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“I stop in my tracks to look up, completely disrupting the flow of tourist traffic. It’s directly in front of me, in all its…

— Kristin Rae

“Skyscrapers! Unhealthy ugly giants! To live and work as close as to the land is a blessing! Remember, you are not a cloud! Come…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“The contest of world's tallest skyscraper is a childish thing. Whereas with similar budget, they could construct flying building.”

— Toba Beta

“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

“Appropriately enough, in the years following Pulitzer’s coup, the term “skyscraper” first gained common currency. It was not a novel word, having had a…

— Mike Wallace

“The skyscrapers of the city had finished scraping all the sky away, and the clouds overhead were exactly the color of concrete and I…

— Michael Montoure

The skyscrapers began to rise again, frailly massive, elegantly utilitarian, images in their grace, audacity and inconclusiveness, of the whole character of the people…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

“ordinary people can never fall over the walls, because they never dare climb high enough to see what is beyond the walls.”

— B. Traven

“Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan on erecting a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of…

— Jeff Wheeler

“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

There's a kind of beauty to a skyscraper.

— Lisa Joy

“To visit the Tower, then, is to enter into contact not with a historical Sacred, as is the case for the majority of monuments,…

— Roland Barthes