Building Facades Quotes & Sayings

If you join them,
You will always be
At odds with them
And everything they stand for. — Joseph Ridgwell

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further. — Wernher Von Braun

Silence emerges from the sound of rain and spreads in a crescendo of gray monotony over the narrow street I contemplate. I'm sleeping while awake, standing by the window, leaning against it as against everything. I search in myself for the sensations I feel before these falling threads of darkly luminous water that stand out from the grimy building facades and especially from the open windows. And I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or where I am. — Fernando Pessoa

I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation. — Edgar Allan Poe

Walks are never as good during the day. At night, when everyone's apartments are lit up and you can see inside, that's where the action is. Everything about this fascinates me. Windows, lampposts, building facades. Looking into other people's lives. The way it all comes together, this entity greater than the sum of its parts. I feel inspired. I'm excited about my future life. — Susane Colasanti

The less I understand life, the more I live it! — Jules Renard

But childhood was not all good, nor were its lessons. Good came with the bad, as dark did with light and weakness with strength. Nothing was simple or pure; everyone had secrets. What — John Hart

What instruction the baby brings to the mother! — Thomas Wentworth Higginson

I have learnt from the politics of my great country, Nigeria that there is nothing wrong with the heads of states, but there is something wrong with the state of the heads. — Ogwo David Emenike

The design of the building addresses the public nature of both the urban context and the internal program. In order to reinforce the building's associative or mimetic qualities, the facades are organized in a classical three-part division of base, middle or body, and attic or head. — Michael Graves

The crickets were rubbing their hind legs together, unrolling that endless band of sound that when combined with the sound of the sycamore trees losing their heads in the heat-thickened breeze could cause even a girl as unsentimental as Mary to feel like she'd just left something behind on the porch stoop she couldn't bear to live without. — Kathryn Davis

The crucial ingredient in the success of any brand is its claim to authenticity. — Al Ries

There are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers. — Agatha Christie

Talking about our problems is our greatest additction. Break the habit. Talk about your joys. — Rita Schiano

But some things, no matter how unlikely, are just supposed to happen. You know what I mean. Some things just smack of the future and feel part of an overarching rightness. — Marisa De Los Santos