Kublai Khan Quotes

A career is like a house: it's made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.

Supporting actors are the support. You can't make a building without support. You can't buy dinner without support.

Without stones there is no arch.

The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

Because if you have a strong foundation like we have, then you can build or rebuild anything on it. But if you've got a weak foundation you can't build anything.

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

Edson is the person that supports Pele. Edson is the base. Pele just comes and adds the face.

I was on the abutment.

It's fascinating to me how they build bridges or tunnels.

Without parents, you sort of lose the gravity that keeps your feet on the earth.

My mom was the rock of our family.

The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.

The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice.

A good mooring needs no knot, still no one can untie it.

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

Love is not enough. But, it is the rock on which all else stands.

Sometimes I say that writing a novel is the same as constructing a chair: a person must be able to sit in it, to be balanced on it. If I can produce a great chair, even better. But above all I have to make sure that it has four stable feet.

Fully "biodegradable" structures are nowadays the ideal and the standards to which most, if not all structures, struggle to measure up.

Sometimes you need an anchor, whatever it might be. You need a space to connect. So often you get into a way of doing things.

He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.

The house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm.

Form is any aspect of a poem that encourages it to stay whole and not drift off into chaos.

Belief and order give strength. Have to clear rubble before you can build.