Building quotes

“Remember, I built this new Jacuzzi for my alien family, so please, no eating in the spa.”
Dave Goelz - Gonzo

“You build bridges, John. You have to go where the rivers are.”
Emily Mortimer - Helena Patterson

“- Powell: How do a bunch of guys with hand tools build all this?
- Benjamin Franklin Gates: Same way they built the pyramids and the Great Wall of China.
- Riley Poole: Yeah... the aliens helped them.”

Stewart Finlay-McLennan - Powell
Nicolas Cage - Benjamin Franklin Gates
Justin Bartha - Riley Poole

“You know, he don't have a straight angle in that whole god-damned porch, or the whole house for that matter. He is the worst damn carpenter.”

Ron White - Clyde Ledbetter

“That thing may be a bloody technological marvel, but I'll be damned to hell in my socks if it didn't fabricate the entire charade.”

Christopher Cary - Captain Montaine

“- Max: According to legend it completely surrounds the property, this wall was built right on top of it.
- Jay: A brick wall on top of an underground stream? Now there's a stroke of engineering genius.
- Max: The wall was built to mark the stream, supposedly the evil spirits throughout the land can't cross over running water or something.”
Philip Tanzini - Max
Lance Fenton - Jay

“If you gave back every stolen artifact from a museum, you'd be left with an empty building.”

James Garner - Commander Lyle Tiberius Rourke

“Hey, if we had some rope, we could make a log bridge! If we... If we had some logs.”
Thomas Wilson Brown - Russell 'Russ' Thompson, Jr

“I hate to bust your bubble, but if you build houses this small, who's gonna live in them?”

John Goodman - Fred Flintstone

“- Leopold: Good Lord, it still stands. The world has changed all around it, but Roebling's erection still stands! Ha, ha! [to nearest bystander] That, my friend, is a miracle!
- Sanitation Worker: What?
- Leopold: It's a miracle, man!
- Sanitation Worker: It's a bridge.”

Hugh Jackman - Leopold
Ray Seiden - Sanitation Worker

“- Barry: This is the Joseph H. Nelson Memorial Library, here. Okay? It was built in the 1600s.
- Student in the Tour: 1600s? It says it was built in 1951.
- Barry: That's the address. Okay? Wise-ass.”
Tom Greening - Barry

“- Jonathan Safran Foer: What is it?
- Alex: Soviets.
- Jonathan Safran Foer: What happened?
- Alex: Independence.”

Elijah Wood - Jonathan Safran Foer
Eugene Hutz - Alex

“Nostalgia is great. We love nostalgia. But nostalgia belongs in a museum. I think there comes a time to decide whether you're running a museum or you're running a casino.”
Ron Livingston - Larry Sokolov

“I once built a castle out of Spam.”
Megan Cavanagh - Lu

“- Mr. Evans: Before this war began, my business took me there often. As I saw those northerners build that town, I witnessed the seeds of our destruction being sown.
- Jack Bull Chiles: The foundin' of that town was truly the beginnin' of the Yankee invasion.”

Zach Grenier - Mr. Evans
Skeet Ulrich - Jack Bull Chiles

“- Rabbit: Your attention please! I have officially completed the plans.
- Winnie The Pooh: What plans?
- Rabbit: These plans! For removing this boulder and restoring to Eeyore his happy home.
- Eeyore: No need to bother on my account.
- Rabbit: All we need is a little team evert.”
Ken Sansom - Rabbit
Jim Cummings - Winnie the Pooh
Peter Cullen - Eeyore

“Do you know how many abandoned buildings we have in Detroit? How are you supposed to take pride in your neighborhood with shit like that next door? And does the city tear them down? No, they too busy building casinos and taking money from the people.”

De'Angelo Wilson - DJ Iz

“- Charlotte: This wall, was it always here?
- Kay: Yes mother, it was always there.
- Charlotte: Well, I don't remember it.
- Kay: It was always there. It was always kind of flat like that and held the building up.
- Charlotte: Whatever.”
Claire Trevor - Charlotte
Sally Field - Kay

“Metal buildings are the dream that Modern Architects had at the beginning of this century. It has finally come true, but they themselves don't realize it. That's because it doesn't take an Architect to build a metal building. You just order them out of a catalog and it comes with a bunch of guys who put it together in a couple of days, maybe a...” (continue)(continue reading)
David Byrne - Narrator

“- Wade Harper: We're going back to build our fences.
- Judge Roy Bean: If you do, you better build coffins with them.”
Forrest Tucker - Wade Harper
Walter Brennan - Judge Roy Bean

“Here's a field... take a look out. Picture a house... Picture a lot of houses. What else is a field good for but building houses?”
Spalding Gray - Earl Culver

“- Eddie Valiant: So that's why you killed Acme and Maroon? For this freeway? I don't get it.
- Judge Doom: Of course not. You lack vision, but I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off, off and on all day, all night. Soon, where Toon Town once stood will be a string of gas stations, inexpensive motels, restaurants that...” (continue)(continue reading)
Bob Hoskins - Eddie Valiant
Chris Lloyd - Judge Doom

“What better job in all the world than build a bridge? Bring land over water. Bring worlds together.”
Val Kilmer - Col. John Henry Patterson

“A building is a symbol, as is the act of destroying it. Symbols are given power by people. Alone, a symbol is meaningless, but with enough people, blowing up a building can change the world.”
Hugo Weaving - V

“Blood makes poor mortar.”
Charlton Heston - Moses