Building Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald Download Open image “From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Building Empire state Empire state building Empires Inexplicable Lonely Rose Ruins Sphinx States
“What sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination? - Howl ” — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share
“SPHINX UNITED “...satisfying story of star-crossed lovers…steamy love scenes…” — Rtbookreviews Copy Share Image
i get a little romantic about the old Empire State. Just looking at it makes me want to play some Frank Sinatra tunes and… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its silhouette. — Timothy Levitch Copy Share Image
The pyramid once passed there was still a short way to go before we confronted the Sphinx, in the middle of what our contemporaries… — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
“We first hear of temples to the gods under the IVth Dynasty, but of the actual buildings of that period we have recovered nothing… — Leonard William King Copy Share Image
“The men who had inhabited prehistoric Egypt, who had carved the Sphinx and founded the world‘s oldest civilization, were men who had made their… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“of us is the Oedipus here? Which the Sphinx? It would seem to be a rendezvous of questions and notes of interrogation. And could… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones. — Edwin Arnold Copy Share Image
Some ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone. — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
“His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“There was a ripe mystery about it, a hint of bedrooms upstairs more beautiful and cool than other bedrooms, of gay and radiant activities… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Another dawn flung itself across the river; a belated taxi hurried along the street, its lamps still shining like burning eyes in a face… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“She plucked a twig and broke it, but she found no spring in it.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills but getting few myself except those I read into men… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He was good looking, "sort of distinguished when he wants to be", had a line, and was properly inconstant. In fact, he summed up… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
I've done so many other projects where you're in a room with a reader and you're acting your lines out: 'We have to get… — Jim Cummings Copy Share Image
Absolutely, you can improve and become better at toughness. It's a talent, but it can be acquired, too. I think of it like building… — Jim Harbaugh Copy Share Image
T]he church is not a place. It's not a building. It's not a preaching point. It's not a spiritual service provider. It's a people… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now. — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So… — Edward Witten Copy Share Image