Reinforced Concrete Quotes

#1. Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus after its initial, Expressionist, phase. Stucco masqueraded as reinforced concrete; rivets were used for decoration.

Martin Filler

#2. Reinforced concrete buildings are by nature skeletal buildings. No noodles nor armoured turrets. A construction of girders that carry the weight, and walls that carry no weight. That is to say, buildings consisting of skin and bones.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#3. Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude.

P. J. O'Rourke

#4. The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go.

Oscar Niemeyer

#5. gold is stored in New York in vaults resting on bedrock, eighty feet below street level. The walls of the vaults are steel-reinforced concrete. The vaults are impenetrable.

Janet Evanovich

#6. The wandering elephants, giraffes and buffalos of Tsavo will be kept at bay by a 1.8-meter reinforced concrete and metal mesh fence.

Gavin Serkin

#7. It did what a foreign adventure is supposed to do-it made the mundane thrilling.

Stacy Schiff

#8. Never get so attached to a poem that you forget truth that lacks lyricism.

Joanna Newsom

#9. Ride the horse in the direction it's going.

Werner Erhard

#10. Men come and go but bills are forever.

Michael Baisden

#11. Getting an unsophisticated client was the golden prize. The quickest way to make money on Wall Street is to take the most sophisticated product and try to sell it to the least sophisticated client.

Greg Smith

#12. If I ever get to 100, I'd want to be filled with wonder and wild, adolescent, wide-eyed interest in newness. So let's keep the flame burning. Let's stop thinking everyone over 29, or 49, has to be reinforced by concrete.

Tanith Lee

#13. I felt him sigh against me. "It was. But it didn't mean anything. Please don't use her to keep me at a distance" ...

R.K. Lilley

#14. All men come to resemble their fathers. That isn't a tragedy, but you need a hell of a sense of humour to handle it.

Philip Kerr