building quotes

Eachschool can, onceagain, become what it was always meant to bea building that has four walls with tomorrow inside.

-John Fellows Akers
  In the Wall Street  Journal, 20 Mar.

O this is no myain house, I ken by the biggin o't.

-Anonymous
c 'This is no my ain house'.

Nuestro portero descubrio  , o creyo   descubrir, que su labor no se pod|a limitar a abrir la puerta del edificio, sino que e  l, el portero, era el sen‹  alado, el elegido, el indicado†para mostrarles a todas aquellas personas una puerta ma  s amplia y hasta entonces invisible o inaccesible; puerta que era la de sus propias vidas. Our doorman discovered (or thought he had discovered) that his tasks could not be limited to just opening the door of the buildingbut that he, the doorman, was the one chosen, elected, singled out†to show everyone who lived there a wider door, until then either invisible or inaccessible: the door to their own lives.

- Reinaldo Arenas
  El portero (The Doorman,1961), pt.1, ch.1.

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Corinthians 5:1.

The Victorians expected every building, like every painting, to tell a story, and preferably to point to a moral as well. 199

- Sir Hugh Maxwell Casson
  An Introduction to Victorian  Architecture.

'What is a church?'Our honest sexton tells, ''Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.'

- George Crabbe
  The Borough, letter 2,'The Church', l.11^12.

My name is on the building.

- Henry Ford
His habitual justification for having the last word. Recalled on his death, 29 Sep1987.

They saya building isgood architecture if it works.Of course, this is poppycock. All buildings work† You expect anyarchitect, a graduate of Harvard or not, to be able to put the kitchen in the right place.

- Philip Cortelyou Johnson
  'The Seven Crutches of  Architecture', informal talk to students, School of  Architectural Design, Harvard University, 7 Dec. Published in Perspecta 3 (1955).

It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

-Le Corbusier pseudonym of  Charles EŁ  douard Jeanneret
  Vers une architecture (translated as Towards a New Architecture,1927).

Don't clap too hardit's a very old building.

-John Osborne
  The Entertainer,7.

I know not how it wasbut, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit† There was aniciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heartan unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime.

- EdgarAllan Poe
  'The Fall of the House of Usher', in the Gentleman's Magazine, Sep.

Ifthereisanything moresatisfying thandedicating anew building, it is dedicating eight new buildings.

- Nelson A(ldrich) Rockefeller
  On Albany's Government Mall. In the NewYorkTimes, 13 Mar.

A building without ornamentation is like a heaven without stars.

- George Sandys
Quoted in the Christian Science Monitor,14 Dec1990.

After nightfall, I wouldn't leave a burning building without an escort.

- Harriet Van Horne
  On muggings in Manhattan. In theWashington Post, 26 Feb.