Grandeur Quote by Ada Louise Huxtable Download Open image “New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.” — Ada Louise Huxtable ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Grandeur Hyperbole Irreverence Names New york
New York interposed itself, once and for all, between me and all other places of origin. — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
New York... Babylon-on-the-Hudson, sinful, extravagant, full of the nervous hilarity of the doomed. — Lucius Beebe Copy Share Image
People are always arguing: New York or L.A.? They're both great places, you know. — Julian Casablancas Copy Share Image
I just love New York. New York has energy, it has culture, New York is very diverse. There's not a better place in the… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
I've always liked New York even before I lived in New York. It represents something, I think, and it would be trite to say… — Michelle Stuart Copy Share Image
No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of people in the world - those who have a horror of a vacuum and those with a horror of… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
One of the most basic human instincts is the need to decorate. Nothing is exempt - the body, the objects one uses, from intimate… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all of the… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know. The gamble of… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate,… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
All trembling, I reached the Falls of Niagara, and oh, what a scene! My blood shudders still, although I am not a coward, at… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
We must guard against becoming so engrossed in the specific nature of the roots and bark of the trees of knowledge as to miss… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
...full of God's thoughts, a place of peace and safety amid the most exalted grandeur and enthusiastic action, a new song, a place of… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm beer, the… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets have written… — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases… — Alfred Tarski Copy Share Image
“Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe.… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“It was my good fortune to be linked with Mme. Curie through twenty years of sublime and unclouded friendship. I came to admire her… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Grandeur of effect is produced by two different ways which seem entirely opposed to each other. One is by reducing the colors to little… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
