Top 1200 Burning Buildings Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

burning with curiosity

New ideas must use old buildings

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent and permanent type of expression, as old as literature itself. There will always be a certain small percentage of persons who feel a burning curiosity about unknown outer space, and a burning desire to escape from the prison-house of the known and the real into those enchanted lands of incredible adventure and infinite possibilities which dreams open up to us, and which things like deep woods, fantastic urban towers, and flaming sunsets momentarily suggest.

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

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

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

Never Again the Burning.

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

Buildings are 'humane' only when they promote peaceful human co-existence.

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

I happen to love buildings, and my passion is bringing people together.

When I was five-years-old I was jumping off two-story buildings.

What’s burning?” “Your brain.

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

The English truly understand the dynamic between buildings and land.

Recycling old buildings to show art is very important.

Often the art in New York is related to the buildings, to grandiose things.

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

An endless number of green buildings doesn't make a sustainable city.

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

I think buildings should imitate ecological systems.

Buildings are always better than drawings and models.

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

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

The buildings ... had suffered the inevitable shrinkage of places revisited.

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

New ideas often need old buildings.

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

'Who dares this pair of boots displace, Must meet Bombastes face to face.' Thus do I challenge the human race. Bombastes: So have I heard on Afric's burning shore, A hungry lion give a grievous roar; The grievous roar echo'd along the shore. King: So have I heard on Afric's burning shore Another lion give a grievous roar, And the first lion thought the last a bore.

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

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

There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.

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

I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.

I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones.

Flexibility makes buildings to be stronger, imagine what it can do to your soul.

I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.

I love the streets of Kolkata, and I admire the old architectural buildings.

New York's buildings must be cleaner and more energy-efficient.

I'm hopeful that the energy efficiency and public buildings bill will have their endorsement.

You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.

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

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

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.

Chicago is a city built on architecture, and there are plenty of buildings to scale.

The Shark Tank was one of the best buildings to play in, and we had a lot of memories there.

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

My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons.

By having the President's name on buildings, that is a potential terrorist target.

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

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.

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

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

I'm not someone who funds buildings. That doesn't interest me. I'm more interested in programs.

Burning is no answer.

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