Goldberger Quotes & Sayings

Why don't these translation books just include general phrases that could be applied in a variety of situations like, "Say nothing unless it's in English"? — Joe Cawley

A noble space, unlike any other of our time, for it is both strong and delicate. It seems to call at once for a Boeing 747 and for a string quartet. — Paul Goldberger

The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge. — Paul Goldberger

Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way. — Paul Goldberger

The keener the want the lustier the growth. — Wendell Phillips

Right after 9/11 it looked as if the idea of a huge skyscraper might be considered obsolete. It came back, but I think that's more closely connected to the rise of Asian and Middle Eastern cities in the world economy (Dubai, Shanghai, Taipei, etc.) than anything else. — Paul Goldberger

New York remains what it has always been : a city of ebb and flow, a city of constant shifts of population and economics, a city of virtually no rest. It is harsh, dirty, and dangerous, it is whimsical and fanciful, it is beautiful and soaring - it is not one or another of these things but all of them, all at once, and to fail to accept this paradox is to deny the reality of city existence. — Paul Goldberger

Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships. — Paul Goldberger

I don't usually go in for reviews of buildings that aren't yet built, since you can tell only so much from drawings and plans, and, besides, has there ever been a building that didn't look great as a model? — Paul Goldberger

Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century. — Paul Goldberger

New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around the automobile. — Paul Goldberger

If you have clutter, you're richer than you think! — Donna Smallin

Integrity has been enhanced. — Paul Goldberger

Passion is born deaf and dumb. — Honore De Balzac

For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing. — Paul Goldberger

By any reasonable standard, Riverside Drive would be considered the best street in New York. Where else, after all, are there such views-not of a narrow river, as there is across town, but of one of the noblest rivers in the United States. — Paul Goldberger

It fills one with a sense of architectural possibility. — Paul Goldberger

When I was young, I had idols that I thought were wonderful. I wanted to be just like them. — PJ Harvey

Many innovations fail because consumers irrationally overvalue the old while companies irrationally overvalue the new. — Nir Eyal

I think of what the experience is of going into the building, of spending time in it, and try to get a sense of what the building would be like to work in as well. — Paul Goldberger

Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads. — Paul Goldberger

On New York subways in the 1980s: Riding on the IRT is usually a matter of serving time in one of the city's most squalid environments-noisy, smelly, crowded and overrun with a ceaseless supply of graffiti. — Paul Goldberger

He wanted that again, that feeling of standing with her against all odds and succeeding. He wanted it so bad, he was going to risk destroying everything he and his father had worked for. — Kim Harrison

If I were asked to name one aspect of tennis that is the biggest weakness of players of all levels, I would probably say concentration. However good your shots, however fast your movement and reflexes, all is lost if the mind is not controlling every move. — Ken Rosewall

Wright's building made it socially and culturally acceptable for an architect to design a highly expressive, intensely personal museum. In this sense almost every museum of our time is a child of the Guggenheim. — Paul Goldberger

It's hard because you want to be able to just, okay, focus your energy on trying to win the match, but you need to then have tactics as to how you're going to deal with how you're feeling. — Andy Murray

I try to do everything from thinking about big issues like how a building fits into the larger stream of architectural history to practical issues such as how it feels to navigate your way through its interior. — Paul Goldberger

1914 ... Dr. Joseph Goldberger had proven that (pellagra) was related to diet, and later showed that it could be prevented by simply eating liver or yeast. But it wasn't until the 1940's ... that the 'modern' medical world fully accepted pellagra as a vitamin B deficiency. — G. Edward Griffin

The bias among architecture critics isn't against skyscrapers per se, but against the way in which their design is so heavily dictated by economic considerations - the way in which skyscrapers are real estate before they are architecture. — Paul Goldberger

It seems to me that the sad event of 9/11 has created a huge opportunity for the revitalization of lower Manhattan - new world class contemporary buildings, more open space and pedestrian connections, more sustainability, more culture and the rejuvenation of New York on the world stage again. — Paul Goldberger

A force in your life, whether it be God, a friend, a mentor, or a higher being, is always there for you. Remember that when you are down, and focus on your appreciation. It will deliver but you need to recognize and acknowledge. — David Mezzapelle

I think it's necessary to evaluate a skyscraper at multiple scales, since that's how we experience it: from right next to it on the street to from across the river, as well as at all kinds of points in between. It's important to think of it as an element in a larger skyline, but also as an element in an immediate streetscape. — Paul Goldberger

A sustainable economy represents nothing less than a higher social order one as concerned with future generations as with our own, and more focused on the health of the planet and the poor than on material acquisitions and military might. While it is a fundamentally new endeavor, with many uncertainties, it is far less risky than continuing with business as usual. — Lester R. Brown

That's the hard work of writing. The imagining. — Jincy Willett

We identify New York with the great bridges and tunnels and roadways and subway system and so forth. — Paul Goldberger