Not only did America invent the skyscraper, it invented the skyline. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
American megalomania is largely responsible for the growth of the Skyscraper School. — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I just need green. I need to wake up and see grass and squirrels. I don't want to see skyscrapers. — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
Go ahead and try and tear me down. I will be rising from the ground, like a Skyscraper. Skyscaper. — Demi Lovato Copy Share Image
“„Three more inches and you’d really be sexy.“ Three more inches? I’d be a skyscraper.” — Angela Morrison Copy Share Image
I'd get demolitions experts to rig mother to implode like a skyscraper. — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
This (America) is a land of rich diversity, from the towering skyscrapers of Manhatan all the way to the towering mounds of… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
It's certainly strange to do sketch comedy with cue cards at midnight in a skyscraper as opposed to in a basement with… — Casey Wilson Copy Share Image
“Once built, the Montauk was so novel, so tall, it defied description by conventional means. No one knows who coined the term,… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month and there's… — Bryan Adams Copy Share Image
If you look at the entrance halls of the skyscrapers of the 1920s and 1930s, they are very welcoming. They are public… — Joseph Rykwert Copy Share Image
From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Right after 9/11 it looked as if the idea of a huge skyscraper might be considered obsolete. It came back, but I… — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, the landscape… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
“For a long time thereafter I stared almost steadily at the bright and ostentatious VERIZON sign on top of one of the… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
Never forget, Americans, that yours is a spiritual country. Yes, I know you're a practical people. Like others, I've marveled at your… — Carlos P. Romulo Copy Share Image
From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies… — Geoffrey S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age. ... Shaper of cities and… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
He tunneled into stories where weak men changed into strong half-animals or used eye beams or magic hammers to power through steel… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I don't know. Maybe we're all chaos theorists. Lovers of pattern and predictability, we're scared shitless of explosive change. But we're fascinated… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The confusion of spirit and body is quite understandable in a culture where spirit is concretized in magnificent skyscrapers, where cathedrals have… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In our town there is a secret spot where you can still see the stars at night, believe it or not. It… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
New Yorkers love the bigness -- the skyscrapers, the freedom, the lights. But they also love it when they can carve out… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer. Everything fades: the shimmer of gold over… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
