Quote by Douglas Adams

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

— Andrew Shaffer

“There are no chains of houses; there are no crowds of men. The colossal diagram of streets and houses is an illusion, the opium…

— G. K. Chesterton

“I had discovered that the plainest house can crown a fantasy or daydream. An open window can be tolerated. So can an open door.…

— Lloyd Jones

“An erect building is a shackled slave. I hear the mutinous grumbling of vertical buildings. I hear the grinding frustration of those compelled against…

— Declan Burke

“fifty-story skyscrapers stood side by side with older ten-story buildings like fathers and sons at the urinal together.”

— Yahtzee Croshaw

“Therefore, the very large department store should not be viewed as a sinful undertaking, as, for example, the Tower of Babel. It is, rather,…

— Joseph Roth

“The experiences people have in a large hotel do not constitute entire human destinies, full and completed. They are fragments merely, scraps, pieces.”

— Vicki Baum

“The urban sprawl of squat earthen buildings trailed into the woods, layered, unobtrusive, camouflaged by nature, inadvertent interruptions to the greenways. The”

— Maurice Broaddus

“I've noticed that there is danger in spending all this time writing about those "publicans and sinners" over there in the great and spacious…

— John Bytheway

“The thinnest walls are in the biggest houses.”

— Wyatt B. Pringle, Jr

A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely,…

— Samuel Johnson

“The asynarte city; two rhythms unconnected, profanity, holiness, and out of that strange bed, art.”

— Jeanette Winterson