Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Mitchell

It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.

Eartha Kitt

I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.

Edwin Land

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Daniel H. Wilson

Demolition is a part of construction.

Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case.

Scott Aukerman

I'm not the type of guy who's funny in the room. I'm the guy who's funny late at night on a computer, trying to construct jokes.

Anthony Trollope

She well knew the great architectural secret of decorating her constructions, and never condescended to construct a decoration.

Edmund Stoiber

Should we not be able to construct a government ... the Schroeder government will only be able to govern for a very, very short time,

We're only five percent finished at this point. We have 95 percent to go. You have to design and construct as efficiently as possible, in a manner that's very fan friendly and family friendly.

W. S. Gilbert

To construct something as complicated as our bodies, we turn on different genes in muscles, skin, and so on to structure them.

John Schuerholz

He gives us another piece as we try to construct our team. He's hit .300 as a pinch hitter in the past.

We can make life in the computer. Granted, it's limited, but we have learned what it takes in order to actually construct it.

Michael Anderson

Repression has been a vague and controversial construct for over a century, in part because it has been unclear how such a mechanism could be implemented in the brain.

Louis Garrel

It's true I have a hard time with the notion of creating a character. And I feel it's a limit. I'm always really impressed by actors who are able to construct a character, like Johnny Depp.

James Frain

I don't keep a record of the parts I've played, and I don't compare characters, but maybe I should? I could construct a graphic that grades badness and madness levels? Interesting idea.

Amy Poehler

So, if you're doing good longform with talented people than you can step out and you can be the president or a construction worker and people accept that. It's really the roles you give yourself.

Craig Scott

The tragic effects of terrorism have forced the new-construction industry to re-evaluate traditional methods of fire protection in commercial infrastructures. That includes everything from building codes, to structural design issues and the less durable fireproofing materials currently specified for commercial steel structures.

Donald Trump

I have many women executives. I always have. When I was back in the construction days, the big construction days, I had women in charge of big developments.

Keith Barry

If someone is lying to you, they'll generally look up to the top right. That means that they're trying to construct an image that doesn't exist.

Tobias Lindholm

I studied screenwriting at film school and was constantly learning how to construct three-act dramas.

Tim Hetherington

You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism.

Zach Gilford

There is a little bit of me in every part I do... I'm not really good enough to completely construct an all-new character.

We donated $15,000 in materials necessary to construct the house.

Bertrand Russell

The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities.

Bob Corker

I saved $8,000 and created a construction company when I was 25.

Samantha Harvey

With 'All Is Song,' I tried to construct a very traditional narrative that pulls no tricks.

Peter Cullen

As a young actor, I would be invited to the CBC radio drama department to do voices for different characters, and I found that I could do quite a few of them. I wasn't a visual presence, and I found it easier to construct a voice from the written page.

As people construct a life narrative, researchers have found, they tend to remember more events from the teens and twenties than from any other time. It's called the 'reminiscence bump.'

Ollanta Humala

This is a process happening throughout the region. New regimes have surged within these conditions, democratically. We are seeing a new face of Latin America. It's trying to construct a family, a Latin American family.

This is the ground-level work that will determine how the state designs the rail and constructs the project.

There's a need for a Mercado no matter who constructs it as long as it comes to the community.

Cherie Blair

People say that human rights is a Western construct foisted on others. But that's not true. Equality, dignity, respect and justice are as much an integral part of the Islamic tradition.

Bruce Feirstein

The great thing about games is that it's tremendously collaborative, and it opens you up to this other world of thinking and storytelling and how you construct those stories.