Many people decorate their homes with designer graffiti, even though most of them would probably have real graffiti scoured off the walls of their buildings. – Brad Holland
You can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life. – Bob Dylan
When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left. – Ban Ki-moon
I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own. – Boyd Holbrook
I usually don’t throw around the word ‘fabulous,’ but how else to describe buildings decorated with mirrored water dragons, serpents tiled in colored glass, and hundreds – no, thousands, no, tens of thousands – of gold-leaf Buddhas? Luang Prabang has more than 47,000 residents, but its Buddha population must be ten times that. – David Ebershoff
I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutting things and making blocks and making buildings out of shoeboxes. – Narciso Rodriguez
In New York, we’re always confined with spaces. Our restaurants are difficult to navigate as cooks and to operate. We fight against the buildings we run in New York. – David Chang
Performing arts buildings are complex. The acoustics, the sight lines and all that have to just be perfect. So you begin with just making these things sublime as musical instruments. And if you fail there, you have failed it all. – Moshe Safdie
People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings. – Minoru Yamasaki
High among the unpredictable variables that endanger the survival of worthy buildings are the vagaries of taste. – Martin Filler
I don’t like landscapes. I like cities. Lots of cities. I like buildings. I like streets. – Dario Argento
I’m on the MIT board, and a lot of our buildings now have daycare centers; it’s becoming a standard. – Megan Smith
Alfriston is a compact village set around a rather traffic-weary High Street, mainly of old, timbered buildings. The principal sights lie to the east on the river side. – David Hewson
For more than 40 years, I have advocated the creation of a ’round the clock’ community. This would mean, at the least, housing, schools and shops of various kinds alongside the commercial buildings. That kind of community had appeared in lower Manhattan in nascent form before Sept. 11, 2001. – David Rockefeller
I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens. – Cesar Pelli
I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line. – Dick Wolf
I should just drive around this city and take photos of all the buildings I’ve been humiliated in. – Moon Unit Zappa
In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It’s so wasteful. Why not use what’s there? – Nellie McKay
Destroy and damage infrastructure, public buildings and government buildings. Do not leave them any place from which they can operate to damage Israel. We must be sure that Hamas will be spending many years in rebuilding Gaza and not in attacking Israel. – Eli Yishai
In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense. – Minoru Yamasaki