Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies/ a girder, still itself among the rubbish — Charles Reznikoff Copy Share Image
A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue. — Jean-Francois Millet Copy Share Image
The Moon is essentially gray - no color - looks like plaster of paris - soft of gray sand. — Jim Lovell Copy Share Image
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments. — Moliere Copy Share Image
Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood, plaster or clay. — Eva Zeisel Copy Share Image
Just build a classic horseshoe of wood and plaster, and fill it with statuary and curtains, then sit back and savor the… — Michael A. Walsh Copy Share Image
Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry - held together with the plaster of fiction. — Eamon de Valera Copy Share Image
When I started at 9, I was working with plaster. I worked with a florist. It was a little illegal for kids… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
All the contagion of the south light on you, You shames of Rome! you herd of--boils and plagues Plaster you o'er; that… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The Christos-image is most difficult to disentangle from its art-craft junk-shop paint-and-plaster medieval jumble of pain-worship and death-symbol. — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put… — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
We can replace the big monitors in hospitals with intelligent, disposable plasters that you throw away after wearing for a couple of… — Chris Toumazou Copy Share Image
Throughout high school, I was obsessed with magazines. I used to just comb through them and plaster things on my wall. — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
Now then, if we were to go the lowest road and plaster my face on the bottle of oil and vinegar dressing… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
Berlin is a skeleton which aches in the cold: it is my own skeleton aching. I feel in my bones the sharp… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
I took Eugene Sue's Arthur from the reading-room. It's indescribable, enough to make you vomit. You have to read this to realize… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
That one [in "2012"] was different because it was all CG, getting washed away by water. In "Independence Day," everything was still… — Roland Emmerich Copy Share Image
I knew where the magnets were, behind the gyprock, and the magnets were very powerful. I think they had to be powerful… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
A clear thought, a pure affection, a resolute act of a virtuous will, have a dignity of quite another kind, and far… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
Christians should ultimately do everything that we do with excellence. There's a story about repairs in the Sistine Chapel ... when some… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
I devoured hot-dogs in Baltimore 'way back in 1886, and they were then very far from newfangled...They contained precisely the same rubber,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze And the… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
If there is one thing I will never have, it is an eating disorder. I won't have girls -- even if it… — Kate Hudson Copy Share Image
The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea. First, there is the… — Gustav Stickley Copy Share Image
In the Leach Pottery we did most of our work on the wheel. [Bernard] Leach did a little work in the studio,… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
A man who is wrathful with us is a sick man; we must apply a plaster to his heart - love; we… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd. "This Land of Saints," and then as the applause died out,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I believe that photography can only reproduce the surface of things. The same applies to a portrait. I take photographs of people… — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And… — William James Copy Share Image
In the studio we use a pretty wide range of materials for the sculptures; silicone, fibreglass, human and animal hair, ABS plastic,… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Religion is still parasitic in the interstices of our knowledge which have not yet been filled. Like bed-bugs in the cracks of… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image