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I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house. -- Eric Bogosian
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
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
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
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
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
All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy. -- Jerry Saltz
Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together. -- Mother Teresa
Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires. -- Tobsha Learner
I love any excuse to work with a mortar and pestle. -- Alain Ducasse
The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer. -- John Oates
The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness. -- John Updike
Even if I am predisposed to shop online, I see bricks and mortar as part of marketing. -- Natalie Massenet
The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble. -- Christopher Wren
Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize. Behind every word flows energy. -- Sonia Choquette
The cost of acquiring new customers and maintaining those relationships in an online environment versus bricks and mortar is significant. -- Stephen Cohen
Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick. -- Red Smith
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
When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal. -- Garrison Keillor
The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar. -- Bernard Tschumi
I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, its governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye. -- David McCallum
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
Temples are more than stone and mortar. They are filled with faith and fasting. They are built of trials and testimonies. They are sanctified by sacrifice and service. -- Thomas S. Monson
We are material creatures who spend much of our lives on material pursuits (even building a cathedral or writing a novel requires stone and mortar or paper and ink). -- Virginia Postrel
In order that the mortar in the joints may not suffer from frosts, drench it with oil-dregs every year before winter begins. Thus treated, it will not let the hoarfrost enter it. -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
I've done pretty well in my career, and I've watched colleagues who have spent most of the paychecks they receive on shoes and cars rather than bricks and mortar, and that's not me. -- Anthony Warlow
I carry my own church about under my own hat," said I. "Bricks and mortar won't make a staircase to heaven. I believe with your Master that the human heart is the best temple. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
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
I don't think you can separate a place from its history. I think a place is much more than the bricks and mortar that go into its construction. I think it's more than the accidental topography of the ground it stands on. -- Alan Moore
We didn't see what happen when Marines fired M-16s... We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were horrors that were completely left out of this war. So was this journalism? Or was this coverage? -- Ashleigh Banfield
Infrastructure alone won't end poverty. The World Bank had to learn this lesson, too. While we believed too much in bricks and mortar in our early days, we now understand that bringing together funding, technical expertise, and tested knowledge goes much further. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
I wonder whether those of our political masters who have been put in charge of the defence of the country can distinguish a mortar from a motor; a gun from a howitzer; a guerrilla from a gorilla, although a great many resemble the latter. -- Sam Manekshaw
We're here because we want to go to the Orient House. We're here because this is our city. It's an occupied city, I know. They have arms, they have weapons, they have police, they have mortar guns, but it is Palestinian and it is under occupation. -- Hanan Ashrawi
I think the good thing about the Internet is to give something away and to sell something else. Get a business model like that because the old brick and mortar record stores are falling apart, and the big record companies are collapsing under their own weight. -- Roger McGuinn
Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics. -- Virginia Woolf
America is a mosaic not of groups but of individuals, each of whom carries a host of cultural influences, some chosen, some inherited, some absorbed by osmosis. That mosaic is held together by the pursuit of happiness, the most powerful mortar ever conceived. Left alone, it will long endure. -- Virginia Postrel
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else. -- Thomas Carlyle
Blood was the mortar that cemented the kingdom -- Jocelyn Murray
A bullet leaves evidence that a mortar doesn't. -- Steven Galloway
The brick of my life is music, but the mortar is faith. -- Van Cliburn
Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry. -- H. G. Wells
I love polite people, late September, weeping mortar, and my fantastic fands (fans/friends) -- Matthew Gray Gubler
Choice is the mortar that binds together the things that make us who we are. -- Fennel Hudson
Because nearly all digital libraries are tied to bricks-and-mortar institutions, the funding base tends to be quite localized. -- Tom Peters
Pinetop could find the cracks and fill them in and be the glue and mortar of the whole band. -- Bob Corritore
Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system. -- Thomas Guthrie
All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support. -- Richard Whately
An author is like an incompetent bricklayer - doesn't use mortar and keeps rearranging the bricks until someone tells him to stop. -- Chris Everheart
To use the hands in making quicklime into mortar is better than to cross them on the breast in attendance on a prince. -- Saadi
High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge. -- Thomas Carlyle
To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar. -- Teresa of Avila
Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy -- and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks. -- Shashi Tharoor
The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar. -- Karl Marx
It's hard selling books in general: companies are merging, editors being laid off, bricks-and-mortar bookstores closing, large chain bookstores squeezing out independents, and online retailers squeezing out chain bookstores. -- Christina Baker Kline
The American spirit is stronger than stone and mortar, tougher than steel and glass, and more enduring than any pain or suffering that can be inflicted on our national conscience. -- Olympia Snowe
There's definitely a role for online booksellers, but they can't host events, bring people together, and form a personal relationship in the way a bricks-and-mortar store and its staff can. -- Graeme Simsion
Big data has been used by human beings for a long time - just in bricks-and-mortar applications. Insurance and standardized tests are both examples of big data from before the Internet. -- Jose Ferreira
Burn shavings and splinters of pitch pine, and when they turn to charcoal, put them out, and pound them into mortar with size. This will make a pretty black for fresco painting. -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for book talks, circles for story time; we'll always need brick-and-mortar libraries. -- Marilyn Johnson
Martin Luther King's legacy is never to be measured by bricks and mortar, but rather by the kind of lives that we live, and the kind of love and service that we render. -- Cornel West
This cement can be used in any situation and for any purpose to which any other mortar or hydraulic cement can be applied. It does not become perfectly hard within one or two months. -- Canvass White

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