Top 1149 Buildings Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Don't just look at buildings ... watch them.

Light is what gives joy to buildings.

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

I renovate homes and buildings and residences in Detroit.

Opera is too obsessed with buildings.

Too often what are called "educated" people are simply people who have been sheltered from reality for years in ivy-covered buildings. Those whose whole careers have been spent in ivy-covered buildings, insulated by tenure, can remain adolescents on into their golden retirement years.

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

If there's a group like Amish people, that want to live their own lifestyle – they don't want to live in our city – they want to live out in the country, with their own projects. We’ll put up the buildings for them, design the buildings for them, design the food production systems for them – if they want us to. But we don’t control them.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects.

I try firstly to make buildings humane.

As the Ambassador for WWF Earth Hour, I still vividly remember that there were only 80 buildings in China that participated the Earth Hour in its first year. Six years later, there were 170 cities and thousands of buildings that participated. We are still growing strong. I am encouraged by the accomplishments we have made together and they make me proud and more determined than ever.

My grandmother told a story that when they used to leave from Southampton to go into the City, because he had apartment buildings in Queens - I was born in Astoria, Queens - they had apartment buildings in Queens and Manhattan, different businesses, and she wanted to pick blueberries on the side of the road and he wouldn't stop, so my grandma used to throw her purse out the window. She never had less than $4,000 cash, back in the 20s, and he would then stop the car and she would pick blueberries. And, he never had a record.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

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

Buildings are forms of performances.

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

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

I like to study culture and buildings and it's something I do on tour.

Whereas disinfecting Christians involves isolating them and teaching them to be good, discipling Christians involves propelling Christians into the world to risk their lives for the sake of others. Now the world is our focus, and we gauge success in the church not on the hundreds or thousands whom we can get into our buildings but on the hundreds or thousands who are leaving our buildings to take on the world with the disciples they are making

That kid can hit balls over buildings.

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

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.

In China I told pastors about how, in the West, we have these church buildings and how we go to services each week that last an hour or so. I told them how if we don't like the music or the message then we can go to different buildings and services... They all broke out into laughter. They thought I was the funniest guy they had ever seen.

It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except by following this way. And, as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form, as the trees and hills, and as our faces are.

I graduated from Wesleyan University with a b.a. in art. I was really headed toward an architecture degree, but when I did the requirements for the major, I realized I was more interested in how people live in buildings than in making buildings. I was more interested in the interactions that happened inside the structures. So I got an art degree as a default position.

My buildings are more famous than me.

Building places that are worth living in and worth caring about require a certain attention to detail, and of a particular kind of detail that we have forgotten how to design and assemble. And that involves the relationship of the buildings to each other, the relationship of the buildings to the public space, which in America, comes mostly in the form of the street. Because it's only the exceptional places in America that have the village square or the New England green. You know. The street is mostly the public realm of America. And we have to design these things so that they reward us.

My buildings are all on budget.

New ideas must use old buildings

I'm scared of high buildings.

I did not want to do stereotypical buildings.

There actually are buildings that existed in cyberspace before they built it.

By law, all buildings should be white.

I love buildings that aren't purpose-built.

Buildings should not look like Lady Gaga.

In Manchester, you don't have proper tall buildings. Or in Munich.

What the people are within, the buildings express without.

Buildings are always better than drawings and models.

My buildings are like my children, so I cannot have favorites.

I think buildings should imitate ecological systems.

New ideas often need old buildings.

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

In some cities they tear down buildings to save taxes. They might try tearing down some taxes to save buildings.

I believe very much in a dialogue between buildings - I believe it's always been there. I think buildings have different identities and live very well next to each other. We always have the shock of the new, and that's fine. The renaissance style is totally different from the medieval, and they have a dialogue across time.

When you travel, you can see lots of great buildings and monuments and stuff, but the best part of traveling is meeting people as you go. Those are the people who made the places you go to anyway. All my memories of traveling - yeah, there are some buildings or landscapes that I'll always remember - but I still think I remember the people I meet more than any of that.

I love the colorful buildings in Jaipur.

You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.

People are not killed by earthquakes alone, but by collapsed buildings.

When we started out, we were among the first. Beijing had no and Shanghai had very few large buildings. At that time, it was all about building, building, building - and then selling, selling, selling. We were working like a manufacturer. Soon, however, we realized that land was running out in Beijing and Shanghai. So we started keeping our buildings, and managing and renting them out. We became landowners. That was the second act.

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

Every one of my buildings begins with an Italian journey.

Buildings have been made because of man.

Buildings should be good neighbours.

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

Geometry is of much assistance in architecture, and in particular it teaches us the use of the rule and compasses, by which especially we acquire readiness in making plans for buildings in their grounds, and rightly apply the square, the level, and the plummet. By means of optics the light in buildings can be drawn from fixed quarters of the sky. Difficult questions involving symmetry are solved by means of geometrical theories and methods.

I have a good black friend who is a doctor, but he didn't become a doctor because he saw other black men who were doctors. He became a doctor because his mother cleaned office buildings at night, and because she loved her children. She grew bowlegged from cleaning office buildings at night, and in the process she taught him something about courage and bravery and dedication to others.

I'm in love with corrugated iron buildings, especially chapels and churches.

And exciting buildings are fine periodically.

I don't measure success by how many buildings have my name on it.