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“Skyscrapers! Unhealthy ugly giants! To live and work as close as to the land is a blessing! Remember, you are not a cloud! Come…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“There is the feeling here that civilization is still just a speck, and it makes me feel small in a good way. Seattle made…

— Eowyn Ivey

“I work in a giant building: forty floors and forty cubicles per wing, four wings per floor, one person and one personal computer per…

— John Engman

“It doesn’t matter where you go though, nowhere feels big enough to contain you, even if you’re right in the middle of the mall…

— Paul Murray

“4091 East Olympic Boulevard proved to be a nondescript one-storey sandstone building of the sort you drive blithely by every day, knowing it's full…

— James Morrow

“You'll like it less when you hear what they've been building. It's a big raised platform at the end of the square about two…

— John Flanagan

“Sometimes standing for something is simply not enough......Espeacially when life blows you a mighty wind inwhich knocks you off of your feet or the…

— Tamika Barr

“How good it is to look sometimes across great spaces, to lift one’s eyes from narrowness, to feel the large silence that rests on…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“When you feel big and powerful, stand before a mountain; when you feel small and weak, stand before an ant.”

— Vinita Kinra

“A squat gray building of only thirty-four stories.”

— Aldous Huxley

“A skyscraper is the incarnate rebellion against the supposedly unattainable; against the mystery of altitude, against the otherworldliness of the cerulean.”

— Joseph Roth

“Cracks in the ground aren't always visible to the naked eye. Every movement has the potential to take you down.”

— Jente Posthuma