environment and political stability-as parts of the whole.”

“We do not subsidize organic food. We subsidize these four crops - five altogether, but one is cotton - and these are the building blocks of fast food. One of the ways you democratize healthy food is you support healthy food.”

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Author:Michael Pollan

“Music is mere tuning a song with words; to some degree you have a beautiful endeavor of cosigning God's blank checks and you're actually co-creating. You're certainly not the creator with the capital C, but you're embarking on an endeavor, you're using the building blocks that have been given to you by the author of time and space.”

Has Beens Beautiful Song Given Space Building Degrees Creating Music Is Mere Creator Checks Block Endeavor Blank Time And Space Tuning Building Blocks Embarking Blank Check

Author:Jon Foreman

“Some tropes are universal. Boy meets girl. Betrayal and revenge. The search to discover a hidden truth.... A mother's love isn't cliché, it's universal. These things are archetypes. They're the building blocks of myth and legend. They are a big part about what it means to be human.”

“Chemistry begins in the stars. The stars are the source of the chemical elements, which are the building blocks of matter and the core of our subject.”

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Author:Peter Atkins

“...a major triumph of mathematical imagination: the use of visual imagery to condense a large quantity of information into a single comprehensible picture... Mathematicians are just beginning to understand these basic building blocks of change and to analyze how they combine. The methodology involved has a very different spirit from traditional modeling with differential equations: it is more like chemistry than calculus, requiring careful counterpoint between analysis and synthesis.”

“Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him.”

Knows Men Years Book Parent Written Building Civilization Tales Block Written Word Building Blocks

Author:Louis L'Amour

“The building block of every community is family.”

Community Building Block Building Blocks

Author:Paul Singer

“Information is the new atom or electron, the fundamental building block of the universe ... We now see the world as entirely made of information: it's bits all the way down.”

World Way Made Universe Bits Information Building Fundamentals Block Atoms Electrons Building Blocks

Author:Bryan Appleyard

“Workaholism is a block, not a building block.”

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Book:The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

Source: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

“I was working with actors who were very easy to work with, but I can just imagine how, with all the other decision-making problems that come up along the way, in addition to that, the whole point of what your doing is following performance and character development. You're building your story with those building blocks, and it is not easy. I've only come out with more respect for directors, from this.”

“A demonstration of sincere concern can be a strong building block of love.”

Strong Building Concern Block Sincere Demonstration Building Blocks

Book:Help Me, I'm Married!

Source: Help Me, I'm Married!

“Sometimes I use my jokes as building blocks for larger bits. I like to draw and play music, so sometimes I do those things along with the jokes.”

Sometimes Play Use Bits Building Draws Jokes Block Building Blocks

Author:Demetri Martin

“I've seen the end of the universe, and it happens to be in the United States and, oddly enough, it's in Houston, Texas. I know - I was shocked, too. Imagine my surprise when I left a comedy club one day and walked to the end of the block, and there on one corner was a Starbucks, and across the street from that Starbucks, in the exact same building as that Starbucks, there was - a Starbucks. I looked back and forth, thinking the sun was playing tricks with my eyes. That there was a Starbucks across from a Starbucks - and that, my friends, is the end of the universe.”

“Plot and scene are still the hardest things for me, though I think they're the building blocks of what makes a story work.”

Thinking Stills Stories Building Scene Hardest Block Plot Hardest Thing Building Blocks

Author:Dan Chaon

“If it takes several billion years to develop the building blocks which you need, like RNA and DNA, and then those can build multicellular life and then multicellular life can be honed with natural selection to a point where it becomes sentient like us, then at some point that sentient being can begin to manipulate the matter around it to build better sentient life.”

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Author:Neill Blomkamp

“For decades, we've been trying to cook up the building blocks of life, in the lab, and recreate the origins of it all, but the parts didn't seem to fit together, until now.”

Trying Seems Together Building Fit Decades Block Cooks Labs Building Blocks

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

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