We didn't see what happen when Marines fired M-16s... We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke.… — Ashleigh Banfield Copy Share Image
American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Writing is eternal, For therein the dead heart liveth, the clay-cold tongue is eloquent, And the quick eye of the reader is… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Burn shavings and splinters of pitch pine, and when they turn to charcoal, put them out, and pound them into mortar with… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
There was a place in New York called Tannen's Magic. It still exists. But back in the day, it was really fantastic.… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble. — Christopher Wren Copy Share Image
Pinetop could find the cracks and fill them in and be the glue and mortar of the whole band. — Bob Corritore Copy Share Image
Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick. — Red Smith Copy Share Image
The apparent physical stability of reefs belies an underlying natural turmoil of growth, death and destruction of calcareous organisms. Much like a… — Jeremy Jackson Copy Share Image
The war is for the family. The battle for their children's education and their grandchildren's freedom is as real to them as… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
The American spirit is stronger than stone and mortar, tougher than steel and glass, and more enduring than any pain or suffering… — Olympia Snowe Copy Share Image
In 1986, our commencement speaker was George Schultz, secretary of state, fourth in line to the president. You get me-basic cable's second… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
What I resist is techniques. I find techniques very problematic. So when critics talk about my work in those terms, I find… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks… — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
You never know what little bundle of encouragements artists carry around with them, what little pats on the back from what hands,… — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
Five Great Charters knit the land Together linked, hand in hand One in the people who wear the crown Two in the… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
The sand should be neither coarse nor fine but of a middling quality or about the size of the common pop(p)y seed.… — Canvass White Copy Share Image
It's just endless what you can learn from a single work of art. You can fill up the crevices of your life,… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
