Building quotes

“Did you know that most temples are built with moveable walls so that the one day of the year when everyone comes to repent they can actually make the room big enough to hold everyone?”

Zach Braff - Andrew Largeman

“- Leader of Senate - The Roman Empire: All fellow members of the Roman senate hear me. Shall we continue to build palace after palace for the rich? Or shall we aspire to a more noble purpose and build decent housing for the poor? How does the senate vote?
- Entire Senate: Fuck the poor!”
John Myhers - Leader of Senate - The Roman Empire

“Take a look at a castle. Any castle. Now break down the key elements that make it a castle. They haven't changed in a thousand years. 1: Location. A site on high ground that commands the territory as far as the eye can see. 2: Protection. Big walls, walls strong enough to withstand a frontal attack. 3: A garrison. Men who are trained and willing...” (continue)(continue reading)
Robert Redford - Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin

“Sam Wilson-41st floor! 41st!
Nick Fury-It's not like they put the floor numbers on the outside of the building.”
Anthony Mackie - Sam Wilson
Samuel L. Jackson - Nick Fury

“One day the war will be over. And I hope that the people that use this bridge in years to come will remember how it was built and who built it. Not a gang of slaves, but soldiers, British soldiers, Clipton, even in captivity.”
Alec Guinness - Colonel Nicholson

“- Count Cavriaghi: How big is this palace anyway? How many rooms are there?
- Tancredi Falconeri: Nobody knows, not even Uncle. He says a palace in which you know every room isn't worth living in.”
Terence Hill - Count Cavriaghi
Alain Delon - Tancredi Falconeri

“I'm, uh, building a house in California. An exact replica of my imperial villa in Rome, down to the very last detail. But with flush toilets. Yes, the mountain may not have come to Muhammad, but it sure as hell came to me.”
Christopher Plummer - J. Paul Getty

“They can rebuild the White House, but they will never forget me. Not ever.”

Sean Penn - Samuel J. Bicke

“Everything lost is meant to be found. Don't worry.”

Angelina Jolie - Lara Croft

“- Gin: I give you the world's tallest building.
- Mac: And we're going to steal it?”
Catherine Zeta-Jones - Gin
Sir Sean Connery - Mac

“- Baka: They use the old ones to do the work of greasing the stones, Lord Prince. If they are killed, it is no loss.
- Moses: Are you a master builder or a master butcher?”
Vincent Price - Baka
Charlton Heston - Moses

“- Captain McCallister: I'll need three ships and fifty stout men. We'll sail around the Horn and return with spices and silk, the likes of which ye have never seen.
- Mr. Burns: We are building a casino!
- Captain McCallister: Ar... Can you give me 5 minutes?”
Hank Azaria - Captain McCallister
Harry Shearer - Mr. Burns

“Perhaps you brought them to life, Philippe - given them a soul.”

Charlotte Le Bon - Annie

“They put the building in the middle of the city, so that everyone could be equally close to God. I like that, the symmetry, the geometry of belief.”

James Spader - Ultron

“People will insist that your buildings make you immortal. Now, as you slip away, do you feel immortal?”

Matthew Goode - Albright

“I would find myself there looking at the void, to see how the thought comes back. How the feeling returns. Because it was a beautiful day.”

Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Philippe Petit

“Look at this. Who can say it isn't beautiful? Sky, bricks. Who do you think lives there? Four-car garage. Hope, fear, excitement, satisfaction.”
David Byrne - Narrator

“- Jean-Pierre: You know Philippe, the Towers seem different. They're different now.
- Barry Greenhouse: That's right. They're different because you walked up there. Every New Yorker I talk to now says they love these towers.”
James Badge Dale - Jean- Pierre / J.P.
Steve Valentine - Barry Greenhouse

“We're building an office block for 15,000 people, we can't put a bathroom on every other floor... Well, what if they don't go before come to work?”
Tom Selleck - Peter

“Who's the real monster here? I destroy, to build something better! Whereas you? You're a man who destroys for revenge!”

Colin Friels - Louis Strack Jr.

“I'm gonna construct some construction that needs to be constructed.”
Tracy Morgan - LeeJohn

“Don't be fooled by the grim exterior. It's a good deal grimmer inside.”

Emma Thompson - Kate

“This is no time to celebrate petty revenge. This is the time to build our nation using every single brick available to us, even if that brick comes wrapped in green and gold.”
Morgan Freeman - Nelson Mandela

“Damn, they're closing down military left and right and putting up jails like 7-Eleven stores!”
LaTanya Richardson Jackson - Priscilla Worth

“Can you imagine being the guy whose job it is to argue for the right to build a mall on top of a geological phenomenon?”

Zach Braff - Andrew Largeman