Best Slabs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads, And not the road.”

“At a certain fork in the road of automatization, Europeans chose to have more time, and they work far less than we do and get much longer vacations. We chose to have more stuff, the stuff sold to us through those beckoning adjectives-bigger, better, faster: Jet Skis, extra cars, second homes, motor homes, towering slab TVs, if not the time to enjoy them or to enjoy less commodified pleasures.”

“A slab of bread "buttered" with lard and, if you were lucky, seasoned with salt and pepper, was a luxury.”

Ifs Lucky Bread Luxury Salt Peppers Slabs Lard Salt And Pepper

Author:Jimmy Hoffa

“There are three kinds of forms in the human figure: Ovoid forms - egg, ball and barrel masses; Column forms - cylinder, cone; Spatulate forms - box, slab and wedge blocks.”

Humans Kind Form Three Figures Mass Balls Boxes Block Eggs Columns Barrels Wedges Cones Cylinders Slabs

Book:Dynamic Figure Drawing

Source: Dynamic Figure Drawing

“I'm king of the dead and I make my throne On a monument slab of marble cold; And my scepter of rule is the spade I hold: Come they from cottage or come they from hall, Mankind are my subjects, all, all, all! Let them loiter in pleasure or toilfully spin I gather them in, I gather them in!”

Pleasure Subjects Mankind Cold Kings Halls Thrones Monument Marble Cottages Spades Slabs

Author:Benjamin

“In America, even your menus have the gift of language.... The Chef's own Vienna Roast. A hearty, rich meat loaf, gently seasoned to perfection and served in a creamy nest of mashed farm potatoes and strictly fresh garden vegetables. Of course, what you get is cole slaw and a slab of meat, but that doesn't matter because the menu has already started your juices going. Oh, those menus. In America, they are poetry.”

Matter America Courses Language Rich Food Garden Perfection Cooking Meat Culinary Farms Vegetables Chef Potatoes Juice Nests Menus Vienna Hearty Slabs

Author:Laurie Lee

“No dish changes quite so much from season to season as soup. Summer's soups come chilled, in pastel colors strewn with herbs. If hot they are sheer insubstantial broths afloat with seafood. In winter they turn steaming and thick to serve with slabs of rustic, crusty bread.”

Ifs Turns Food Color Summer Seasons Hot Cooking Winter Bread Culinary Thick Dishes Sheer Soup Herbs Seafood Rustic Chilled Pastel Slabs

Author:Florence Fabricant

“Who is more amateurish, more vulnerable---those who rely on machines that need to be plugged in, or logged on, or in some other way connected in order to be more than a useless slab of plastic ... or those who have learned to master life without?”

Way Needs Order Masters Machines Connected Vulnerable Useless Rely Plastic Slabs

Book:The Lost Sisterhood: A Novel

Source: The Lost Sisterhood: A Novel

“Always get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start.”

Feels Bigs Reader Speed Dialogue Prose Slabs

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“When you think about a barbecue, most people think of slabs of ribs, but you don't need to do that in today's culinary barbecue world. Short ribs, barbecue chicken, skewered shrimp, vegetable kebabs, lobster mac and cheese with or without the lobster, and a donut bread pudding for dessert that's absolutely amazing. These are things that are safe whether you're a novice or a professional. Be creative and stay within your culinary pantheon.”

“When people go to museums and see a sculpture made out of marble, they appreciate it but it's very doubtful that they will go home and have a slab of marble they can chip away at, but people do have LEGO. I don't have any LEGO specially made for me, all of the shapes, sizes and colours I use are available in stores so that if someone is inspired to create on their own, they can go and buy the very same bricks.”

People Ifs Made Use Home Shapes Appreciate Inspired Size Available Stores Colour Museums Sculpture Bricks Chips Marble Doubtful Legos Slabs

Author:Nathan Sawaya

“The facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's slab. They are like fish swimming about in a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean; and what the historian catches will depend, partly on chance, but mainly on what part of the ocean he chooses to fish in and what tackle he chooses to use - these two factors being, of course, determined by the kind of fish he wants to catch. By and large, the historian will get the kind of facts he wants. History means interpretation.”

Want Kind Mean Two Sometimes Facts Use Courses Chance Depends Ocean Fishes Determined Factors Interpretation Historian Swimming Inaccessible Slabs

Book:What is History?

Source: What is History?

“To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face”

Mean Faces Remove Marble Slabs

Book:Letters on the short story, the drama, and other literary topics

Source: Letters on the short story, the drama, and other literary topics

“Faith is not simply a private matter, or something we practice once a week at church. Rather, it should have a contagious effect on the broader world. Jesus used these images to illustrate His kingdom.: a sprinkle of yeast causing the whole loaf to rise, a pinch of salt preserving a slab of meat, the smallest seed in the garden growing into a great tree in which birds of the air come to nest.”

World Should Matter Whole Used Jesus Church Practice Growing Air Tree Week Effects Bird Garden Should Have Seeds Kingdoms Meat Salt Smallest Nests Contagious Sprinkles Yeast Slabs

Author:Philip Yancey

“It was so ridiculous. We were just sitting there, thinking about how ridiculous it was because we literally had stray hairs on us. The camera couldn't pick up all the details, but we had some crazy things. We had huge slabs of fat on us and bits of nails and hair. It was disgusting. But, there's also the beautiful parts of it.”

Thinking Beautiful Bits Crazy Huge Hair Picks Sitting Cameras Details Ridiculous Fats Disgusting Nails Crazy Things Slabs

Author:Steven Yeun

“I'm a nature lover, I want at any given time to be able to bring lots of plants into my house, have lots of light flooding in, have lots of natural elements. Reclaimed lumbers, actual live edge slab tables. I do love technology, but I want the TV to be hidden away a little, I want the speakers to be up on the ceiling.”

Want Littles Light Able House Given Natural Technology Tvs Lovers Elements Tables Plant Edges Speakers Ceilings Flooding Nature Love Nature Lover Lumber Slabs Natural Elements

Author:Sebastian Clovis

“On the top of these mile thick slabs of ice the water is percolating quickly to the base and greasing the skids, as it were, for the slide of that ice into the ocean.”

Water Ocean Miles Ice Thick Slides Slabs

Author:Bill McKibben

“In school we did all sorts of things, molds, slab building. We were not very proficient on the wheel because the woman who taught was not proficient on the wheel. And so we learned from her assistant who had learned from her assistant the year before and so on, and that was not very good training.”

Years School Building Taught Training Very Good Wheels Mold Assistants Slabs

Author:Warren MacKenzie

“If you press-mold a pot or if you slab-build a pot, the work has got to take much, much, much longer than if you work on the wheel. And I to this day have the ideal that I want my work to be not too expensive, so that if people buy it and break it, it's not going to be the end of the world. I'm not interested in having things in museums, although some of our work has ended up there, but that's not what I'm striving for.”

People Ifs World Want Ends Break Ideals Presses Strive Wheels Expensive This Day Museums Pot Not Interested End Of The World Mold Slabs

Author:Warren MacKenzie

“Down the hall came the wife. She was glorious, burning. She didn't know yet that her husband was dead. We knew. That's what gave her such power over us. The doctor took her into a room with a desk at the end of the hall, and from under the closed door a slab of brilliance radiated as if, by some stupendous process, diamonds were being incinerated in there. What a pair of lungs! She shrieked as I imagined an eagle would shriek. It felt wonderful to be alive to hear it! I've gone looking for that feeling everywhere.”

Ifs Knows Ends Feelings Felt Process Rooms Gone Alive Wife Wonderful Doors Husband Doctors Burning Glorious Pairs Halls Diamond Desks Lungs Eagles Brilliance Closed Doors Slabs

Author:Denis Johnson

“It's as if Japanese men, all to aware that deep inside they'd like to stomp Tokyo flat, breathe fire, and do truly terrible and disgusting things to women, have built themselves the most beautiful of prisons for their rampaging ids. Instead of indulging their fantasies, they focus on food, or landscaping, or the perfect cup of tea -- or a single slab of o-toro tuna -- letting themselves go only at baseball games and office parties.”

“I want to be healed and whole and perfect again, like a misshapen slab of iron that comes out of the fire glowing, glittering, razor-sharp.”

Want Whole Perfect Fire Iron Healed Glowing Razors Slabs

Book:Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem

Source: Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem

“A faint light burned in the pit revealing a furry creature hunched over a stone slab, fiddling with something. At first Gregor raised a warning hand. He thought it was a rat. Then the creature lifted his head and Gregor recognized what was left of his dad.”

Firsts Hands Light Left Dad Creatures Stones Raised Warning Burned Rats Revealing Pits Furry Slabs

Book:Gregor the Overlander Collection:

Source: Gregor the Overlander Collection:

“I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I’ve seen in engravings, than with many supposedly real people with the metaphysical absurdity known as ‘flesh and blood’. In fact, ‘flesh and blood’ describes them very well: they resemble cuts of meat laid out on the butcher’s marble slab, dead creatures bleeding as though still alive.”

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“For years I walked around with the phrase "Green River" because I had seen that on a soda fountain drink when I was probably 8 or 9 years old, and I went, 'Gee, I like that.' Another one was "Lodi", which I thought sounded really cool. I got this cheap little empty plastic notebook at my local drugstore, and bought a little slab of filler paper and the very first title I wrote in it was "Proud Mary". I had no idea what that title meant.”

Years Firsts Littles Ideas Proud Drink Paper Rivers Empty Green Locals No Idea Titles Phrases Songwriting Plastic Mary Fountain Notebook Really Cool Soda Slabs Fillers

Author:John Fogerty

“One minute I'm standing at Ronnie Scott's getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I'm on a marble slab”

Next Minutes Standing Marble One Minute Ovation Slabs

Author:Keith Richards

“There are two Venices I know about and one of them is a hotel in Vegas. The other is an L.A. beach where pretty girls walk their dogs while wearing as little as possible and mutant slabs of tanned, posthuman beef sip iced steroid lattes and pump iron until their pecs are the size of Volkswagens.”

Knows Littles Two Girl Walks Dog Size Beach Hotel Iron Vegas Venice Beef Pumps Pretty Girl Steroid Mutants Lattes Slabs Volkswagens

Author:Richard Kadrey

“Soil is not usually lost in slabs or heaps of magnificent tonnage. It is lost a little at a time over millions of acres by the careless acts of millions of people. It cannot be saved by heroic feats of gigantic technology, but only by millions of small acts and restraints, conditioned by small fidelities, skills, and desires. Soil loss is ultimately a cultural problem; it will be corrected only by cultural solutions.”

Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

“Sometimes I come here just to be a lost mariner but I am never lost: there are the snowflakes frozen to the porthole of a jewelry store, here is the treasure chest open to a single pearl laid on a velvet slab, there is the plashing of faces in the aisles and the row of lockers stuffed with the coats and hats of the drowned and it is night, and the moon rows over the gentle waters of the parking lot.”

Source: A Grammar to Waking: Poems

“The minute you had kids you closed ranks. You didn't plan this in advance, but it happened. Families were like individual, discrete, moated island nations. The little group of citizens on the slab of rock gathered together instinctively, almost defensively, and everyone who was outside the walls—even if you'd once been best friends—was now just that, outsiders.”

Ifs Littles Kids Together Individual Nations Plans Happened Groups Minutes Rocks Wall Citizens Islands Outsiders Discrete Slabs

Author:Meg Wolitzer

“History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish in the fishmonger's slab. The historian collects them, takes them home, and cooks and serves them in whatever style appeals to him.”

Facts Home Style Fishes Available Appeals Cooks Historian Documents Inscriptions Corpus Slabs

Book:What is History?

Source: What is History?

“Basically the message is: Steal It! Art, music, culture, the odd book and the slab of cheese... the new will be built upon the ruins of the old.”

Art Book Culture Messages Built Stealing Ruins Odd Cheese Art Music Slabs Music Culture

Author:Buenaventura Durruti

“Slicing a warm slab of bacon is a lot like giving a ferret a shave. No matter how careful you are, somebody's going to get hurt.”

Giving Matter Hurt Food Careful Warm Ferrets Slabs

Author:Alton Brown

“The most prudent thing any intelligent animal can do, if it would prefer its descendents not to spend a lot of time on a slab with electrodes clamped to their brains or sticking mines on the bottom of ships, or being patronised by zoologists, is to make bloody certain humans don't find out about it.”

Ifs Humans Funny Certain Can Do Animal Brain Mines Intelligent Bottom Ships Bloody Prudent Slabs Zoologist

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I was working in the lab late one night When my eyes beheld an eerie sight For my monster from his slab began to rise And suddenly to my surprise... He did the mash He did the monster mash The monster mash It was a graveyard smash.”

Eye Night Late Sight Surprise Monsters Halloween One Night Labs Graveyard Spooky Eerie Slabs

Author:Bobby Pickett

“Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.”

Given Grace Modern Died Finals Architecture Block Schemes July Infamous Dynamite Missouri Coups Modern Architecture Slabs

Book:The Story of Post-Modernism: Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture

Source: The Story of Post-Modernism: Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture

“Advice to rock gods: drugwise, stick to Ibuprofen, decaf lattes, and pale Pilsners ... If your stomach is not a flat slab, please leave your shirt on while performing ... If your girlfriend asks you to choose between her and your music, sell your instruments immediately - especially if you're a drummer ... Finally, go easy on the supermodels, don't forget to tune, and remember: a tiny bit of dry ice and lasers goes a long way. Ditto with tattoos.”

“Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You'll have plenty of time to be low-key when you're laid out on the slab.”

Inspirational Keys Lows Plenty Low Key Gusto Slabs

Author:Al Yankovic