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Buildings Quotes

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

Focus You Buildings Nice Street

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.

City Buildings Admiration Here Made

I visited the compound of the American embassy and talked to the police and the people and encouraged them, and I told them to take the proper measure and apply the law against the people who are attacking them and attacking the buildings.

Police People Law American Buildings

I don't like apartments - the idea of other people living, copulating and defecating above me - they make me feel as trapped as a slice of ham in a sandwich. When I was a student in Paris, I always rented attics right at the top of buildings, and as soon as I was making enough money, I bought houses.

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Money People Me Enough Buildings

For more than 40 years, I have advocated the creation of a 'round the clock' community. This would mean, at the least, housing, schools and shops of various kinds alongside the commercial buildings. That kind of community had appeared in lower Manhattan in nascent form before Sept. 11, 2001.

David Rockefeller

Community Buildings Creation Kind

I'm 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.

Believe Opportunities Buildings Play

I was always really geeky about design and buildings. Always into architecture as a kid.

Architecture Design Buildings Kid

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

People You Buildings Hidden See

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.

Architecture Better Buildings Look

The Bar Room has a corner table placed strategically at a point diagonally across from the entrance. the table of tables in the setting of settings in the building of buildings. In the religion of lunch, this is the holy of holies.

Raymond Sokolov

Religion Lunch Building Buildings

I don't do sports, and my idea of hell is being dragged around ruins/museums/famous buildings, so I guess I'm a beach bum.

Sports Beach Hell Buildings Being

You look out on the street, and everyone has their heads in their phones. Nobody's really looking up at the sky or the buildings and taking the day in. I try to be conscious of it, but everybody falls prey to it.

Day Sky Looking You Buildings Look

I had a whistle-stop tour of Havana in a horse and carriage and couldn't stop taking photographs of the decaying yet enchanting buildings and people.

Matthew Williamson

People Horse Buildings Stop Havana

Architects have to become more aware of exactly what is involved in designing barrier-free buildings and homes.

Buildings Become More Involved Aware

On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than 400 of those first responders did not make it out alive. In rushing into those burning buildings, not one of them asked, 'What God do you pray to?' What beliefs do you hold?'

Michael Bloomberg

God You Buildings Alive More First

I personally will never forget that people are more important than buildings.

People Never Forget Buildings Forget

Liberals want to amend our country's history to eradicate the role of Christianity in America and chisel references to God or faith from our historical buildings.

God Faith History America Buildings

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.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Home Mistakes Plant Buildings Build

The recession of the late 1980s was a very visible humiliation. Cities across Britain had become the victims of botched battlefield surgery - surgery that involved the ripping up of factories, the flattening of buildings, and the razing of the Victorian heritage of heavy labour.

Buildings Late Heritage Become Heavy

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.

Daniel Libeskind

Live Think Design Buildings New

If you are in the country, you should notice landmarks - that is, objects which help you to find your way or prevent you getting lost, such as distant hills, church towers, and nearer objects, such as peculiar buildings, trees, gates, rocks, etc.

Robert Baden-Powell

Trees Church Help You Buildings Way

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

Car You Buildings Want Pay Shed

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.

Michael Mandelbaum

Value City World Buildings Monuments

Buildings are forms of performances.

Buildings Forms

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