Energy Quote by Declan Burke

“A skyscraper is the incarnate rebellion against the supposedly unattainable; against the mystery of altitude, against the otherworldliness of the cerulean.”

— Joseph Roth

“The building is a ginormous 175-story office building that juts into the sky like a glass and steel erection.”

— Andrew Shaffer

“A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form,…

— Ayn Rand

“I got myself into a tangle. I tied myself in knots. I built and I built–heaven knows I have done that well. Those skyscrapers,…

— Tom Rachman

“It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down. It is not the houses. It is the spaces between the houses.…

— James Fenton

“The church tower, firm in line, soaring unfalteringly to its tapering point, topped with red tiles and broad in the roof, an earthly building…

— Franz Kafka

“Sir, there’s a tower of fire in me Binding me with terrible strength The whole of my mortal length And splitting brave the skull’s…

— Jose Garcia Villa

“Nothing has the power to remind you how alone you are like walking through a conglomeration of empty skyscrapers.”

— Matthew Tysz

“Walls, no less than writing, define civilization. They are monuments of resistance against time, like writing itself. . .”

— Robert Pogue Harrison

“The tower was battered, a relic of a distant past. Yet there was a dignity to it, a grace that belied the pockmarked walls…

— Paul Fraser Collard

“Opposite is the old bell-tower of a church, all the more moving for being unfinished. What beauty there is in interrupted towers, which continue…

— Georges Rodenbach

“We have to build our lives out of what materials we have. It's as though we were given a heap of blocks and told…

— Maud Hart Lovelace