(3261 quotes found)
“When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting. Before going into a fire, there's the same surge of adrenaline you get just before the camera rolls.”
Steve Buscemi
“Build up your creditBuild up your self esteemBuild up your bank accountMoving up in the sceneEveryone's living the American Dream so we canBuild up an armyAnd SMASH it to pieces!”
Christine Anderson
“There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.”
Colin Hay
“Flat-out flatness, the hard line of the horizon. I like the little towns with their handfuls of buildings huddled close to the grain elevators, like medieval towns clustered around their cathedrals.”
Gordon Webber
“A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one”
Sam Rayburn
“Let's build a monument for the veto. Let's build a monument for impotence and incapacity.”
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
“The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.”
Eric Hoffer
“I just thought everybody lived around abandoned buildings and crack-heads, ... I lived in the ghetto until I was like 19. I came to (Los Angeles), stayed at hotels and stuff. When I got back and I saw what my neighborhood looked like, I started getting scared.”
Chris Rock
“Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky - fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will”
Frank Gelett Burgess
“Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.”
Larry Ellison