Buildings Quotes

• Forget land, buildings, or machines-the real source of wealth today is intelligence, applied intelligence. We talk glibly of "intellectual property" without taking on board what it really means. It isn't just patent rights and brand names; it is the brains of the place.

  

  Charles Handy
  • Real
  • Today
  • Wealth

• I discovered by working with actual glass models that the important thing is the play of reflections and not the effect of light and shadow, as in ordinary buildings.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Important
  • Light
  • Shadow

• The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert... I don't live inside buildings because buildings are dead places where nothing grows, where water doesn't flow, and where life stops. I don't want to live in a dead place. People say that I don't live in a real world, but it's modern Americans who live in a fake world, because they have stepped outside the natural circle of life.

  

  Eustace Conway
  • Dead
  • Americans
  • Grows

• English fondness for France is normally a sort of neutron love: take away the people and leave the buildings standing.

  

  Anthony Lane
  • People
  • Buildings
  • Fondness

• All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.

  

  Stewart Brand
  • Wrong
  • Buildings
  • Predictions

• We need to recognize the buildings that are the most dangerous and would cause the most loss of life. They need to be identified, then strengthened or replaced.

  

  Chris Poland Circle Jerks
  • Dangerous
  • Loss
  • Recognize

• 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.

  

  Rick Renzi
  • Feature
  • Properties
  • Generally

• Bodies like this give sexual desire its meaning! It’s for this that penises rise like drawbridges and vaginas become engorged with blood! It’s for this that people throw snot-nosed kids into ravines, cross raging rivers, or ice-pick up the wrong side of frozen waterfalls! It’s for this that politicians undo their flies in election season, porn magazines with their pages stuck together are found stacked in church basements, people chop off body parts and mail them to ex-lovers, risk hair on palms, stolen wallets, planes flying into buildings, and lice that hop like chess figurines on a board whose players are ever changing.

  

  Barry Webster
  • Blood
  • Players
  • Rivers

• My properties are very good income-producing buildings, so I will have a very good stream of profit even if I can't sell.

  

  Harry Triguboff
  • Profit
  • Buildings
  • Properties

• I'm a New Yorker. I like the big streets and the big buildings. It's a great place to walk.

  

  Ed Askew
  • Walk
  • Buildings
  • New Yorker

• We don't agree with the depiction of buildings in the '20s and 1930s. Things were seen either from above or below which tended to monumentalize the object. This was exploited in terms of a socialistic view - a fresh view of the world, a new man, a new beginning.

  

  Bernd Becher
  • Buildings
  • Monumentalize
  • Socialistic View

• This is a magic place. It's one of my favorite buildings in Paris.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Magic
  • Paris
  • Favorite

• As time went by we developed a sort of ideology without ever formulating it as such. I've always said that we are documenting the sacred buildings of Calvinism. Calvinism rejects all forms of art and therefore never developed its own architecture. The buildings we photograph originate directly from this purely economical thinking.

  

  Bernd Becher
  • Architecture
  • Photograph
  • Ideology

• Modern buildings of our time are so huge that one must group them. Often the space between these buildings is as important as the buildings themselves.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Time
  • Important
  • Space

• They say that 'home is where the heart is.' I think it is where the house is, and the adjacent buildings.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Buildings

• I wander though China. Without ever having boarded a plane. My travels take place here in the Tokoyo subways, in the backseat of a taxi... all of a sudden this city will start to go. In a flash, the buildings will crumble. Over the Tokyo streets will fall my China, like ash, leaching into everything it touches. Slowly, gradually, until nothing remains. No, this isn't a place for me.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • China
  • Remains
  • Wander

• They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography!

  

  Emil Ruder
  • Design
  • Books
  • Computer

• 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
  • Village
  • Skyscrapers

• The Supreme Court got it right in a 1973 case, PEARL v. Nyquist, when it said bluntly: “If the State may not erect buildings in which religious activities are to take place, it may not maintain such buildings or renovate them when they fall into disrepair.

  

  Barry W. Lynn
  • Activities
  • Buildings
  • Desrepair

• The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Design
  • Weight
  • Tribute

• I cried when i saw those buildings collapse on themselves like a broken heart.

  

  Suheir Hammad
  • Collapse
  • Buildings
  • Cried

• When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another shore with towers and buildings.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Sea
  • Horizon
  • Buildings

• Few buildings evoke the sinister horror of 1950s municipal architecture more strikingly than the flat roof pub. Thrown up in their thousands wherever the working class were being rehoused, it’s hard to imagine that the architects were not secret teetotallers looking to make the whole pub experience as grim as possible. How else do you explain the cheap portal frame construction, the equally cheap uninsulated concrete slabs, and the flat roof with just enough parapet to ensure that damaging puddles formed with the lightest drizzle.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Experience
  • Imagine
  • Architecture

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

  

  Meg White The White Stripes
  • City
  • Buildings
  • Detroit

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