Men’s fashion has a certain heaviness in the fabrics and construction. But also there is a heaviness in the mentality. – Hedi Slimane
The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly. – Gianni Agnelli
A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But it’s some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood. – Greg Lynn
When I bid out our construction projects, I call contractors personally to close the deal and get the best price or enhance the scope of their deliverable. You don’t get what you don’t ask for. – Ivanka Trump
Disasters redistribute money from taxpayers to construction workers, from insurance companies to homeowners, and even from those who once lived in the destroyed city to those who replace them. It’s remarkable that this redistribution can happen so smoothly and quickly, with devastated regions reinventing themselves in a matter of months. – James Surowiecki
A human being is a being who is constantly ‘under construction,’ but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction. – Jose Saramago
No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic. – James Larkin
I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants. – Jeff Miller
I started out printing silk screen t-shirts. I sold ink pens. I worked construction. I worked at a gas station. I pumped gas. I was a mechanic for a little bit. I went into sewers, down into sewer lines. I had a lot of somewhat unpleasant gigs for a time there. – Johnny Depp
All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar. – Ian Anderson
When I say artist I mean the man who is building things – creating molding the earth – whether it be the plains of the west – or the iron ore of Penn. It’s all a big game of construction – some with a brush – some with a shovel – some choose a pen. – Jackson Pollock
NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits. – Joanna Lumley
The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation – a force for construction and destruction. – Jonathan Haidt
Arizona now has one of the most innovative systems of financing school construction in the nation. – Jane D. Hull
To allow the construction of places of worship other than Islamic ones in Saudi Arabia, it would be like asking the Vatican to build a mosque inside of it. – Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
I’m very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up. – Catherine Opie
Jocelyn Bell joined the project as a graduate student in 1965, helping as a member of the construction team and then analysing the paper charts of the sky survey. – Antony Hewish
When I did my spacewalks, it was during space station construction. So the shuttle was docked to the fledgling ISS at the time. So we would always stay tethered. – Chris Hadfield
I can always go back to construction. That’s great money, but the problem is you can cut off your hand. – Benjamin Walker
In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She’s got a construction zone going on in her belly. – Al Roker
Following an extended boom in housing, the demand for homes began to weaken in mid-2005. By the middle of 2006, sales of both new and existing homes had fallen about 15 percent below their peak levels. Homebuilders responded to the fall in demand by sharply curtailing construction. – Ben Bernanke
I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this. – Anne Enright
‘Jurassic Park’ movies don’t fit into a specific genre. They’re sci-fi adventures that also have to be funny, emotional, and scary as hell. That takes a lot of construction, but it can’t feel designed. – Colin Trevorrow
In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with that which we occupy in thinking of its whole dramatic effect. – Andrew Coyle Bradley
The tar sands boom has become the world’s largest energy project, the world’s largest construction project, and the world’s largest capital project. – Andrew Nikiforuk
Ninety per cent of my family are hairdressers, and the other 10% are construction workers. – Alessia Cara
The one thing I have always felt about musical theatre is that it is, to an extraordinary degree, about construction. – Andrew Lloyd Webber