Buildings Quotes

Buildings Quote of the day

There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.

Let's do it right. This is for the ages.

We are the only country in the world that trashes its old buildings. Too late we realize how very much we need them.

Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters

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

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

New ideas must use old buildings

An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.

My buildings are more famous than me.

That is simply the most beautiful publishing office in the world, with that cranky old building in that wonderful park.

Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too.

I wanted to preserve the old buildings, not to destroy them and build something new.

Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting.

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.

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

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

New ideas often need old buildings.

If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.

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

Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.

Merry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan!

Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so it is with a sensual life that has no spirit in it.

If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.

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.

In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.

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

Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.'

Why would I ever get cocky? I'm not saving anybody's life.

If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I'm interested in doing.

If your goal is to produce firefighters and rescue workers, you have to produce people willing to enter burning buildings.

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.

I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to.

He didn't like religion, hadn't liked it for years, but he adored churches, loved them like old scientific instruments whose time is long past but are nevertheless fascinating and strange.

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.

I don't know why wicked places generally look wicked. You'd think they'd look nice, to fool people, but they hardly ever do.

The city buildings in the distance are holding up the sky, it seems.

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

I'm battling monsters, I'm pulling you out of the burning buildings/ and you say I'll give you anything but you never come through.

Yankee Stadium, it's like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down.

In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?

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

People have grown fond of me, like some old building.

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

We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.

If you want to understand what's most important to a society, don't examine its art or literature, simply look at its biggest buildings.

I was always really geeky about design and buildings. Always into architecture as a kid.

Either a building is part of a place or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.