Buildings Quotes · Page 2

I love buildings that aren't purpose-built.

— Miranda Otto

My buildings are all on budget.

— Frank Gehry

New ideas must use old buildings

— Jane Jacobs

“Our prism can become our prison”

— Lois Farfel Stark

By law, all buildings should be white.

— Le Corbusier

That kid can hit balls over buildings.

— Casey Stengel

Buildings should be good neighbours.

— Paul Thiry

Don't say he White House wants. Buildings can't want.

— Donald Rumsfeld

“There is no closure for this. Closure is for buildings, not people.”

— James Renner

I wanted to preserve the old buildings, not to destroy them and build something new.

— Farah Diba

I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones.

— Kevin McCloud

I'm in love with corrugated iron buildings, especially chapels and churches.

— Keith Allen

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Every one of my buildings begins with an Italian journey.

— Alvar Aalto

“The carved stone sign in front read Building C. Imaginative title, Langdon thought”

— Dan Brown

Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant…

— Paul Goldberger

In New York, we're always confined with spaces. Our restaurants are difficult to navigate as cooks and to operate. We fight against…

— David Chang

One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings.

— Annabelle Selldorf

The Shark Tank was one of the best buildings to play in, and we had a lot of memories there.

— Joe Thornton

I don't want to be romantic, but one of the most important things is to have happy buildings... it's like having a…

— Renzo Piano

Buildings are tools to reach people, raise disciples, reach students, train up our kids, heal marriages and families and worship God.

— Kevin Myers

We try to turn buildings into landscapes - defying the idea of modernism which sees nature and buildings as two distinct elements.

— Ma Yansong

You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.

— Norman Foster

After 23 years closeted at Westminster, where often all you can see out of the windows are other parliamentary buildings, I appreciate…

— Ann Widdecombe

Alexander Graham Bell brought us the telephone. He owns the telephones in the buildings. Thomas Edison owns the lightbulb. Whether they took…

— Chubby Checker

The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover,…

— Herbert Hoover

When I thought about Detroit, I would think big city, very urban - not a lot of places to walk around, not…

— Erin Cummings

I found that through my life, living in the city of Toronto, I look above the Pizza Pizza sign, and I look…

— Michael Redhill

I became a fanatic of the architecture of Le Corbusier and I visited almost all his buildings and read all his books.…

— Santiago Calatrava

St. Petersburg, under the czars, had been a grand city. It was a planned city, and it had - there were all…

— Masha Gessen

Route 192 is its own thing, and you can't find that anywhere else. The colors and shapes of the buildings, the way…

— Sean Baker

I see water and buildings ... Oh my God! Oh my God.

— Madeline Amy Sweeney

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

— Anonymous

We expect too much of new # buildings , and too little of ourselves.

— Jane Jacobs

Don't just look at buildings ... watch them.

— John Ruskin

I'm not a builder of buildings, I'm a builder of collections.

— Leonard Lauder

My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.

— Julia Morgan

I happen to love buildings, and my passion is bringing people together.

— Adam Neumann

And exciting buildings are fine periodically.

— Minoru Yamasaki

Trump is a real estate guy who sucks up to power to get buildings built.

— Franklin Foer