Buildings Quotes · Page 5

I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.

— Peter Zumthor

“Like a spider in its web, a vibration anywhere is felt everywhere.”

— Lois Farfel Stark

I did not want to do stereotypical buildings.

— Santiago Calatrava

In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.

— Kenzo Tange

I believe buildings are alive, and when you want to make a change, you have to change in the same symphony.

— Benedetta Tagliabue

We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment.

— Helmut Jahn

I just want to build the best buildings. It's not about me, it's about the buildings, creating a space where society can…

— Santiago Calatrava

Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other.

— Herb Caen

If you want to see what a society really believes in, look at what the biggest buildings on the horizon are dedicated…

— Joseph Campbell

In my thesis, I made an intellectual exercise out of creating a pair of buildings that were a repeat but slightly different…

— Elizabeth Diller

Muscat itself is a mixture of impersonal modern buildings, shopping malls, mosques, traditional souks, tarmac and sand.

— Fiona Bruce

The size thing is not some gimmick or attention-getting trick but a genuine undercurrent of the work. Frank Gehry for instance likes…

— Michael Heizer

The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I'm getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer's funeral because they all know I'm…

— Sam Simon

Public buildings, built from the rates and taxes paid by past generations, are being auctioned off by impoverished councils who need the…

— David Olusoga

Academies can also flog off land and buildings, if the much weakened local authorities agree. Serious money can be made, management salaries…

— Michael Rosen

Why does crime happen? Well, you might say that it's because youths don't have jobs. Or you might say that's because the…

— Evgeny Morozov

Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall…

— Michael Mandelbaum

Parents matter, buildings count, curriculum choices, materials, resources - all these things are important in a top-class education. But, in the end,…

— Kimberly Quinn

Take the perspective of a journalist or scientist. Really study what's around you. What are people wearing, what do the interiors of…

— Gretchen Rubin

I'm just a guy drawing comics. Guys knocking other guys through buildings. Guys flipping tanks over on each other. I'm just trying…

— Rob Liefeld

There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories -…

— Frank Gehry

Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.

— Maajid Nawaz

Had I listened to my agent, I'd be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff.

— Heath Ledger

Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

— Alain Robert

The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse.

— Ralph Erskine

The sentimentalist in me loves it when the important things we say and do can be tied to buildings and landscape.

— Michael Rosen

“In another country where the buildings don't stop rising until they pinthe clouds to the sky.”

— Sally Gardner

I'm so happy with 'The Blacklist.' Give me more people to shoot and throw them off buildings.

— Diego Klattenhoff

I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of…

— Christian Dior

When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees…

— Ban Ki-moon

You think NASA is going to be cutting edge, but they've got so many buildings that are just left over from the…

— Allison Schroeder

“...we live in the same city but don't see the same things - you see buildings and I see memories...”

— John Geddes

It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent…

— Rem Koolhaas

I don't see Republicans flipping their lids trying to burn down buildings in Ninja outfits when a Democrat, progressive, or socialist tries…

— Jeanine Pirro

You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street.

— Leon Krier

Buildings are storytellers. They teach us about our history, good and bad. They tell stories about people.

— George Clarke

The box got bigger, the outside, the buildings. And all that we were doing. I had to raise about $1 million every…

— Jim Bakker

In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?

— Nellie McKay

It's not like I am a junkie that wants to throw himself from very tall buildings, but some people are, and I…

— Jason Statham

Many people decorate their homes with designer graffiti, even though most of them would probably have real graffiti scoured off the walls…

— Brad Holland