Skyscraper Quotes
75 quotes by 62 authors
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The key is to photograph your obsessions, whether that’s old people’s hands or skyscrapers. Think of a blank canvas, because that’s what you’ve got, and…
— David LaChapelle
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An expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into the composition of…
— Marshall McLuhan
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Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance behind the shadow, weaving powerful…
— Dan Simmons
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Solidarity is not a matter of sentiment but a fact, cold and impassive as the granite foundations of a skyscraper. If the basic elements, identity…
— Eugene V. Debs
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Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.
— Clifford Stoll
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The skyscrapers began to rise again, frailly massive, elegantly utilitarian, images in their grace, audacity and inconclusiveness, of the whole character of the people who…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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As a kid growing up in a small town in Washington State, my only exposure to New York City was through movies. The town with…
— Robert Osborne
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces.
— Greg Lynn
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I'm still walking around New York like a tourist staring up at all the skyscrapers. I wave at people, I shake hands, I help ladies…
— Jack McBrayer
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This (America) is a land of rich diversity, from the towering skyscrapers of Manhatan all the way to the towering mounds of garbage piled up…
— Dave Barry
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Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.
— Philip Johnson
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New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go,…
— Griffin Dunne
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Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement.
— Jonathan Lethem
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A skyscraper is a machine that makes the land pay.
— Cass Gilbert
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We have had the stone age; we have had the iron age; and now we have the sky age, and the sky telegraph, and sky…
— Gerald Stanley Lee
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I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.
— Zaha Hadid
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The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military,…
— Barack Obama
Who Wrote These Skyscraper Quotes
62 authors contributed a total of 75 Skyscraper Quotes, led by these top contributors: