#building

The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai, the biggest factory in the world is in China, the largest oil refinery is in India, the largest investment fund in the world is in Abu Dhabi, the largest Ferris wheel in the world is in Singapore. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#biggest #building #china #dubai #factory

Admirable, however, as the Paris of the present day appears to you, build up and put together again in imagination the Paris of the fifteenth century; look at the light through that surprising host of steeples, towers, and belfries; pour forth amid the immense city, break against the points of its islands, compress within the arches of the bridges, the current of the Seine, with its large patches of green and yellow, more changeable than a serpent's skin; define clearly the Gothic profile of this old Paris upon an horizon of azure, make its contour float in a wintry fog which clings to its innumerable chimneys; drown it in deep night, and observe the extraordinary play of darkness and light in this sombre labyrinth of buildings; throw into it a ray of moonlight, which shall show its faint outline and cause the huge heads of the towers to stand forth from amid the mist; or revert to that dark picture, touch up with shade the thousand acute angles of the spires and gables, and make them stand out, more jagged than a shark's jaw, upon the copper-coloured sky of evening. Now compare the two. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#description #houses #paris #scenery #imagination

It's so easy for me to get caught up in the feeling of a city like Venice, where everything is just beautiful color and gorgeous buildings that are so peaceful. You can roam around and get lost in the labyrinth. ↗

— Nanette Lepore

#beautiful #buildings #caught #city #color

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves. ↗

— Julia Morgan

#art #buildings #speak #themselves #visual

My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone. ↗

— Julia Morgan

#after #buildings #gone #i #legacy

Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union, it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations. ↗

— Giorgio Napolitano

#building #community #efforts #european #european union

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen. ↗

— Larry Niven

#building #built #dozen #everyone #insane

The higher the building the lower the morals. ↗

— Noel Coward

#building #higher #lower #morals

I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars. ↗

— Will Oldham

#buildings #cars #hidden #hidden things #i

I think there are definitely two types of student: the academic kids and the 50% who fail. It's very clear to see - it's fact. We're not doing enough for those who fail; they need a more physical, tactile approach, involving people skills, team-building, problem-solving, building things. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

#approach #building #clear #definitely #doing