Built Quote by Ada Louise Huxtable Download Open image “Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks,” — Ada Louise Huxtable ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Built Clerks Endless Mock Palaces Series
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God than live in that palace at Washington. — Rachel Jackson Copy Share Image
I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to do something in the… — Julia Gardiner Tyler Copy Share Image
“The nation’s leaders keep throwing out the word “Washington” as a vulgar abstraction. Nothing new here: the anti-Washington reflex in American politics has been… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
... Washington was not only an important capital. It was a city of fear. Below that glittering and delightful surface there is another story,… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
The cliche is that Washington is a transient town of people who blow in and out every four years with the new administrations. But… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
... anything so delightful as Washington I have never seen elsewhere. There were a mingled simplicity and grandeur, a mingled state and quiet intimacy,… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
There is a gentle absurdity about Washington, D.C., and it is easy to develop affection for the place, if you can forget that the… — Linda Ellerbee Copy Share Image
For Philistines like me, the mysteries of Washington can be both perplexing and wondrous. — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the voices of Washington, black Washington, it's poetry, man. There's beauty in it. — George Pelecanos 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
Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
So I concentrated on the rhythmic side of things, and therefore left a lot of holes. I didn't want to use big pad chords… — Midge Ure Copy Share Image
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Most startups are not just built for the person who is using them. When you do that, every now and then you get really… — Emmett Shear Copy Share Image
Call me the rap assassinator / rhymes rugged and built like Schwarzenegger — Raekwon Copy Share Image
Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.… — Atifete Jahjaga Copy Share Image
The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
God and I have built an immense fire together. We keep each other happy and warm. — Hafez Copy Share Image
When we built Roomba, we explicitly designed it to not have a face. We didn't want to think it was cute; we wanted people… — Colin Angle Copy Share Image
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
