Skyscrapers Quotes

“I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.”
― Noël Coward, Collected Sketches and Lyrics

“[H]e could see the island of Manhattan off to the left. The towers were jammed together so tightly, he could feel the mass and stupendous weight.Just think of the millions, from all over the globe, who yearned to be on that island, in those towers, in those narrow streets! There it was, the Rome, the Paris, the London of the twentieth century, the city of ambition, the dense magnetic rock, the irresistible destination of all those who insist on being where things are happening-and he was among the victors!”
― Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities

“The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s.”
― Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

“His [the pedestrian's] elevation transfigures him into a voyeur. It puts his at a distance. It transforms the bewitching world by which one was 'possessed' into a text that lies before one's eyes. It allows one to read it, to be a solar Eye, looking down like a god. The exaltation of a scopic and gnostic drive: the fiction of knowledge is related to this lust to be a viewpoint and nothing more.”
― Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life

“She was so pretty, not the kind of pretty that hits you at first, but the kind that blooms the longer you were with her. Like a flower, she was always like a flower to me.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream

“She told him once, I think they were drunk, that he could never keep a garden until he learned how to love pretty things without destroying them.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream

“The city was alive to a nonsensical degree. Every color was so absurdly saturated that I thought it was all kind of like a dream, more a painting or an art deco interpretation of a city than an actual city.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream

“Humans feel pain, they feel it hard and heavy and deep, and that right there is the only proof of life you will ever need.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream

“Some people like the dreaming better than the coming true part. They hate when things work out, they almost expect them to go wrong, and they never know what to do when their cynicism is proven wrong.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream

“If I shouted my happiness to the night sky, maybe I would believe it.”
― Issabelle Perry, May We Make Them Proud

“Her laugh was my favorite sound, and I think I was her favorite reason to laugh.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream

“Music is the only place where time does not exist.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream

“Why does everything move so fast when you are angry?”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream

“I knew never to trust a sweet promise.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream

“The world is a skyscraper! Don't always stay on the same floor! Go upstairs, go downstairs; visit the lives of other tenants! Visit eagles; visit mushrooms!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Structural truth at all costs war their motto and all buildings which attempted to conceal the true nature of their construction, or to disguise the materials in which they were carried out, stood convicted of acting a lie. That a high proportion of the buildings which many generations of man-kind had agreed to regard as masterpieces failed to reach this exalted standard was held to be quite irrelevant.
Unfortunately the new theory did not in practice prove quite so easy to carry out satisfactorily as hoped. Simplicity is not invariably and on every occasion a virtue, and while desperate attempts to lend some transient interest to a hopelessly uninspired structure by a top-dressing of cornice and pilasters are doubtless reprehensible, the bright, unvarnished truth tends too often to be even more depressing. After all few of us, by and large, look our best in the nude.”
― Osbert Lancaster, Here, of All Places

“She followed him across the desolate, unfurnished room to the very edge of everything it someday promised to become, then went feet forward onto the extended sky...”
― Laurie Perez, The Cosmos of Amie Martine

“And I stood there for a while in my sighing senselessness, waiting for her to make like a gorgeous flower and kiss me or something.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream

“Damn, if I could go back, I would say a lot of things. And I would laugh more.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream

“She was the kind of person they write songs about, the kind of girl who saves a man.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream

“The idea of watching her walk away, taking every happy thing with her, was suddenly the very worst thing I could imagine.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream

“Dammit, life is strange.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream

“I'm no princess.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream

“Glass ain’t shit when it comes to statement architecture. Fuck glass. Glass is only good for windows. Steel, brick, something solid and dense, that’s what you want your building to be made out of.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“Let us find harmony between concrete and nature. Without harming earth, let us build green skyscrapers.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“Environment and Development (The Sonnet)

Environment is not more important than development,
Development is not more important than environment.
Since we no longer live in the wilderness as animals,
We must make both work together in agreement.
Why do we need to wipe out forests and lakes,
To lay the foundation for growth and prosperity!
With our achievements in science and tech,
We can build modern cities nestled in greenery.
Unfortunately, once the green of dollar starts rolling in,
Green of nature goes out of the window.
The real problem is the mindset of profits over people,
It has nothing to do with our desire to grow.
Let us find harmony between concrete and nature.
Without harming earth, let us build green skyscrapers.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“The skyscraper symbolizes escape from the world; villa with garden symbolizes embracing the world!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“A traveler rarely enjoys seeing new forms and shapes of what is essentially the same, buildings of steel reaching for the sky, holding us, the army of duty bound soldiers, captives.”
― Carol Vorvain, OMSARUZ: Humorous tales from Oman, Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan

“By the way, what’s the big deal with skyscrapers?
I wonder, if they could talk, what would they talk about? Weather?
“Well, it's pretty windy up here. Better shut up!”
Or,
“Hey, do you think they’ve noticed me yet?”
“No, not yet, keep going, keep pushing through.”
Or,
“What are we going for today?”
“I am going for the look where one thing, me, totally obscures the other thing, you.”
― Carol Vorvain, OMSARUZ: Humorous tales from Oman, Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan

“What's the point of your architecture or engineering degree, if you can't build a human habitat without destroying entire ecosystems of other living things! And you call yourself an engineer, an architect - a sparrow has more sense than a stupid earthling.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat