Empire state Quote by Vincent Scully

An evening up on the Empire State roof-the strangest experience. The huge tomb in steel and glass, the ride to the 84th floor and…

— Dawn Powell

From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building. And just as it had been tradition of mine to…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

When I first came to New York City, what I was thrilled about was not the Empire State Building, or the Statue of Liberty;…

— Dave Gibbons

“New York City, city of exaggerations. Place of Herculean ascensions and perilous falls.”

— Kurt Wenzel

“It was a frightening metaphor for what the United States was becoming – a Titanic of rich, proud dimwits heading for the iceberg of…

— M.B. Dallocchio

“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

“Through the window I looked across the oil-black Tigris at the Green Zone, lit up like Disneyland in Dystopia. I thought about J.G. Ballard's…

— David Mitchell

“A skyscraper is the incarnate rebellion against the supposedly unattainable; against the mystery of altitude, against the otherworldliness of the cerulean.”

— Joseph Roth

“I peered into the deep-sae canyon, hoping to spot a toppled skyscraper. Maybe even the Statue of Liberty.”

— Kat Falls

“The collapsing of an empire. This changing word moves inexorably on. Thoughts bubble and the stiller the mind the more palpable the dazzling torrent…

— Stephen Batchelor

“New York lies far beyond these islands, this labyrinth. There, once you emptied a subway coach by simply closing your eyes and chanting a…

— Maria Luisa B. Aguilar-Carino