what sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination
The pebbles of knowledge must be bonded together by the cement of experience.
It is hard to cement any relations with any country based on promises that may not be deliverable.
I idolized all of the bodybuilders who came from that old-school hardcore era. Those guys didn't need any fancy equipment; they trained with intensity and focus, regardless of the gym or other limitations. These guys could do presses with pails full of cement and still get a great workout.
Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error.
Cement doesn't give as much as snow.
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.
Love is a great glue, but there is no cement like mutual hate.
From 1936 on, I have taken more falls than any other 20 comedians put together. From the time I was 21, I've taken them on everything from clay courts to cement to wood floors, coming off pianos, going out a two-story window, landing on Dean, falling into the rough. You do that and you're gonna have problems.
Everybody's talking about the President, we all chipped in for a bag of cement.
Marriage? That's for life! It's like cement!
A lot of times, L. A. is desaturated, and cement and freeways, and downtown.
The temple of truth is built indeed of stones of crystal, but, inasmuch as men have been concerned in rearing it, it has been consolidated by a cement composed of baser materials.
The surface of the moon is like nothing here on Earth! It's totally lacking any evidence of life. It has lots of fine, talcum-powderlike dust mixed with a complete variety of pebbles, rocks, and boulders. Many pebbles, fewer rocks, and even fewer boulders naturally make up its surface. The dust is a very fine, overall dark gray. And with no air molecules to separate the dust, it clings together like cement.
Some people feel like you have to cement your love.
Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.
Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.
Music has a bonding power, it's primal social cement
Charity is. . . a universal remedy against discord, and an holy cement for mankind.
I've been writing a lot about a new form of Russian imperialism. Actually, Russian Orthodox imperialism. It's very little remarked that the cement, the political, ideological cement of the Russian regime now, communism having collapsed and imploded, is increasingly a confessional one.