Buildings Quotes · Page 7

In every area of the world where there is earthquake risk, there are still many buildings of this type; it is very…

— Charles Francis Richter

There's this misconception globally that the platform is about property groups and big property owners renting out entire buildings full-time.

— Joe Gebbia

Medieval and Tudor people didn't treat buildings as a semi-disposable resource like we do.

— Lucy Worsley

My father was an architect and I grew up knowing more about planning regulations and the constraints of old buildings than most…

— Tanni Grey-Thompson

Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.

— Roger Scruton

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

— Arthur Erickson

Some of my best friends are architects. And they definitely do have ears. But I think sometimes they don't use them when…

— Julian Treasure

Before 2000, everything was about being contextual, and buildings were supposed to be good citizens.

— Bernard Tschumi

For more than 40 years, I have advocated the creation of a 'round the clock' community. This would mean, at the least,…

— David Rockefeller

He was mostly leaping tall buildings in the beginning. There were cases where he would leap off a tall building or swoop…

— Joe Shuster

The Tigris is so fierce and rapid, and swallows its alluvial banks so greedily, that it is probable that some of the…

— Isabella Bird

We're seeing the development of tactics in Iraq, such as suicide bombing. Insurgents have been driving cars with explosives into hotels and…

— Rand Beers

I saw 'The Shining' really young. I don't think it scarred me, but I had a paper route, and I delivered to…

— Ron Livingston

I grew up in Hong Kong, and London used to seem very gray: the sky was gray, the buildings were gray, the…

— John Lanchester

Extreme weather threatens our energy and electric grid, federal buildings, transportation infrastructure, access to natural resources, public health, our relationships across the…

— Matt Cartwright

My first book, 'To Engineer Is Human,' was prompted by nonengineer friends asking me why so many technological accidents and failures were…

— Henry Petroski

Surely, it's one of terrorism's intended effects, to literally stun our morale, to blow up strength and will along with buildings, and…

— Caroline Knapp

I was born to a dad who was born in the South Bronx while the Bronx was burning, while landlords were committing…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I don't like landscapes. I like cities. Lots of cities. I like buildings. I like streets.

— Dario Argento

We try to make children problem-solvers. That gave birth to solar-heated mud buildings, using greenhouses to grow things and ice stupas -…

— Sonam Wangchuk

We will emerge stronger as a diverse community; the area will be rebuilt with life around the clock, new buildings, restaurants, places…

— George Pataki

Regency buildings are often said to lack the serenity of their early Georgian predecessors, or the intense scholarship of the subsequent Gothic…

— Lucy Worsley

“Tall buildings have always intimidated me, but I somehow feel comforted, by an even taller tree.”

— Akash Mandal

In reality some images or drawings have a greater impact than many buildings that are built.

— Emilio Ambasz

The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.

— John Ruskin

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of…

— Bob Dylan

The American dream is not about how much money you make or how many buildings have your name on it.

— Marco Rubio

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

— Arne Jacobsen

Architecture isn't just about creating new buildings, sometimes its about retuning what's already there..

— John Pawson

I might have companies, I might have buildings, I might have art. But money? No, I'm not holding that.

— Damon Dash

My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.

— Zaha Hadid

Growing up, you always heard of cops beating people up behind buildings and letting them go. Now they just shoot them.

— DJ Yella

In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.

— Richard Rogers

You can raze the old buildings and erect magnificent corporate towers, hose down Port Authority, but you can't change people.

— Colson Whitehead

I had a whistle-stop tour of Havana in a horse and carriage and couldn't stop taking photographs of the decaying yet enchanting…

— Matthew Williamson

My buildings should have an emotional core –a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.

— Peter Zumthor

With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have…

— Alain Robert

I jumped between two seven-story buildings in Los Angeles, launching from one rooftop to the other with ramps.

— Tony Hawk

I love New York. It just reminds me of so many movies... I look up at buildings, and feel like Godzilla should…

— Liam Hemsworth

Buildings like Penn Station attract our protective instincts not only because of their beauty but because we fear what will come to…

— Roger Scruton