#concrete

As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#friendly #i #i can #like #only

The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#class #come #concrete #implanted #likely

Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#bottles #concrete #dealing #frogs #got

For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell. ↗

— Josiah Royce

#cannot #concrete #consciousness #consists #form

When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#almost #am #color #concentrating #concrete

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. ↗

— Bob Hawke

#addressing #against #concrete #done #get

For weeks after 9/11 you could smell the dust and pulverised concrete in New York, and the National Guard came in, so there was a military presence on the streets. It was intense. Overwhelming. Heartbreaking. ↗

— Mark Boal

#came #concrete #could #dust #guard

I've always seen my campaigns against corruption as political work of a purer form than what opposition leaders usually do. All they do is hold roundtables and release political statements, which is all well and good. But there are concrete things that need to get done in order to achieve the basic goal of every opposition politician. ↗

— Alexei Navalny

#against #always #basic #campaigns #concrete

I'm very aware of what you're talking about as I was involved with the radio in Africa in the same period as I was doing Concrete - I was doing both at the same time. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

#africa #aware #both #concrete #doing

In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

#classical #classical music #concrete #contrast #expressed