Quotes About Glass Buildings

#1. New York used to be so much more than just a place to shop. It was life on the street for the eccentrics; it was an eccentric city. It had many different tastes. Now it's just one - a really rich one - with big tall glass buildings.

Chris Noth

#2. Mostly we just add to the piles of rainbow glass that's been blown off the exteriors of the cany-colored buildings.

Suzanne Collins

#3. For me, it feels like driving from truth into a lie, from adulthood to childhoold. I watch the land of pavement and glass and metal turn into an empty field. The snow is falling softly now, and I can faintly see the city's skyline up ahead, the buildings just a shade darker than the clouds.

Veronica Roth

#4. Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

W. Somerset Maugham

#5. It is a virtue and a prize to listen patiently to and put up with insults for the sake of God

Brigit Of Kildare

#6. How exciting is it to come to work if the best you can do is trounce some other company that does roughly the same thing?

Larry Page

#7. There is always a bit of seduction to it when one person is clothed and the other is naked, which can be a little weird. Everybody should be naked. In that case, it would be easier. Let's do a huge naked photo shoot!

Carine Roitfeld

#8. Becky tilts her chin upwards, watches the cold sun bouncing off the windows in the tops of the buildings, dripping its yolk across pale stone and glass.

Kate Tempest

#9. I would have to say I've been on the 'Opry' at least 30-35-40 times a year for ... 51-52 years.

Jim Ed Brown

#10. As a kid, his favorite toy had been a snow globe, that held a small town of gingerbread buildings and peppermint streets. He'd wanted so badly to live there that one day he'd smashed the glass ball - only to find out that the houses were made of plaster, the candy stripes painted on.

Jodi Picoult

#11. If more of our so-called leaders would walk the same streets as the people who voted them in, live in the same buildings, eat the same food instead of hiding behind glass and steel and bodyguards, maybe we'd get better leadership and a little more concern for the future.

Bruce Boxleitner

#12. Iron bridges hum and lofty buildings of steel and glass glint in the sun's rays and lean over everything with stretched shadows.

Logan Ryan Smith

#13. I walk through the glass doors and into the lobby, which is floor-to-ceiling glass and steel. This fascinates me to no end, because buildings back in Portland are made of grass and mud.

Fanny Merkin

#14. Venice took on the feeling of a city paved with black glass, the odd lantern, torch, or candle reflecting in the canals like distant windows into hell, the crescent moon throwing silver scythes across the water where it could find its way between buildings.

Christopher Moore

#15. Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.

Neil Gaiman

#16. Ask God to show you specific areas in your life that require his special "renewing" attention.

Max Lucado

#17. The city of San Francisco engulfed their view through the front windshield. The dazzling light of the late morning sun transformed every glass and metal surface into a silvery mirage.

Victoria Kahler

#18. Being Jewish, you didn't get into a sorority. So I really was much more outgoing and gregarious. I really didn't want to spend an Emily Dickinson adolescence reading poetry on gravestones, which I did.

Betty Friedan

#19. Babe, you've destroyed a car, burned down two buildings, stapled a guy's nuts, and you have sixteen stitches in your leg. Take a night off. Have a glass of wine, watch some television, and go to bed early.
-Ranger

Janet Evanovich

#20. I discovered by working with actual glass models that the important thing is the play of reflections and not the effect of light and shadow, as in ordinary buildings.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#21. I enjoy walking through Nolita and Chinatown, watching the people and the buildings, browsing through shops and stopping at little cafes for a cup of coffee or glass of wine.

Aslaug Magnusdottir

#22. Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb