I never wanted to be a rapper. I want to be in the movies. I want to own buildings. — Riff Raff Copy Share Image
My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons. — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.' — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects. — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
It's our job as curators to open up Hampton Court to visitors, and to look after the buildings and collections for the… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
The proportions, too, in which the capital that is to support labour, and the capital that is invested in tools, machinery and… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
I believe buildings are alive, and when you want to make a change, you have to change in the same symphony. — Benedetta Tagliabue Copy Share Image
We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment. — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions. — Kenzo Tange Copy Share Image
Mail-in ballots are a huge source of potential voter fraud. For instance, ballots mailed to wrong addresses or large residential buildings might… — Tom Fitton Copy Share Image
There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable. — Toyo Ito Copy Share Image
It's all very brilliant to build bridges and buildings, but long after we're gone, it will be the natural things in this… — Rupert Friend Copy Share Image
I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down… — Alan Patricof Copy Share Image
I never intended to go to Broadway. I was very happy being in an Off Broadway theater and having an Off Broadway… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
Buildings for me represent opportunities of agency, transformation, and storytelling. They are not just artifacts. There is this big tradition of buildings-as-artifacts… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
As a foreigner, I used to think all of Michigan was a post-apocalyptic wasteland of burning buildings, trashed cars, abandoned factories and… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to hear the… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
It was very clear that this was a very, very old site. There were remains of sod walls. Fishermen assumed it was… — Helge Ingstad Copy Share Image
Images in the 20th century had a unique power where image became divorced from reality, and often more important than reality... Buildings… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
In high school, I majored in brick masonry. We had the wood shop, the machine shop, so I know about all that.… — Mr. T 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
High buildings have no genuine advantages, except in speculative gains for banks and land owners. They are not cheaper, they do not… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
“Someone, he added, ought to draw up a catalogue of types of buildings listed in order of size, and it would be… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“A stab had clearly once been made at de-uglifying these public spaces by painting a corridor a jaunty yellow. This was because,… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“The yard was a little centre of regeneration. Here, with keen edges and smooth curves, were forms in the exact likeness of… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Architecture, either practically considered or viewed as an art of taste, is a subject so important and comprehensive in itself, that volumes… — Andrew Jackson Downing Copy Share Image
“There are times when all goes well, when I compose a sentence and stand back just to enjoy it. This sensation is… — Naoki Higashida Copy Share Image
“Admirable, however, as the Paris of the present day appears to you, build up and put together again in imagination the Paris… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
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