A Quote by Elizabeth Diller

We try to make buildings last long and be resilient but also be not so idiosyncratic that they can't change.

Elizabeth Diller

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Elizabeth Diller
Polish - Architect

Our message will be that we're going to make federal government buildings a model - an energy-efficient model - and also start matching grants for cities and counties so that they can also do the same with their government buildings.

Barbara Boxer

Over the long term, we should develop and implement new technologies to capture and store coal's carbon emissions. We also must make our electric grid more resilient.

Lynn Good

I believe buildings are alive, and when you want to make a change, you have to change in the same symphony.

Benedetta Tagliabue

We humans have this idea that the ocean is so big, so vast, so resilient that it doesn't matter what we do to it. That may have been true 1,000 years ago. But in the last 100, especially the last 50 years, we have destroyed the assets that make our lives possible.

Sylvia Earle

Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

Robert Towne

Both San Francisco and New York are taking bold, sweeping action to reduce emissions, make our infrastructure more resilient and improve the health of our people. We are also leading the charge against those who continue to deny the existence of climate change.

London Breed

The human spirit is resilient and truth - no matter how long you abuse it and how long you try to crush it - will, as Dr. King would say, rise up again, and in the final analysis will prevail.

Harry Belafonte

I am taking each game as it comes, enjoying it and taking that little bit of extra time to look around a full stadium, because I know it's not going to last forever. But I will try and make it last as long as possible.

Glenn Murray

I dont ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.

Fetty Wap

I lose faith in everything else, but rarely in my work. If I start to get bored, I change it to make it more interesting. I try not to take it too seriously, but I also try to never cheat or hurry things along.

Daniel Clowes

We try to turn buildings into landscapes - defying the idea of modernism which sees nature and buildings as two distinct elements.

Ma Yansong

I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.

Fetty Wap

I try firstly to make buildings humane.

Moshe Safdie

Hey. Pain can last a moment, it can last a day, it can last a week, it can last a long..long time, but it can't last forever and the only thing that can last forever is if you quit.

Lance Armstrong

'The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands, whole, as it stood in the early morning of September 11. I can also see the corner where I saw the first tower fall and howled out loud. Seeing the buildings again here is uplifting, healing.