Buildings Quotes · Page 6

Growing up, you always heard of cops beating people up behind buildings and letting them go. Now they just shoot them.

— DJ Yella

In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.

— Richard Rogers

You can raze the old buildings and erect magnificent corporate towers, hose down Port Authority, but you can't change people.

— Colson Whitehead

I had a whistle-stop tour of Havana in a horse and carriage and couldn't stop taking photographs of the decaying yet enchanting…

— Matthew Williamson

My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.

— Zaha Hadid

I jumped between two seven-story buildings in Los Angeles, launching from one rooftop to the other with ramps.

— Tony Hawk

I love New York. It just reminds me of so many movies... I look up at buildings, and feel like Godzilla should…

— Liam Hemsworth

My buildings should have an emotional core –a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.

— Peter Zumthor

Architects have to become designers of eco-systems. Not just designers of beautiful facades or beautiful sculptures, but systems of economy and ecology,…

— Bjarke Ingels

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 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

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

— Michael Redhill

There are roles I am never considered for. Meryl Streep roles, let's say. Why not? I really wanted to do 'Ironweed,' for…

— Whoopi Goldberg

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

— Erin Cummings

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

With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have…

— Alain Robert

Many of our buildings have large format murals that are of varying subject matter, and we've found that those are the sort…

— Miguel McKelvey

Buildings like Penn Station attract our protective instincts not only because of their beauty but because we fear what will come to…

— Roger Scruton

There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other…

— John Warner

I always felt uncomfortable with real estate because buildings don't move, and neighborhoods change.

— Stephen A. Schwarzman

People think that buildings are permanent, but in China, this isn't true; we can always demolish and remake it better.

— Ma Yansong

And imagine where we'd be today if President Franklin Roosevelt had owned apartment buildings in Frankfurt and Berlin. You know, some of…

— Richard Painter

“Every great building once begun as a building plan. That means, sitting in that building plan on the table is a mighty…

— Israelmore Ayivor

America has been hit by Allah at its most vulnerable point, destroying, thank God, its most prestigious buildings.

— Osama bin Laden

Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time.

— Richard Rogers

Apart from differentiating our spaces with design, we also look for buildings that have distinctive character. We make sure every seat is…

— Miguel McKelvey

Before 2000, everything was about being contextual, and buildings were supposed to be good citizens.

— Bernard Tschumi

Surely, it's one of terrorism's intended effects, to literally stun our morale, to blow up strength and will along with buildings, and…

— Caroline Knapp

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

— Arthur Erickson

Some of my best friends are architects. And they definitely do have ears. But I think sometimes they don't use them when…

— Julian Treasure

We will emerge stronger as a diverse community; the area will be rebuilt with life around the clock, new buildings, restaurants, places…

— George Pataki

We try to make children problem-solvers. That gave birth to solar-heated mud buildings, using greenhouses to grow things and ice stupas -…

— Sonam Wangchuk

I was born to a dad who was born in the South Bronx while the Bronx was burning, while landlords were committing…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I don't like landscapes. I like cities. Lots of cities. I like buildings. I like streets.

— Dario Argento

The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.

— John Ruskin

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of…

— Bob Dylan

Regency buildings are often said to lack the serenity of their early Georgian predecessors, or the intense scholarship of the subsequent Gothic…

— Lucy Worsley

“Tall buildings have always intimidated me, but I somehow feel comforted, by an even taller tree.”

— Akash Mandal

In reality some images or drawings have a greater impact than many buildings that are built.

— Emilio Ambasz