Tall Buildings Quotes

• The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age. ... Shaper of cities and fortunes, it is the dream, past and present, acknowledged or unacknowledged, of almost every architect.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Dream, Past, Cities

  Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.132, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Building, Built, Tall

  "The Sun Watches the Sun" by Dejan Stojanovic, Književna reč, Beograd, "Things", (p. 87), 1999.

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

  Elan Lee

  Wall, Reality, Want

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• The chief characteristics of the tall building is that it is lofty. It must be every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exultation so that from bottom to top it should be a unit without a single dissenting line.

  Louis Sullivan

  Rising, Lines, Proud

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• A man attains greatness by his merits, not simply by occupying an exalted seat. Can we call a crow an eagle (garuda) simply because he sits on the top of a tall building.

  Chanakya

  Greatness, Men, Eagles

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• There can be little question that the tall building presents one of the most difficult challenges to the architect.

  Martin Filler

  Challenges, Littles, Building

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• Yes, and I also like jumping out of tall buildings.

  John Vanbiesbrouck

  Hockey, Jumping, Nhl

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• And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Happiness, Sad, Sky

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (2005). “Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940”, p.111, Cambridge University Press

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• As a boy I heard this story in church. A man was patching a pitched roof of a tall building when he began sliding off. As he neared the edge of the roof he prayed, "Save me, Lord, and I'll go to church every Sunday, I'll give up drinking, I'll be the best man this city has ever known." As he finished his prayer, a nail snagged onto his overalls and saved him. The man looked up to the sky and shouted, "Never mind, God. I took care of it myself." How true of us.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Prayer, Giving Up, Drinking

  FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from Jan 08, 2012

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

  Tim Burton

  Leaving, Nasty, Talent

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• I have no fear of death, so I don't think about it. I love the adrenalin kick that danger brings. Others get their kicks bungee jumping from tall buildings. I'm very, very competitive. I want to be the best at everything I do. It's not driving - it's everything - it might be playing my guitar, I try to be the best at it as I possibly can.

  Lewis Hamilton

  Thinking, Jumping, Guitar

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• After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.

  Harry Seidler

  War, Technology, Earthquakes

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• I live in the Village right near NYU, which is taking over most of the Village. I've lived there for most of my time in New York. One of the things I like about the Village is, it's considered the kind of area where you can't have skyscrapers or, actually, many tall buildings. So you can see the sky which, I think, is a benefit.

  Nat Hentoff

  New York, Thinking, Sky

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• What is a church?—Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.

  George Crabbe

  Church, Towers, Bells

  'The Borough' (1810) Letter 2 'The Church' l. 11

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• I've started researching online journals for the project. Thanks for decoding Dr. Heller's notes before sending them to me. If you'd have forwarded them to me without a translation, I'd be searching for a tall building/overpass/water tower from which to yell "goodbye cruel world.

  Tammara Webber

  Goodbye, Water, Drs

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• I don't think things necessarily should have a meaning. If stuff has a meaning then why do [writing] about it? If you're trying to say, 'Tall buildings are great' why not just leave it at that: "Tall buildings are great."

  Jonathan Meades

  Writing, Thinking, Should Have

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hero, Simple, Hands

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.450, Simon and Schuster

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• I suppose I can live with missing decimals, missing floors to tall buildings, and floors that are named instead of numbered. A more serious problem is the limited capacity of the human mind to grasp the relative magnitudes of large numbers. Counting at the rate of one number per second...to count to a trillion takes 32,000 years, which is as much time as has elapsed since people first drew on cave walls.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Wall, Science, Numbers

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.301, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt at least a faint, morbid urge to jump. And anyone who has ever put a loaded pistol up to his head... All right, my point is this: even the most well-adjusted person is holding onto his or her sanity by a greased rope. I really believe that. The rationality circuits are shoddily built into the human animal.

  Stephen King

  Depression, Suicide, Believe

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• Many of the projects I'm most proud of are tall buildings, especially the housing projects. In New York I have two: one in Kips Bay and one at New York University. At that time, those projects were most challenging.

  I. M. Pei

  New York, Two, Challenges

  Source: archtalks.com

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• When you sit down to design something, it can be anything, a car, a toaster, a house, a tall building or a shoe, what you draw or what you design is really a culmination of everything that you've seen and done in your life previous to that point.

  Tinker Hatfield

  Shoes, Car, House

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• 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

  Cities, Towers, Culture

  Michael Mandelbaum (2004). “The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-First Century”, p.1, PublicAffairs

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• Stain Boy Of all the super heroes, the strangest one by far, doesn't have a special power, or drive a fancy car. next to Superman and batman, I guess he must seem tame. But to me he is quite special, and Stain Boy is his name. He can't fly around tall buildings, or outrun a speeding train, the only talent he seems to have is to leave a nasty stain. Sometimes I know it bothers him, that he can't run or swim or fly, and because of this one ability, his dry cleaning bill is sky-high.

  Tim Burton

  Running, Hero, Boys

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• Moms are, in my opinion, the wonders of the universe. They can leap tall buildings in a single bound, they can go where no person has gone before, and they can somehow get toddlers to eat. The problem is that mothers are also some of the most stressed people on the planet. There's just so much to do and not enough of them.

  Kevin Leman

  Mom, Mother, People

  Dr. Kevin Leman (2012). “What a Difference a Mom Makes: The Indelible Imprint a Mom Leaves on Her Son's Life”, p.196, Baker Books

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• Today, from the bridge, the East River is sparkling. The money is swirling around the tall buildings like tides or like tithes, And I wonder, does anyone swim in this river, I wonder, does anyone pray?

  Katy Lederer

  Bridges, Rivers, Swim

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