Skyline And Skyscraper Quotes & Sayings

For a long time thereafter I stared almost steadily at the bright and ostentatious VERIZON sign on top of one of the tallest buildings - the only branded skyscraper in Manhattan, a fucking blight marring the skyline - and I thought, Why couldn't those cunts have flown into that building? — Joshua Ferris

Offense is the essence of air power. — Henry H. Arnold

First, as I've always said, it all starts with product, which means having the right assortment, styles, and fits. Second is price, where we strive to offer the best quality, style, and design at a fair value. This is critically important, given the highly promotional environment we are operating in. And third, traffic. — Mickey Drexler

Out of hate, if you try to love that love will just be a hidden hate; it cannot be anything else-you are full of hate. Go to the preachers and they will say, "Try to love." They are talking nonsense because how can a person who is full of hate try to love? If he tries to love, this love will come out of hatred; it will be poisoned already, poisoned from the very source. And this is what the misery of all preachers is. — Rajneesh

Oh yes, We've all danced to this particular tune at one time in our lives. In my experience, the majority of women are hopeless romantics, believing that, in time, he'll realise how wonderful we are, and fall in love with us ... — Catherine Sanderson

Although I have always rejected this fear of the other, and the racism that it inevitably fuels, I have learned from experience that it is a deeply rooted need in the human psyche. at the slightest provocation we will put distance between ourselves and those we cannot or do not want to understand — Susan Nathan

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

For gardens, Granada; for women, Madrid; but for love - your eyes, when they look at me." Lina jotted down these lines in a notebook and learned the song herself. — Simon Morrison

His knuckles slid down, grazing my cheek. — Lauren Myracle

There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence. — Sam Shepard

To the Aiel, it was not a war; it was an execution. — Robert Jordan

A dick does not make you a man; so stop showing it around. — M.F. Moonzajer

The ragged skyline of the city resembled the disturbed encephalograph of an unresolved mental crisis. — J.G. Ballard

I should be European, man. I'm long and lean. I'd look good in a trench coat. — J. B. Smoove

Sometimes silence is needed the most when life is so full of noise. — Rebekah Crane