Buildings Quotes

577 Buildings quotes by 444 unique authors

Whenever I'm out of town for at least a week, I feel like I should write a postcard or something, but you can be a… — Jim Gaffigan
There's a mindset in other countries that if you're an American, you're a Christian. Well, those people are sadly misled; they don't know our country.… — Tim Conway
Bach is how buildings got taller. It's how we got to the moon. — Charles Mingus
We are always making more and more stuff in the world. You know; big buildings, big planes, big boats and that. Will we ever get… — Karl Pilkington
In this branch of utopian real estate, architecture is no longer the art of designing buildings so much as the brutal skyward extrusion of whatever… — Rem Koolhaas
When night falls over Washington, D.C., memorials, public buildings, and broad avenues become ethereal shapes in soft light and shadow. Floodlights, piercing the darkness, etch… — Volkmar Wentzel
For the Spartans, it wasn’t walls or magnificent public buildings that made a city; it was their own ideals. In essence, Sparta was a city… — Bettany Hughes
The city of Chandigarh is planned to human scale. It puts us in touch with the infinite cosmos and nature. It provides us with places… — Le Corbusier
By law, all buildings should be white. — Le Corbusier
Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of the old. Where else can we find such unity of material, construction… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Our cities with their swollen populations and cliff dwelling high-rise buildings are breeding places for loneliness. Neighborhoods crumble under the housing development bulldozers and families… — Allan Fromme
Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life. They no longer… — Sean O'Casey
Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough. — Robert Towne
When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble. — Edward Abbey
And Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences, whether we consider its subjects as furnishing the principal subsistence of life to man and beast,… — Thomas Jefferson
You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than… — Prince Charles
There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit… — Jane Jacobs
New ideas must use old buildings — Jane Jacobs
All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or negative effect on… — Leon Krier
First life, then spaces, then buildings - the other way around never works. — Jan Gehl
An endless number of green buildings doesn't make a sustainable city. — Jan Gehl
So what’s the use of repentance, and what do you care for goodness, and what if you should die in a quake, so who the… — John Fante
The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I… — Jonathan Lethem
Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries. — Victor Hugo
I'm trying to discover - invent, I suppose - an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same thing in a… — Zaha Hadid

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