Citations:Empire State Building


 * Dorothy Parker (1893–1967):
 * His ignorance was an Empire State Building of ignorance. You had to admire it for its size. [referring to Harold Ross]
 * 1951, Burton B. Turkus and Sid Feder, Murder, Inc.: The Story of “the Syndicate”, Da Capo [1992], p 394:
 * But more than anything else, Allie had pointed up, like an Empire State Building in a row of Neissen huts, that even Lepke—even the cool, calculating king—could make one mistake.
 * 1968, British Council, English Miscellany: A Symposium of History, Literature and the Arts, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, p 183:
 * ... a musical experience any more than use of matter and windows will produce an Empire State Building unless one actually builds an Empire State Building.
 * 1979, The Month, v 240, p 94:
 * Unlike the Empire State-like Ukraine, where the rest of our group were staying, or the new mammoth Rossia, the National is a pre-Revolutionary hotel, and, compared with them, built on modest lines for an exclusive clientele, most of whom would certainly have had breakfast brought to their rooms.
 * 1990, Sue Uram, “Flesh Gordon and the Cosmic Cheerleaders [review]”, Cinefantastique, v 21, n 3 (December 1990), p 48:
 * ... Cheerleaders but also the deadly Ass-teroids and King Dong, who has a unique way of fending off attackers from his Empire State Building-like perch.
 * 1996, Bruce Kuklick and Darryl G. Hart, Religious Advocacy and American History, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, ISBN 0802842607, p 60:
 * He contended that establishing claims to knowledge was akin to building an Empire State building out of toothpicks, ‘most of which we haven't got and cannot be given.’
 * 1996, Andrea Shaw, Seen That, Now What?, p 166, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 068480011X:
 * A lecherous and ruthless real estate developer, who built an Empire State Building-like Tower of Babel, corrupts an innocent girl in this film teeming with . . .
 * 2000, Robert T. Kiyosaki and Sharon L. Lechter, Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not, Warner Books, p 57:
 * If you are going to build the Empire State Building, the first thing you need to do is dig a deep hole and pour a strong foundation. . . . Most people, in their drive to get rich, are trying to build an Empire State Building on a 6-inch slab.
 * ¶ It goes up quickly, and soon, instead of the Empire State Building, we have the Leaning Tower of Suburbia.
 * 2004, “They Came for Tourism... They Stayed to Die!” at JayPinkerton.com:
 * Canada, for instance, doesn't have an Empire State Building, and so makes do with the not-even-real-sounding CN Tower.
 * 2005, Sesshu Foster, Atomik Aztex, City Light Books [2006], ISBN 0872864405, p 57:
 * But, shit, when they kill the spirit of your better half, then you are left to do the dishes yourself and rekonstruct your Life like an Empire State Building out of toothpicks.