When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Every time you think of a city, you have to think green, green, green. Every time you see concrete jungle, you must… — Eduardo Paes Copy Share Image
To make a concrete response to the appeal of our brothers and sisters in humanity, we must come to grips with the… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I think you have to look at these cold cases. If they're done properly, if the homicides are done properly, and everything's… — Mark Fuhrman Copy Share Image
I can pinpoint that as the single happiest moment of my life, because I realized then that Mom would always have my… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
Theoretical webs, dirty webs, fusty webs, old and shrivelling away into nothingness, a fine dust.Who needs that kind of stuff. Far far… — James Kelman Copy Share Image
The beauty of the picture is an abiding concrete of the painter's vision. — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
What I love in a woman is not what she is in and for herself, but the side of herself she turns… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
There will be days when you feel defeated, exhausted, and plain old beat-up by life's whiplash. People you love will disappoint you… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
Men swagger around calling themselves "cattlemen" but abuse their grass like a rapist. And abuse their cattle with concrete fecal feedlots without… — Joel Salatin 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
Avoiding life, avoiding making any concrete plans for your life-that's just one way you're pretending you can keep bad things from happening… — Susan Vaught Copy Share Image
Some people think that mathematics is a serious business that must always be cold and dry; but we think mathematics is fun,… — Ronald Graham Copy Share Image
The word "people" is unpleasant to me. The phrase "Soviet people" was drummed into us from childhood on. I love concrete people,… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
The Theatre of the Absurd has renounced arguing about the absurdity of the human condition; it merely presents it in being -… — Martin Esslin Copy Share Image
Although I was raised in Canada and the U.K., my roots are in Egypt through my father, in a family line that… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Photography - the new, rapid, concrete reflector of the world - should surely undertake to show the world from all vantage points,… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
The heart of mathematics consists of concrete examples and concrete problems. Big general theories are usually afterthoughts based on small but profound… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
In human rights and peacemaking, it's really about having a solid concrete goal - the reduction of human suffering somewhere in the… — John Prendergast Copy Share Image
If flowers want to grow right out of concrete sidewalk cracks I'm going to bend down and smell them. — David Ignatow Copy Share Image
We can't search or attain well being, wealth, studying, justice or kindness usually. Action is all the time particular, concrete, individualized, distinctive. — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
