America Quote by Ayn Rand

Not only did America invent the skyscraper, it invented the skyline.

— Santiago Calatrava

Right after 9/11 it looked as if the idea of a huge skyscraper might be considered obsolete. It came back, but I think that's…

— Paul Goldberger

We can't have it so there are skyscrapers side by side with slums.

— Li Keqiang

Building places that are worth living in and worth caring about require a certain attention to detail, and of a particular kind of detail…

— James Howard Kunstler

“Appropriately enough, in the years following Pulitzer’s coup, the term “skyscraper” first gained common currency. It was not a novel word, having had a…

— Mike Wallace

High buildings have no genuine advantages, except in speculative gains for banks and land owners. They are not cheaper, they do not help create…

— Christopher Alexander

The skyscrapers began to rise again, frailly massive, elegantly utilitarian, images in their grace, audacity and inconclusiveness, of the whole character of the people…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

A skyscraper is a machine that makes the land pay.

— Cass Gilbert

The difficulty with big cities does not lie in skyscrapers or high-rises per se; rather, it is the values concealed within those buildings which…

— Ma Yansong

The truth is I don't really know where my own interest in tall buildings really comes from. It cannot come from my hometown because…

— Cesar Pelli

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

Buildings are storytellers. They teach us about our history, good and bad. They tell stories about people.

— George Clarke