Quotes About Chicago Architecture

#1. To give power to that which has no bearing on one's life simply means one is not living their true life.

Peprah Boasiako

#2. On Harpy's Drive we passed a row of trees, each one with its trunk unnaturally bloated and covered with black fuzz. I had no idea what the fuzz did, but we steered clear of it. The law of navigating post-Shift Atlanta was simple: if you don't know what it is, don't touch it.

Ilona Andrews

#3. Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.

Frank Gehry

#4. Later, following the funeral, he took all the family's horses, including his own, up into one of the mountain ravines and shot them.

David McCullough

#5. Chicago has so much excellent architecture that they feel obliged to tear some of it down now and then and erect terrible buildings just to help us all appreciate the good stuff.

Audrey Niffenegger

#6. What it takes just to earn a living - working two or three jobs - is driving a wedge in families that shouldn't be there.

Craig T. Nelson

#7. I suggest that we need a generation or two not of theory but of an attempt to discover the real phenomena of eros.

Allan Bloom

#8. Once upon a season,
a heart was kissed by poetry.
That very same heart grew into a magnificent tree.
Its branches were made of pure honesty
as love grew from its leaves.
Its history was composed of you and I.

Delano Johnson

#9. He smiled.
Her stomach felt strange.
She tried to smile back. She really should be going.
So naturally, she did not move.

Julia Quinn

#10. An artist, he paints with lakes and wooded slopes, with lawns and banks and forest-covered hills. - Daniel Burnham talking about Frederick Law Olmstead

Erik Larson

#11. You will find the limit of strength with every new situation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.

Gordon Moore

#13. I think I live in this mythical world where doing the parts I do is not going to hurt me, and telling people my age is not going to hurt me. And it actually does. It's a bit sick-making but, you know, I can't change who I am.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

#14. If Jesus had known that his image would end up on Justin Bieber's calf, he would've never started Christianity.

Natasha Leggero

#15. I went to art school in Chicago for a year at Columbia College. I had this whole master plan of getting into sustainable development and green architecture and construction, so I wanted to go to business school and then get my masters in construction and development.

Nico Tortorella

#16. Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.

Bob Barr

#17. Trees with strong roots bear delicious fruits.

Srinivas Shenoy

#18. Smiley was not opposed to social distinctions but he liked to make his own.

John Le Carre

#19. THERE WAS NEVER A SCHINDLER'S LIST. It was drawn up by a man called Goldman. This man took money to put a name on that list - no money, no place on the list. I was told this by a Dr Schwartz, in Vienna; he had paid in diamonds to save his wife

Emilie Schindler