Quotes of: Skyscraper Keyword

The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.

The Fountainhead

The character is like the foundation and the reputation is like the building structure. If the foundation is built really strong, then the skyscraper is going to be durable.

Anuj Somany

But eggshells were made to be broken, and slamming into a 100-story skyscraper at the speed of light would likely do the deed.

Beyond

My advice for a person who's just fallen out of a skyscraper window is, Flap your arms...faster.

It Occurred to Me

The contest of world's tallest skyscraper is a childish thing. Whereas with similar budget, they could construct flying building.

Master of Stupidity

I kiss like a skyscraper meets the sky, only with less scraping and more vertigo.

This Book Has No Title

Drones photograph, prospect and advertise real estate from golf courses to skyscrapers; they also monitor construction in progress.

Peter Diamandis

With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces.

Greg Lynn

That's what I love about Chicago... It is the staccato aspect of the skyscrapers. But the ground is very loose, very relaxed. It makes Chicago far more pleasant than other cities.

Ben van Berkel

Despite my love affair with skyscraper heels, luckily for my feet I rarely wear them - preferring, instead, the comfort and child-handling practicalities of a pair of trainers.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

I just need green. I need to wake up and see grass and squirrels. I don't want to see skyscrapers.

Andre Leon Talley

A skyscraper is to a brick as a pyramid is to____________A) a vagina, B) a particular vagina, or C) your mother’s vagina. 

Brick and Blanket Test in Brick City (Ocala) Florida

...the/ supreme end-result of/ early Gothic phallic forms/ is the skyscraper & the/ oil drill & powered/ compressor & pistons of/ great engines...

Book of Sketches

Nothing has the power to remind you how alone you are like walking through a conglomeration of empty skyscrapers.

The Last City of America

The skyscrapers of the city had finished scraping all the sky away, and the clouds overhead were exactly the color of concrete and I was safe and cold in a canyon of glass and steel.

Slices

Me mating with a midget is like a skyscraper having sex with a cathedral. But still I’d like to try. Just not while mass is in session.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

The skyscraper style first advocated by Louis Sullivan - a tower of strongly vertical character with clear definitions among base, shaft, and crown - has remained remarkably consistent throughout the history of this building type.

Martin Filler

The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails.

Federico Garcia Lorca

I remember perfectly my first trip to New York, when I was on the bridge between Brooklyn and Manhattan, when I saw the skyscrapers. It was like an incredible dream.

Diego Della Valle

I think there will be a 200-story skyscraper someday. However, it will require a developer who will not think in conventional terms and for whom economic restraints won't apply.

Helmut Jahn

I'm still walking around New York like a tourist staring up at all the skyscrapers. I wave at people, I shake hands, I help ladies with strollers.

Jack McBrayer