Wise Construction Quotes & Sayings

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's. — William Blake

If you build it well, a satisfaction comes
An honor to say I built that with fidelity,
Purpose, value and integrity — Richard L. Ratliff

A verbalizing race has words for every old concept . . . and creates new words or new definitions for old words whenever a new concept comes along. Always! A nervous system that is able to verbalize cannot avoid verbalizing; it's automatic. — Robert A. Heinlein

Politics is a trivial diversion from the business of living. — Marty Rubin

We're plotting to steal time itself from you ... We're going to spike it to the floor as it slips by. And just as you come over to see why it's so still, we'll pull it out from under you
and send you spinning off around the galaxy's edge. We're planning to pluck all the best stars out of the sky and stuff them in our pockets ... so that when we meet you once again and thrust our hands deep inside to hide our embarrassment, our fingertips will smart on them, as if they were desert grains, caught down in the seams, and we'll smile at you on your way to a glory that, for all our stellar thefts, we shall never be able to duplicate. — Samuel R. Delany

The secret of genius is to carry the child into old age. — Aldous Huxley

The young world was without a spring: it knew nothing beyond rock and water. There was the colour of open skies and of sunrise and sunset. The only sounds came from the movement of water, whether of rain or streams or waves, from thunder, and from wind sweeping across rock. — Jacquetta Hawkes

I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature. — Robert Boyle

Money is ... I'm very conscious of it because I have it. It's powerful, man. It can change you ever so slightly, ever so slowly, and all of a sudden you're addicted to a million-dollar lifestyle and you've got no choice but to make a bad movie. — Penn Badgley