“fifty-story skyscrapers stood side by side with older ten-story buildings like fathers and sons at the urinal together.” — Yahtzee Croshaw Copy Share Image
“I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.” — Noël Coward Copy Share Image
There's the downtown area of Tupelo. Did you see the skyscrapers? Two stories. — Bobby Heenan Copy Share Image
I love the sea, but I avoid any sort of seaside resort that has skyscrapers or seaside entertainments. — Quentin Blake Copy Share Image
Wall Street has come to America's heartland, really. The only thing missing are the skyscrapers, you know? — Dennis Quaid Copy Share Image
There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
Drones photograph, prospect and advertise real estate from golf courses to skyscrapers; they also monitor construction in progress. — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers,… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining trend. They were almost never… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
“I Like The Way That when you Tilt Poems On their side They Look like Miniature Cities From A long way Away.… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“The traffic broke and the skyscrapers of Downtown reared up ahead, towering monoliths of steel and glass. The buildings were alive, ready… — Loren Niva Copy Share Image
In 'Swimming Pool,' all the colors are very warm, sunny, the pool and all that. In 'Love Crime,' everything is so cold,… — Ludivine Sagnier 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
[New York] is a city largely based on great skyscrapers, and they will always be the essence of New York. That won't… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“Only the top floors of the tallest skyscrapers pierce the otherwise featureless landscape, some of the buildings sit at bizarre angles, as… — B.D. Messick Copy Share Image
“[H]e could see the island of Manhattan off to the left. The towers were jammed together so tightly, he could feel the… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“His [the pedestrian's] elevation transfigures him into a voyeur. It puts his at a distance. It transforms the bewitching world by which… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
“What about guns with sensors in the handles that could detect if you were angry, and if you were, they wouldn't fire,… — Jonathan Safran Foer 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
“We are all skyscrapers, continually adding rooms and floors to who we are. Once one floor is done, the next begins and… — Spencer Fraseur Copy Share Image
I'm a huge Springsteen fan, and yet if either he or Bob Dylan had to be erased from the world's hard drive,… — Elizabeth Wurtzel 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
“I love the buildings. They're called skyscrapers. They're the closest thing to an ocean here. But it's an ocean that goes straight… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
“So time passed on. And the two skyscrapers decided to have a child. And they decided when their child came it should… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“I’ve never seen faith move mountains, but I’ve seen what it can do to skyscrapers.” — Monica McGee Copy Share Image
“Nothing has the power to remind you how alone you are like walking through a conglomeration of empty skyscrapers.” — Matthew Tysz Copy Share Image
Entire cities could sprout instantly in the desert, with skyscrapers made entirely of force fields — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Manhattan, one of the most moneyed spots on the planet, also has one of the greatest concentrations of people in its skyscrapers.… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
“Skyscrapers! Unhealthy ugly giants! To live and work as close as to the land is a blessing! Remember, you are not a… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I remember perfectly my first trip to New York, when I was on the bridge between Brooklyn and Manhattan, when I saw… — Diego Della Valle Copy Share Image
I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month and there's… — Bryan Adams Copy Share Image
If you look at the entrance halls of the skyscrapers of the 1920s and 1930s, they are very welcoming. They are public… — Joseph Rykwert Copy Share Image
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