Concreteness Quotes

#1. I there first felt the impact of time, the force that was pushing me toward forty, the velocity with which life was consumed, the concreteness of the exposure to death: If it's happening to her, I thought, there's no escape, it will happen to me as well.

Elena Ferrante

#2. For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation.

Sergei Eisenstein

#3. The residue of religion in my work appears as a modified transcendentalism, and the positivist scientific side of my thought appears as concreteness and realism. The effort to reconcile the two is at the core of all my poetry.

Louis Dudek

#4. There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize.

Milan Kundera

#5. Ideally there is a type of continuum which flows from life through the artist's sensibility and his materials ... the concreteness of the object and its own life , through the spectator, with his expectations, interpretations, back into life.

Douglas Portway

#6. Creativity is a synthesis of two qualities: imagination and concreteness.

Pearl Zhu

#7. The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns toward concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action, and towards power.

William James

#8. It was six men of Hindustan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind) That each by observation Might satisfy the mind.

John Godfrey Saxe

#9. I wake the next morning feeling like I'm floating. He's still pressed up against my back with one hand cupping my breast and the other lying protectively over where our daughter grows in my belly. It's the perfect way to wake up.

Terri Anne Browning

#10. Failure starts a future success, if you become better.

Troy Clark

#11. The workers love Khrushchev very much. He hasn't got an enemy in the entire country. Quite a few under it.

Bob Hope

#12. There's nothing worse than falling in love with a person over and over every time you lay eyes on them, especially when you hate their goddamn guts

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#13. The difference between a "problem" and a "mystery" is that we may be able to "solve" a problem, but a mystery is something we have to live with.

Harvey Cox

#14. Life's accumulation is more discouraging than life itself, when stirred up.

E.B. White

#15. My experience of people is that they are infinitely forgivable.

Paul Bettany

#16. I always wake when you do, Sassenach; I sleep ill without ye by my side.

Diana Gabaldon

#17. I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law.

Christopher Walken

#18. Night doesn't fall for my eyes
But my idea of the night is that it falls for my eyes.
Beyond my thinking and having any thoughts
The night falls concretely
And the shining of stars exists like it had weight.

Alberto Caeiro

#19. The most confident of women are those who believe in every scrap of fabric they wear. They are the ones who are as happy wih their drawers as they are with their gowns. You can tell the difference between a woman who wraps herself in beautiful silks and satins and she who wears ... otherwise.

Sarah MacLean