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When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house. -- Ty Pennington
The idea of building a Near Eastern house in Honolulu must seem fantastic to many. -- Doris Duke
I'm finishing building a house and setting up a shop to build custom electronical musical instruments. -- Robert Moog
We're actually building onto the house to make it bigger because we want to start a family. -- Traci Bingham
To go to the White House is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In fact, the building is not that big. -- Hugh Bonneville
Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house. -- Bjarke Ingels
Providing health care is like building a house. The task requires experts, expensive equipment and materials, and a huge amount of coordination. -- Atul Gawande
So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.' -- Tommy Cooper
So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.' -- Tommy Cooper
I live in a loft in a building I designed, but for my dream house I'd get Frank Gehry, just to see what he'd do. -- Hugh Hardy
At Rackspace, I'm building a media house which will celebrate small teams who are having world-wide impacts through their building or use of new technology. -- Robert Scoble
All Oprah needs is a good book. My only request when she's building any house is, 'Could I please have a TV in my bedroom?' -- Gayle King
Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs. -- Pat Gillick
The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams. -- Robert A. M. Stern
My husband and I are building a 'green' house in Santa Ynez Valley. We bought 15 acres and we're going to build a house that's green from the ground up. -- Jennie Garth
Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown, because that's what you do when you build a house. -- Cynthia Weil
One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first public building was a meeting-house, but often before any house of God was builded, the devil got his restraining engine. -- Alice Morse Earle
I still have a dream of one day - I would love to hire a semi-retired contractor and just build a house - him and I building a house for me. I would truly love to do that. -- Christopher Meloni
No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical. -- Michael Ende
Building a house from scratch in the middle of a field is a bit like building a prototype car. As with all prototypes, if you're building a car you usually have the luxury of producing several prototypes before you arrive at the production line version - so the opportunity for changing things is quite rich. -- Kevin McCloud
I haven't done any building designs since the Loaf House. -- Ben Nicholson
Like building a house, travel always costs more than you estimate. -- Ilka Chase
The glass ceiling doesn't apply when you're building your own house -- Heidi Roizen
Merry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! -- George Bailey
Maps are essential. Planning a journey without a map is like building a house without drawings. -- Mark Jenkins
A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house -- Socrates
Basing your identity on sexuality is like building a house on a foundation of pudding. - D. Travers Scott -- Carol Queen
Bobby Martin has another project. He's building a house. He's out there at 6 o'clock in the morning hammering nails. -- Frank Zappa
Nothing happens here in this building, in the House of Representatives, if there's no demand from outside the Capitol. -- Luis Gutierrez
Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. -- James Boswell
The Bible talks about building houses on sand and rock, but says nothing about a brick house built on a blanket. -- Nicole McKay
I think I'm a pretty creative person. I love building things. I love working on my house. Landscaping, stuff like that. -- Chris Sharma
We define a world. We build a house, then after building the house we enter into it and we never leave it. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family. -- Kevin McCloud
People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just. -- Aristotle
I do think we need for a troop to be able to house his family. That's an important part of building morale in the military. -- George W. Bush
Am you building up your house, or are you tearing it down? Your 'house' is the sphere of relationships that God has placed you in. -- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
I'd rather be somewhere building a house, if I knew how. The whole idea of being a professional artist is like a demeaning kind of thing. -- Willis Earl Beal
For me mindfulness is like building a house, so the next time the tsunami that is depression comes I'll have a structure in place to resist it. -- Ruby Wax
If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous- looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap, dear house. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers. -- Max Muller
At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long-established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House ownership. -- Barton Gellman
The only time I've ever taken out a loan is for the building work I had done at our house and I did that by extending the mortgage. -- Andrea McLean
For centuries, building materials were free. You want to build a house, you cut down some trees. But we haven't been thinking about the cost to the planet. -- Dan Phillips
I've been working with contractors designing and building a house on a nonstop basis since I learned about all these systems of audio, construction, electricity, energy, water systems. -- Tony Fadell
I've been working with contractors designing and building a house on a nonstop basis since 2005. I learned about all these systems of audio, construction, electricity, energy, water systems. -- Tony Fadell
New Jersey Mayor Corey Booker last night personally rescued a woman from a burning building. Or as Fox News reported it, 'black man loots house, steals white woman.' -- Bill Maher
From the U.S. Capitol Building to the White House, our national symbols that represent freedom to so many of us, were built by people who were anything but free. -- Gary Ackerman

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