Blown away Quote by Ken Follett

A story is like building a chapel; a novel is a cathedral.

— Rosario Ferre

Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of basalt.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.

— Oscar Niemeyer

When I visit any cathedral, it reminds me of being with my grandparents. They weren't particularly religious, but my grandfather was obsessed with architecture.

— Jonathan Anderson

Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.

— Anonymous

I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.

— Philip Johnson

“When we look at a perfect cathedral, two different emotions emerge in us: On the one hand, the feeling of admiration for the architect…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual.

— L. Ron Hubbard

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

— Thomas Carlyle

Whence, then, did the cathedral derive its power? Clearly here: It took back the family into the confidences of religion. It taught man and…

— Jenkin Lloyd Jones

“And I hope that all my readers are acquainted with an old English Cathedral town or I fear the significance of Mr Norrell’s chusing…

— Susanna Clarke

It is an exceptional event to build a cathedral - it must withstand several lifetimes.

— Santiago Calatrava