Concrete famous quotes

I'm quite lucky, because I've got a small, decorative concrete pig.
-- Bill Bailey

#Pigs #Lucky #Concrete

I don't like concrete jungles.
-- Callan McAuliffe

#Concrete #Jungle

Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole.
-- Edith Stein

#Unity #Abstract #Concrete

Every thought, good or bad, becomes concrete; it materializes and becomes a reality.
-- Emile Coue

#Reality #Law Of Attraction #Concrete

The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards.
-- Gene Spafford

#Block #Rooms #Concrete

Chocolate, I am sure, is the concrete manifestation of love.
-- Geneen Roth

#Chocolate #Concrete #Manifestation

Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the power which gave it birth-yourself.
-- Genevieve Behrend

#Birth #Form #Concrete

Even when we know things, sometimes it takes words to make them concrete.
-- Glen Cook

#Sometimes #Concrete

The beauty of the picture is an abiding concrete of the painter's vision.
-- Hartley Coleridge

#Vision #Abiding #Concrete

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.
-- Helen Keller

#Abstract #Concrete #Plenty

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel

#Action #Obscure #Concrete

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.
-- Ian Hamilton Finlay

#Ideas #Chance #Concrete

I try to make concrete that which is abstract.
-- Juan Gris

#Trying #Abstract #Concrete

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.
-- Karl Jaspers

#Philosophy #Concrete #Comprehension

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

#Needs #Type #Concrete

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

#Difficult #Concrete

I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.
-- Luc Ferrari

#Firsts #Concerts #Concrete

Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin], your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold.
-- Peter Kropotkin

#Ideas #Action #Concrete

Writing becomes beautiful when it becomes specific, concrete.
-- Ralph Fletcher

#Beautiful #Writing #Concrete

...combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important.
-- Robert Adams

#Art #Important #Concrete

I drifted into acting, and I've drifted into my career, and I've never been guided by anything particularly concrete.
-- Rupert Graves

#Careers #Acting #Concrete

Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact.
-- Thomas Troward

#Desire #Facts #Concrete

Music videos are very concrete and rigid. They don't allow for emotional interaction.
-- Chris Milk

#Emotional #Video #Concrete

Few would look at a concrete highway system or an electrical grid and perceive agency in their static arrangement, spaces and urban arrangements are usually treated as collections of objects or volumes, not as actors. Yet the organization itself is active. It is doing something.
-- Keller Easterling

#Urban #Concrete #Electrical

Commies love concrete.
-- P. J. O'Rourke

#Concrete

It becomes an extension of your imagination to make something tangible and concrete.
-- Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

#Imagination #Tangible #Concrete

I'm interested in concrete poems - anything that complicates the line between the written and the visual.
-- Matthea Harvey

#Lines #Concrete #Visuals

My published works are concrete evidence that I exist.
-- Patricia McConnell

#Concrete #Evidence