Building Quote by Patricia Moyes Download Open image “The buildings ... had suffered the inevitable shrinkage of places revisited.” — Patricia Moyes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Building Buildings Suffered Inevitable Inevitable Shrinkage Places Revisited Shrinkage Shrinkage Places
Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement -… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
“Someone, he added, ought to draw up a catalogue of types of buildings listed in order of size, and it would be immediately obvious… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“The homage paid to the fragment and the dismantling of the large narratives had had their spatial counterpart in the lack of integrated and… — Sverker Sörlin Copy Share Image
I usually point out that most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
“architecture to spiritually uplift and thought it was a very bad idea to build functional, uninspired blocks of flats that would depress both their… — Menna van Praag Copy Share Image
The apartment was built at the edge of a high cliff so that when you looked out the back window it seemed as if… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“It is not a forgotten place, but it is a place for forgetting - the crimes committed by its patients settling into the dust… — John Burley Copy Share Image
“Overcrowding, which is one symptom of the population instability, continues. It continues, not because the overcrowded people remain, but because they leave. Too many… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
No one paid any attention to how things looked, and as they moved faster and faster everything grew uglier and dirtier, and as everything… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
I felt that the decrepit state of these once magnificent buildings, with their broken gutters, walls blackened by rainwater, crumbling plaster revealing the coarse… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Cats of great personality are always found in association with sensitive, cat-conscious people; it is a two-way process of immense mutual benefit. — Patricia Moyes Copy Share Image
I can never pass a cat in the street without greeting it and exchanging a few words, and the cat invariably replies. — Patricia Moyes Copy Share Image
it is perfectly possible to converse with any cat, from prize-winning Siamese to alley tabby. Humans who are slow learners may start with a… — Patricia Moyes Copy Share Image
Angry and frustrated, the journalists set about making bricks without straw. — Patricia Moyes Copy Share Image
It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark - and… — Patricia Moyes Copy Share Image
Some brave chrysanthemums still stood in the country gardens, but they looked like bedraggled survivors of a battle, barely able to hold their tattered… — Patricia Moyes Copy Share Image
one doesn't really grow older; it's just that other people grow younger. — Patricia Moyes Copy Share Image
“It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that led to great events.” — Patricia Moyes Copy Share Image
I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards. — Patricia Moyes Copy Share Image
I do not believe that it is possible to teach a cat to obey; that is contrary to his nature. — Patricia Moyes Copy Share Image
Suffolk has something more than the coziness of Kent and Surrey. There is a hint of wildness in its tamed beauty, and the tang… — Patricia Moyes Copy Share Image
You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
I've done so many other projects where you're in a room with a reader and you're acting your lines out: 'We have to get… — Jim Cummings Copy Share Image
Absolutely, you can improve and become better at toughness. It's a talent, but it can be acquired, too. I think of it like building… — Jim Harbaugh Copy Share Image
T]he church is not a place. It's not a building. It's not a preaching point. It's not a spiritual service provider. It's a people… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now. — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So… — Edward Witten Copy Share Image
![“T]he church is not a place. It's not a building. It's not a preaching point. It's not a spiritual service provider. It's a people - the new covenant, blood-bought people of God. That's why Paul said, 'Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her' (Eph. 5:25). He didn't give himself up for a…” quote by Mark Dever](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7a4/mark-dever-3175_blood_t-he-church-is-not-a-place-it-s-not-a-bu_3297.jpg)
