Building Quote by John Ashbery

The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“Conversely, nothing reduces smart people to whiny complainers as quickly as a new office floor plan.”

— Eric Schmidt

I really liked the design aesthetic of the mid-century modern for furniture and the early '60s stuff for the clothes. But then, personally, I'm…

— Adam Reed

Set in the advertising world of the 1960s, 'Mad Men' is stunning to look at - a Camelot-era parade of smartly dressed professionals lounging…

— Adam Cohen

The office building is a building for work, organization, lucidity and economy. Light, spacious working rooms, clearly arranged, undivided, only organized according to the…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“I arrive at the Gray Holdings headquarters in downtown Seattle two hours later. The building is a ginormous 175-story office building that juts into…

— Andrew Shaffer

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

— Andrew Shaffer

The problem of the tall office building is one of the most stupendous, one of the most magnificent opportunities that the Lord of Nature…

— Louis Sullivan

My office is in a building in midtown Chicago. It's an older building, and not in the best of shape, especially since there was…

— Jim Butcher

“Zackary Connor's office building was made of glass, endless windows giving the impression of being outside. It was exactly how I liked nature--air conditioned…

— Caroline Hanson

For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun.

— Aldo Leopold

After death something new begins, over which all powers of the world of death have no more might.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer