Top 1200 Old Buildings Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings.

There are currently more political parties in Iraq than unbombed buildings to hold them.

I'm on the MIT board, and a lot of our buildings now have daycare centers; it's becoming a standard.

I spend a lot of time thinking about this business of letting go - letting go of the children God gives to us for such a brief time before they go off on their own; letting go of old homes, old friends, old places and old dreams.

Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

The thing is, when you see your old friends, you come face to face with yourself. I run into someone I've known for 40 or 50 years, and they're old. And I suddenly realize I'm old. It comes as an enormous shock to me.

I would say for everyday I build buildings or houses like a bricklayer with canvas and paint.

When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings.

There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.

One cannot completely avoid this landmark character with large buildings such as these. But the city itself is also gigantic.

In reality some images or drawings have a greater impact than many buildings that are built.

I'm so happy with 'The Blacklist.' Give me more people to shoot and throw them off buildings.

All governments, Books, customs, buildings, railways, ships, and all the stark realities that men have made, Are but imagination's utterances.

Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.

I know that New York is big, there are huge buildings, but in fact, it's quite small and contained.

In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.

Architects have to become more aware of exactly what is involved in designing barrier-free buildings and homes.

Industry is not a collection of machines and tools and buildings. It is a social entity that has the responsibility of realizing the happiness of those who work in it.

If you want to see what a society really believes in, look at what the biggest buildings on the horizon are dedicated to.

I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest.

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

We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment.

I should just drive around this city and take photos of all the buildings I've been humiliated in.

People think that buildings are permanent, but in China, this isn't true; we can always demolish and remake it better.

Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time.

Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.

I've heard a lot about the iconic buildings and all that Dubai has to offer and can't wait to experience it for myself.

Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation.

I would not be at all surprised to find out... that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess.

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

Before 2000, everything was about being contextual, and buildings were supposed to be good citizens.

An old market had stood there until I'd been about six years old, when the authorities had renamed it the Olde Market, destroyed it, and built a new market devoted to selling T-shirts and other objects with pictures of the old market. Meanwhile, the people who had operated the little stalls in the old market had gone elsewhere and set up a thing on the edge of town that was now called the New Market even though it was actually the old market.

To a large extent, the aged in our society are ghettoized. Old people are seen as useless, bypassed by history, old-fashioned, in the way. So, not surprisingly, when we reach the official mark of old age, we're supposed to go gently into that good night, to get off center stage and hand over the spotlight. Old age is also surrounded by shame - the myth of impotence and inability.

In New York, you have thousands of buildings that have never been renovated, that have horrible designs, that are really cramped and terrible.

I watched the buildings go down on 9/11. I saw how much that impacted our country.

One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings.

All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States - and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!

Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification

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

If you really love property, and buildings, lifestyles and how people live, that's a good reason for going into development.

Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too.

I want to show you that you can leap tall buildings, walk through walls, and change reality.

I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars.

The sweet smell of the South, of Camellias and Azaleas, clings to Beaufort's ancient and historic buildings.

I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk of old times with old friends is the greatest thing in the world.

I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.

One thing they don't tell you about growing old - you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true. I don't feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old.

I would not be at all surprised to find out . . . that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess.

I constantly work with material that could be two years old, five years old, ten years old, as well as new things.

Among the things I love about London is that there is a lot of green space and that the buildings are not very tall.

Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.

People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed.

What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.

High among the unpredictable variables that endanger the survival of worthy buildings are the vagaries of taste.

Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.

I could go old-school; I listen to a lot of old-school music, like Teddy Pendergrass, the Temptations, people like that. I'm an old-school dude, and I'm vibin' with stuff like that to clear my mind. I like listening to that old-school music.

There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable.

My father died at 42, of a heart attack. My mother was 32 then. She never wanted to be a victim. And that really resonated as a nine-year-old child. And one of the most revealing things was, very soon after my father died - he was in real estate and he owned some modest buildings - they came to my mother, the men that worked for him, and they said, "You don't have to worry. We will run the business and we will take care of you." And my mother said, "No, you won't. You will teach me how to run the business and I will take care of it and my children."