Buildings Quotations

In the event of fire in any of the public buildings troops would be of vast service in the protection of public property, and should insurrection break out the protection of life and property would be more safe guarded by our company of regulars, than by the whole City.

In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street.

Parents matter, buildings count, curriculum choices, materials, resources - all these things are important in a top-class education. But, in the end, it comes down to the teachers.

In my opinion, further consideration of those views will help us find a way out of the current impasse, and reveal to us the kinds of buildings and cities required by the informational society.

I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.

When I first came to New York City, what I was thrilled about was not the Empire State Building, or the Statue of Liberty; it was the fireplugs in the street. These things that Jack Kirby had drawn. Or these cylindrical water towers on top of buildings that Steve Ditko's 'Spider-Man' fights used to happen in and around.

My architectural drive was to design new types of buildings to help poor people, especially following natural disasters and catastrophes... I will use whatever time is left to me to keep doing what I have been doing, which is to help humanity.

Los Angeles is a city of few hard targets. Its iconic buildings are private spaces, mostly residential, visible by invitation only or in the pages of a Taschen book. Its central industry is as mirage-like as the projection of light on a screen.

In 1975, the Americans suffered a spectacular military defeat at the hands of North Vietnam and the Vietcong, with U.S. helicopters seeking to rescue leading U.S. personnel from the tops of buildings as Vietnamese guerrillas closed in on the centre of Saigon.

Chicago always hit me as such a gloomy place - I just remember all the snow getting dirty as soon as it would fall, all the decaying brown brick buildings around where we lived, all this soot all over the place.

Each time a new disaster puts miners in the news, the press tries to make them into heroes, but they don't quite fit the bill. They don't march off to war or rush into burning buildings or rid our streets of crime.

I want to start a Dunkin' Donuts in Los Angeles. I already have the perfect location picked out. It would be the old Tower Records buildings on Sunset.

If you look at landscape in historical terms, you realize that most of the time we have been on Earth as a species, what has fallen on our retina is landscape, not images of buildings and cars and street lights.

What the people are within, the buildings express without.

The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I'm getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer's funeral because they all know I'm sick. I am getting buildings named after me and awards and stuff.

In the traditional modernist planning that created the suburbs, you put residential buildings in suburban neighborhoods, office spaces into brain parks and retail in shopping malls. But you fail to exploit the possibility of symbiosis or synthesis that way.

Go to Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, or any college and you'll see libraries, dormitories, and a lot of buildings that were a result of the generosity of fat cats.

My buildings should have an emotional core - a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.

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.

Cities are about juxtaposition. In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. In Bordeaux, we built law courts right next door to what is effectively a listed historic building, and that makes it exciting.

My first book, 'To Engineer Is Human,' was prompted by nonengineer friends asking me why so many technological accidents and failures were occurring. If engineers knew what they were doing, why did bridges and buildings fall down? It was a question that I had often asked myself, and I had no easy answer.

Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? here, the wisdom of whole generations is stored.

Modern buildings of our time are so huge that one must group them. Often the space between these buildings is as important as the buildings themselves.

The demands of the time for objectivity and functionality must be fulfilled. If that clearly happens, then the buildings of our day will convey the greatness of which the age is capable, and only a fool will maintain that they lack it.

I was transformed by picking up a pair of binoculars and looking up, and that's hard to do for a city kid because when you look up you just see buildings - and really, your first thought is to look in people's windows. So to look out of the space - out of living space - and look up to the sky, binoculars go far, literally and figuratively.

You have to blast to build in Manhattan. And the buildings went up in Manhattan because of the power of that bedrock. Once you dig that foundation - and they dig with dynamite - and once you dynamite out and you secure that foundation, that building isn't going anywhere.

The people who knocked these buildings down will hear from all of us soon.

There are buildings that some of your children are in that are older than Joe White. That's unacceptable, those buildings needs to be renovated.

When you walk through the site, you see the industrial side of it with all the buildings and just imagine how people worked there, and of course the company town part of it. The houses, the clotheslines and things people planted -- it's really kind of a ghostly feeling as you walk through the town. You can imagine what life was like.

Until now, we've been a group of buildings surrounded by parking lots, ... Now the garden brings all the buildings together and gives us a real presence and identity.

Whether working with current buildings or constructing new, the energy strategies have converted to dollars saved, resources saved, and pollutants never produced.

What about a Boys Club and a Girls Club, something for the kids to do? Instead of buildings and parking lots for doctors, these kids have nothing to do.

We had 10 of those buildings last year. We have 27 this year.

We're doing everything that we can to secure the buildings. We know that these buildings are sieves ... They have easy access.

We're just saying it will be one of the tallest buildings in Orlando. We're not looking to get into a competition over who can build the biggest yacht, so to speak.

We're not asking for any public subsidy of any kind. But the height of the new buildings is what provides the subsidy.

With the post office story and then the talk about the Senate office buildings being evacuated, sure, that got the market re-bid again.

With this, you can see the sides of the buildings instead of just an aerial view.

We're seeing a tremendous amount of activity overseas, whether it's in Asia or the Middle East. For countries that are emerging on the economic scene, very tall buildings are symbols of their economic strength.

We've got major street blockage. There's buildings down. We've got boats in buildings and all the traffic signals are gone, ... We've got buildings wide open all throughout the city.

What these buildings have in common is that they are all 100 percent leased and occupied by financial institutions. The buyer wants high credit quality and a steady income stream from the leases.

We acquired nine properties in the neighborhood, demolished eight of them and built three new buildings in their place.

We always build speculatively as we know that this is the best way to attract new companies to our developments and new employers to an area. In today's fast moving business environment companies cannot wait for buildings to be specially built for them.

What we're facing is catastrophe, ... There's very few buildings that I've seen right now that do not have some type of damage.

What we're envisioning now is developing a set of services that students, faculty and staff are asking for and that we can deliver efficiently. Bell Tower will serve as a blueprint for how to develop an infrastructure at Duke to support growth in emerging digital data, audio and video applications in new and existing buildings on campus.

There is a specified time each day when, with a uniformed officer as an escort, the receipts are taken from buildings and safety engineering and taken down to the Treasurer's or tax office.

There is a public good in having historic and beautiful buildings downtown. It is good to have skyscrapers, but you also need some touchstones to the past to make it interesting and distinctive.

We decided we had to build the center, because there are just no old buildings around the community to use. We need a place to meet and put on our suppers and have a place to store our stuff.

We hear the Israelis announcing in the loudspeakers that nobody is allowed to enter, to leave the compound, or to move between the different buildings on the compound, and anybody who will be seen outside will be shot and dead,

We have permission to apply for buildings up to six stories in several locations, and this is one of those locations.

The exterior of the building is so remarkable and so unique, with its Normandy inspiration. I mean, it's a landmark; it's truly a landmark, and it was designed by one of America's greatest architects. But there's little point in saving a building just to save a building. Buildings are to be used. It doesn't have to have the original use; it just needs to be used.

The real heroes were those pilots. At night, it was like going into a black hole. They had to come down between those buildings using only the lights of the aircraft.

There is concern with the mountainous regions here, we think wind gusts could hit up to 150 miles per hour. There's concern too for high-rise buildings in Puerto Rico.

The people in this community have spent a lot of money on the buildings here over the years, and I think the maintenance and facilities here are as good as any in the state.

We have a responsibility to make this city as safe as we can. That includes informing the people who manage and run the buildings in this city.

When the leases expire, at that point we're going to take the buildings down.

We won't have as much polish on the buildings and grounds as we'd like, but all our learning institutions are ready,

We've never done that. The whole purpose is to have it attached to the buildings so the customer can walk directly from the tire bay to the store, do their shopping and then check out on the way to get their car without ever having to leave the building.

Many significant hurricanes have hit South Florida and none of our buildings have had significant damages.

So I test all the buildings that I do by asking myself whether this building was possible, could have been built 50 years ago or a hundred years ago.

She was very distraught. She was crying about all the buildings and animals that were burned, she was very emotional.

Since (Interstate 95) is farther away from us, not a lot of attention was given to us (by developers). Not many modern buildings were put up.

She managed a lot of the properties and built a lot of buildings and houses after he died. She really got involved in the early building up of Nampa.

Maybe with respect to those (eight) buildings there will be some special arrangements made where our professional team will be accompanied by diplomatic observers,

One of the things that's so devastating about this storm is Biloxi was really being restored from the really grand, public historic buildings to the smallest vernacular cottages.

One need only look at the cement barriers surrounding these buildings to understand the big difference of the past year.

One of my friends said almost nothing is left. Buildings are down, electricity is gone. Telephone lines are down and rain is pouring in and hundreds of people are lying dead and nobody's there to bury them.

Obviously, we won't be replicating that, but in our own buildings we should continue to do well. We expect another great year in Winnipeg. The loss of the team in Edmonton will hurt but adding the Toronto Marlies helps offset that. We have four new teams in all so we think we very well might hit (7 million) again.

Occupiers of 'bad' buildings are exposed to far worse dangers on the streets than in the buildings, whether it be from the elements or from criminals who may prey on them and their possessions.

No one is questioning the good that is being done with this money. We just need the money here in the district. Our buildings need to be repaired and those are the funds that we can use to get that done.

Montgomery College is well over capacity. They are bringing in portable buildings to help keep up with the growth.

Now, we have worship in four buildings other than chapels.

Obviously, it's a very well-located building with a nice tenant mix. There are a lot of pluses. It's one of the premier buildings in town.

No doubt it would increase our tax base, assess the valuation somewhat, increased revenues from the buildings that he would put up and the animals he would have in those facilities,

On September 1, the water line was at our headquarters, ... Outside our headquarters, the water is gone. It's not until you leave the area to which you're specifically assigned and you go outside that you see the devastation, that you see the water still flooding buildings up to half-way up their length that you realize there's still a lot to do here.

I would have loved the opportunity to play against Ottawa this year. We missed the entire division. Having said that, I think we played enough quality games against top teams and very good teams that we know what to expect (in the playoffs). We played well on the road. We played well at home. We went into good teams? buildings and won.

If we end up doing some kind of financing, we will probably finance both buildings together.

I grew up in a very loving two-parent household in the middle of one of the worst ghettos in New York City, ... I didn't know I lived in the ghetto until I was like 20, 19. I came to LA with Eddie Murphy and stayed at hotels and all this stuff. When I got back and I saw what my neighborhood looked like, I started getting scared. I just thought everybody lived around abandoned buildings and had crack heads.

If they can't get them off of these buildings in the next day or so, I would say a substantial number of them will die by the weekend,

If they got running water to all these buildings that are obviously inhabitable, they could get the city cleaned up a lot faster because people would be cleaning up their own blocks and their own neighborhoods.

If they were to break loose, there is no telling where they're going to land. They can go for several blocks -- obviously do major damage -- so those areas around those buildings we are going to continue to keep closed off until we can get up there and take care of those problems.

If we could put everybody in a brand new building we would. What we need to do is maintain the buildings we have. We would not put students in a school we felt was unhealthy.

I do not support the double naming of buildings because I feel it lessens the significance of the honor. He (Snyder) should instead get his own building named after him.

But they play in different buildings there. You don't have that same flavor.

But there it is. You can see the foundations of the buildings he saw. And when he was writing in 1611, things at Jamestown looked pretty good.

Buildings like this in one sense are priceless, ... but if you can't sell them, they're worthless.

Buildings like that don't come up very often. I think this is one of the most significant buildings in the county.

I'm amazed that you could have the greatest portrait in the United States, of George Washington; you could have the Declaration of Independence desk, the desk on which it was written; you could have the hat that Abraham Lincoln had on the day he died, in buildings that really not only possibly endanger them, but the American people coming to look at them.

I'm all for it. If I know my taxes are going toward something good, like the education of my children, I'll pay for it. We've got an excellent school system as it is, and once we get the buildings in shape, it'll only get better.

I can't imagine any American pilot crashing an airplane into one of these buildings even with a gun to the head. They wouldn't do that.

Given that it's going to reach such an extended area and that it will be an unusually wet storm, damages are going to be a lot worse than $1 billion. So many homes, apartment buildings and shopping centers have been built in this part of the country that haven't been tested by a big storm. Now we're going to see just how good this construction has been.

Getting a passport is kind of a pain - let's be real. On the other hand, having people blow up buildings and commit mass murder in the name of their religion is also a pain.

Frequently, gifts of this magnitude go to naming buildings or to give the donor visibility on campus. But this is a very unique gift.

For UK to move to be a top 20 research institution, they've got to have some more investments in infrastructure, buildings and programs.

GM taking the step to tear down the buildings and find ways to redevelop the property is a good thing, ... It's a positive development.

If we talk about next year, I think over 2,000 buildings are going to be converted. By looking at real estate agents' multiple listings service, and by looking at buildings for sale that are six units or less, you can bet that most of those are going to be converted.

If we were zoning from scratch, we would not zone for six-story buildings surrounding a neighborhood.

If this were to go through, it would absolutely cripple the hospital's plans for investment in new buildings and new technology. We would have to go back and reconsider everything that we're doing right now.