Quotes about Buildings

Buildings should be good neighbours. Votes: 3

Buildings are forms of performances. Votes: 3

Buildings have been made because of man. Votes: 3

Buildings should not look like Lady Gaga. Votes: 3

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun. Votes: 3

Buildings are always better than drawings and models. Votes: 3

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around. Votes: 3

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around. Votes: 3

Don't say 'the White House wants.' Buildings can't want. Votes: 3

Buildings are 'humane' only when they promote peaceful human co-existence. Votes: 3

Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity. Votes: 3

Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health. Votes: 3

Buildings are tools to reach people, raise disciples, reach students, train up our kids, heal marriages and families and worship God. Votes: 3

Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships. Votes: 3

Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is influenced by the nature of spaces. Votes: 3

If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever. Votes: 3

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them. Votes: 3

If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever. Votes: 3

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. Votes: 1

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves. Votes: 1

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings. Votes: 1

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not. Votes: 1

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design. Votes: 1

My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone. Votes: 1

There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners. Votes: 1

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart. Votes: 1

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse. Votes: 1

Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs. Votes: 1

When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left. Votes: 1

On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings. Votes: 1

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train. Votes: 1

On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border. Votes: 1

Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental. Votes: 1

When terrorists attacked the symbols of our national unity and strength, they failed to realize that they were just symbols of our strength. The real strength of our nation comes from our people - not our buildings. Votes: 1

One or two of the trips were a bit scary. Soldiers had me at gun point on one trip, locked me in my van all night and escorted me in and out of buildings when I wanted to wash. Votes: 1

It's so easy for me to get caught up in the feeling of a city like Venice, where everything is just beautiful color and gorgeous buildings that are so peaceful. You can roam around and get lost in the labyrinth. Votes: 1

If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist. Votes: 1

True leaders don't invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people. Votes: 1

A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment more than buildings: It must shatter the foundations of thought and re-create. Only in this way does every individual share in the cataclysm and understand the purpose of sacrifice. Votes: 1

Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we design new staircase steps every day in connection with all our houses, but a standardized step depends on the height of the buildings and on all kinds of things. Votes: 1

I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting a window where people would really like one. Making sure a shaving mirror in a hotel bathroom is at the right angle. Making bureaucratic buildings that are somehow cheerful. Votes: 1

When I thought about Detroit, I would think big city, very urban - not a lot of places to walk around, not a lot of parks. I sort of pictured Manhattan almost, where, besides Central Park, it's all city and big buildings. But now that I'm here, you see people pushing strollers, people hanging out in the park. Votes: 1

And exciting buildings are fine periodically. Votes: 0

New ideas often need old buildings. Votes: 0

New ideas must use old buildings Votes: 0

My buildings are all on budget. Votes: 0

My buildings are more famous than me. Votes: 0

That kid can hit balls over buildings. Votes: 0

By law, all buildings should be white. Votes: 0

I try firstly to make buildings humane. Votes: 0

Don't just look at buildings ... watch them. Votes: 0

Light is what gives joy to buildings. Votes: 0

I think buildings should imitate ecological systems. Votes: 0

All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong. Votes: 0

Architecture is about public space held by buildings. Votes: 0

Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age. Votes: 0

What the people are within, the buildings express without. Votes: 0

The buildings ... had suffered the inevitable shrinkage of places revisited ... Votes: 0

The English truly understand the dynamic between buildings and land. Votes: 0

Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries. Votes: 0

The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings! Votes: 0

Yes, and I also like jumping out of tall buildings. Votes: 0

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves. Votes: 0

Run, we think, as buildings crumble. Run, as people perish. Votes: 0

I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones. Votes: 0

I'm not a builder of buildings, I'm a builder of collections. Votes: 0

My buildings are like my children, so I cannot have favorites. Votes: 0

When I leave Somalia I will leave buildings but not people. Votes: 0

Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings. Votes: 0

People are not killed by earthquakes alone, but by collapsed buildings. Votes: 0

I see water and buildings ... Oh my God! Oh my God. Votes: 0

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect. Votes: 0

Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings. Votes: 0

My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in. Votes: 0

An endless number of green buildings doesn't make a sustainable city. Votes: 0

I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world. Votes: 0

My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons. Votes: 0

There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes. Votes: 0

No architect should design buildings that import a huge amount of energy. Votes: 0

There actually are buildings that existed in cyberspace before they built it. Votes: 0

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. Votes: 0

School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day. Votes: 0

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings. Votes: 0

I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings. Votes: 0

What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings. Votes: 0

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings. Votes: 0

First life, then spaces, then buildings - the other way around never works. Votes: 0

I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects. Votes: 0

In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. Votes: 0

Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough. Votes: 0

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness. Votes: 0

We built tall #‎ buildings , but we have not become any taller. Votes: 0

Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.' Votes: 0

Bach is how buildings got taller. It's how we got to the moon. Votes: 0

There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones. Votes: 0

We expect too much of new #"Ž buildings , and too little of ourselves. Votes: 0

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach? Votes: 0

The city buildings in the distance are holding up the sky, it seems. Votes: 0

Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world. Votes: 0

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings. Votes: 0

I'm hopeful that the energy efficiency and public buildings bill will have their endorsement. Votes: 0

There are currently more political parties in Iraq than unbombed buildings to hold them. Votes: 0

Why are they called buildings when they're already finished? Shouldn't they be called builts? Votes: 0

Architecture isn't just about creating new buildings, sometimes its about retuning what's already there.. Votes: 0

In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance. Votes: 0

Before 2000, everything was about being contextual, and buildings were supposed to be good citizens. Votes: 0

I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings. Votes: 0

In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe. Votes: 0

Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston. Votes: 0

Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design. Votes: 0

I believe in the near future we will 3D print our buildings and houses. Votes: 0

You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings. Votes: 0

Often the art in New York is related to the buildings, to grandiose things. Votes: 0

i cried when i saw those buildings collapse on themselves like a broken heart. Votes: 0

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings. Votes: 0

A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it. Votes: 0

Flexibility makes buildings to be stronger, imagine what it can do to your soul. Votes: 0

I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas. Votes: 0

Walls get made, walls crumble, buildings get built, buildings collapse, memories get made, memories last. Votes: 0

Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached. Votes: 0

I wanted to preserve the old buildings, not to destroy them and build something new. Votes: 0

I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest. Votes: 0

Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time. Votes: 0

All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden. Votes: 0

Countries keep on building higher and higher buildings, instead of building higher and higher men! Votes: 0

We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment. Votes: 0

Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books. Votes: 0

You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one. Votes: 0

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless. Votes: 0

Scientists say an 8.9 earthquake here could knock down buildings, flood coastal areas... and improve the roads. Votes: 0

Man-made things, buildings, boats, etc., we see more decidedly than the other things in a landscape. Votes: 0

You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit. Votes: 0

For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes. Votes: 0

The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world. Votes: 0

Some ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras! Votes: 0

I don't like landscapes. I like cities. Lots of cities. I like buildings. I like streets. Votes: 0

We make our buildings and afterwards they make us. They regulate the course of our lives. Votes: 0

Had I listened to my agent, I'd be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff. Votes: 0

They work now with computers for building buildings and books, but not ever with new ideas. Votes: 0

All of the buildings, all of those cars Were once just a dream In somebodys head. Votes: 0

In reality some images or drawings have a greater impact than many buildings that are built. Votes: 0

Those Walmarts weren't buildings, they were bunkers. Those weren't parking lots out front, they were kill zones. Votes: 0

The sweet smell of the South, of Camellias and Azaleas, clings to Beaufort's ancient and historic buildings. Votes: 0

There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable. Votes: 0

I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that. Votes: 0

Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air. Votes: 0

When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble. Votes: 0

Chinais a world class if not the world class property bubble, primarily high-rise buildings, offices and condos. Votes: 0

Im so happy with The Blacklist. Give me more people to shoot and throw them off buildings. Votes: 0

Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air." Votes: 0

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings. Votes: 0

All the buildings of justice will remain idle on the day when all men have high conscience! Votes: 0

High among the unpredictable variables that endanger the survival of worthy buildings are the vagaries of taste. Votes: 0

I want to show you that you can leap tall buildings, walk through walls, and change reality. Votes: 0

There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling. Votes: 0

People get work done, not buildings, not staffs in a generic sense, and not plans, but people Votes: 0

The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are. Votes: 0

Grand buildings made her feel better--maybe because being in a place so permanent made her feel more permanent. Votes: 0

Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent. Votes: 0

America has been hit by Allah at its most vulnerable point, destroying, thank God, its most prestigious buildings. Votes: 0

My buildings should have an emotional core - a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling. Votes: 0

C.P. Office sees its particular product (buildings) as the readily recognisable parts of its continuous design process. Votes: 0

The difference between regulated architects and unregulated designers is, unlike buildings, letterheads don't fall down and kill people. Votes: 0

I'm so happy with 'The Blacklist.' Give me more people to shoot and throw them off buildings. Votes: 0

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings. Votes: 0

Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings. Votes: 0

Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera's eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes. Votes: 0

My buildings should have an emotional core –a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling. Votes: 0

I should just drive around this city and take photos of all the buildings I've been humiliated in. Votes: 0

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own. Votes: 0

I'm a New Yorker. I like the big streets and the big buildings. It's a great place to walk. Votes: 0

Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite. Votes: 0

Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural. Votes: 0

O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings Votes: 0

When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings. Votes: 0

They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography! Votes: 0

I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars. Votes: 0

I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules. Votes: 0

I have a lovely room and bath in the hotel. It's a little inconvenient, they're in two separate buildings! Votes: 0

I know that New York is big, there are huge buildings, but in fact, it's quite small and contained... Votes: 0

Education doesn't just take place in stuffy classrooms and university buildings, it can happen everywhere, every day to every person. Votes: 0

All governments, Books, customs, buildings, railways, ships, and all the stark realities that men have made, Are but imagination's utterances. Votes: 0

If your goal is to produce firefighters and rescue workers, you have to produce people willing to enter burning buildings. Votes: 0

Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required. Votes: 0

There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners. Votes: 0

When we're dealing with historic buildings, we don't replicate, but we try to be subordinate and be deferential to them. Votes: 0

If you really love property, and buildings, lifestyles and how people live, that's a good reason for going into development. Votes: 0

Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification Votes: 0

Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes. Votes: 0

One cannot completely avoid this landmark character with large buildings such as these. But the city itself is also gigantic. Votes: 0

In some cities they tear down buildings to save taxes. They might try tearing down some taxes to save buildings. Votes: 0

Mostly we just add to the piles of rainbow glass that's been blown off the exteriors of the cany-colored buildings. Votes: 0

You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street. Votes: 0

If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to. Votes: 0

Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other. Votes: 0

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly. Votes: 0

We still have prostitutes standing on our corner, and people crapping round the back of buildings. The charms are still there. Votes: 0

I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to. Votes: 0

There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last Votes: 0

Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones. Votes: 0

I believe buildings are alive, and when you want to make a change, you have to change in the same symphony. Votes: 0

The United States have developed a new weapon that destroys people but it leaves buildings standing. It's called the stock market. Votes: 0

The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them. Votes: 0

New buildings should fit naturally into their surroundings, both architecturally and historically, without denying or prettifying the concerns of our time Votes: 0

In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since. Votes: 0

One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings. Votes: 0

The truth is that a nineteenth-century warehouse exhibits greater craft in its construction than all but the most expensive modern buildings. Votes: 0

I did not find Liverpool ugly. Her stately public buildings, broad streets, public squares, and noble statues redeem her from the charge. Votes: 0

Children are born with imaginations in mint condition, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Then life corrects for grandiosity. Votes: 0

I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy. Votes: 0

Twenty-first century buildings support a 21st century education - because it is difficult to learn or to teach if you are shivering. Votes: 0

I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings. Votes: 0

In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions. Votes: 0

There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space. Votes: 0

They say that 'home is where the heart is.' I think it is where the house is, and the adjacent buildings. Votes: 0

The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design. Votes: 0

You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again. Votes: 0

I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens. Votes: 0

Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings. Votes: 0

I would not be at all surprised to find out... that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess. Votes: 0

My properties are very good income-producing buildings, so I will have a very good stream of profit even if I can't sell. Votes: 0

Let the music keep our spirits high, let the buildings keep our children dry, let creation reveal its secrets by and bye. Votes: 0

Chicago's such a great city because it's got so many different brilliantly architecturally looking buildings, and you can really modify that city. Votes: 0

In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there? Votes: 0

Someone should say that; why we shouldn't burn their schools and destroy their buildings and infrastructures instead of burning our own homes. Votes: 0

How was it possible that entire lives could change, could be destroyed, and that streets and buildings remained the same, she wondered. Votes: 0

My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that. Votes: 0

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life. Votes: 0

There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple. Votes: 0

There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other programs. Votes: 0

The worst loss for any country is not the infrastructure or the buildings or the material loss; actually, it's the human resources loss. Votes: 0

If you want to understand what's most important to a society, don't examine its art or literature, simply look at its biggest buildings. Votes: 0

We are the only country in the world that trashes its old buildings. Too late we realize how very much we need them. Votes: 0

If you want to see what a society really believes in, look at what the biggest buildings on the horizon are dedicated to. Votes: 0

Window washers increase the vision in the windows of the buildings; wisdom quotes do the same thing in the eyes of the people! Votes: 0

The beauty of the landscape - where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together - has never left me. Votes: 0

Let's put it this way: One can be happy or unhappy in a building. But some buildings make us more depressed than others. Votes: 0

I'm battling monsters, I'm pulling you out of the burning buildings/ and you say I'll give you anything but you never come through. Votes: 0

He can't fly around tall buildings, or outrun a speeding train, the only talent he seems to have is leaving a nasty stain! Votes: 0

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them. Votes: 0

Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians. Votes: 0

Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians. Votes: 0

We will emerge stronger as a diverse community; the area will be rebuilt with life around the clock, new buildings, restaurants, places of entertainment. Votes: 0

For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation. Votes: 0

The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes are an extreme example). Votes: 0

You can't out-travel sadness. I travel not to get away from my troubles but to see how they look in front of famous buildings Votes: 0

if they take half the buildings that they use to praise god and give it to the motherfuckers who need god we'd be 'aight Votes: 0

In 1912, when I was working in The Hague, I first saw a drawing by Louis Sullivan of one of his buildings. It interested me. Votes: 0

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us. Votes: 0

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences. Votes: 0

It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city. Votes: 0

In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction. Votes: 0

The more I know about business, the more I'm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings. Votes: 0

I understand that, today, some developers are asking architects to design eye-catching, iconic buildings. Fortunately, I've not had that kind of client so far. Votes: 0

After the destructionofthe Second Temple Jewslived by an ancient and fundamental insight, that God does not live in buildings but in the human heart. Votes: 0

I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons. Votes: 0

Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too. Votes: 0

When people are really drunk they have a propensity to harm themselves and others - they fall off buildings, they drive into other cars. Votes: 0

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground. Votes: 0

Many people decorate their homes with designer graffiti, even though most of them would probably have real graffiti scoured off the walls of their buildings. Votes: 0

Today in Washington, D.C., several government buildings were left without power. Of course, the White House will be without power for two more years. Votes: 0

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them. Votes: 0

So many people are diverted to doing what people want photographed - fashion models, buildings, mountains - they get to thinking those photographs are good. Votes: 0

Ask Hillary Clinton why she takes tens of millions of dollars from countries that hate women and disrespect women, that throw gays off of buildings. Votes: 0

I sometimes go back to walk through the ghostly remains of Sutton Place where the rude, new buildings stand squarely in one another's river views. Votes: 0

We live in a world where a hut made of clay is more durable than brick buildings, because poverty doesn't allow it to be reconstructed. Votes: 0

I sometimes go back to walk through the ghostly remains of Sutton Place where the rude, new buildings stand squarely in one another's river views Votes: 0

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. Votes: 0

We are limited only by our lack of creativity. Our buildings should symbolize the exuberance of a free nation that encourages individual effort and creativity. Votes: 0

Every time I've flown an aircraft, or visited a steelworks, or watched a panel-beater at work, I've learned something new that can be applied to buildings. Votes: 0

One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed buildings. Votes: 0

Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credit cards. Votes: 0

I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind around it at all. Votes: 0

Yankee Stadium, it's like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down. Votes: 0

To me, Los Angeles and California and executive power are about big, open warehouse buildings. Tech companies are buying oversized buildings, because they project growth immediately. Votes: 0

Japan's humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors. Votes: 0

If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about their cosmos. Votes: 0

In remaking the world in the likeness of a steam-heated, air-conditioned metropolis of apartment buildings we have violated one of our essential attributes-our kinship with nature. Votes: 0

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon. Votes: 0

Japans humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors. Votes: 0

We were talking to shop owners or ordinary people who were living in these buildings now. A lot of the Olympic Villages were turned into housing. Votes: 0

It could be so beautiful here if the Americans themselves had not made it so ugly with their big buildings, their millions of cars, and noise ... Votes: 0

The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s. Votes: 0

Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not a stone goes through. Votes: 0

All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death. Votes: 0

We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole. Votes: 0

I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line. Votes: 0

I started to draw buildings. I called them Proposed Colossal Monuments - they weren't for real, not for actual building. It was more a critique of architecture. Votes: 0

The proportions, too, in which the capital that is to support labour, and the capital that is invested in tools, machinery and buildings, may be variously combined. Votes: 0

Already, China's world-leading solar industry provides water heating for 35 million buildings, and India's pioneering use of rainwater harvesting brings clean water to tens of thousands of homes. Votes: 0

It would be useless to bomb Washington. If you destroy one building, they already have two other buildings completely staffed with people doing exactly the same thing. Votes: 0

The box got bigger, the outside, the buildings. And all that we were doing. I had to raise about $1 million every two days just to stay alive. Votes: 0

What exhibit buildings God will have! The historical exhibits, the scientific exhibits, the spiritual exhibits, to be able to see the marvelous wonders of the Spirit World! Votes: 0

I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church spires and old brownstone buildings. Votes: 0

I would want to have Spider-Man's web slinging abilities. I always thought it'd be cool to swing around the city jumping off of buildings and free diving. Votes: 0

The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I walk around. Votes: 0

By employing the intelligence of natural systems we can create industry, buildings, even regional plans that see nature and commerce not as mutually exclusive but mutually coexisting. Votes: 0

Christ does not inhabit buildings or a certain atmosphere; in fact, the very heavens cannot contain Him. Rather, He is manifested through our obedient, sanctified bodies-His temples. Votes: 0

There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans. Votes: 0

I was working with mud and photographs and thread, eyelashes, carrots and acetone... I was throwing radios off buildings and... remember floating styrofoam commas down the Milwaukee River. Votes: 0

Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings ignoring or even taunting people standing outside shouting at them turns out to be a story with an unhappy ending. Votes: 0

Alfriston is a compact village set around a rather traffic-weary High Street, mainly of old, timbered buildings. The principal sights lie to the east on the river side. Votes: 0

There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums. Votes: 0

Parents matter, buildings count, curriculum choices, materials, resources - all these things are important in a top-class education. But, in the end, it comes down to the teachers. Votes: 0

Surely, it's one of terrorism's intended effects, to literally stun our morale, to blow up strength and will along with buildings, and the reaction is hard to counter. Votes: 0

No trees, sky or ground. No other buildings or fields. No winding path, no brambles, no outhouse or pond or flowers, no sunshine or children playing. Just blackness. Votes: 0

In my judgment, my buildings are less likely to burn to the ground during one of your visits if you are disoriented from being treated like a sultan. Votes: 0

I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape. Votes: 0

In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives. Votes: 0

I love New York. It just reminds me of so many movies... I look up at buildings, and feel like Godzilla should be climbing up them or something. Votes: 0

On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings." Votes: 0

I don't want to be romantic, but one of the most important things is to have happy buildings... it's like having a family with a lot of children. Votes: 0

I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings. Votes: 0

But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like. Votes: 0

Extreme weather threatens our energy and electric grid, federal buildings, transportation infrastructure, access to natural resources, public health, our relationships across the globe, and many other aspects of life. Votes: 0

There's no doubt in my mind over the next 25 years how we drive, how we build our houses, how we fly, how we build our buildings, will all change. Votes: 0

Melbourne is wonderfully altered since I last saw it. There are some very fair buildings in it now, and things are a little cheaper than they used to be. Votes: 0

In New York, the buildings are like mountains in some ways, but they are only alive because of the people living in them. Real mountains are alive all over. Votes: 0

You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that. Votes: 0

There are great roads, beautiful bridges, lovely parks, gorgeous gardens and wonderful buildings in a big city. But there is something missing, something very important: The spirit of nature! Votes: 0

The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples. Votes: 0

In New York, we're always confined with spaces. Our restaurants are difficult to navigate as cooks and to operate. We fight against the buildings we run in New York. Votes: 0

I began to see new buildings, too, which were connected by futuristic walkways lit from beneath. Long, cool perspectives of modern architecture, rising phosphorescent and eerie from the rubble. Votes: 0

I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter. Votes: 0

We all claim to worship the same God, so why don't we fellowship together? ... The only thing that keeps us from fellowshiping together are the church buildings, the organizations. Votes: 0

Typically, an historic site is considered by the National Park Service to contain a single historical feature, while generally a National Historic Park extends beyond single properties or buildings. Votes: 0

I discovered by working with actual glass models that the important thing is the play of reflections and not the effect of light and shadow, as in ordinary buildings. Votes: 0

Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece. Votes: 0

Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you're able to grasp what things mean. Votes: 0

I aim to create furniture that appears in a room as buildings on a skyline and reminds the viewer of the interaction between objects of design and architectural space. Votes: 0

Go to Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, or any college and you'll see libraries, dormitories, and a lot of buildings that were a result of the generosity of fat cats. Votes: 0

I love to walk through the streets of Jesus Maria and Pueblo Libre. The Spanish colonial buildings are in bright colors, two stories high, with these intricate wooden, windowed balconies. Votes: 0

The bankers just got a good cussing by everybody for loaning too much money. Well, they got some awful nice buildings. So when a banker fails, he fails in splendor. Votes: 0

The rich and powerful always seem to prefer the tops of buildings. Hasn't anyone ever explained to them that higher just means you have farther to fall? -- Anita Blake Votes: 0

Industry is not a collection of machines and tools and buildings. It is a social entity that has the responsibility of realizing the happiness of those who work in it. Votes: 0

Terror is now the world narrative, unquestionably. When those two buildings were struck, and when they collapsed, it was, in effect, an extraordinary blow to consciousness, and it changed everything. Votes: 0

In every area of the world where there is earthquake risk, there are still many buildings of this type; it is very frustrating to try to get rid of them. Votes: 0

From 50 centuries, we can learn about the close relationship between garden design and urban design, because both arts involve the composition of buildings with paving, landform, water, vegetation and climate. Votes: 0

I think buildings should imitate ecological systems. Ecological systems in nature before we had human beings interfere with them exist in a state of stasis - they are self-supporting, self-sustaining. Votes: 0

I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves! Votes: 0

A truly moral health care system should start out by covering all of its citizens with basic health care. It would not be seduced by its technology and fancy buildings. Votes: 0

When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another shore with towers and buildings. Votes: 0

In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense. Votes: 0

We need to make material progress, but we need inner development too ... remember that the real development we seek is not in the buildings but in our hearts and minds. Votes: 0

If I were President, I would spend the money that is spent on wars every 20 years and spend it on giving people work. Let them build roads, bridges, buildings, schools. Votes: 0

On Church: Church wasn't designed by an architect (Technically, Jesus was a carpenter.). So why do we think of churches as buildings instead of groups of people who love Jesus? Votes: 0

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. Votes: 0

I want to design jewelry for girls and guys... I'ma spread it out, but I'ma design, probably when I'm just designing furniture and buildings, I'll probably being the jewelry thing, too. Votes: 0

I studied at a time when buildings were sterile things, and their creators were hands-off people - super-intelligent people, but you felt they didn't love the stuff buildings are made from. Votes: 0

When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone. Votes: 0

Europe by the end of this century will be a continent after the neutron bomb. The grand buildings will still be standing, but the people who built them will be gone. Votes: 0

Just because you are an architect and make decent buildings does not mean that you can suddenly become a set designer for one of the best avant-garde dancers in the world. Votes: 0

When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting. Votes: 0

I'm sorry to say, but 85% of so-called 'green' firms make some of the ugliest buildings that were ever made. So for God's sake, I don't want to be categorized with them. Votes: 0

I am an architect. I try to feel the transparency in contemporary buildings and I try to understand the transparency in Zen poetry. I just want to mix all those things. Votes: 0

In this branch of utopian real estate, architecture is no longer the art of designing buildings so much as the brutal skyward extrusion of whatever site the developer has managed to assemble. Votes: 0

It's no good to shoot a guy anymore. It's not enough.Nobody is throwing anybody off of buildings after seeing these movies, but they are smoking after seeing some good-looking celebrity smoke. Votes: 0

The first thing many tourists see in Hawaii is concrete - a long dreary stretch of it through landscapes dominated by sad, cheap apartment buildings and almost entirely denuded of plant life. Votes: 0

With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces. Votes: 0

But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the shape of organizations, be they companies, nations, or social structures. Votes: 0

I lived in New York for a couple months. It seemed to me at first an incredibly clean place with well-dressed people and washed cars and bright-painted red-and-yellow streetcars and white buildings. Votes: 0

If we are to believe or accept that buildings are cultural markers, if architects work in a vacuum with their own preconceptions about society, then we won't be creating appropriate cultural markers. Votes: 0

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings. Votes: 0

Even here in California with more contemporary buildings. I have a real problem with the low doorframes. It's a curse! That's just another of the many problems I have to live with. Votes: 0

The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter. Votes: 0

The skyline in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rope' is made up: no, you don't get the Waldorf and the Chrysler and the Empire State buildings and a dozen other magnificent structures in one window. Votes: 0

Bill Cosby no longer on Temple University`s board. His name has been removed from various college scholarships and buildings. Two dozen colleges and universities have rescinded honorary degrees they gave him. Votes: 0

I guess we often get the deep blues, both of us, and wonder what it all means- the people, the buildings, the day by day things, the waste of time, of ourselves. Votes: 0

I have approached the buildings as psychological and poetic manifestations - rather than from the more technical viewpoints of the architect and historian (which mostly miss the living spirit behind the forms). Votes: 0

I think Tokyo is going to sink under water soon. All those stupid high-rise buildings will sink and maybe all the traffic will be gone. And everything will be peaceful and quiet. Votes: 0

The buildings appear to be glued together, mostly small houses and apartment blocks that looked nervous. There is murky snow spread out like carpet. There is concrete, empty hat-stand trees, and gray air. Votes: 0

I love New York, it's always been my home. It has everything - music, fashion, entertainment, impressive buildings, huge parks, street cafes. And it's very international, with people from all over the world. Votes: 0

We go to church buildings that still have a mortgage. Which means the bank owns God's house. Which means that we go and make love to God in a house that Satan owns! Votes: 0

In 1964, when we first arrived in New York City, I remember vividly seeing the skyline of Manhattan, and our first proposal of 1964 was to wrap two lower Manhattan buildings. We never got permission. Votes: 0

I love New York, it's always been my home. It has everything - music, fashion, entertainment, impressive buildings, huge parks, street cafes. And it's very international, with people from all over the world. Votes: 0

A lot of the buildings [in Toronto] around Yonge and Bloor is the architectural equivalent of Kipper Ties and 8" collar points. It's ghastly and no amount of street-level retail glitz can lift it. Votes: 0

We're seeing the development of tactics in Iraq, such as suicide bombing. Insurgents have been driving cars with explosives into hotels and office buildings. The recruitment may be even more prolific outside Iraq. Votes: 0

I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones. Votes: 0

I just love building buildings. I'm the largest developer in New York City. I'm having a lot of fun doing it. I think I've never had more fun. I'm just enjoying my life. Votes: 0

I marched and I protested against the war in Vietnam, along with many, many thousands of others. But I never quite understood the bombs that were placed in science labs or office buildings. Votes: 0

Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the time. It's time we gave this some thought. Votes: 0

Washington was not just a city of marble buildings and smoke-filled rooms and power brokers, but also a town full of people who do care about each other, in good times and bad. Votes: 0

I am all for greening tall buildings, but I'm also very keen to note that greening a building doesn't cope with the problem of the tall building in the texture of the city. Votes: 0

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings. Votes: 0

A painter, a sculptor, a writer, they can express freely. They don't affect society as a whole. We build buildings that have a purpose, that stay there for hundreds of years or decades. Votes: 0

Most American cities shop to their best advantage when seen from a height or from a distance, at a point where the ugliness of the buildings dissolves into the beauty of an abstraction. Votes: 0

It is not always the job of people shouting outside impressive buildings to solve problems. It is often the job of the people inside, who have paper, pens, desks, and an impressive view. Votes: 0

With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds. Votes: 0

I'm not digging tunnels, I'm not building buildings. My work is not hard, my work is refreshing, my work is pleasant. The more the better. Lying around and getting no job is debilitating. Votes: 0

A massive power outage in Washington, D.C., today affected a number of federal buildings, including the White House. When asked when they could restore power to the White House, officials said, '2016?' Votes: 0

I want my buildings to take root and look as if they've always been there. It isn't about pastiche or adapting what's already there. It's about trying to blend the future and the past. Votes: 0

So many today are worshiping in the mountains, big churches, stone and frame buildings. But Jesus teaches that salvation is not in these stone structures-not in the mountains-not in the hills, but in God. Votes: 0

From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber. Votes: 0

The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I'm getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer's funeral because they all know I'm sick. I am getting buildings named after me and awards and stuff. Votes: 0

Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood... The yet unfinished and unopened Railway was in progress. Votes: 0

I loved buildings that had grown silently with the centuries, catching the best of each generation while time curbed the artist's pride and the philistine's vulgarity and repaired the clumsiness of the dull workman. Votes: 0

I don't think I have a signature style that announces, 'This is a Safdie.' But I think star architects have seized an opportunity to go anywhere in the world to produce meaningless buildings. Votes: 0

I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that. Votes: 0

Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? here, the wisdom of whole generations is stored. Votes: 0

Why are video games so violent? The ones I've seen remind me of the 4th of July, with everything exploding, buildings, cars, airplanes, men and women. Kill, kill, and kill for sport and entertainment. Votes: 0

Architecture is the very mirror of life.You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society. Votes: 0

And autos are not the only product that could be made more energy efficient if we just put in place sensible requirements. This is also true of many appliances and even of entire buildings. Votes: 0

The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people. Votes: 0

The Moscow of these pageants is the old core city with its buildings of pastel hues and white trim that, with the season's continual dustings of snow, appear to be the work of confectioners Votes: 0

If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong." Votes: 0

Architecture is not about designing somehting from a free, fanciful idea. It is about discovering and establishing one's own principle, some kind of regularity - finding an individual formula to apply to one's buildings. Votes: 0

If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong. Votes: 0

I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men--great men-- must build monuments and seek fame? Votes: 0

Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily. Votes: 0

In my opinion, further consideration of those views will help us find a way out of the current impasse, and reveal to us the kinds of buildings and cities required by the informational society. Votes: 0

Care should be taken that all buildings are well lighted: in those of the country this point is easily accomplished, because the wall of a neighbour is not likely to interfere with the light. Votes: 0

The Aga Khan Awards for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms. This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations. Votes: 0

Show me a country where the bombs had to fallShow me the ruins of buildings so tallAnd I'll show you a young landWith many reasons whyThere but for fortune, go you or IYou or I. Votes: 0

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent. Votes: 0

Im particularly interested in the public role that all buildings play. I believe that we architects should try to go beyond our basic obligations to the public, and our opportunities to do so are many. Votes: 0

I don't do casinos or prisons; I like to do projects that enhance the lives of everyday people, like campus buildings, libraries, museums and government buildings. That's why I love working in the public sector. Votes: 0

The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time. Votes: 0

All of us should remember that the federal government is not some mysterious institution comprised of buildings, files and paper. The people are the government. What we create we ought to be able to control. Votes: 0

The reason I don't worry about society is, nineteen people knocked down two buildings and killed thousands. Hundreds of people ran into those buildings to save them. I'll take those odds every f*cking day. Votes: 0

I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime. Votes: 0

Harry," she said quietly, "I know you must be angry." I burn things to ash and smash holes in buildings when I'm angry," I said. "I'm a couple of steps past that point right now. Votes: 0

We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves. Votes: -1