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Buildings Quotes

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.

Driving Suicide Buildings Seeing May

I love buildings that aren't purpose-built.

Love Buildings I Love

Modern buildings have become memorials to power and capital. More and more, they're isolated from people.

Power People Buildings Become More

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.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Me Drawing Buildings First Saw His

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

Haile Gebrselassie

Experience New York Buildings Look

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

Business Buildings My Own Own Buying

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

Time Architecture You Buildings Most

Images in the 20th century had a unique power where image became divorced from reality, and often more important than reality... Buildings were judged - at least by members of our own profession - more by the way they looked in magazines than by the satisfaction people felt when using them.

Christopher Alexander

Power People Reality Buildings Way

Bad people will find a way to do harm, whether it's homemade explosives, illegal weapons, or flying planes into buildings. Restricting law-abiding citizens' right to bear arms is not the answer.

People Flying Bad People Buildings

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

Architecture Long Buildings Done See

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.

William John Wills

Buildings Now Fair Little Melbourne

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

Aesthetic Buildings First Reasons

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.

Thomas Heatherwick

Love Time People You Buildings Made

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.

Service Buildings Beyond Single Park

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.

Future Past Trying Buildings Look

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

Mother Sleep Buildings Over Took

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

Thinking Buildings Look Historical

The government is a very large constructor. They have schools, colleges, hospitals and courts, offices. We are trying to influence the public works department to adopt green buildings.

Government Green Influence Buildings

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

Life Community Stronger Buildings

We try to make buildings last long and be resilient but also be not so idiosyncratic that they can't change.

Elizabeth Diller

Change Long Buildings Try Last Make

I usually don't throw around the word 'fabulous,' but how else to describe buildings decorated with mirrored water dragons, serpents tiled in colored glass, and hundreds - no, thousands, no, tens of thousands - of gold-leaf Buddhas? Luang Prabang has more than 47,000 residents, but its Buddha population must be ten times that.

David Ebershoff

Water Buildings Glass More Fabulous

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.

Window You Buildings Rope Up Empire

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

Climb World Buildings Five Even Did

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.

Light Care Buildings Country Wall

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