Top 1200 Old Buildings Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Old Lights include the resurgent fundamentalists in every religion who put a freeze on history and fortify their adherents against the "new dark age" in which they are forced to live. "Back to the Bible," Old Lights shout; "back to the Koran," Old Lights thunder. But not everything Old Lights say is wrong. Much is right. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, the old adage reminds us.

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

Buildings are always better than drawings and models.

The whole idea of re-releasing old movies does bother me a little bit. If they're going to re-release an old movie, I should be able to get in with my old ticket.

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

Bruce Sutter has been around for a while and he's pretty old. He's thirty-five years old, that will give you some idea of how old he is.

With the "old dog" stuff, maybe the term "old" is in there, but I'm 26. I'm not that old. It's mostly like, "Ah, you dirty old dog!" I'm saying it more like that. I'm still ripping. I'm ready to rip. I'll make a bunch more records and have a nice time. We'll see what happens.

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

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

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

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

Buildings should not look like Lady Gaga.

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

War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried on a stretcher, looking up at God’s blue sky with bewildered eyes that are soon to close; war is a woman carrying a child that has been injured by a shell; war is spirited horses tied in burning buildings and waiting for death; war is the flower of a race, battered, hungry, bleeding, up to its knees in filthy water; war is an old woman burning a candle before the Mater Dolorsa for the son she has given.

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

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

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

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

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

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

Constant travel brings old age upon a man; a horse becomes old by being constantly tied up; lack of sexual contact with her husband brings old age upon a woman; and garments become old through being left in the sun.

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

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.

Old ideas from an old man about an old vision of Europe.

OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an "old" book.

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

Age is a state of old mind. It gets to a point where if you get old enough, you forget how old you are, and that's the best thing. And then you walk around kind of like in a fog.

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

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

No architect should design buildings that import a huge amount of energy.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

I think buildings should imitate ecological systems.

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

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

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

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

The English truly understand the dynamic between buildings and land.

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

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

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

Day-old bread? Sadly, in America a lot of day-old bread just becomes nasty. Italian day-old bread, not having any preservatives in it, just becomes harder and it doesn't taste old. What I would warn people about is getting bread that's loaded with other things in it, because it starts to taste old.

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

My fan base is really, really young. They're the youngest demographic that you can track on YouTube: 13- to 17-year-old females. But the fan mail that I get in my P.O. box, they're all from moms and from kids who are two years old, three years old, four years old.

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.

Bruce Sutter has been around for awhile and he's pretty old. He's thirty-five years old. That will give you some idea of how old he is.

I base my roots and history in old blues, old country and old bluegrass, and I like rock 'n' roll, and somehow it all came together, and that is what I am playing now.

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

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

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

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

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

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

It takes a heap o' children to make a home that's true,And home can be a palace grand, or just a plain, old shoe;But if it has a mother dear, and a good old dad or two,Why, that's the sort of good old home for good old me and you.

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

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

Buildings have been made because of man.

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

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

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

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