Words matter. These are the best Mortar Quotes from famous people such as Katrina Lake, Virginia Postrel, Samin Nosrat, John Updike, Marcela Valladolid, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Brick and mortar stores will ultimately mark down between 50 to 60% of its merchandise because they don’t know who’s walking in the door on any day, so they lose control.
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).
I get an especially acute case of agita at the thought of a mortar and pestle.
The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness.
I love my molcajete, which is a Mexican mortar and pestle. There is no comparison in flavor to when I use a processor.
Mobile is going to change e-commerce as much as e-commerce has changed brick and mortar retailers.
I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations – the director and the actors and the designers build the house.
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.
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.
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.
Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it’s just as fast.
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.
It is too expensive to have a bricks and mortar presence everywhere.
For a country constantly threatened by missiles, rockets and mortar shells from terrorist groups like Hezbollah and Hamas, security is not only a gravely important issue, but is the most critical issue. That’s why I introduced the Defend Israel Act as one of my first pieces of legislation.
Tom Wall has the unique ability to extract, cultivate and realize a vision that goes far beyond simple bricks and mortar. He has an amazing appreciation of art and beauty and his designs begin with listening to his clients.
The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.
If our goal is to provide health care to our veterans, why does it need to be in the bricks and mortar of bureaucracy of the VA? Why can’t you give them an insurance card and let them go to a health care provider of their choice?
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.
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.
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.
