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Quotes About Cement

When something cement does not fit into the current context of activated ideas, the system detects an abnormality, as you just experienced. You had no particular idea of what was coming after something, but you knew when the word cement came that it was abnormal in that sentence. Studies of brain responses have shown that violations of normality are detected with astonishing speed and subtlety.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Before I went off to Rutgers, I worked in a comic book shop in my hometown. At night, I would work on some comic stories, and after a while, I developed an idea for a weird little superhero spoof comic called 'Cement Shooz.'
~ Christopher McCulloch
She wore a loose bathrobe that covered up a body that would have won first prize in a beauty contest for cement blocks.....She had a voice that made pearl harbour sound like a lullaby.
~ Richard Brautigan
Music has a bonding power, it's primal social cement
~ Oliver Sacks
Charity is the cement that unites communities to God and individuals to each other so that he who contributes to the union of hearts in a community binds it indissolubly to God.
~ St. Vincent
The cement of this union is in the heart blood of every American. I do not believe there is on earth a government established on so immovable a basis.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.
~ Pope John Paul II
I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
what sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination
~ Allen Ginsberg
In my mind, Martha, you are buried in cement right up to your neck. No… right up to your nose… that's much quieter.
~ Edward Albee
In my mind, Martha, you are buried in cement right up to your neck. No… right up to your nose… that's much quieter.
~ Edward Albee
On a cement pediment stands the inevitable bronze statue of a man in a cheap suit.
~ Alex Shakar
What sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination? - Howl
~ Allen Ginsberg
Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.
~ Ian Frazier
onto the bare ground next to the cement foundation of the old house when Lorraine came out and said she had a phone call.
~ Kent Haruf
Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.
~ Yasser Arafat
For all invented traditions, so far as possible, use history as a legitimator of action and cement of group cohesion.
~ Eric J. Hobsbawm
Hacia fines de abril de 1992, las instalaciones de armamento nuclear de Al Atheer habían sido destruidas y el búnker utilizado para las pruebas se había sepultado con cemento, un proceso que se llevo a cabo con la ayuda forzada de centenares de trabajadores iraquíes.
~ Robert Fisk
What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
~ Robert Herrick
I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving ourselves as wheels do cement for wearing each other out. We set this house on fire, forgetting that we live within. (from "To a Meadowlark," for M.L. Smoker)
~ Jim Harrison
Civilization is the wild river; culture, 592,000 tons of cement; civilization flows; culture thickens and coagulates.
~ Edward Abbey
A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Pass. Motorists are asked to be on the lookout for 16 hardened criminals.
~ Ronnie Barker
A cement mixer collided with a prison van. Motorists are asked to be on the lookout for sixteen hardened criminals.
~ Ronnie Corbett