Quotes for All
Solidarity is not a matter of sentiment but a fact, cold and impassive as the granite foundations of a skyscraper. If the basic elements, identity of interest, clarity of vision, honesty of intent, and oneness of purpose, or any of these is lacking, all sentimental pleas for solidarity, and all other efforts to achieve it … Read more
Hitler wanted to hear all about the American skyscrapers … but failed utterly to draw logical conclusions from the information. …. He was passionately interested in the Ku Klux Klan. … He seemed to think it was a political movement similar to his own. Ernst Hanfstaengl
The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for — for what? Someday we’ll know. Edward Abbey
If I gave up writing, I’d have to find an equally obsessive way to fill my time. Yarn-bombing skyscrapers or making houses out of empty soda bottles. Eden Robinson
A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness. E. M. Forster
Art deals with profound and simple moods. Let us suppose that the artist – in this instance (the artist) Picabia – gets a certain impression by looking at our skyscrapers, our city, our way of life, and that he tries to reproduce it. He will convey it in plastic ways on the canvas, even though … Read more
There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers’ battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight, drench, or conceal the vast towers, but those towers, hostile to mystery and blind to any sort of play, shear off the rain’s tresses and shine their three thousand swords through the soft … Read more
The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails. Federico Garcia Lorca
There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers’ battle with the heavens that cover them. Federico Garcia Lorca
New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village – the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up! E. B. White