Quotes About Building Empires

#1. White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires ... We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was ... we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.

Al Sharpton

#2. All the religions are true, they just see a different part of the elephant.

George Lucas

#3. If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its silhouette.

Timothy Levitch

#4. New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone.

Walter Tevis

#5. There's a weird fact that if you dropped a penny off the Empire State Building in New York City, you'd kill someone. I feel really bad, 'cause I dropped a nickel off it once.

Taylor Hanson

#6. If you are truly successful in capturing the pulse of life, then you can speak of a good photograph.

Rene Burri

#7. My favorite optimist was an American who jumped off the Empire State Building, and as he passed the 42nd floor, the window washers heard him say, 'So Far, so good.'

John McGahern

#8. You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks ... although the latter is much less realistic.

Kenneth Lonergan

#9. The Empire State Building is the closest thing to heaven in this city.

Deborah Kerr

#10. The Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story.

Craig L. Rice

#11. What's your cause? Does it move you to tears? What is it that moves you passionately?

Wess Stafford

#12. When I'm in New York I look at the Empire State Building and feel as though it belongs to me ... or is it vice versa?

Fay Wray

#13. I do what I want. I'm punk rock.

Michael Clifford

#14. I doubt I'll ever pay someone to do a remix again, because there's some amazing stuff just coming out of bedrooms.

Trent Reznor

#15. Erhaps it was the difference in age between the countries - America with its expansive youth, building all those drive-in movie theaters and cowboy restaurants; Italians living in endless contraction, in the artifacts of generations, in the bones of empires.

Jess Walter

#16. I don't regret pulling the trigger. I should have been more careful with many of the things I said afterwards. That was a big regret.

Bernhard Goetz

#17. You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.

Paul Simon

#18. We still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of the nature of New York, that it's always shifting.

Richard Hell