High Rise Quotes
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Chinais a world class if not the world class property bubble, primarily high-rise buildings, offices and condos. (High Rise Quotes)
I live in a high-rise apartment building, so I just have two cats. They’re both pound kitties. One of them, Dick, is an evil, foot-biting cat. When I write a tiger morph, I’m always imagining Dick. (High Rise Quotes)
I think Tokyo is going to sink under water soon. All those stupid high-rise buildings will sink and maybe all the traffic will be gone. And everything will be peaceful and quiet. (High Rise Quotes)
Architecture isman’sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life. (High Rise Quotes)
People should be able to rise as hard, high as their hard work, their ambition, their talent will take them. (High Rise Quotes)
It was very important for me to touch on things that haven’t changed, like schools. I’m in Cleveland, Ohio. My lady’s from Ohio, and the schools are being torn down, and they turned them into high-rise condos (High Rise Quotes)
My problem is that I always find jeans that are either high-waisted or low-rise, but nothing in between, like they used to be in the eighties and early nineties. That’s actually the most flattering cut (High Rise Quotes)
They really don’t know where the future lies. If developers decide to build a high-rise where the McCormick building is, they’d have nowhere to go (High Rise Quotes)
We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies (High Rise Quotes)
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew (High Rise Quotes)
The star of revolution will rise high above the streets of Moscow, from a sea of blood and fire, and turn into a lodestar to lead a liberated humanity (High Rise Quotes)
Men seldom rise from low condition to high rank without employing either force or fraud, unless that rank should be attained either by gift or inheritance (High Rise Quotes)
I long for the day my sisters will rise, and occupy the sphere to which they are called by their high nature and destiny (High Rise Quotes)
... see well how it often befalls that to rise to the topmost degree would make it seem that the abyss is on high (High Rise Quotes)
The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion (High Rise Quotes)
There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high (High Rise Quotes)
I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it will demonstrate a high capacity for civil service (High Rise Quotes)
Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic (High Rise Quotes)
By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top (High Rise Quotes)
Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up? (High Rise Quotes)
Not to climb the high places lonely, but to climb there all together, to rise en masse! This is the way! (High Rise Quotes)
You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high rise multi towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life (High Rise Quotes)
Well, Ramadi is a provincial capital of Anbar province. It’s a sprawling city west of Baghdad. It’s a poor city, endless cinderblock houses and high-rises almost as far as the eye can see (High Rise Quotes)
For Kips Bay, I had a wonderful client, William Zeckendorf, who was willing to gamble with me on using concrete and not brick for a high-rise apartment building. That was very innovative at the time (High Rise Quotes)
I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don’t know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn’t know who they were (High Rise Quotes)
Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house (High Rise Quotes)
Just to see him come on the stage was an event. They had very high risers, and back a little bit, so he’d walk around behind the risers and right across the front of the stage to the podium, remember? (High Rise Quotes)
A tree that can fill the span of a man’s arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises from level earth; A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one’s feet (High Rise Quotes)
I didn’t want to even stand next to any high rise building as long as I lived... I didn’t even want to go over a bridge (High Rise Quotes)
I’d love to see a new form of social security... everyone taught how to grow their own; fruit and nut trees planted along every street, parks planted out to edibles, every high rise with a roof garden, every school with at least one fruit tree for every kid enrolled (High Rise Quotes)