“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.” IfsKnowsHas BeensTwoKnow HowNew YorkBuildingBlock Author:Al Franken
“Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.” TwoBuildingMonstersAbandonedOctopusAbandoned Buildings Author:China Mieville
“I avoid my neighbors - luckily, my building has two exits.” TwoBuildingNeighborExit Author:Lynn Samuels
“I smuggled the camera, it was no problem to smuggle the camera there. And I took 60 photos, two films, during the time when there was no one in the control room, in the building.” TwoProblemFilmRoomsBuildingCamerasNo Problem Author:Mordechai Vanunu
“If you wanted to create jobs in a way that has minimal effect on the deficit but has government action, the two best things you could do are the infrastructure bank and a simple SBA-like loan guarantee for all building retrofits, where the contractor or the energy-service company guarantees the savings. So that allows the bank to loan money to let a school or a college or a hospital or a museum or a commercial building unencumbered by debt to loan it on terms that are longer, so you can pay it back only from your utility savings. You could create a million jobs doing that.” IfsWayTwoGovernmentActionWantedSchoolJobsEnergyTermSimplePayCompanyMillionsEffectsBuildingCollegeDebtSavingBest ThingsGuaranteesHospitalsMuseumsInfrastructureDeficitLoanUtilitySavingsContractor Author:William J. Clinton
“At present I am using a good sized bedroom in the 2 bedroom house here as a studio, and it is large enough to step back from my canvases, and has a good north light. It should serve very well until I can afford to have the storeroom half of the back building lined and insulated and a chimney put in. That may be in about two years.” ShouldYearsWellsMayI CanTwoEnoughLightHouseHalfStepsBuildingStudiosTwo YearsBedroomChimneysBedroom House Author:E. J. Hughes
“You don't like a particular policy or a particular president? Then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election. Push to change it. But don't break it. Don't break what our predecessors spent over two centuries building. That's not being faithful to what this country's about.” TwoCountryWinningPresidentBreakCenturyPolicyPositionBuildingParticularElectionArguingFaithfulPredecessorsBeing Faithful Author:Barack Obama
“I love to walk through the streets of Jesus Maria and Pueblo Libre. The Spanish colonial buildings are in bright colors, two stories high, with these intricate wooden, windowed balconies.” TwoStoriesJesusWalksStreetsBuildingColorIntricateBalconiesBright ColorsLibre Author:Daniel Alarcon
“I don't think you get perfect couples. At best you get two people building something, and working at it, and loving each other, and doing their best to communicate.” PeopleThinkingTwoPerfectBuildingCoupleCommunicateBuilding SomethingPerfect Couple Author:Neil Gaiman
“There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall exist below a certain level or standard of living, and certainly we don't quarrel with this. But look more closely and you may find that all too often these well-meaning people are building a ceiling above which no one shall be permitted to climb and between the two are pressing us all into conformity, into a mold of standardized mediocrity.” PeopleWellsLooksMayTwoTodayCertainLevelsEconomicBuildingStandardsEconomicsOppressionClimbsConformityMediocrityQuarrelsMoldCeilingsStandards Of Living Author:Ronald Reagan
“There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.” PeopleTwoSimpleDesignBuildingCategories Author:Frank Gehry
“I have two Filipino nannies who have British passport and not me. I don't need British passport. When you were running around in an animal skin, my ancestors were building the pyramids.” NeedsTwoRunningAnimalBuildingSkinsBritishAncestorPyramidsPassportsFilipinoNannies Author:Mohamed Al-Fayed
“I think we need to change that old saying, "I don't need a building to fall on me." Because two did and we still don't get it. I think we all stick our head in the sand as a deep human impulse.” ThinkingNeedsHumansStillsTwoFallBuildingSticksImpulseSandNeed A ChangeOld Saying Author:Bill Maher