Architecture Quote by Lee Battersby Download Open image ““The only direction not represented in their construction was vertical.”” — Lee Battersby ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Construction Humor
“Such a pity gravity only works vertically, I would have drawn you if it was horizontal as well.” — Pushpa Rana Copy Share Image
“There are plenty of people who might prefer to go sideways. What about them? How are we to inspire them?” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“No one could work forward without falling if they continually looked at the path behind them.” — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
“Straight lines evidently belonged only to geometry, not to nature and life.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“It's almost like there was only an up and down before him, but now I hav discovered you can also go sideways too.” — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
“Like all walls it was ambiguous, two faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side you were on.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I wasn't built to look the other way because the law demanded it. The law might be wrong.” — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
“Opposites meet; extremes look alike. A top that is not rotating is motionless. The same top at its highest velocity also looks motionless.” — Swami Satchidananda Copy Share Image
“From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.” — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“It is said that the dead are infinitely patient, although it is usually said by the living, and how would they know?” — Lee Battersby Copy Share Image
“Marius had never understood the notion of blind loyalty. He had served everyone from kings and caliphs to head dishwasher at the local brothel,… — Lee Battersby Copy Share Image
The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place. — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known… — Ward Cunningham Copy Share Image
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
