Buildings Quotes

I love the colorful buildings in Jaipur.

— Jubin Nautiyal

“We are what we build”

— Lois Farfel Stark

My buildings are more famous than me.

— Jean Nouvel

Buildings have been made because of man.

— Leon Battista Alberti

New ideas often need old buildings.

— Jane Jacobs

I'm scared of high buildings.

— Udo Kier

Buildings are forms of performances.

— Rafael Vinoly

Opera is too obsessed with buildings.

— Phyllida Lloyd

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

— John Ruskin

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

— Jane Jacobs

Often the art in New York is related to the buildings, to grandiose things.

— Christo

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

— Anonymous

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

— Madeline Amy Sweeney

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

— Dan Brown

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

— Shelby Foote

Every one of my buildings begins with an Italian journey.

— Alvar Aalto

It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent…

— Rem Koolhaas

I don't see Republicans flipping their lids trying to burn down buildings in Ninja outfits when a Democrat, progressive, or socialist tries…

— Jeanine Pirro

“...we live in the same city but don't see the same things - you see buildings and I see memories...”

— John Geddes

You think NASA is going to be cutting edge, but they've got so many buildings that are just left over from the…

— Allison Schroeder

You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street.

— Leon Krier

“In another country where the buildings don't stop rising until they pinthe clouds to the sky.”

— Sally Gardner

I'm so happy with 'The Blacklist.' Give me more people to shoot and throw them off buildings.

— Diego Klattenhoff

When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees…

— Ban Ki-moon

I grew up in Hong Kong, and London used to seem very gray: the sky was gray, the buildings were gray, the…

— John Lanchester

Extreme weather threatens our energy and electric grid, federal buildings, transportation infrastructure, access to natural resources, public health, our relationships across the…

— Matt Cartwright

We're seeing the development of tactics in Iraq, such as suicide bombing. Insurgents have been driving cars with explosives into hotels and…

— Rand Beers

I saw 'The Shining' really young. I don't think it scarred me, but I had a paper route, and I delivered to…

— Ron Livingston

I remember coming back to the U.K. after spending five months in Charlotte for 'Homeland,' and I just found myself just wandering…

— David Harewood

I don't usually go in for reviews of buildings that aren't yet built, since you can tell only so much from drawings…

— Paul Goldberger

If there really was a crisis, and if this crisis was caused by our emissions, you would at least see some signs.…

— Greta Thunburg

My first book, 'To Engineer Is Human,' was prompted by nonengineer friends asking me why so many technological accidents and failures were…

— Henry Petroski

High buildings have no genuine advantages, except in speculative gains for banks and land owners. They are not cheaper, they do not…

— Christopher Alexander

“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

“The yard was a little centre of regeneration. Here, with keen edges and smooth curves, were forms in the exact likeness of…

— Thomas Hardy

“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

“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

“[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

“There are times when all goes well, when I compose a sentence and stand back just to enjoy it. This sensation is…

— Naoki Higashida

“Admirable, however, as the Paris of the present day appears to you, build up and put together again in imagination the Paris…

— Victor Hugo