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Letter "C" » concrete
«The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.»
«The distance is great from the firm belief to the realization from concrete experience»
«The smallest patch of green to arrest the monotony of asphalt and concrete is as important to the value of real estate as streets, sewers and convenient shopping.»
Author: James Felt
| Keywords:
arrest, asphalt, concrete, convenient, estate, monotony, patch, real estate, sewers, shopping
«Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.»
Author: Napoleon Hill
| Keywords:
complete, concrete, definitely, desire, form, given, intangible, intangibles, plan, reduce, writing
«The major concrete achievement of the women's movement in the 1970s was the Dutch treat»
«Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems -but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.»
Author: Salman Rushdie
(Writer)
| About:
Reality
| Keywords:
approach, concrete, further, incredible, inevitably, perspective, plausible
«The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.»
Author: Bill Cosby
(Actor, Comedian, Producer)
| About:
Advertising
| Keywords:
concrete, delightfully, vague
«There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract but not for the concrete.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| About:
Courage
| Keywords:
abstract, abstracted, abstracting, concrete, not for, plenty
«That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
abstract, autobiography, civilized, concrete, delightful, fascinating, record, vague
«There is no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer who spends his life in a weltering sea of sensibility and emotion, but who never does a manly concrete deed.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
concrete, contemptible, dreamer, manly, nerveless, sensibility, sentimentalist, sentimentalists, spends, welter, weltering
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