Walter Chrysler Quotes

I just like building stuff.

I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.

I enjoy building more than managing.

So much of my background is about making: physically doing it myself.

I like building.

Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot.

I've always been interested in mechanical things. I think I must have been heavily influenced by my father, who is also very good with his hands. He liked to build things. I always loved to watch him do it, and I loved to build things on my own.

I just like to build things and do things.

Tech, in the sense of... putting things together, that goes back beyond memory for me.

I've always loved creating things with my hands.

I like working with my hands, need to do that more often.

There's something very satisfying about creating a tactile product.

I used to hang out in my dad's workshop on weekends. Later, when I was starting out as an actor, I became a roofer and a framer to make money. But what I really enjoyed was the finished work. I like the longevity.

Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.

I am a maker of useful things.

I am a mechanical techie. I can build things with my hands.

I'm a practical person. I'm not too bad a carpenter. I can renovate houses.

There's a great deal of poetry in working out how things work, cutting bits of metal, trying to mend stuff.

Building and tinkering were such a huge part of our childhood, whether we were trying to entertain ourselves as kids, helping our parents out on the ranch, or getting creative with school projects.

I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together.

Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day.

When I was four or five years old, my grandfather showed me how to build things, paint, saw. Through years of fixing bikes, repairing lawn mowers, I learned how things work.

I have blocks of wood all over my house; I spend all of my day knocking!

I paid my way through college as a carpenter and a woodworker. So I've built the house I live in and most of the furniture that's in it, and I do a lot of woodworking still.

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.