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“That’s what I love about Chicago… It is the staccato aspect of the skyscrapers. But the ground is very loose, very relaxed. It makes Chicago far more pleasant than other cities.”
“There’s the downtown area of Tupelo. Did you see the skyscrapers? Two stories.”
“Seoul and Shanghai, Jaipur and Jakarta; shining skyscrapers, pricey hotels, traffic-jammed streets ablaze with neon – all were built atop a foundation of laboratory-bred rice.”
“There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers’ battle with the heavens that cover them.”
“We can’t have it so there are skyscrapers side by side with slums.”
“In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It’s called the moon illusion.”
“I’m about four skyscrapers behind.”
“I love the sea, but I avoid any sort of seaside resort that has skyscrapers or seaside entertainments.”
“The daily glitter of skyscrapers competing with the stars is an unnecessary, unforgivable decadence.”
“New York is vertical – all skyscrapers.”