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Often, architects work too hard trying to make their buildings look different. It’s like we’re actors let loose on a stage, all speaking our parts at the same time in our own private languages without an audience (Buildings Quotes)
Im particularly interested in the public role that all buildings play. I believe that we architects should try to go beyond our basic obligations to the public, and our opportunities to do so are many (Buildings Quotes)
I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You’d have to be oblivious not to (Buildings Quotes)
Chicago’s such a great city because it’s got so many different brilliantly architecturally looking buildings, and you can really modify that city (Buildings Quotes)
When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings (Buildings Quotes)
All the buildings of justice will remain idle on the day when all men have high conscience! (Buildings Quotes)
You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn’t mean you can design one (Buildings Quotes)
If you look over the course of a hundred years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that’s held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings (Buildings Quotes)
Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them (Buildings Quotes)
When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town’s in trouble (Buildings Quotes)
The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter (Buildings Quotes)
Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite (Buildings Quotes)
Sam screamed the fun scream, and there it was. Downtown lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. Sam sat down and started laughing. Patrick started laughing. I started laughing. and in that moment, I swear we were infinite (Buildings Quotes)
It is not always the job of people shouting outside impressive buildings to solve problems. It is often the job of the people inside, who have paper, pens, desks, and an impressive view (Buildings Quotes)
Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings ignoring or even taunting people standing outside shouting at them turns out to be a story with an unhappy ending (Buildings Quotes)
Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons (Buildings Quotes)
All of us should remember that the federal government is not some mysterious institution comprised of buildings, files and paper. The people are the government. What we create we ought to be able to control (Buildings Quotes)
Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings (Buildings Quotes)
We are always making more and more stuff in the world. You know; big buildings, big planes, big boats and that. Will we ever get to a point where all this is too heavy for the world to handle? (Buildings Quotes)
We are sad at home and blame the weather and the ugliness of the buildings, but on the tropical island we learn that the state of the skies and the appearance of our dwellings can never on their own underwrite our joy nor condemn us to misery (Buildings Quotes)
Education doesn’t just take place in stuffy classrooms and university buildings, it can happen everywhere, every day to every person (Buildings Quotes)
If you want to see what a society really believes in, look at what the biggest buildings on the horizon are dedicated to (Buildings Quotes)
If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to (Buildings Quotes)
When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another shore with towers and buildings (Buildings Quotes)
Why does crime happen? Well, you might say that it’s because youths don’t have jobs. Or you might say that’s because the doors of our buildings are not fortified enough. Given some limited funds to spend, you can either create yet another national employment program or you can equip houses with even better cameras, sensors, and locks (Buildings Quotes)
Heroes didn’t leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn’t wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else’s. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back (Buildings Quotes)
Just as blueprints don’t necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don’t necessarily specify selfish organisms. As we shall see, sometimes the most selfish thing a gene can do is build a selfless brain. Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players (Buildings Quotes)
It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a little sad before buildings can properly touch us (Buildings Quotes)
From this distance, in the dimness, the model looked surreal, made up of parts filled with buildings, bordered by long stretches of empty space. It reminded me of the way cities and towns look when you are flying at night. You can’t make out much. But the places where people have come together, and stayed, are collections of tiny lights, breaking up the darkness (Buildings Quotes)
I stroll along serenely, with my eyes, my shoes, my rage, forgetting everything, I walk by, going through office buildings and orthopedic shops, and courtyards with washing hanging from the line: underwear, towels and shirts from which slow dirty tears are falling (Buildings Quotes)