Buildings Quotes

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.

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

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

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.

I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter.

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment.

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.

The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.

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

My buildings are all on budget.

Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world.

There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other programs.

In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like.

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

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.

Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want.

You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.

I should just drive around this city and take photos of all the buildings I've been humiliated in.

For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation.

There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones.