Concrete Quotes - page 4

Indeed, the human mind appeared to suffer from a crippling need to fabricate in the absence of concrete proof. (J.R. Ward)
Chocolate, I am sure, is the concrete manifestation of love. View quote
Geneen Roth
But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it. View quote
Ian Hamilton Finlay
For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not. View quote
Ian Hamilton Finlay
In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms. View quote
Ferdinand de Saussure
For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown. View quote
A. R. Ammons
Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description. View quote
Alexander Kluge
I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail. View quote
Alma Guillermoprieto
I had a job when I was 15 working at a supermarket, and I knocked over a stack of plastic coffee cups. In my anger, I threw one at a concrete wall, and it rebounded back into my head and cut my head open. Stupidest way to get a scar, but it's one that I have. View quote
Antony Starr
Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism. View quote
Bob Hawke
I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.' (Brian Ferneyhough)
The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments. View quote
Cliff Stearns
My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path. View quote
David Antin
Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete. View quote
Dana Spiotta
I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago. View quote
James Laughlin
I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns. View quote
Jeff Bingaman
The rumors of Frank Sinatras violence and his ties to organized crime were such that journalists joked in print about me ending up in concrete boots and sleeping with the fishes if I proceeded to write his biography. View quote
Kitty Kelley
You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.' And you say to brick, 'Look, I want one, too, but arches are expensive and I can use a concrete lintel.' And then you say: 'What do you think of that, brick?' Brick says: 'I like an arch.' View quote
Louis Kahn
I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s. View quote
Luc Ferrari
There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more concrete just don't pan out. View quote
Laurence Tribe
We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction. (Max Bill)
The war against terrorism should not be used to interfere with an independent, sovereign state.We need to identify concrete terrorist targets and do no harm to civilians. View quote
Nong Duc Manh
We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people. View quote
Sherrod Brown
I truly believe that when a person makes a concrete decision and takes action towards a goal that they've set, that the universe will step in and provide opportunities. View quote
Tamara Tunie
At least believe this many humans, who are interested obviously in this topic. Many of them visited me after lectures and meetings, in hope that I can give concrete answers to their questions. For it was clear: If that does not know it, who is to then know it? View quote
Ulrich Walter