Concrete Quotes · Page 9

I'm not the type of person that just needs to feel concrete and like nothing's going to change. I revel in the…

— Kristen Stewart

The hands have to be like concrete when the horse resists and like butter when he yields.

— Nuno Oliveira

My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.

— David Antin

Orlando has a very nice arena. It doesn't seem like you're encased in concrete there. It is very comfortable.

— Robin Lopez

Black people drink lots of beer. However, you won't see us skiing down a mountain for one, or see us diving for…

— Franklyn Ajaye

To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor…

— Alfred North Whitehead

The computer takes up where psychoanalysis left off. It takes the ideas of a decentered self and makes it more concrete by…

— Sherry Turkle

I think it's always easier to play parts that you have something concrete that you can relate to.

— Hayley Atwell

I was greatly influenced by musique concrete when I was, like, 10. I was completely mesmerized by the idea that you could…

— Walter Murch

I've always seen my campaigns against corruption as political work of a purer form than what opposition leaders usually do. All they…

— Alexei Navalny

When people can see a vision and simultaneously recognize what can be done step by step in a concrete way to achieve…

— Erich Fromm

How badly I want that nameless thing! First there must be an idea, a feeling... Maybe it was an abstract idea that…

— Emily Carr

You have a specific and important mission, that of keeping alive the relationship between the faith and the cultures of the peoples…

— Pope Francis

Let’s state it clearly: One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual,…

— Richard Rohr

Finding Mecca in America weaves social theory and concrete ethnography into a significant contribution on Muslims in the United States, illuminating broader…

— Eboo Patel

Listen to the women. Women say exactly what they want. Who has concrete plans - not macroeconomics but kitchen table economics. Who…

— Celinda Lake

In mathematics ... we find two tendencies present. On the one hand, the tendency towards abstraction seeks to crystallise the logical relations…

— David Hilbert

Combinatorics is an honest subject. No adèles, no sigma-algebras. You count balls in a box, and you either have the right number…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one…

— Anonymous

In fact, a very similar phrase was invented to account for the sudden transition of wood, metal, plastic and concrete into an…

— Douglas Adams

Here is what I'm trying to tell you: Adult isn't a noun, it's a verb. It's the act of making correctly those…

— Kelly Williams Brown

Trying to describe the process of becoming an alcoholic is like trying to describe air. It's too big and mysterious and pervasive…

— Caroline Knapp

It might be suggested, and not easily disproven that anything, no matter how exotic, can be believed by someone. On the other…

— Shirley Jackson

There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to…

— Gregory Benford

A man may talk inspiringly to a woman about love in the abstract--but the look in his eyes is always perfectly concrete.

— Helen Rowland

A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against…

— Herb Caen

To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.

— Bell Hooks

I like keeping my work so open that it can be interpreted on different levels. Art can't be compared with journalism; it…

— Mona Hatoum

If something concrete and meaty is offered to me from Kapil's side, I will definitely do it.

— Upasana Singh

Of course I'd like to get beyond the concrete. But it's really difficult. Very difficult.

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

I think you need a concrete, real-world metaphor to talk about inner life without feeling like a jerk.

— Tift Merritt

Style offers concrete rules you can follow. You can use it as a resource rather than a barrier to feeling good about…

— Stacy London

In the West, the spirit is separate from the body. In the East these are things that are very real and concrete.

— Li Hongzhi

Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This is no less true of…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

We have already begun taking concrete steps to change the structure of our economy and, as we have discussed a great deal,…

— Vladimir Putin

As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.

— Oscar Niemeyer

Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.

— Derek Walcott

I believe more in concrete spirituality rather than in a spirituality that is divided from the body and from nature.

— Laura Huxley

I have big hope for the Canadian government to help Somalia with something concrete and tangible. I haven't seen that.

— Hawa Abdi