Skylines Quotes

• Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.

  Carl Sandburg

  Two, Purple, Yesterday

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.253, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I've always been drawn to city skylines.

  Dave Haywood

  Cities

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  The skyline is etched in my veins. You can never put that out, no matter how hard it rains.

  Macklemore

  Rain, Veins, Matter

  Song: The Town, Album: The Unplanned Mixtape, 2009

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• We lost the skyline
  We stepped right off the map
  Drifted into black space
  And let the clocks relapse.

  Steven Wilson

  Space, Black, Maps

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• Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, New York, War

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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• I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world's greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.

  Nora Ephron

  New York, Heart, Light

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Dec 22, 2014

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• I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline.

  Ayn Rand

  New York, Sunset, Sight

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.423, Penguin

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• I watched the mighty skyline fall

  Billy Joel

  Fall

  Song: Miami 2017, Album: Turnstiles, 1976

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• And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Dream, America, Glasses

  "CNN Saturday" with Carol Lin, www.cnn.com. February 8, 2003.

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• It's very atmospheric. It's not a building that is a severe statement in the skyline. We need the height; otherwise, the building almost disappears because it is so slender.

  Santiago Calatrava

  Needs, Height, Building

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• The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.

  Ayn Rand

  New York, Pyramids, Palaces

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• Breathe in...inhale vapors from bright stars that shine,
  Breathe out...weed smoke retrace the skyline.

  Mos Def

  Weed, Stars, Rap

  Song: Respiration

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• A star shoots bleeding across the skyline, a companion to the black wind. Silence comes sweeping across everything.

  Joë Bousquet

  Stars, Wind, Silence

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• The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Acceptance, Math, Night

  Jean Baudrillard, Francesco Proto, Keith Broadfoot (2006). “Mass Identity Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard”, Academy Press

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• I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

  Truman Capote

  New York, House, Tree

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.84, Vintage

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• In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.

  Leon Krier

  Cities, Facts, Architecture

  Léon Krier (1998). “Architecture: Choice Or Fate”, p.83, Papadakis Publisher

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• He fell in love with Manhattan's skyline, like a first-time brothel guest falling for a seasoned professional. He mused over her reflections in the black East River at dusk, dawn, or darkest night, and each haloed light-in a tower or strung along the jeweled and sprawling spider legs of the Brooklyn Bridge's spans-hinted at some meaning, which could be understood only when made audible by music and encoded in lyrics.

  Arthur Phillips

  Fall, Reflection, Night

  Arthur Phillips (2004). “The Egyptologist: A Novel”, p.515, Random House

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• And hate the bright stillness of the noon without wind, without motion. the only other living thing a hawk, hungry for prey, suspended in the blinding, sunlit blue. And yet how gentle it seems to someone raised in a landscape short of rain- the skyline of a hill broken by no more trees than one can count, the grass, the empty sky, the wish for water.

  Dana Gioia

  Summer, Hate, Rain

  Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.35, Macmillan

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• 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

  Thinking, Rivers, Important

  "Ask the Author Live: Paul Goldberger on the World Trade Center". The New Yorker interview, www.newyorker.com. September 2, 2011.

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• Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living. In an earthly tapestry hung from the skyline of smoldering cities so gray and so vulgar, as not to be satisfied with their own negativity, but needing to touch all the living as well.

  Don McLean

  Philosophy, Cities, Negativity

  Song: Tapestry

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• I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. Particularly when one can't see the details. Just the shapes. The shapes and the thought that made them. The sky over New York and the will of man made visible. What other religion do we need?

  Ayn Rand

  New York, Sunset, Men

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.423, Penguin

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• In art and life we're always reading bodies and behaviors (and skies and skylines or whatever), constructing brief and shifting coherences, and I guess I want to capture that process of characterization and re-characterization instead of offering up a few stable, easily-summarized individuals.

  Ben Lerner

  Art, Reading, Offering

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Were the stars out when I left the house last evening? All I could remember was the couple in the Skyline listening to Duran Duran. Stars? Who remembers stars? Come to think of it, had I even looked up at the sky recently? Had the stars been wiped out of the sky three months ago, I wouldn’t have known.

  Haruki Murakami

  Stars, Couple, Thinking

  Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

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• From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.

  Robert Smithson

  New York, Artist, Cities

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.8, Univ of California Press

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• Still others make gardens because it is part of a full life. To live happily they must invest their hours and aspirations in the activities of another world. And they draw the interest of delight and refreshment according to the measure of their investment. These are usually quaint folk, other-worldly in their manner, but capable of comprehending the idiosyncrasies of Nature as she displays them in a tree and bush and passing season, across the skyline and in the infinite zenith. These, moreover, are the successful gardeners.

  Richardson Wright

  Life, Nature, Successful

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