If you throw seeds on concrete, they won't grow. They have to meet fertile soil. So it is with germs. Even if… — Robert O. Young Copy Share Image
Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
“It does not seem possible to me to conceive anything sadder than a monument composed of a smooth, naked and unadorned surface,… — Aldo Rossi Copy Share Image
Ingenuity in meeting and pursuing the pupil, that tact for the concrete situation, though they are the alpha and omega of the… — William James Copy Share Image
We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church,… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
I love investigating the natural world, and I find a lot of truths there, truths about survival and beauty - nature continually… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The Humbling is not vintage Roth, despite its compelling premise. The bizarre series of episodes -- mostly sexual encounters with women --… — Philip Hensher Copy Share Image
Andrew Preston and I moved to Florida, to get some air. Am I going to live there forever? No, I'm not. But… — Tomas Maier Copy Share Image
The image of the presence, whatever it was, waiting there for him to go -this image had not yet been so concrete… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I can't really speak to what it was like to call yourself a feminist in the past on a personal level but… — Julie Zeilinger Copy Share Image
With all the conceptual truths in the universe at His disposal [Jesus] did not give them something to think about together when… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
You can keep counting forever. The answer is infinity. But, quite frankly, I don't think I ever liked it. I always found… — Doron Zeilberger Copy Share Image
There is an aesthetic crisis in writing, which is this: how do we write emotionally of scenes involving computers? How do we… — Quinn Norton Copy Share Image
I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds. One of the reasons why architects… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without… — Max Bill Copy Share Image
Our beliefs are rooted deep in our earth, no matter what you have done to it and how much of it you… — John Fire Lame Deer Copy Share Image
We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and… — Joe Slovo Copy Share Image
It's not about facts, it's about feelings. It's about remembering feelings and happiness. A definition of art is that it makes concrete… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Mr. Hussein began building Ghazalia in the early 1980s as a home for army officers and other members of his Baath Party.… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The crisis is a concrete threatening reality today. It stands to get catastrophically worse unless we take action before the accumulation [of]… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The truthfulness of materials of constructions, concrete, bricks and stone, shall be maintained in all buildings constructed or to be constructed. The… — Le Corbusier 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
We need a big debate in society about how we are going to shape Europe and tame capitalism. A government must provide… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
I believe that my observations have always led me to find that the so-called realist moves about the world with a closed… — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
Architects often have a mindset where you solve a problem, so you have a set of needs that you have to address.… — Pedro Reyes Copy Share Image
My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that… — T-Pain Copy Share Image
As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in… — Michael Arad Copy Share Image
“But what a feeling can come over a man just from seeing the things he believes in and hopes for symbolized in… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
A small win is a concrete, complete, implemented outcome of moderate importance. By itself, one small win may seem unimportant. A series… — Karl E. Weick Copy Share Image
Money is a great way to get happiness. Right? Lots of wonderful things you can do with money. The question is, are… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“11. Life in the Concrete. Life in the concrete, which we are living, greatly differs from life in the abstract, which exists… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Duke Ellington's career traces the entire history of jazz. The repertoire associated with him contains the most important elements in the music… — Billy Taylor Copy Share Image
Concrete, Steel & Paint portrays the core values of restorative justice-respect, responsibility and relationships-expressed through art. it is art that involves victims,… — Howard Zehr Copy Share Image
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