Best Buildings Lines
577 Buildings quotes by 444 unique authors
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I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor…
— Alan Patricof
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Fifteen-year-old girls produce children with sixteen-year-old boys in the backseat of cars and in the stairwells of apartment buildings. Why can't two loving adults who…
— Scott Simon
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What I feel I can do is help people become aware of how pervasive and extensive the arts are, how they affect each one of…
— Unknown Author
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I say we must have a movement that brings those troops home and launch a crusade to transform our school buildings, we launch a crusade…
— Unknown Author
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No one paid any attention to how things looked, and as they moved faster and faster everything grew uglier and dirtier, and as everything grew…
— Norton Juster
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The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the…
— Jared Diamond
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Sitting at our back doorsteps, all we need to live a good life lies about us. Sun, wind, people, buildings, stones, sea, birds and plants…
— Bill Mollison
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It’s a revolution. But it’s the sort of revolution that no one will notice. It might get a little shadier. Buildings might function better. You…
— Bill Mollison
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If there's a group like Amish people, that want to live their own lifestyle – they don't want to live in our city – they…
— Jacque Fresco
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Architects are mostly self-centered and their buildings express their ego. Â [They are] not social buildings to make it more comfortable for people - to…
— Jacque Fresco
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Whereas disinfecting Christians involves isolating them and teaching them to be good, discipling Christians involves propelling Christians into the world to risk their lives for…
— David Platt
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Consider the cost when Christians ignore Jesus commands to sell their possessions and give to the poor and instead choose to spend their resources on…
— David Platt
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I think about photographs as being full, or empty. You picture something in a frame and it's got lots of accounting going on in it-stones…
— Joel Meyerowitz
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Architecture is the very mirror of life.You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of…
— I. M. Pei
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Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.
— Michael Heizer
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Buildings should not look like Lady Gaga.
— Robert A. M. Stern
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When terrorists attacked the symbols of our national unity and strength, they failed to realize that they were just symbols of our strength. The real…
— Michael Enzi
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By employing the intelligence of natural systems we can create industry, buildings, even regional plans that see nature and commerce not as mutually exclusive but…
— Brad Pitt
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After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and…
— Harry Seidler
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Japans humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth…
— Harry Seidler
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When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of…
— Yoshio Taniguchi
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Worship in truth is worship that arises out of an actual encounter with God, a response to the experience of knowing God's real presence and…
— Graham Kendrick
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Community is not something you have, like pizza. Now is it something you can buy. It's a living organism based on a web of interdependencies-…
— James Howard Kunstler
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The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.
— Theodore Zeldin
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Whenever I felt down, whenever I started wondering what homeless shelter I would die in, [my mother] would buck me up by telling me: you…
— Paul Orfalea
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