Boast Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “A skyscraper is a boast in glass and steel.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boast Glasses Skyscraper Steel
“The building is a ginormous 175-story office building that juts into the sky like a glass and steel erection.” — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
“I walk through the glass doors and into the lobby, which is floor-to-ceiling glass and steel. This fascinates me to no end, because buildings… — Fanny Merkin Copy Share Image
“A skyscraper is the incarnate rebellion against the supposedly unattainable; against the mystery of altitude, against the otherworldliness of the cerulean.” — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
The skyscraper - any building over seven stories really - will come to be seen as an experimental building type that doesn't work well… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Right after 9/11 it looked as if the idea of a huge skyscraper might be considered obsolete. It came back, but I think that's… — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
Problem can either make u or break u The hammer that breaks glass can shape steel Its up to us to be glass or… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy, Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great: Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
