#mortar

Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar. ↗

— Eric Liu

#citizenship #conversation #descending #everyday #feel

I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, it's governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye. ↗

— David McCallum

#bricks #eye #governed #hand #holds

He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it. ↗

— Herman Melville

#been #burst #chest #down #felt

Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt. ↗

— Bill Delahunt

#brick #burden #businesses #cannot #communities

Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast. ↗

— Mario Batali

#everyone #fast #food #just #makes

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#build #designers #director #house #i

Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house. ↗

— Benjamin Britten

#color #composing #details #down #driving

A molcajete is a stone mortar and pestle from Mexico. They're great for grinding spices and making salsa and guacamole because they give everything a nice coarse and rustic feel. I've never collected anything, but I think I might start collecting these because each one is decorated differently. ↗

— Bobby Flay

#because #coarse #collected #collecting #decorated

The cost of acquiring new customers and maintaining those relationships in an online environment versus bricks and mortar is significant. ↗

— Stephen Cohen

#bricks #cost #customers #environment #maintaining

American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making it far more secure. ↗

— John Yoo

#american soldiers #any #battlefield #distant #far