I’m building a glass pyramid over the Egyptian escalator where my body will be mummified, so my customers can come and see me forever. – Mohamed Al-Fayed
I don’t know if it’s genetic or just because I was surrounded by it, but I was always fascinated with building and construction and development. – Donald Trump, Jr.
The work that launched Snohetta into the architectural big leagues was their Oslo Opera House, which will certainly rank among the firm’s highlights whatever else they may do. Although this is by any measure a triumph of city planning, the building itself is not quite a masterpiece, though very fine indeed. – Martin Filler
For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose’s view, that this has to happen, there’s nothing I can do about it. – Camilla Belle
If you’re building a house, or doing anything, time is what you’ve got. Well, there’s effort, but you need time. The more time you put into something, the better stuff you can make. – Gene Simmons
I love snow; I love building snowman. The only thing I don’t like is the cold – so if we could have a hot Christmas, that would be amazing. – Ella Henderson
Activating is about changing people’s perceptions of overlooked or invisible spaces. A building can become an archetype, invisible, like for a New Yorker, for example, the Statue of Liberty. You look at it, and it disappears into the thousands of times you’ve already seen it. – Chris Jordan
It sounds stupid, but there’s nothing like walking down the street and seeing a building that’s older than 100 years old. I think London – not to sound pretentious – like New York, it’s a big melting pot for all things and it’s just got this energy that you can’t find anywhere else. – Christian Cooke
As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things – we were kind of a project family. I started out as a painter, and then painting led to cinema, and in cinema, you get to build so many things, or help build them. – David Lynch
There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every Cuban. But if we continue to wait for the golden calf, a thousand years will have gone by, and the problem will remain the same. – Fidel Castro
They’re building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia. – George C. Wallace
Elton wanted a garden. They were building all afternoon while we were rehearsing. And then they built a fountain for Elton. And he said, I was only joking! – Maurice Gibb
The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based on international law and United Nations resolutions, and that it frantically continues to intensify building of settlements on the territory of the State of Palestine. – Mahmoud Abbas
Saturated fat is a fundamental building block for brain cells. It’s certainly interesting to consider that one of the richest sources of saturated fat in nature is human breast milk. – David Perlmutter
Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives. – Edwin Louis Cole
Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works – it’s all the same stuff; it’s just different aesthetics that we’re talking about. – Flea
Building the right product requires systematically and relentlessly testing that vision to discover which elements of it are brilliant, and which are crazy. – Eric Ries
It’s an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies. – Mallory Ortberg
I was interested in big unknowns, and the brain is one of the biggest, so building tools that allow us to regard the brain as a big electrical circuit appealed to me. – Edward Boyden
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. – Mohamed Al-Fayed
It’s actually easier to do autobiographical stories. The story is already there. It’s a matter of carving away what doesn’t fit rather than building up from nothing. – Craig Thompson
The financial benefits of prefabrication have never been as large as its advocates predicted, for although some labor costs can be reduced by machine manufacturing, on-site assembly of any building still depends to some extent on the handwork of skilled craftsmen. – Martin Filler
Initially, I had two thoughts. First, this is a very large conspiracy; and second, our children in Washington. We knew there were a few unidentified planes that may have been headed for the White House or the Capitol Building. – Mercer Reynolds
I’ve gotten my personal life all the way intact and made sure that it’s straight. Without that, you have no foundation. Your building is going to crumble. – Dr. Dre
One of the purposes of life, and selfishly what makes people happy, is building things that are impactful. – Dustin Moskovitz
Forget about where you want to be and go out and build stuff. Dodgeball came from being bored at work… things happen because you make them happen. Stop sketching, and start building. – Dennis Crowley
If your pal or neighbour is in the SNP, you’re more likely to listen to them than if you just turn on the telly and see me or Alex. The growth of membership is building a politically engaged community base that hasn’t been there in my lifetime. – Nicola Sturgeon
