Buildings Quotes

577 Buildings quotes by 444 unique authors

As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings… — Zaha Hadid
In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction. — Peter Zumthor
My buildings are more famous than me. — Jean Nouvel
America has been hit by Allah at its most vulnerable point, destroying, thank God, its most prestigious buildings. — Osama bin Laden
Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails,… — Julian Fellowes
The United States have developed a new weapon that destroys people but it leaves buildings standing. It's called the stock market. — Jay Leno
At the time Gothic cathedrals were designed, most people lived in dark huts, so just walking into a space vastly larger than what they were… — Michael Persinger
Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her… — Anne Rice
We've taken bold action at home by making historic investments in renewable energy, by putting our people to work increasing efficiency in our homes and… — Barack Obama
The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This project is so important because it's going to create an environment to inspire people. The RIBA believes that here in the UK we can… — Unknown Author
The First World War killed fewer victims than the Second World War, destroyed fewer buildings, and uprooted millions instead of tens of millions - but… — Unknown Author
I believe in the near future we will 3D print our buildings and houses. — Unknown Author
Feel like real time unfolding. It's going to smack of reality and feel as real as it can ... The buildings themselves aren't (shown) ...… — Nicolas Cage
All governments, Books, customs, buildings, railways, ships, and all the stark realities that men have made, Are but imagination's utterances. — Unknown Author
The planes were hijacked, the buildings fell, and thousands of lives were lost nearly a thousand miles from here. But the attacks on the World… — Tom Harkin
And just as your beautiful skyscrapers were destroyed and caused your grief, beautiful buildings and precious homes crumbled over their owners in Lebanon, Palestine, and… — Saddam Hussein
I see water and buildings ... Oh my God! Oh my God. — Unknown Author
From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly… — Harry Seidler
We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that… — Alfred Jarry
Stupid presidents, smart presidents, white presidents, black presidents -- doesn't work! What this country needs is a crazy Third World dictator. And Donald Trump has… — Lewis Black
I would not be at all surprised to find out . . . that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess. — Doris Lessing
War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried on a stretcher, looking up… — Mary Roberts Rinehart
If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least… — Amiri Baraka
Like any place in Reality, the Street is subject to development. Developers can build their own small streets feeding off of the main one. They… — Neal Stephenson

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