Skyscraper Quotes

Skyscraper Quote of the day

No security guard can stop a refrigerator falling off a skyscraper.

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper?

A skyscraper is a machine that makes the land pay.

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

The accent today is on results, not on how well you work. You can't build a skyscraper in a day, but you can build a shack.

New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and it's been that way since the first skyscraper.

And when God steps in, His working is like the difference between a skyscraper and a star.

...Skyscraper National Park

Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.

I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.

A skyscraper is a boast in glass and steel.

Manhattan has no choice but the skyward extrusion of the Grid itself; only the Skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.

I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper.

A great city with water barriers and no bridges is like a skyscraper with no elevators. Bridges are a monument to progress.

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain and gaining new and wider views.

the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in a blaze of style.

[My mother] worked in the Seagram's Building; it's kind of an iconic '60s skyscraper on a floor so high that your ears popped. And all the women - the whole thing was so very Mad Men, very glamorous.

American megalomania is largely responsible for the growth of the Skyscraper School.

I love pre-code movies. Some of my favorites are movies with Warren William and there is an MGM film called "Skyscraper Souls" which is the best Warner Brothers movie that MGM ever made.

The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the ruling party and a 24-hour TV station.

I'd get demolitions experts to rig mother to implode like a skyscraper.

The skyscraper - any building over seven stories really - will come to be seen as an experimental building type that doesn't work well in an energy-starved economy.

Skies are crying, I am watching, Catching teardrops in my hands.Only silence, as it's ending, Like we never had a chance.Do you have to make me feelLike there's nothing left of me?

the ragged skyline of the city resembled the disturbed encephalograph of an unresolved mental crisis.

this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence.

...the/ supreme end-result of/ early Gothic phallic forms/ is the skyscraper & the/ oil drill & powered/ compressor & pistons of/ great engines...

Our memories are like a city: we tear some structures down, and we use the rubble of the old to raise up the new ones.

Are you okay?” “Yeah.” “Good, ” she said, “because if you fall off a skyscraper, I’ll be so mad at you.

As the smoke clears, I awaken, And untangle you from me.Would it make you feel betterTo watch me, while I bleed?All my windows still are broken, But I'm standing on my feet.