Quotes About Tall Building

#1. That rational voice was right to be frightened. There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt a faint, morbid urge to jump.

Stephen King

#2. There was a sound like a garbage bag of pudding dropped off a tall building onto a sidewalk. Robert had erupted, chunks slapping off the walls in every direction.

David Wong

#3. Clearly, his winks were some sort of superpower, because I swear that if he asked me to jump from the roof of a tall building and then winked, I'd jump.

C.P. Smith

#4. When you sit down to design something, it can be anything, a car, a toaster, a house, a tall building or a shoe, what you draw or what you design is really a culmination of everything that you've seen and done in your life previous to that point.

Tinker Hatfield

#5. Toppling sounds like it jumped from a tall building and landed gracefully on is g.

Edmond Manning

#6. A man attains greatness by his merits, not simply by occupying an exalted seat. Can we call a crow an eagle (garuda) simply because he sits on the top of a tall building.

Chanakya

#7. I've started researching online journals for the project. Thanks for decoding Dr. Heller's notes before sending them to me. If you'd have forwarded them to me without a translation, I'd be searching for a tall building/overpass/water tower from which to yell goodbye cruel world.

Tammara Webber

#8. The chief characteristics of the tall building is that it is lofty. It must be every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exultation so that from bottom to top it should be a unit without a single dissenting line.

Louis Sullivan

#9. 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.

Ada Louise Huxtable

#10. I am all for greening tall buildings, but I'm also very keen to note that greening a building doesn't cope with the problem of the tall building in the texture of the city.

Joseph Rykwert

#11. Almost the first thing you see after entering the Houdini exhibition at the Jewish Museum is a large-screen film of Harry Houdini hanging by his ankles upside-down from a tall building, high over a sea of men in fedoras, and thrashing his way out of a straitjacket.

Robert Gottlieb

#12. There can be little question that the tall building presents one of the most difficult challenges to the architect.

Martin Filler

#13. Believing the world is calm because we have never seen it otherwise is like taking the attitude of a man who jumps off the top of a tall building and figures that, since 29 of the 30 floors have passed without incident, he is going to be okay.

Stephen Webb

#14. He was mostly leaping tall buildings in the beginning. There were cases where he would leap off a tall building or swoop down, and at that point he would look like he was flying, I suppose. It was just natural to draw him like that.

Joe Shuster

#15. What is a church?-Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.

George Crabbe

#16. The problem of the tall office building is one of the most stupendous, one of the most magnificent opportunities that the Lord of Nature in His beneficence has ever offered to the proud spirit of man.

Louis Sullivan

#17. I don't like seeing myself on television and I don't enjoy filming. What I actually enjoy is thinking about how I am going to express something or how we are going to make the visual metaphor.

Robert Winston

#18. As I constantly remind Canadians, there isnt really a Canadian economy anymore. It is a global economy.

Stephen Harper

#19. We are all time travelers, we just don't know it yet.The only problem is that we only have a one way ticket, destination: FUTURE.

Alina Radoi

#20. Whenever you have an unpleasant task to do, my favorite quote is from my mom. "Just back your ears and do it!

Jan Sikes

#21. We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.

Dejan Stojanovic

#22. The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple ... the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#23. Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism.

Walter Lippmann

#24. Golf isn't just my business, it's my hobby.

Lee Trevino

#25. When you are shooting with a robot you can't improvise. You can't really ... the script is kind of the script.

Jake Schreier

#26. And i wish I didn't have to lie so much. I don't think Frank Socrates would approve of all this lying.
I think Frank would want me to cause a lot more trouble than that.

A.S. King

#27. 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

#28. I think I do pretty well with child characters. It's hard to write kids that are realistic, not annoying, and bring something to the story.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#29. Life is a long drop down, Marcus. The most important thing is knowing how to fall.

Joel Dicker

#30. Once built, the Montauk was so novel, so tall, it defied description by conventional means. No one knows who coined the term, but it fit, and the Montauk became the first building to be called a skyscraper.

Erik Larson

#31. Above average intelligence has always run in my family. Ambition, however, has always walked with a limp.

Jeff MacNelly