Abandoned Buildings Quotes:

My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in.

- Mark Webber

topic: Mother, Sleep, Abandoned Buildings

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

- Leonardo da Vinci

topic: Art, Design, Abandoned, Mona Lisa, Mislead Us

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

- Jane Jacobs

source: Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.188, Vintage

topic: Ideas, History, Use, Abandoned Buildings, Old Buildings

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

- Paul Valery

topic: Inspirational, Life, Witty, Poetry By Famous Poets, Abandoned Buildings

New ideas must use old buildings

- Jane Jacobs

topic: Ideas, Use, Building, Abandoned Buildings, Old Buildings

Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters

- Francisco Goya

source: Lucia P. Iannone, Francisco Goya (1981). “Goya: An Exhibition from the Collection of Mr. Arthur Ross, Yale University Art Gallery, September 16-November 15, 1981”

topic: Monsters, Impossible, Fantasy, Fine Artists, Abandoned Buildings

Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

- China Mieville

source: "A life in writing: China Miéville" by Justine Jordan, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2011.

topic: Two, Octopus, Monsters, Abandoned Buildings

I just thought everybody lived around abandoned buildings and crack-heads, ... I lived in the ghetto until I was like 19. I came to Los Angeles, stayed at hotels and stuff. When I got back and I saw what my neighborhood looked like, I started getting scared.

- Chris Rock

topic: Funny, Humor, Ghetto, Abandoned Buildings

When I was in high school, my friends and I would drive out into the country to abandoned houses and structures... haha... to ghost hunt. We would scare each other so bad! We would sometimes camp out by the abandoned buildings just to scare ourselves! Such good times. The adrenaline of real fear is so cool!

- Keegan Allen

topic: Country, Real, School, Abandoned Buildings, Haha

The thing that surprised me the most is just how much money women that weren't rich were paying for their hair. When you're in a beauty parlor in Harlem next to abandoned buildings and somebody's paying five grand for a weave, that's a bit much. I think this is, in a weird way, part of the health care debate. It's like, hmm, there's people with $2000 weaves that could have bought health care with that weave money.

- Chris Rock

topic: Thinking, Hair, People, Abandoned Buildings