America's skyscrapers were not built by public funds nor for a public purpose: they were built by the energy, initiative and wealth… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We have had the stone age; we have had the iron age; and now we have the sky age, and the sky… — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I told myself that if I didn't care, this wouldn't have hurt so much - surely that proved I was alive and… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Why would anybody be intimidated by mere words? I mean, neither I nor any other athiest that I know ever threatens violence.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I had been raised on a certain kind of New York movie. Which was always very, very skyscraper-forward, pristine, pretty idealized New… — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
The skyscraper style first advocated by Louis Sullivan - a tower of strongly vertical character with clear definitions among base, shaft, and… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
And just as your beautiful skyscrapers were destroyed and caused your grief, beautiful buildings and precious homes crumbled over their owners in… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
Just because youre on the Disney Channel and you always have a smile on your face, they think youre perfect, and its… — Demi Lovato Copy Share Image
We've seen those results in generations of Muslim immigrants - farmers and factory workers, helping to lay the railroads and build our… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
When the film was presented in New York, the distributor reproduced the fountain scene on a billboard as high as a skyscraper.… — Anita Ekberg Copy Share Image
Spider-Man is a genuine American myth with a dark, primal power, but it's also got this great superhero, and - hey! -… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
Not only in peasant homes, but also in city skyscrapers, there lives alongside the twentieth century, the thirteenth. A hundred million people… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
It is sound statesmanship to add two battleships every time our neighbour adds one and two stories to our skyscrapers every time… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Appropriately enough, in the years following Pulitzer’s coup, the term “skyscraper” first gained common currency. It was not a novel word, having… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight,… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
Like the skyscraper, the automobile, and the motion-picture palace, neon signs once symbolized popular hopes for a new era of technological achievement… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
The bias among architecture critics isn't against skyscrapers per se, but against the way in which their design is so heavily dictated… — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
