Quotessence
Home / Topics / Plasters Quotes

Plasters Quotes

Browse 67 quotes about Plasters.

Related topics

Wall

Plasters Quotes

“Religion is still parasitic in the interstices of our knowledge which have not yet been filled. Like bed-bugs in the cracks of walls and furniture, miracles lurk in the lacunae of science. The scientist plasters up these cracks in our knowledge; the more militant Rationalist swats the bugs in the open. Both have their proper sphere and they should realize that they are allies.”

ShouldStillsRealizingAtheismWallBedScientistMiracleFilledCracksAlliesSpheresFurnitureBugsMilitantPlasters
Author:John B. S. Haldane
Create image

“I took Eugene Sue's Arthur from the reading-room. It's indescribable, enough to make you vomit. You have to read this to realize the pitifulness of money, success, and the public. Literature has become consumptive. It spits and slobbers, covers its blisters with salve and sticking-plaster, and has grown bald from too much hair-slicking. It would take Christ of art to cure this leper.”

WritingArtEnoughReadingLiteratureChristRealizingRoomsToo MuchHairCuresSpitArthurIndescribableLeperPlastersBlistersReading Room
Author:Gustave Flaubert
Create image

“I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it.”

IfsChristianGracePlansSubjectsPraiseHatedApologizingAutobiographyBiographiesFlatteryAdulationPlastersGrace Christian
Book:The Rest of My Life
Create image

“I devoured hot-dogs in Baltimore 'way back in 1886, and they were then very far from newfangled...They contained precisely the same rubber, indigestible pseudo-sausages that millions of Americans now eat, and they leaked the same flabby, puerile mustard. Their single point of difference lay in the fact that their covers were honest German Wecke made of wheat-flour baked to crispiness, and not the soggy rolls prevailing today, of ground acorns, plaster-of-Paris, flecks of bath-sponge, and atmospheric air all compact.”

WayMadeFactsTodayDifferencesMillionsAirHonestDogFoodHotCookingLaysParisCulinaryBathsWheatPrevailingRubberSausageBaltimoreSpongesPseudoCompactHot DogMustardFlourAcornsPlasters
Author:H. L. Mencken
Create image

“All the contagion of the south light on you, You shames of Rome! you herd of--boils and plagues Plaster you o'er; that you may be abhorr'd Further than seen, and one infect another Against the wind a mile!”

MayLightWindShameSouthMilesRomePlagueHerdsContagionPlasters
Book:The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators, to which are added notes by S. Johnson and G. Steevens, revised and augmented by I. Reed, with a glossarial index
Create image

“A clear thought, a pure affection, a resolute act of a virtuous will, have a dignity of quite another kind, and far higher than accumulations of brick and granite and plaster and stucco, however cunningly put together.”

KindTogetherClearHigherPureDignityAffectionVirtuousBricksAccumulationResoluteGranitePlasters
Book:Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838
Create image

“Single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.”

MenGrowsSaintSingle ManPlasters
Book:Complete Poetry of Rudyard Kipling: Complete 570+ Poems in One Volume: Songs from Novels and Stories, The Seven Seas Collection, Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads, An Almanac of Twelve Sports, The Five Nations, The Years Between…
Create image

“Berlin is a skeleton which aches in the cold: it is my own skeleton aching. I feel in my bones the sharp ache of the frost in the girders of the overhead railway, in the iron-work of balconies, in bridges, tramlines, lamp-standards, latrines. The iron throbs and shrinks, the stone and the bricks ache dully, the plaster is numb.”

FeelsMy OwnColdStandardsStonesBonesBridgesIronAcheBricksLampsShrinksBerlinNumbFrostSkeletonsOverheadRailwayBalconiesPlasters
Book:The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris [and] Goodbye to Berlin
Create image

“Thomas Jefferson went through the New Testament and removed all the miracles, leaving only the teachings. Take a source, extract what appeals to you, discard the rest. Such an act of editorship is bound to reflect something of the individual doing the editing: a plaster cast of an aesthetic-not the actual thing, but the imprint of it.”

IndividualTeachingSourceMiracleBoundsLeavingCastsAppealsAestheticEditingTestamentNew TestamentPlasters
Book:Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
Create image

“The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like slightly sticky plaster-dust. (Housecleaners in that country earned unusually good wages.) If you lived in that country, you had to de-scale your kettle of its encrustation of magic at least once a week, because if you didn't, you might find yourself pouring hissing snakes or pond slime into your teapot instead of water.”

IfsCountryMightWaterMagicWeekLandScalesDustFinding YourselfThickShelvesWagesSnakesPouringPondsStickyTenaciousChalkKettlesSlimePlastersTeapotsHissing
Book:Spindle's End
Create image

“American views today are weak, confused, and divided. On one side, many progressive liberals still think that we humans are essentially good and getting better and better. On the other side, many postmoderns actually think it is worse to judge evil than to do evil. And in the middle, many ordinary folk plaster life with rainbows and smile buttons and wander through life on the basis of sentiment and clichés.”

ThinkingHumansStillsTodayEvilSidesViewsMiddleJudgingOrdinaryWeakBasesFolksWanderGet BetterConfusedSentimentsProgressiveDividedRainbowButtonsPostmodernPlasters
Author:Os Guinness
Create image

“When you have mental illness you don't have a plaster or a cast or a crutch, that let everyone know that you have the illness, so people expect the same of you as from anyone else and when you are different they give you a hard time and they think you're being difficult or they think you're being a pain in the ass and they're horrible to you. You spend your life in Ireland trying to hide that you have a mental illness.”

PeopleThinkingKnowsGivingTryingDifferentHardPainDifficultCastsIllnessHorribleMental IllnessAssHard TimesIrelandCrutchesPlasters
Author:Sinead O'Connor
Create image

“That one [in "2012"] was different because it was all CG, getting washed away by water. In "Independence Day," everything was still done in models, built in a certain scale out of plaster, and packing tons and tons of little explosives and charges in there. We had a second one in case it didn't work the first time, but it worked the first time.”

FirstsLittlesStillsDifferentDoneCertainWaterCasesModelsFirst TimeBuiltIndependenceScalesExplosivesIndependence DayPackingPlasters
Author:Roland Emmerich
Create image

“In the studio we use a pretty wide range of materials for the sculptures; silicone, fibreglass, human and animal hair, ABS plastic, dental acrylic, traditional and high-tech plasters, stainless steel, automotive paint, plywood, Britannia metal, found objects and taxidermy animals.”

HumansUseFoundAnimalObjectsMaterialsHairPaintStudiosWideTraditionalRangeMetalsPlasticSteelSculptureHumans And AnimalsDentalPlastersTaxidermyFound Objects
Author:Patricia Piccinini
Create image

“I knew where the magnets were, behind the gyprock, and the magnets were very powerful. I think they had to be powerful for me, otherwise the reader wouldn't have a reciprocal experience. But I was very careful to bury them deeply, deeply in the plaster and paint over them. I didn't want anybody to directly access them, and that's gradually changed for me.”

ThinkingWantPowerfulBehindsChangedReaderPaintCarefulAccessVery PowerfulMagnetReciprocalPlasters
Author:William Gibson
Create image

“In the Leach Pottery we did most of our work on the wheel. [Bernard] Leach did a little work in the studio, which was press-molded forms, plastic clay pressed into plaster forms to make small rectangular boxes and some vase forms, which he liked to make. These were molds which had been made to an original that he had modeled in solid clay, and during our work there, sometimes I would be pressing these forms as a means of production.”

MeanLittlesMadeSometimesWould BeFormOriginalsPressesProductionsBoxesStudiosWheelsPlasticClayMoldPotteryVasesPlasters
Author:Warren MacKenzie
Create image

“Christians should ultimately do everything that we do with excellence. There's a story about repairs in the Sistine Chapel ... when some repair work was being done the craftsmen saw that the work on the other side of the plaster, the part not visible to the human eye was done with the same kind of craftsmanship that was done on what was visible and observable. And the explanation for that is that the work that Christians do is not just for human consumption, but it is also for the eyes of God.”

ShouldHumansKindDoneStoriesEyeChristianSidesSawsExcellenceExplanationVisibleConsumptionBeing DoneCraftsmanCraftsmanshipChapelHuman EyesPlastersSistine Chapel
Author:Hank Hanegraaff
Create image

“When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees and twists in between husbands and wives asleep in their beds. It shakes the shingles from the roofs and sifts through cracks in the plaster. The only green things left are the holly bushes and the old boxwood hedges in the village, and these are often painted white with snow. Chipmunks and weasels come to nest in basements and barns; owls find their way into attics. At night,the dark is blue and bluer still, as sapphire of night.”

WayStillsNightLeftDarkWhiteWifeTreeWindColdBedHusbandEnglandBlueGreenSnowIceShakesCracksVillageRoofSheetsTwistsWrapsNestsDecemberHusband And WifeBasementsOwlNew EnglandBarnsAtticsHolliesWeaselsPlastersSapphiresSleetChipmunksShinglesGreen ThingsBare Trees
Book:Here On Earth
Create image

“He'll be delivered from madness. What then? He'll feel himself acceptable! What then? Do you think feelings like his can be simply re-attached, like plasters? Stuck on to other objects we select? Look at him! ... My desire might be to make this boy an ardent husband - a caring citizen - a worshipper of abstract and unifying God. My achievement, however, is more likely to make a ghost!”

ThinkingFeelsLooksFeelingsMightDesireBoysObjectsCitizensHusbandAchievementMadnessCaringStuckGhostAbstractAcceptableSelectArdentUnifyingWorshippersPlasters
Author:Peter Shaffer
Create image

“Vishous: "...we both would slaughter anything that so much as startled you." Jane: "I'm scared of mice and spiders. But you don't need to use that gun on your hip to blow a hole in a wall if I ran into one, okay? Havaheart traps and rolled newspapers work just as well. Plus, you don't need a Sheetrock patch and plaster job afterward. I'm just saying.”

IfsNeedsWellsUseJobsWallGunOkayScaredBlowNewspapersHolesHipsRanPlusTrapsMiceSpidersJanePatchesSlaughterJust SayingVishousPlasters
Author:J.R. Ward
Create image

“As soon as she was close, she whispered, "you've got to get out of here." "No, you've got to get out of here," he told her. "Go downstairs. Go now." "No," she countered. "You go." "Why?" he asked. "You tell me first." But before they could say another word, the last elevator slid slowly open and two men in masks rushed out. From the opposite side of the of the ballroom, shots rang out, rapid fire, piercing the ceiling, plaster falling onto the dance floor like snow. And then Hale and Macey whispered in unison, "Because of that.”

MenFirstsTwoLastsFallSidesFireShotsOppositesSnowMaskRapidsCeilingsElevatorsBallroomPiercingsDance FloorHaleUnisonPlasters
Author:Ally Carter
Create image

“A man who is wrathful with us is a sick man; we must apply a plaster to his heart - love; we must treat him kindly, speak to him gently, lovingly. And if there is not deeply-rooted malice against us within him, but only a temporary fit of anger, you will see how his heart, or his malice, will melt away through your kindness and love - how good will conquer evil. A Christian must always be kind, gracious, and wise in order to conquer evil by good.”

IfsMenHeartKindChristianOrderEvilSpeakKindnessWiseFitForgivenessAnd LoveTreatsSickConquerOrthodoxTemporaryBe KindRootedGood WillMaliceGraciousOrthodox ChristianHeart LovePlastersSick Man
Author:John of Kronstadt
Create image

“I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush has brought greater balm to the extremities of the senior golfer than the golfmobile, a word that will have to do for want of a better.”

WantCountryGreaterGolfInventionSandElectricSeniorCornGolfersSnobExtremityPlastersToothbrushesSurrey
Book:Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements
Create image

“I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question (slavery). They have constantly brought forward small cures for great sores-plasters too small to cover the wound. That is one reason that all settlements have proved so temporary-so evanescent.”

ThinkingMenReasonCausesSlaverySizeWoundsCuresTemporarySettlementUnderestimatedPlastersGreatest ManRepeated Failure
Book:Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46
Create image