Annabelle Selldorf Quotes

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.

Annabelle Selldorf

• Quality
• Understanding
• Discipline
• Dedication

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• You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Book
  • Facts
  • Judgment

• My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • House
  • Sea
  • Grandfather

• I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Bad
  • Magic

• I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Think
  • Hurt
  • Successful

• The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Support
  • Die
  • Grow

• I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Action

• Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.

  

  Harriet Van Horne
  • History
  • Thousand
  • Riding

• You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Heart
  • You
  • Strength

• You've got to live in the moment. When it's over, it's over.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Live
  • You
  • Moment

• The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • War
  • Death
  • Man

• It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Life
  • Up
  • Reality

• There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Work
  • Women
  • Children

• For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.

  

  Origen
  • Men
  • Wise
  • Mystery

• Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.

  

  Larry King
  • Money
  • Love
  • Fame

• Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • May
  • Always
  • Promise

• There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Me
  • Moment
  • Part

• My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Work
  • Done
  • Day

• If supporters of equality for women want to vote for the best candidate, they must look to a person regardless of gender and must disregard the gender of political opponents.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Women
  • Political
  • Best

• We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Fighting
  • Prison
  • Provocative

• You must call up every strength you own

  

  W. D. Snodgrass
  • Up
  • Strength
  • Mask

• Many Americans have no idea of what has been the foreign policy of their country. If you don't know about something, you can't understand what is going on.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Country
  • Americans
  • Foreign Policy

• Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith.

  

  Kenneth Scott Latourette
  • History
  • Faith
  • Preparation

• Essentially what's going to determine how you succeed in New York is how people feel about the space, how delicious the food is, how they perceive the value and, most important of all, how they feel treated. My understanding is Stephen Starr is exceptionally good at all of this and his ability to create a transporting experience.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• 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.

  

  Annabelle Selldorf
  • Quality
  • Understanding
  • Discipline