Raising a child is very much like building a skyscraper. If the first few stories are slightly out of line. no one… — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
To save energy, New York City is now dimming the lights of the skyscrapers and the skyline at night. There's a bad… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“A skyscraper is the incarnate rebellion against the supposedly unattainable; against the mystery of altitude, against the otherworldliness of the cerulean.” — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The key is to photograph your obsessions, whether that’s old people’s hands or skyscrapers. Think of a blank canvas, because that’s what… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
“The contest of world's tallest skyscraper is a childish thing. Whereas with similar budget, they could construct flying building.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
One argument against open systems is that they become open to everything, good and bad. Like a Richard Meier skyscraper, the anal… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age. ... Shaper of cities and… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
The mediated world has approached us from a lot of different directions and we have freely chosen our automobiles and our skyscrapers… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
I think it's necessary to evaluate a skyscraper at multiple scales, since that's how we experience it: from right next to it… — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
I mean, I know thousands of people died and everything, but if it happened today, there's just no excuse. They'd be much… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
Right after 9/11 it looked as if the idea of a huge skyscraper might be considered obsolete. It came back, but I… — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, the landscape… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Manhattan has no choice but the skyward extrusion of the Grid itself; only the Skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
I think there will be a 200-story skyscraper someday. However, it will require a developer who will not think in conventional terms… — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
The skyscrapers began to rise again, frailly massive, elegantly utilitarian, images in their grace, audacity and inconclusiveness, of the whole character of… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
“We’re going to need a bigger skyscraper.” She rubbed her eyes with a thumb and forefinger. “Part of me can’t believe I… — Thea Harrison Copy Share Image
The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“My skyscraper of a heart met an earthquake of a woman. Why can’t I meet a simple window washer? My love is… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose… — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
If I gave up writing, I'd have to find an equally obsessive way to fill my time. Yarn-bombing skyscrapers or making houses… — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies… — Geoffrey S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
Never forget, Americans, that yours is a spiritual country. Yes, I know you're a practical people. Like others, I've marveled at your… — Carlos P. Romulo Copy Share Image
The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“For a long time thereafter I stared almost steadily at the bright and ostentatious VERIZON sign on top of one of the… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
When the film was presented in New York, the distributor reproduced the fountain scene on a billboard as high as a skyscraper.… — Anita Ekberg Copy Share Image
Spider-Man is a genuine American myth with a dark, primal power, but it's also got this great superhero, and - hey! -… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
Not only in peasant homes, but also in city skyscrapers, there lives alongside the twentieth century, the thirteenth. A hundred million people… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
It is sound statesmanship to add two battleships every time our neighbour adds one and two stories to our skyscrapers every time… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Appropriately enough, in the years following Pulitzer’s coup, the term “skyscraper” first gained common currency. It was not a novel word, having… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight,… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
