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Winston Churchill said, "We shape our buildings and then they shape us."23 We make our technologies, and they, in turn, shape us.
— Sherry Turkle
I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind around it at all.
— Joyce Brothers
The buildings, covered by red tiled roofs, undulate over the hillsides like a drift of wildflowers.
— Jane Thompson
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— Douglas Adams
Chinais a world class if not the world class property bubble, primarily high-rise buildings, offices and condos.
— James Chanos
I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.
— Harry Seidler
The dark was oppressive, unrelieved by any neighbouring buildings or sodium light. It felt primeval,
— Jojo Moyes
The English truly understand the dynamic between buildings and land.
— Nicholas Haslam
One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings.
— Annabelle Selldorf
I'm not a builder of buildings, I'm a builder of collections.
— Leonard Lauder
If you survive long enough, you're revered-rather like an old building.
— Katharine Hepburn
If you want to understand what's most important to a society, don't examine its art or literature, simply look at its biggest buildings.
— Joseph Campbell
People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The military hospital is the most cheerful of militaty buildings because there are so few uniforms inside.
— Alfred Jarry
The horrific damage of 9/11 did not end when those buildings came down.
— Kirsten Gillibrand
I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.
— Cesar Pelli
The deeper we go, the fewer the lights, the dirtier the buildings, the stranger the animals, but the more brilliant the graffiti.
— Pierce Brown
In another country where the buildings don't stop rising until they pinthe clouds to the sky.
— Sally Gardner
I see water and buildings ... Oh my God! Oh my God.
— Madeline Amy Sweeney
I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Why are they called buildings when they're already finished? Shouldn't they be called builts?
— Steven Wright
In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
— Edwin Land
Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.
— Richard Dawkins
I don't like landscapes. I like cities. Lots of cities. I like buildings. I like streets.
— Dario Argento
Surely God loves to get out of church buildings and go visit people where they hunger for reality.
— Dylan Morrison
Yes, and I also like jumping out of tall buildings.
— John Vanbiesbrouck
Merry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan!
— George Bailey
Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.
— Roger Scruton
There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last
— Roger Scruton
Bach is how buildings got taller. It's how we got to the moon.
— Charles Mingus
People get work done, not buildings, not staffs in a generic sense, and not plans, but people
— Colin Powell
I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.
— Felix Baumgartner
The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!
— Abby Sunderland
Buildings have been made because of man.
— Leon Battista Alberti
Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.
— Robert Evans
You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again.
— Henry Ford
We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.
— Minoru Yamasaki
We emerged onto the ruined street, where gaps showed in the rows of buildings like missing teeth
— Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Prune the ill branches so that a tree grows.Prune the dilapidated buildings so that a city flourishes. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen
My buildings are more famous than me.
— Jean Nouvel
Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification
— Roger Scruton
If they take half the buildings that they use to praise god and give it to the motherfuckers who need god we'd be 'aight
— Tupac Shakur
Blankets could be used as billboards on buildings, especially hotels, if you write things like, "Free sex with room."
— Jarod Kintz
Someone should say that; why we shouldn't burn their schools and destroy their buildings and infrastructures instead of burning our own homes.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Architecture is about public space held by buildings.
— Richard Rogers
In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.
— Peter Zumthor
That is simply the most beautiful publishing office in the world, with that cranky old building in that wonderful park.
— Jim Harrison
I'm on the MIT board, and a lot of our buildings now have daycare centers; it's becoming a standard.
— Megan Smith
In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.
— Stephen Gardiner
There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.
— Oscar Niemeyer
I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.
— Minoru Yamasaki
After the destructionofthe Second Temple Jewslived by an ancient and fundamental insight, that God does not live in buildings but in the human heart.
— Jonathan Sacks
I am a fading phantasmagoria. Time has left me in partial glory.
— Fidelis O. Mkparu
I'm battling monsters, I'm pulling you out of the burning buildings/ and you say I'll give you anything but you never come through.
— Richard Siken
We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment.
— Helmut Jahn
The truth is that a nineteenth-century warehouse exhibits greater craft in its construction than all but the most expensive modern buildings.
— Witold Rybczynski
I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules.
— Jean-Pierre Raffarin
Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.
— Stephen Gardiner
You can't out-travel sadness. I travel not to get away from my troubles but to see how they look in front of famous buildings
— Elizabeth McCracken
All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.
— Stewart Brand
There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.
— Antoni Gaudi
It was as if the buildings were alive, growing right before their eyes as they got closer.
— James Dashner
I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.
— Haile Gebrselassie
Grand buildings made her feel bettermaybe because being in a place so permanent made her feel more permanent. — Rick Riordan
If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about their cosmos.
— Marina Warner
They work now with computers for building buildings and books, but not ever with new ideas.
— Emil Ruder
Buildings should not look like Lady Gaga.
— Robert A. M. Stern
Landscapes of fields and small clusters of buildings hurtle past outside like fragments of songs never sung in their entirety.
— Glenn Haybittle
Mr Banwell had mastered the great truth that truth itself, like buildings, can be manufactured.
— Jed Rubenfeld
