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Buildings Quotes

If you look at the buildings, you'll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you go around and look at another facade and it looks as if it was designed by another man, you see.

Minoru Yamasaki

Man You Buildings Look Find Looks

Sand dunes are almost like ready-made buildings in a way. All we need to do is solidify the parts that we need to be solid, and then excavate the sand, and we have our architecture. We can either excavate it by hand, or we can have the wind excavate it for us.

Architecture Wind Sand Buildings Way

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.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Wisdom Unity Construction Buildings

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

Karl Philipp Moritz

Mountain Buildings Above Like Some

It's not like I am a junkie that wants to throw himself from very tall buildings, but some people are, and I love them kind of people.

Love I Am People Buildings Kind

Detroit's a good investment because, first of all, the entry fee for everything is lower. And, you've got the talent that is here that is ambitious and motivated, so you're going to get in on a much lower cost structure in every way, shape, or form from labor to buildings to whatever.

Good Talent You Buildings Labor Way

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.

People Walking Buildings Line Out

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.

Good Curves Buildings Dresses Shape

It's sad to see these old buildings go because they have so many memories, and it's a real personal kind of thing when you play these places. It's part of our history just gone.

Clarence Clemons

Memories Sad History You Buildings

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

Arthur Erickson

Heart Great Architecture Buildings

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Live Great Time Stand You Buildings

Opera is too obsessed with buildings.

Buildings Opera Obsessed Too

I want to buy up a gang of properties in my neighborhood and give people the chance to live in new buildings. We should make our areas nice.

Live People Chance Buildings Nice

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.

Work Time Buildings New Something

The one image that's been causing a lot of discussion is one image that I shot of a man falling head-first from the building, before the buildings fell down. He was trapped in the fire, and decided to jump and take his own life, rather than being burned.

Life Fire Man Building Buildings

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

Survival Buildings Worthy Taste High

I'm not a builder of buildings, I'm a builder of collections.

Buildings Collections Builder

There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox.

Death New York Famous Buildings Look

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

People Care American Buildings Air

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

Buildings Peaceful Human Only Humane

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.

Lie River Buildings Village Street

Architects have to become designers of eco-systems. Not just designers of beautiful facades or beautiful sculptures, but systems of economy and ecology, where we channel the flow not only of people, but also the flow of resources through our cities and buildings.

Beautiful People Buildings Become

The thing I'd really like to see is the old London Bridge, with all the old buildings around it like Shakespeare's Globe. I'd like to walk along that. Don't worry, I won't get drunk and fall in.

Walk Bridge Worry Buildings Drunk

Instead of looking at individual buildings, it makes more metaphorical sense to think of New York as one enormous chunk of masonry that has been cut up and carved away. It says, 'This is the ultimate polis, through which humans move like nematodes.'

New York Looking Think Buildings New

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