278 Quotes About Buildings

  • Author John Krasinski
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    I want to start a Dunkin' Donuts in Los Angeles. I already have the perfect location picked out. It would be the old Tower Records buildings on Sunset.

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  • Author Léon Krier
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    You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street.

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  • Author Paul Kelly
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    These are not repairs that can be waited on. If they're not done now, the buildings will further deteriorate.

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  • Author Rick Kidder
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    There are reasons that businesses move here, to a place where there are higher-priced buildings and higher-priced land. And that's because of the quality of life.

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  • Author Weldon Kees
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    Explosion after explosion followed. One looked for the buildings to topple over, to see passersby clutch at their hearts and fall over into the street. The effects of the day's celebration were wherever one looked: the street, caught in the light of the burned-out sunset, resembled some thoroughfare in Hell.

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  • Author William Kelso
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    But there it is. You can see the foundations of the buildings he saw. And when he was writing in 1611, things at Jamestown looked pretty good.

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  • Author Fred Longstaffe
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    A lot of buildings are packed full with research labs and classrooms. One thing we want is making sure we have space to mix and mingle. We want to decompress our space.

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  • Author Gary Lunn
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    A much better way has to be found in managing the public purse on the restoration of these buildings and there must be far better accountability.

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