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  • [My mother] worked in the Seagram's Building; it's kind of an iconic '60s skyscraper on a floor so high that your ears popped. And all the women - the whole thing was so very Mad Men, very glamorous.

    Mother   Men   Mad  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight, drench, or conceal the vast towers, but those towers, hostile to mystery and blind to any sort of play, shear off the rain's tresses and shine their three thousand swords through the soft swan of the fog.

    Rain   Swans   Fog  
  • I'd get demolitions experts to rig mother to implode like a skyscraper.

  • The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

    Block   Men   Skyscraper  
    Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag (1983). “Barthes: Selected Writings”
  • The mediated world has approached us from a lot of different directions and we have freely chosen our automobiles and our skyscrapers and our televisions and our telephones and our computers because they have given us power and freedom. Now we are beginning to notice there's a price to pay for them. It's all interconnected, the good stuff and the bad stuff comes together.

    Source: scottlondon.com
  • I mean, I know thousands of people died and everything, but if it happened today, there's just no excuse. They'd be much safer inside a movie theater watching one of my movies instead of burning alive in a collapsing skyscraper.

    Mean   People   Burning  
  • If you look at the entrance halls of the skyscrapers of the 1920s and 1930s, they are very welcoming. They are public spaces with enormous amounts of display and marble and so on. They were havens off the street.

    Space   Looks   Welcome  
  • When the film was presented in New York, the distributor reproduced the fountain scene on a billboard as high as a skyscraper. My name was in the middle in huge letters, Fellini's was at the bottom, very tiny. Now the name of Fellini has become very great, mine very little.

  • In the time between the two wars, a British colonial officer said that with the invention of the airplane the world has no secrets left. However, he said, there is one last mystery. There is a large country on the Roof of the World, where strange things happen. There are monks who have the ability to separate mind from body, shamans and oracles who make government decisions, and a God-King who lives in a skyscraper-like palace in the Forbidden City of Llhasa.

    Country   Kings   War  
  • The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age. ... Shaper of cities and fortunes, it is the dream, past and present, acknowledged or unacknowledged, of almost every architect.

    Dream   Past   Cities  
    Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.132, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • No security guard can stop a refrigerator falling off a skyscraper.

  • 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.

    America   Chicago   Steel  
    Jared Diamond (2011). “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition”, p.131, Penguin
  • We have had the stone age; we have had the iron age; and now we have the sky age, and the sky telegraph, and sky men, and sky cities. Mountains of stone are built out of men's visions. Towers and skyscrapers swing up out of their wills and up out of their hearts.

    Heart   Men   Swings  
    Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Study of the Genius of Democracy and of the Fears, Desires, and Expectations of the People”
  • Never forget, Americans, that yours is a spiritual country. Yes, I know you're a practical people. Like others, I've marveled at your factories, your skyscrapers, and your arsenals. But underlying everything else is the fact that America began as a God-loving, God-fearing, God-worshipping people.

  • Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped.

    Mean   Fire   Different  
    Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.245, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

    Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.23, Macmillan
  • Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground

    Song   Trying   Tears  
    Song: Skyscraper, Album: Unbroken, 2011
  • Most old cities are now sclerotic machines that dispense known qualities in ever-greater quantities, instead of laboratories of the uncertain. Only the skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.

    Men   Cities   Space  
  • Manhattan has no choice but the skyward extrusion of the Grid itself; only the Skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.

    Men   Space   Sky  
  • I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.

    "Zaha Hadid: Britain must do more to help encourage its women architects". Interview with Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2013.
  • America's skyscrapers were not built by public funds nor for a public purpose: they were built by the energy, initiative and wealth of private individuals for personal profit. And, instead of impoverishing the people, these skyscrapers, as they rose higher and higher, kept raising the people's standard of living - including the inhabitants of the slums.

    America   Rose   People  
  • Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining trend. They were almost never necessary.

    Cities   Trends   Asia  
  • Hitler wanted to hear all about the American skyscrapers ... but failed utterly to draw logical conclusions from the information. .... He was passionately interested in the Ku Klux Klan. ... He seemed to think it was a political movement similar to his own.

  • Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the globe the civilization that has conquered it has failed to build a temple or a tomb.

    "The Voices of Silence". Book by Andre Malraux, Doubleday, Part IV, Chapter I, 1953.
  • A great city with water barriers and no bridges is like a skyscraper with no elevators. Bridges are a monument to progress.

    Bridges   Cities   Water  
  • From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

    Men   Wings   Grew  
    "Very Short Stories". www.wired.com. November 1, 2006.
  • And when God steps in, His working is like the difference between a skyscraper and a star.

    Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “Wisdom for the Way: Wise Words for Busy People”, p.176, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.

    Heaven   Battle   Poetic  
  • I told myself that if I didn't care, this wouldn't have hurt so much - surely that proved I was alive and human and all those touchy-feely things, for once and for all. But that wasn't a relief, not when I felt like a skyscraper with dynamite on every floor.

    Hurt   Relief   Alive  
  • Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper?

    Distance   Doe   Sun  
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