#buildings

It was a bright, clear afternoon in the late fall that pretty Miss Cable drove up in her trap and waited at the curb for her father to come forth from his office in one of Chicago's tallest buildings. ↗

— George Barr McCutcheon

#bright #buildings #cable #chicago #clear

Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you're able to grasp what things mean. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#buildings #egypt #grasp #greece #i

I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#body #bones #book #buildings #built

For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

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Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#architect #buildings #care #due #more

Care should be taken that all buildings are well lighted: in those of the country this point is easily accomplished, because the wall of a neighbour is not likely to interfere with the light. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#because #buildings #care #country #easily

The lanes and streets of the city being set out, the choice of sites for the convenience and use of the state remains to be decided on; for sacred edifices, for the forum, and for other public buildings. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#buildings #choice #city #convenience #decided

For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation. ↗

— Fritz Todt

#accused #any #attempted #buildings #cultural

I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest. ↗

— Alain Robert

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Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces. ↗

— Alain Robert

#even #faces #feeling #height #i