The bias among architecture critics isn't against skyscrapers per se, but against the way in which their design is so heavily dictated… — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
Like the skyscraper, the automobile, and the motion-picture palace, neon signs once symbolized popular hopes for a new era of technological achievement… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
We've seen those results in generations of Muslim immigrants - farmers and factory workers, helping to lay the railroads and build our… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
We have had the stone age; we have had the iron age; and now we have the sky age, and the sky… — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Why would anybody be intimidated by mere words? I mean, neither I nor any other athiest that I know ever threatens violence.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I had been raised on a certain kind of New York movie. Which was always very, very skyscraper-forward, pristine, pretty idealized New… — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I told myself that if I didn't care, this wouldn't have hurt so much - surely that proved I was alive and… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Just because youre on the Disney Channel and you always have a smile on your face, they think youre perfect, and its… — Demi Lovato Copy Share Image
And just as your beautiful skyscrapers were destroyed and caused your grief, beautiful buildings and precious homes crumbled over their owners in… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
The skyscraper style first advocated by Louis Sullivan - a tower of strongly vertical character with clear definitions among base, shaft, and… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Solidarity is not a matter of sentiment but a fact, cold and impassive as the granite foundations of a skyscraper. If the… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Any expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Nick Yablon ranges widely, from log cabins to skyscrapers and from Tocqueville to pulp fiction. He combines imaginative research with probing interpretation.… — T. J. Jackson Lears Copy Share Image
A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
In all these products, whether iron bridges, locomotives, automobiles, telescopes, cottages, airport-hangars, funicular railways, skyscrapers, or children's toys, the will towards a… — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
America's skyscrapers were not built by public funds nor for a public purpose: they were built by the energy, initiative and wealth… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
