Best whole & building Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Bringing an end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians may help the young Arab generation to realise their aspirations. Israel is more than willing to offer our experience in building a modern economy in spite of limited resources to the whole region.”

May Ends Whole Helping Young Economy Generations Modern Building Willing Offers Conflict Resources Israel Aspiration Spite Regions Realising Palestinian Limited Resources

Author:Shimon Peres

“In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with 'Dungeons and Dragons,' so that whole world-building thing is very close to my heart.”

World Heart Whole Fiction Fields Building Grew My Heart Grew Up Whole World Fantastic Dragons Dungeons Dungeons And Dragons Building Things Close To My Heart

Author:China Mieville

“No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.”

Author:Halford Luccock

“The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends to be taken in by to avoid feeling too disappointed. Ghost towns, ghost people. The whole place has the same air of obsolescence about it as Sunset or Hollywood Boulevard.”

Source: Mass Identity Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard

“While a great many other ideas and measures are of prime importance for the good life of the community, that which concerns its architectural expression is the notion of the community as limited in numbers, and in area... To express these relations clearly, to embody them in buildings and roads and gardens in which each individual structure will be subordinated to the whole - this is the end of community planning.”

Ideas Ends Whole Individual Community Numbers Building Expression Areas Concern Garden Importance Relation Structure Notion Architecture Planning Great Men Prime Good Life

Author:Lewis Mumford

“Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole.”

Whole Results Building Harmony Height Proportion Agreement Length Width

Book:The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt

Source: The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt

“A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building the Panama Canal; the conditions under which they have lived and have done their work have been better than in any similar work ever undertaken in the tropics; they have all felt an eager pride in their work; and they have made not only America but the whole world their debtors by what they have accomplished.”

Men World Has Beens Made Done Whole Body America Nations Felt Conditions Building He Man Pride Whole World Accomplished Canals Debtors Tropics Panama Panama Canal

Book:Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography

Source: Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography

“Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.”

Whole Design Building Affair Architecture Setting Settings Ambience

Author:Michael Graves

“Post-Modern space is historically specific, rooted in conventions, unlimited or ambiguous in zoning and irrational or transformational in its relation of parts to whole……. …skew or distorted spaces, created by sharp angles which exaggerate perspective…. …always keep a mental coordinate system no matter how free- form and baroque they become. The reference plane is always an implied frontality, and the route through the building or the curvilinear elements then relate to this conceptual cage”

Matter Whole Form Space Modern Building Perspective Elements Relation Posts Relate Planes Conventions Rooted Irrational Routes Angle Unlimited Cages Ambiguous Implied Coordinates Baroque

Author:Charles Jencks

“When a builder builds he clears the ground for his new foundations. Then he sees that the basic structure will support the whole. Should we not also clear the mind - at least that part of it that we can reach - of the ruins of past thinking, before building our palace of dharma which will one day reach the sky.”

Thinking Should Mind Whole Past Support Clear Sky Building One Day Foundation Structure Ruins Palaces Dharma Builder

Author:Christmas Humphreys

“Since every building and designed object is made of memory, every place can become a memorial for re-membering our lives and the world around us... a place to recollect the fragments of our lives into a revitalized whole.”

World Made Whole Memories Our Lives Objects Building Fragments Memorial

Author:Anthony Lawlor

“Too often what are called "educated" people are simply people who have been sheltered from reality for years in ivy-covered buildings. Those whose whole careers have been spent in ivy-covered buildings, insulated by tenure, can remain adolescents on into their golden retirement years.”

People Years Has Beens Whole Reality Careers Building Golden Educated Covered Retirement Ivy Tenure Retirement Years

Author:Thomas Sowell

“In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.”

Whole Building Industry International Significance Wretched

Author:Edwin Land

“I like doing this stuff [stunts] though, it's kind of the whole reason that you want to do the movie. When you're reading it you're like, "Oh, I get to dive out a window? Cool! I get to jump off a building? Great!" So I love doing that stuff, it's like the stuff we used to do in high school to be stupid and fun.”

Want Kind Reason Whole School Used Reading Fun Stuff Stupid Building High School Window

Author:Channing Tatum

“Our country as a whole, no less than the Hastings College of Law, values tolerance, cooperation, learning, and the amicable resolution of conflicts. But we seek to achieve those goals through "[a] confident pluralism that conduces to civil peace and advances democratic consensus-building," not by abridging First Amendment rights.”

“Wherefore a monk's whole attention should thus be fixed on one point, and the rise and circle of all his thoughts be vigorously restricted to it; viz., to the recollection of God, as when a man, who is anxious to raise on high a vault of a round arch, must constantly draw a line round from its exact centre, and in accordance with the sure standard it gives discover by the laws of building all the evenness and roundness required.”

Men Giving Should Whole Law Lines Attention Building Draws Standards Raises Rounds Circles Fixed Anxious Centre Monk Recollection Arches Vaults

Book:John Cassian Collection [4 Books]

Source: John Cassian Collection [4 Books]

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