The best Quotes by I. M. Pei

I have a great love for nature. That must have started somewhere down back home, I think, because my family own one of the better known gardens in Soochow, so I played there, and I lived there, and so I must have absorbed something there. So I continue to have a great interest in nature.

The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.

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No wonder the city never sleeps, it's too busy trying to get laid.

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 1 Episode 11

Sex New York City

There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders.

Grüner Kobold in Spider-Man

Fame New York City

If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you
New York, New York

Frank Sinatra - New York, New York

New York City

Manhattan, for millions of our forefathers, the gateway to hope, opportunity and happiness beyond their wildest dreams. Today, that hope is still alive, it's called "The First Date". On Saturday nights, every restaurant in Lower Manhattan resembles its own little Ellis Island.

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 2 Episode 3

New York City Manhatten

I want to wake up in that city
That doesn't sleep
And find I'm king of the hill
Top of the heap

Frank Sinatra - New York, New York

New York City

In a city that moves so fast, you get the Sunday paper on Saturday - how did any of us know how much time we had left?

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 2 Episode 5

New York City

We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn't new to us. It is the very foundation of who we are.

Bill de Blasio

New York City

Regardless of our differences, this was still New York. A melting pot crammed onto an island, then pushed into a subway car with a rat eating pizza. You're not left or right. You're a New f*cking Yorker and we're in this together.

Jordan Klepper in The Daily Show - Debates Anti-Vax Mandate Protesters in NYC

New York City

Do you know how bad that coffee has to be to to be considered a health risk in New York? This is the same city where pizza gets delivered by a rat!

Ronny Chieng in The Daily Show

New York City

I don't wanna f*ck it up because one of us didn't prepare for the slim possibility of New York City traffic!

Michael Lawson in Uncoupled - Season 1 Episode 1

New York City

I remember Hell's Kitchen when you couldn't walk west of Ninth Avenue without getting knifed. Now it's Chelsea with better gays.

Stanley James in Uncoupled - Season 1 Episode 1

New York City

Most people come to New York to be discovered. The rest of us come here to hide.

Colleen Hoover in Verity

New York City

It's fascinating to see how versatile New York City is. It lends itself to being so many different places!

Margot Robbie

New York City

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Jay Leno

Crime New York City

I love New York; I love the city. It's impossible. It's a theme park of a city.

Kit Harington

New York City

Being a single girl in New York... it's what you should be doing in your twenties!

Emilia Clarke

New York City

People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine.

David Letterman

New York City

No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.

Michael Bloomberg

New York City

In New York City, a lot of people think 'the great outdoors' is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.

Michael Bloomberg

New York City

A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.

R. L. Stine

New York City

New York is my favorite city in the world.

Liam Gallagher

New York City

I find it hard to relax. I live in New York.

James Gandolfini

New York City

L.A., it's nice, but I think of sunshine and people on rollerblades eating sushi. New York, I think of nighttime, I think of Times Square and Broadway and nightlife and the city that never sleeps.

Jimmy Fallon

New York City Los Angeles

New York in spring and autumn is absolutely beautiful, but the winter is absolutely depressing.

Joel Robuchon

New York City

I love architecture, but I learned early on that architects just don't make a lot of money.

Shahid Khan

Architecture

Less is more.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Design Architecture

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture Stones & Rocks

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

Frank Gehry

Architecture

You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.

John Malkovich

Design Architecture

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

Steve Martin

Music Architecture

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Imagination Architecture Air

God is in the details.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture

Ted: "Trying to get them interested in architecture as a career."
Barney: "Why? Are we running out of buildings?"
Robin: "Are we running out of boring people?"

Robin Scherbatsky in How I Met Your Mother - Season 7 Episode 5

Architecture

A city is a concrete labyrinth in which our mind is lost.

(Musin Almat Zhumabekovich)

City & Urban

The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.

Billie Joe Armstrong

City & Urban

A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.

Herb Caen

City & Urban Size

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

Desmond Morris

City & Urban

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Rupert Brooke

Cats City & Urban

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

China Hackers

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