Santiago Calatrava Quotes

Golden Gate

San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.

Like Grand Central Station, which is a marvelous building, the design and engineering of the Oculus will endure for many generations to come.

I'm constantly changing, I'm constantly growing. I think I'm a little controversial... I just try and keep some mystery, so hopefully people can't really put their finger on it.

She had in mind a different kind of looking person, because his appearance is not at all like mine.

There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality.

Equal doesn't mean identical.

Our ancient historical monuments are national property and ought no longer to be left to the mercy of the many and variable ideas of ecclesiastical propriety that may at any time be prevalent among us

Probably every person is some mixture of wanting to feel a sense of commonality and shared experience with others but also wanting to feel completely singular and unique.

It is an honour that people are comparing me to Iniesta because of everything that he has achieved. But, and I have said this before, I do not like these kinds of comparisons. Andres is Andres, and I am Isco. I am a different person and player.

Mr. Trump is Mr. Trump. I'm Mr. Wilders. I'm not anybody's copy or whatsoever.

Part of being in New York is being able to brag about what used to be there.

I think of houses as having their own personality.

No one knows me with dark hair.

It's difficult to tell whether people are looking at you because they recognise you from your work or just because you're 6 ft. 3 in. and have the eyebrows of Satan. It's difficult to distinguish between the two.

I think for me, wearing the helmet and being part of the Stormtroopers felt so strange. Like, so this is what it feels like to just be one of the many. And to look the same, and to have to do the same thing. To be under the same orders. This is what it feels like.

The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is for the community of San Francisco. And the Brooklyn Bridge, which is one of the most magnificent bridges ever built, is also a monument to the community, you see.

We, people of socialism, are not like others. We have our peculiar ideas about heroes and martyrs.

To costume yourself in the way that you fantasize, to make that a reality, and then to go right into the universe looking like an exceptional being takes a lot of courage.

I have to say that the biggest lesson I have learned is to find your way to stand out.

I like that I can stand out from the crowd.

Every time I look at the Eiffel Tower, it completely blows my mind.

I'm not really a comparison dude. Even when people say 'Big or Pac?,' because they're two totally different types of lyricists.

Nothing could be lovelier than running across the Golden Gate Bridge in the middle of the fog.