Buildings Quotes · Page 6

The truth is I don't really know where my own interest in tall buildings really comes from. It cannot come from my…

— Cesar Pelli

Countries keep on building higher and higher buildings, instead of building higher and higher men!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is a sense of civic connection to the city when you light up iconic buildings or sites.

— Munira Mirza

Ultimately, the naming of buildings is not a mechanism by which history is kept alive. It is a mechanism by which the…

— David Olusoga

I'm sorry to say, but 85% of so-called 'green' firms make some of the ugliest buildings that were ever made. So for…

— Steven Holl

When we're dealing with historic buildings, we don't replicate, but we try to be subordinate and be deferential to them.

— Peter Clewes

I'm not someone who funds buildings. That doesn't interest me. I'm more interested in programs.

— Laurie David

Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it…

— John Bolton

I want to design jewelry for girls and guys... I'ma spread it out, but I'ma design, probably when I'm just designing furniture…

— Tyler, The Creator

Performing arts buildings are complex. The acoustics, the sight lines and all that have to just be perfect. So you begin with…

— Moshe Safdie

Cities are about juxtaposition. In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. In Bordeaux, we built law…

— Richard Rogers

A country whose buildings are of wood, can never increase in its improvements to any considerable degree… Whereas when buildings are of…

— Thomas Jefferson

I like performing the martial arts scenes in films to whatever extent they will allow me to, which most of the time…

— Katy O'Brian

I grew up in a big sky country. Then I lived in Manhattan, where you can only see the sky between buildings,…

— Linda Ronstadt

NASA is an utterly fascinating place, and the fact that the buildings look so anonymous almost makes it more fascinating. You walk…

— Moby

Architecture is the very mirror of life.You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past,…

— I. M. Pei

I live in the middle of nowhere. I'm a country bumpkin in Ireland, in Donegal, and to go from that to Toronto,…

— Amybeth McNulty

I don't like to talk about sustainability, because sometimes I see green buildings that don't appear any different from those in the…

— Ma Yansong

I'd hate to see new housing building accelerating while taking down buildings where there's 50 people living in rent-stabilized apartments.

— Eric Garcetti

I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic…

— Frank Gehry

The sentimentalist in me loves it when the important things we say and do can be tied to buildings and landscape.

— Michael Rosen

The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse.

— Ralph Erskine

Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

— Alain Robert

Had I listened to my agent, I'd be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff.

— Heath Ledger

Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.

— Maajid Nawaz

There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories -…

— Frank Gehry

I'm just a guy drawing comics. Guys knocking other guys through buildings. Guys flipping tanks over on each other. I'm just trying…

— Rob Liefeld

Muscat itself is a mixture of impersonal modern buildings, shopping malls, mosques, traditional souks, tarmac and sand.

— Fiona Bruce

In my thesis, I made an intellectual exercise out of creating a pair of buildings that were a repeat but slightly different…

— Elizabeth Diller

If you want to see what a society really believes in, look at what the biggest buildings on the horizon are dedicated…

— Joseph Campbell

Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other.

— Herb Caen

Many people decorate their homes with designer graffiti, even though most of them would probably have real graffiti scoured off the walls…

— Brad Holland

It's not like I am a junkie that wants to throw himself from very tall buildings, but some people are, and I…

— Jason Statham

In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?

— Nellie McKay

The box got bigger, the outside, the buildings. And all that we were doing. I had to raise about $1 million every…

— Jim Bakker

Buildings are storytellers. They teach us about our history, good and bad. They tell stories about people.

— George Clarke

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

— Leon Krier

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

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