Best 12 quotes in «skyscraper quotes» category

I looked up at the ivory towers above us all. Nowhere else equals the feral design of this city. Tall skyscrapers that act as gorges hollowing out between flat cement dancing into narrow alleyways like bottomless pits. Building walls rusted the color of blood. Sometimes when you look down the horizon from afar the city looks wider than it is, like a thin field of magical lights gleaming with the hopes of children and idealists; a light on at midnight in one of the penthouses or the changing hues of the Empire State Building. Most of the time though, the city is covered with a layer of honking cars and greed, sirens and the war cry of solicitors, all full of brambles and impenetrable conscience; garbage, steaming manholes, and heat waves twirling smog and pollution through your lungs like mirages as you walk breathlessly through a boiling desert.

The Twin Towers stood out like an enormous number 11 looming over New York City, a familiar icon coupled with the Brooklyn Bridge, the Empire State building and the Statue of Liberty. Those towers were like the soul of lower Manhattan, alive in their own right.

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

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

A skyscraper is a boast in glass and steel.

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

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

A man in the skyscraper needs to feed a pigeon from his window to remember what great thing missing in his life: The touch of nature!

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

...Skyscraper National Park

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

A skyscraper built within your own mind may never crumble.