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Architecture isn't just about creating new buildings, sometimes its about retuning what's already there.. — John Pawson
I've always been interested, - if you look back at my work from the beginning, really - I've always been interested in the idea of… — Lebbeus Woods
And autos are not the only product that could be made more energy efficient if we just put in place sensible requirements. This is also… — Sherwood Boehlert
I feel this way about it. World trade means world peace and consequently the World Trade Center buildings in New York ... had a bigger… — Minoru Yamasaki
In some cities they tear down buildings to save taxes. They might try tearing down some taxes to save buildings. — Ken Schoolland
Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health. — Robert Evans
I'm not a builder of buildings, I'm a builder of collections. — Leonard Lauder
I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own… — Ben Shahn
My project could be only to photograph as I felt and desired, to regulate a pleasant form of living, to get up in the morning-free,… — Harry Callahan
Toward the end of the Cold War, capitalism created a military horror: the neutron bomb, a weapon that destroys life while leaving buildings intact. During… — Subcomandante Marcos
There is a kind of virtue that lies not in extraordinary actions, not in saving poor orphans from burning buildings, but in steadfastly working for… — Randy Cohen
The difference between regulated architects and unregulated designers is, unlike buildings, letterheads don't fall down and kill people. — Brian Webb
We tend to rush toward the complex when trying to solve a daunting problem, but in this case, simplicity wins. Better buildings, responsible energy use… — Edward Mazria
Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books. — Hemant Mehta
In New York the sky is bluer, and the grass is greener, and the girls are prettier, and the steaks are thicker, and the buildings… — Edna Ferber
The Holy Ghost does not come upon methods, but upon men. He does not anoint machinery, but men. He does not work through organizations, but… — Samuel Chadwick
Before Sept. 11, the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric surveillance cameras, peering… — Jeffrey Rosen
All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in… — Milarepa
I'm battling monsters, I'm pulling you out of the burning buildings/ and you say I'll give you anything but you never come through. — Richard Siken
Terrorism doesn't just blow up buildings; it blasts every other issue off the political map. The spectre of terrorism - real and exaggerated - has… — Naomi Klein
Britain is obviously one of the world powers and they bombed the World Trade Centre, which is a landmark in itself, and over in Britain… — Unknown Author
You can figure out how bad a person you are by how soon after September 11th you masturbated, like how long you waited... and for… — Louis C. K.
I am willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet… — Thomas Merton
Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets… — Samuel Johnson
Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask… — Bill Watterson

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