Skyscraper Quotes

75 quotes by 62 authors

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one… — Ayn Rand
A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I just need green. I need to wake up and see grass and squirrels. I don't want to see skyscrapers. — Andre Leon Talley
The skyscraper style first advocated by Louis Sullivan - a tower of strongly vertical character with clear definitions among base, shaft, and crown - has… — Martin Filler
One argument against open systems is that they become open to everything, good and bad. Like a Richard Meier skyscraper, the anal retentive, Bauhaus elegance… — Douglas Rushkoff
By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul. — Carl Sandburg
Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain,… — Albert Einstein
Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had… — Ayn Rand
I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a… — Jonathan Safran Foer
He tunneled into stories where weak men changed into strong half-animals or used eye beams or magic hammers to power through steel or climb up… — Alice Sebold
New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes that are there,… — Henry Miller
The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the… — Ayn Rand
He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world,… — Ayn Rand
I told myself that if I didn't care, this wouldn't have hurt so much - surely that proved I was alive and human and all… — Jodi Picoult
Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and… — Jonathan Safran Foer
In our town there is a secret spot where you can still see the stars at night, believe it or not. It is the only… — Joe Meno
There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight, drench, or conceal… — Federico Garcia Lorca
Don't you give me that postmodern bullshit. There is truth, There is a truth. And what you want, or you feel, or you need, isn't… — Carol Plum-Ucci
It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer. Everything fades: the shimmer of gold over White Cove; the… — Anna Godbersen
Why would anybody be intimidated by mere words? I mean, neither I nor any other athiest that I know ever threatens violence. We never threaten… — Richard Dawkins

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