“My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats.”
“I’d much rather be in the world than in some ivory tower somewhere.”
“Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.”
“I would jump off the Willis Tower, which is the tallest building in Chicago, to support Hillary Clinton.”
“Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.”
“I like the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas more than the actual one.”
“Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute.”
“I would say that I bought the land under which Trump Tower sits while playing golf.”
“Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.”
“If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.”
“There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is higher than the tower of the principal tower of the church at Seville.”
“Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: ‘It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.”
“I don’t see myself in an ivory tower.”
“The 325-foot Seagram Tower is the most southerly and closest to the Canadian falls and also affords the best view of the churning upper rapids of the Niagara river.”
“In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces – destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.”
“When I started half.com, our three biggest competitors were Borders, Tower Records and Blockbuster Video.”
“Trump built Trump Tower using mob concrete, not Bethlehem steel.”
“In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.”
“I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower.”
“During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.”
“’Tower Heist?’ That is a movie that it’s hard not to name-drop, but, it’s a crew of five, and it’s Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, me, Matthew Broderick, and Casey Affleck. And we’re like, on a heist.”
“You have to understand, I grew up in the shadow of the Safeco tower.”
“Trump Tower is no ordinary property: It is the jewel in Donald Trump’s brass crown.”
“Manhattan, one of the most moneyed spots on the planet, also has one of the greatest concentrations of people in its skyscrapers. It’s also, of course, the place where every architect wants to build his tower.”
“Roger. Clear the tower. I got a pitch and a roll program, and this baby’s really going.”
“The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa – slightly off balance.”
“The second thing I know about Donald trump is that he is truly pro-life. I have talked to him in Trump Tower. He believes in protecting the unborn.”
“The make-believe world of ‘The Black Tower’ succeeds by broadcasting larger truths that might otherwise elude us.”
“My favorite off-camera memory of Jon Stewart is watching him jump from the second level of a tuna tower into the waters off Grand Cayman.”
“An M.P. once suggested I be put in the Tower of London for saying derogatory things about the royals. There’s no First Amendment in my country.”
“I’m tall now, but when I was younger, I used to tower above everyone – I still feel conscious of that.”
“I haven’t seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven’t seen anything. I don’t really care.”
“The Tower of David is important for Israel’s heritage and existence because it is more than a tower, it is a symbol. It is more important than the Azrieli Towers.”
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