New York is vertical - all skyscrapers.

I found New York too... 'vertical,' closed off, I didn't feel the muse like I did in L.A. Maybe it's the weather?

— LP

[New York] is a city largely based on great skyscrapers, and they will always be the essence of New York. That won't change, just…

— Donald Trump

I remember perfectly my first trip to New York, when I was on the bridge between Brooklyn and Manhattan, when I saw the skyscrapers.…

— Diego Della Valle

Manhattan, one of the most moneyed spots on the planet, also has one of the greatest concentrations of people in its skyscrapers. It's also,…

— Norman Foster

“I stop in my tracks to look up, completely disrupting the flow of tourist traffic. It’s directly in front of me, in all its…

— Kristin Rae

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 natural setting,…

— Gretchen Rubin

“We are all skyscrapers, continually adding rooms and floors to who we are. Once one floor is done, the next begins and the result…

— Spencer Fraseur

While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, the landscape and the…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

“I’ve never seen faith move mountains, but I’ve seen what it can do to skyscrapers.”

— Monica McGee

“His [the pedestrian's] elevation transfigures him into a voyeur. It puts his at a distance. It transforms the bewitching world by which one was…

— Michel de Certeau

Wonder was the grace of the country. Any action could be justified by that: the wonder it was rooted in. Period followed period, and…

— George W. S. Trow

Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of…

— Bruce Sterling

Drones photograph, prospect and advertise real estate from golf courses to skyscrapers; they also monitor construction in progress.

— Peter Diamandis

In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came ziggurats, mausoleums,…

— Brendan Gill

I love the sea, but I avoid any sort of seaside resort that has skyscrapers or seaside entertainments.

— Quentin Blake