Built Quotes

They built these little tanning booths for Brooke and I to do nothing but lay down and tan all over.

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

You look at the tremendous success of Facebook. To my mind there is not a lot of commerce going on in these social networking sites. eBay is a community anchored in commerce. It is a commerce site that built a community around it. What has not been proven is if the reverse can happen and people will go to community sites to do commerce.

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

What was so good about it was that the set that they originally built stayed there, and weathered over the five years. It got five summers and five winters of weather. It became more and more authentic as we worked in it, and they added bits to it.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

As far as I'm concerned, the people who aren't paying taxes don't get to run around claiming that they built everything, that the built the roads and that they built the bridges and so forth.

In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

On Jan. 30, millions of Iraqis will cast ballots in the country's first fair and free election in decades, marking continued progress in Iraq's transition toward a country built on the pillars of democracy and freedom for all.

We busted a lot of family secrets with this. But to make a long story short, my parents relationship was built heavily on security issues for my Mom, and when my Dad couldn't provide security, the relationship unraveled.

If an ad campaign is built around a weak idea - or as is so often the case, no idea at all - I don't give a damn how good the execution is, it's going to fail.

My wife and I have built trust with our children and have always had open communication.

The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek.

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining.

I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.

This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it.

Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years it's a name that the streets taught me a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment and I feel I've done quite a bit with that name and it's time to expand and move on.

The task of a priest, in some respects, may be different today, but the principles upon which Herbert built his life as a priest are of universal application.

Our company is built on people - those who work for us, and those we do business with.

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.

You get built up and put on a pedestal and then people want to bring you down. It can be hurtful. Some people try to make me look bad or not a nice person but it's completely false.

Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.

Loki in 'Thor' is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that I'd built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters.

Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.

I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.

We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.

I don't think there is enough educational programming, but unfortunately, television is built around advertising and those shows don't get the big ratings.

With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.

Everyone I built a course for thinks they have the best golf course in the world and I'm very pleased and proud of that.