Skyscraper Quotes - Page 2

• A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness.

  E. M. Forster

  Lakes, Cities, Chicago

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• ...Skyscraper National Park

  Kurt Vonnegut

  New York, National Parks, Parks

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.8, Penguin

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• Manhattan has no choice but the skyward extrusion of the Grid itself; only the Skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Men, Space, Sky

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• Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Science, Climbing

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• The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.

  Ayn Rand

  Age, Gone, Caves

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.735, Penguin

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• In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came ziggurats, mausoleums, Alexandrian lighthouses, miniature Parthenons. These charming follies contained neither royal corpses nor effigies of gods and goddesses; rather they contained large wooden tanks filled with water.

  Brendan Gill

  Water, Gods And Goddesses, Shapes

  1982 Quoted in Laura Rosen Top of the City: NewYork's hidden rooftop world (1990), foreword.

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• Skies are crying, I am watching, Catching teardrops in my hands. Only silence, as it's ending, Like we never had a chance. Do you have to make me feel Like there's nothing left of me?

  Demi Lovato

  Hands, Sky, Silence

  Song: Skyscraper, Album: Unbroken, 2011

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• New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and it's been that way since the first skyscraper.

  Griffin Dunne

  New York, Mean, Thinking

  "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.

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• I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.

  Zaha Hadid

  Very Good, Can Do, I Can

  "Zaha Hadid: Britain must do more to help encourage its women architects". Interview with Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2013.

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• As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved health and well-being, renewable resources, reliable food supply, and relief to the environment.

  Diane Ackerman

  Wall, Cities, Space

  "Living, Thinking Houses". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. August 4, 2012.

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• Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

  Barack Obama

  Pride, Simple, Years

  2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

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• If you look at the entrance halls of the skyscrapers of the 1920s and 1930s, they are very welcoming. They are public spaces with enormous amounts of display and marble and so on. They were havens off the street.

  Joseph Rykwert

  Space, Looks, Welcome

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• Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance behind the shadow, weaving powerful concepts, similes, and connections the way an engineer would raise a skyscraper with the whiskered-alloy skeleton being constructed long before the glass and plastic and chromaluminum appears.

  Dan Simmons

  Truth, Powerful, Skeletons

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.239, Spectra

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• I'm still walking around New York like a tourist staring up at all the skyscrapers. I wave at people, I shake hands, I help ladies with strollers.

  Jack McBrayer

  New York, Hands, People

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• The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags.

  Henry Miller

  New York, Sky, Cities

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• Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

  Barack Obama

  Military, Patriotic, Pride

  2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

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• Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

  Philip Johnson

  House, Harder

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• After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.

  Cecil Beaton

  Rose, Bed, Twenties

  Cecil Beaton (1955). “I take great pleasure”

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• Any expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Attitude, Writing

  "Understanding media: the extensions of man".

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• A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Art, Fame, Easier

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• As the smoke clears, I awaken, And untangle you from me. Would it make you feel better To watch me, while I bleed? All my windows still are broken, But I'm standing on my feet.

  Demi Lovato

  Feel Better, Feet, Broken

  Song: Skyscraper, Album: Unbroken, 2011

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• When the film was presented in New York, the distributor reproduced the fountain scene on a billboard as high as a skyscraper. My name was in the middle in huge letters, Fellini's was at the bottom, very tiny. Now the name of Fellini has become very great, mine very little.

  Anita Ekberg

  New York, Names, Letters

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• Raising a child is very much like building a skyscraper. If the first few stories are slightly out of line. no one will notice. But when the building is 18 or 20 stories high, everyone will see that it tilts.

  Jim Bishop

  Children, Stories, Tilt

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• Manhattan, one of the most moneyed spots on the planet, also has one of the greatest concentrations of people in its skyscrapers. Its also, of course, the place where every architect wants to build his tower.

  Norman Foster

  People, Want, Towers

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• The skyscraper style first advocated by Louis Sullivan - a tower of strongly vertical character with clear definitions among base, shaft, and crown - has remained remarkably consistent throughout the history of this building type.

  Martin Filler

  Character, Style, Towers

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