The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach. — Ayn Rand
A skyscraper is a machine that makes the land pay. — Cass Gilbert
By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul. — Carl Sandburg
I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. — Ayn Rand
The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai. — Sayings
The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today. — Linda Goodman
The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man. — Roland Barthes
The higher the building the lower the morals. — Noel Coward
It's very atmospheric. It's not a building that is a severe statement in the skyline. We need the height; otherwise, the building almost disappears because it is so slender. — Santiago Calatrava
There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. — Federico Garcia Lorca
In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones. — Edwin Arnold
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves. — Julia Morgan
Empire State Quotes
The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it. — Robert E. Lee
While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings; While quacks of State must each produce his plan, And even children lisp the Rights of Man; Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention, The Rights of Woman merit some attention. — Robert Burns
Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for making the Anglo Saxon race but one Empire? What a dream, but yet it is probable; it is possible. — Cecil Rhodes
Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.
It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy; power is enough. Only the weak rely on diplomacy. The Roman Empire had no need for diplomacy. Nor does the United States. — Boutros Boutros-Ghali
My favorite optimist was an American who jumped off the Empire State Building, and as he passed the 42nd floor, the window washers heard him say, 'So Far, so good.' — John McGahern
There is clear empirical evidence that the response of EME financial markets to different shocks, including changes in U.S. interest rates, depends importantly on the state of economic fundamentals in the EMEs themselves. — Jerome Powell
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
When we look at these types of things it echoes to lessons we haven't learned from the past. We still don't see Rome as a negative thing; we glorify the Roman Empire. It was a fascist state under the control of an incredibly authoritarian militant pre-emptive striking genocidal regime. — Immortal Technique
When it was over my daughter said, 'Oh, I felt so sorry for him - he didn't want to hurt you, he liked you.' That was Victoria. When you visualize him up there on top of the Empire State Building, you do feel sorry for him. — Fay Wray
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died. — Gore Vidal
Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap. — Don Rickles
World Trade Center Quotes
I was in Jersey when the whole World Trade Center thing happened and I felt powerless. So, I went to Hawaii and did a surf movie. It's kind of fluffy. — Michelle Rodriguez
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying. — Marilyn vos Savant
'The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands, whole, as it stood in the early morning of September 11. I can also see the corner where I saw the first tower fall and howled out loud. Seeing the buildings again here is uplifting, healing. — Jerry Saltz
It is easier to build up a child than it is to repair and adult.
If 3,000 people perished in the World Trade Center attacks and the Jewish population is 10 percent, you show me records of 300 Jewish people dying in the World Trade Center…We’re daring anyone to dispute its truth. They got their people out. — Malik Zulu Shabazz
Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them. — Jack Kingston
You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy. — Colin Powell
If you are more fortunate than others, it is better to build a longer table than a taller fence.
It's hard for me to believe that it [World Trade Center Building 7] came down by itself... Twenty years from now, people will look at 9-11 the way we look at the assassination of JFK today. It couldn't possibly have been done the way the government told us. — Andrew Napolitano
Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental. — Michael Mandelbaum
We came back right over the World Trade Center, and could see, even from that altitude the devastation, the smoke that was coming up. It was obvious it was going to be horrible. — Hugh Shelton
Everything - design and technology and materials - has changed since the World Trade Center was built. A lot of it has to do with computers, which allow us to be far more efficient as well as structurally sound. — Frank Gehry
If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its silhouette. — Timothy Levitch
From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Defeat is a state of mind: no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
When I'm in New York I look at the Empire State Building and feel as though it belongs to me ... or is it vice versa? — Fay Wray
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
I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else. — Robert Frost
New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone. — Walter Tevis
So you can't live in Manhattan?' she asked. Amos's brow furrowed as he looked across at the Empire State Building. 'Manhattan has other problems. Other gods. It's best we stay separate. — Rick Riordan
we still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of the nature of New York, that it's always shifting. — Richard Hell
There's a weird fact that if you dropped a penny off the Empire State Building in New York City, you'd kill someone. I feel really bad, 'cause I dropped a nickel off it once. — Taylor Hanson
The Empire State Building is the closest thing to heaven in this city. — Deborah Kerr
I knew a girl so ugly, I took her to the top of the Empire State building and planes started to attack her. — Rodney Dangerfield
One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human beings. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cinema verite would be what Andy Warhol did with his film about the Empire State Building - eight hours or so from one angle, and even then it's not really cinema verite, because you aren't actually there. — Crispin Glover
You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks...although the latter is much less realistic. — Kenneth Lonergan
Someone said that inflation is like jumping off the top of the Empire State Building. The sensation is great as long as you keep on going. — David H. Scott
The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today. They perform their cycles with the same mathematical precision, and they will continue to affect each thing on earth, including man, as long as the earth exists. — Linda Goodman
The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them. — Arthur Henderson
Owning great landmarks such as the Empire State Building or Trump Tower or the General Motors Building or the Plaza Hotel - there are certain just spectacular landmarks - it's an honor; it's really an honor. — Donald Trump
Overall, The Population Bomb was probably too optimistic. I was writing about climate change - Anne and I actually wrote the book. We discussed whether or not you'd have to take a gondola to the Empire State Building, and that sort of thing, but we didn't know at the time whether the climate change would be in the direction of heating or cooling. We just didn't know enough about it. — Paul R. Ehrlich
I’m not complaining about Romance Being Dead - I’ve just described a happy marriage as based on talking about plants and a canceled Ray Romano show and drinking milkshakes: not exactly rose petals and gazing into each other’s eyes at the top of the Empire State Building or whatever. I’m pretty sure my parents have gazed into each other’s eyes maybe once, and that was so my mom could put eyedrops in my dad’s eyes. — Mindy Kaling
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