Buildings Quotes

The carved stone sign in front read Building C.Imaginative title, Langdon thought

It was––how shall I put it?––a painfully solitary building. Let me explain. Say we have a concept. I...

Howard was almost as fond of this hall as he was of his own shop. The Brownies used it on Tuesdays, ...

We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves.

If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no g...

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then th...

It does not much matter that an individual loses two or three hundred pounds in buying a bad picture...

If you want to understand what's most important to a society, don't examine its art or literature, s...

I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.

The yard was a little centre of regeneration. Here, with keen edges and smooth curves, were forms in...

[H]e could see the island of Manhattan off to the left. The towers were jammed together so tightly, ...

Admirable, however, as the Paris of the present day appears to you, build up and put together again ...

Either a building is part of a place or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make i...

We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.

We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind ...