For weeks after 9/11 you could smell the dust and pulverised concrete in New York, and the National Guard came in, so… — Mark Boal Copy Share Image
I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I am caught in a terrific bind of characterologically and rationally needing to think in the most comprehensive terms possible, forming a… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems solid is. If you could stand at just… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
Phylogeny and ontogeny are, therefore, the two coordinated branches of morphology. Phylogeny is the developmental history [Entwickelungsgeschichte] of the abstract, genealogical individual;… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The concrete is better than the abstract. The detail is better than the commonplace. The sensual [through the senses] is better than… — Ellen Hunnicutt Copy Share Image
I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move… — W. Clement Stone Copy Share Image
Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete. — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
History has shown that there are very few mechanisms as effective at maintaining the status quo as a set of institutionalized regulations.… — Paul Baran Copy Share Image
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
It's been all over the press, and schools are deciding to shut it down. We released a public announcement saying that we… — Shawn Fanning Copy Share Image
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The very foundation of private property and free contracting wears away in a nation in which its most vital, most concrete, most… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“And I thanked mi papa who'd always said to me that we, los Indios, the Indians, were like the weeds. That roses… — Victor Villaseñor Copy Share Image
The inaction of the international community towards Guatemala is injustifiable. The community should play an active role with concrete measures and sanctions… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
Almsgiving, according to the Gospel, is not mere philanthropy; rather it is a concrete expression of charity, a theological virtue that demands… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
When concrete pads are poured, they have to be on either undisturbed soil or very well compacted backfill. — Bryan Baeumler Copy Share Image
we wouldn't ask why a rose that grew from the concrete for having damaged petals, in turn, we would all celebrate its… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
I was part of the sort of avant guard tradition of John Cage and music concrete and pushing back the boundaries of… — Anne Dudley Copy Share Image
