Concrete Quotations

I grew up twelve miles outside of Montego Bay. In my early teens, I went to Kingston. It was like a different planet for me. In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.

I think probably - I think, you know, when you're first dating somebody, if they're just not that physical with you, if they don't want to make concrete plans with you, you know, if they're sort of ambiguous about where everything is going, I think that's a pretty good sign that they're not into you.

Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

I think it's important to understand the concrete ways things work and to respect that. But some things shouldn't be explained, and you have to respect that, too.

If I'm feeling desperate, I'll go out image-hunting. I'll go to news agents and stand at the rack flicking through magazines or go to second-hand bookshops. And then, bit by bit, like concrete poetry, I start to realise that I am drawn to particular things, and then I start wondering why that is.

The rumors of Frank Sinatra's violence and his ties to organized crime were such that journalists joked in print about me ending up in concrete boots and sleeping with the fishes if I proceeded to write his biography.

Gordon Ramsay grew up in a tourist town, Stratford-Upon-Avon, but in a part tourists don't visit - a council estate: a concrete bunker subsidized by the local government, synonymous with deprivation and blight.

Architects often have a mindset where you solve a problem, so you have a set of needs that you have to address. Often I feel that my projects have to have concrete applications.

If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.

I was greatly influenced by musique concrete when I was, like, 10. I was completely mesmerized by the idea that you could make music out of sounds. So that's been a constant influence on all my work.

Everything is complicated about using concrete - the discipline and dedication necessary to make consistent batches, understanding exactly how the formwork will be laid, what the timing is for the pours, how you keep it clean and neat to achieve a fine quality.

The war against terrorism should not be used to interfere with an independent, sovereign state. We need to identify concrete terrorist targets and do no harm to civilians.

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.

Assimilation of the fruits of each past life takes place before the spirit descends to rebirth, and consequently, the character generated is fully formed and readily expressed in the subtle, mobile mind-stuff of the Region of Concrete Thought, where the archetype of the coming dense body is built.

We feel we have to put concrete on every inch of land. It disturbs the ecology, and it takes away the experience of a child going out into the woods and seeing all of nature.

Rio is an energetic, vibrant place, full of beauty and nature. But we face the kinds of problems any developing metropolis does - with pollution, traffic congestion, poverty. Distribution of green areas, for example, is not uniform. Madureira, the heart of the suburb in Rio, is a concrete jungle.

Perhaps, if science is clever enough to see, it will realize that religion may not be too far off with its concrete imagery; and that relative to the supreme creator, we humans are much like the microorganisms we scrutinize under the microscope.

Fiction is supposed to be immersive and supposed to be entertaining and narrative, so structures have to be buried a little bit. If they come foregrounded too much, it stops being fiction and starts being poetry - something more concrete and out of time.

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

CERN is a centre of scientific excellence and a source of pride and inspiration for physicists from all over the world, a cradle for technology and innovation, and a shining concrete example of scientific cooperation and peace.

It is clear to me that Democrats want to attack me rather than debate Sen. McCain on important economic issues facing the country. That kind of distraction hurts not only Sen. McCain's ability to present concrete programs to deal with the country's problems; it hurts the country.

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.

CERN is a concrete example of worldwide, international co-operation - and a concrete example of peace. The place which makes, in my opinion, better scientists, but also better people.

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

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.

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

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

The Book of Mormon is concrete and solid, they can hold it, and they can visualize that they have to pray to decide if this physical thing is true. There is no room for interpretation.

Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.

It's been all over the press, and schools are deciding to shut it down. We released a public announcement saying that we had some potential solutions that we were working with, and once we had something concrete we would start implementing it and approach schools.

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

We are still waiting for the president to introduce a concrete plan. He has just hinted at what he is thinking about doing, but no one has seen a proposal.

Our expanding Canadian operations are concrete evidence of General Motors confidence in Canada.

As the anti-slavery community, we must together ensure that this attention is transferred into concrete action and results.

Good poets have written in order to describe something or to preach something - with their eye on the object or the end. The essence of the poetry does not lie in the thing described or in the message imparted but in the resulting concrete unity, the poem.

Every time you think of a city, you have to think green, green, green. Every time you see concrete jungle, you must find open spaces. And when you find open spaces, make it so people can get to them.

There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.

Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.

I hope people understand that when you tax corporations that the concrete and the steel and the plastic don't pay. People pay. And so when you tax corporations, either the employees are going to pay or the shareholders are going to pay or the customers are going to pay. And so corporations are people.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Reinforced concrete buildings are by nature skeletal buildings. No noodles nor armoured turrets. A construction of girders that carry the weight, and walls that carry no weight. That is to say, buildings consisting of skin and bones.

Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude.

It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'

Mr. Hussein began building Ghazalia in the early 1980s as a home for army officers and other members of his Baath Party. Concrete mansions with pillars and domes are common in the southern half of the district.

We've all heard horror stories about a proposed concrete barrier about to be dropped in the center lane along Southgate. The center median is necessary, but it won't be the concrete type used in highway construction projects.

We believe that there is a very real possibility that the Chinese government and the Chinese people see it in their interest to let the currency float, The jury is still out. We still need some concrete signs.

We believe that more concrete evidence of this re-acceleration should become apparent by the end of (the first quarter,) yielding a considerable catalyst for future share price appreciation for most stocks in the sector.

Where the heck is the good news?. So far, there have not been concrete signs of a recovery.

We'd like to get concrete evidence as to where we go to inspect.

We're going to try and do something different this time, and away from even what we expect to do. We haven't really formed any concrete plan at the moment, but whatever it is, it's going to have a twist.

We're going to get a much longer life span out of them. We're doing them with stucco and concrete foundations.

We're going to focus on two important areas: one is verification, the second is what steps are the North Koreans taking to dismantle their nuclear weapons ? concrete steps,

What they've done here is incredible. They kept the Frank Lloyd Wright facade. And they kept a great number of guest rooms the same. They redid everything, of course, but when they built hotels in 1956 they built big guest rooms. They kept the concrete block and just put in the new retro stuff. Even when I was here the historical society was constantly visiting, wanting to know what we were doing and wanting to make sure we kept the place intact.

We're going to have to see economic data that suggests capital spending is on the rise and corporate confidence is rising before we can move up significantly. We need to see concrete results.

We're going to continue the patching of the pipes where there are cracks. Where we can, we're going to put a sleeve around it. Then, we're going to pour the concrete jacket.

I was born and raised here [in Florida], so I still have tremendous affection for the state - especially the few wild places that haven't disappeared under concrete. What's left is still worth fighting for, and that's why I stay.

I don't like concrete jungles.

We're still looking at the tire and trying to find a concrete determination as to why the tire went down. We don't know if it was a puncture or wear-related at this point.

We have never stopped talking about adequate public facilities but there has never been anything concrete done.

The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

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

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.

We are hopeful the concrete work for the (locks) structures will be completed in the next few weeks. The next step is installing the door and electrical components to operate them.

We did not look at concrete loans, amounts and a time for them to be delivered, ... It was important for us that the fund chief come to Moscow and analyze and assess the situation.

What we need to see are concrete measures aimed at getting the bureaucracy to pursue this objective, otherwise all this will be just more rhetoric.

What we need is something concrete to say whether we're at risk. That's the issue.

We decided we needed to be something concrete rather than something nebulous you couldn't negotiate with. This is an interim board. Our job is to figure out how to create a permanent system with a permanent board.

We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open.

The process is moving forward and whenever there would be a concrete and solid advancement, it would be made public,

When you're a little more clear, definitive and concrete about what you think may well happen, and what you may have to do as a result, it will be easier for people to point out when you aren't right. One advantage of never being pinned down on whether things are going up, down or unchanged is that it's hard to say when you're wrong.

Let us pray to God that each one, listening to his own conscience, has the courage to perform responsible and concrete gestures which will allow all to walk the road of peace together, avoiding anything that could lead back to hatred and violence,

Let's get this thing settled so we can make concrete plans about how we're going to move forward. It's not a comfortable feeling for any club. We need this to be settled and we need to move forward as a league. We need to be able to utilize all the abilities that we have in our planning.

Many in our community have to live in fear of both the cops and the robbers. What concrete steps would you take to end police brutality and racial profiling?

Second, 14 years have lapsed and neither any concrete evidence of conspiracy has come forward nor are there any new revelations.

Serbia has a concrete and tangible EU perspective, but Serbia has to make sure that its future is not taken hostage to certain obstacles.

Some concrete judgments have to be made. There is a long list of practical questions that need to be addressed, starting with which price index they should use, what the specific number or range should be, and to what time period it should apply.

Since mid-2005 there have been concrete signs that the consumer is bouncing back and there is evidence from individual retailers as well as the key surveys that the critical Christmas period saw very robust retail spending.

She hit the ground so hard, she cracked the sidewalk and moved the concrete about four inches,

Of course it will not be automatic procedure, ... It will be based on concrete and specific requirements by Iraqi authorities, of course. So that is why I feel that we should come to a solution which is acceptable to everybody.

Nothing concrete came out of the talks as the finance ministry is not interested in settling it. No other conciliatory talks are planned at this stage.

Phoenix temperatures have been going up because of the urbanization. Previously vegetative surfaces were replaced by concrete buildings, and they hold the heat.

Politically, it will be helpful to Israel to say to the world, here we are, we have taken a concrete step here, and now it is time for the Palestinians to step forward as well. They are looking at this as a source of goodwill.

Nick wants to put a basketball hoop in here, ... And the concrete floor is a great surface for bouncing a basketball.

One of the reasons we wanted to get the Lamoille done was to be further up the learning curve going into a tougher project. Hopefully the Lamoille Bridge will act as a concrete example of what we can do.

I would have proposed more innovative initiatives, but given our benchmark, which was zero, I think we've got to give him credit for raising the issue and putting some concrete proposals on the table.

If we get concrete proof someone set out (to defraud), then we will pursue them.

If we have concrete evidence that says that she or anyone else has done anything wrong, we will take action that is appropriate. But a petition is certainly not evidence.

If we do not advance this negotiation in concrete terms this week -- and among ourselves today -- we will have to acknowledge that we may simply run out of time for Hong Kong,

I got more potholes in my concrete slab, ... than all of Venice has in their streets.

I have declared that Syria is innocent of this crime, and I am ready to follow up action to bring to trial any Syrian who could be proved by concrete evidence to have had connection with this crime,

I don't have any other concrete plans. When I got here seven years ago, it was with the idea of staying for three to five years. The agency was having financial troubles at the time. We were looking to build a new crisis center. Those were the two biggest challenges facing the organization, and I believe we have accomplished those goals.

I didn't get the result that I had anticipated, but I am going to meet with my staff and my caucus, of course, and members of the party, and determine what I am going to do. I will have something concrete for you next week, mid-week.

I don't get the impression that anyone really has a concrete idea (about the pair's direction) at this stage.

I'd been doing what everyone else was -- concrete multiplexes -- and shoot, it worked. But I'd managed the old Miller downtown in the days when the movie was a total kind of experience.

I am disappointed a little because there was no concrete thing.

I am convinced this will lift all doubt from us that we are hiding something from The Hague. This was the most concrete step we could take.

I believe we should be seen as taking concrete steps to achieve the objective of two states living side by side in peace and security in three years' time,

But considering China mainland's scandal-riddled brokerage sector, any concrete move may not come early this year before risk-management rules are finalized while only select brokerages are likely to be included at the initial stage.

Basically what concerns Benedict XVI is the heart of the Church, and in his view of things concrete history is not part of that.

I have been a strong supporter of a free and open Internet and have indicated this both prior to and subsequent to being sworn in as chairman of the F.C.C. I believe it is important to take concrete and reasonable steps to protect the freedom of users and entrepreneurs and businesses both small and large on the Internet.