Quotes of Slab - somelinesforyou

“ There it stands ablaze, like a slab of fire, with its parade of white flagstaffs gleaming in the street light, and the humped black limousines patient at the door. ”

- James Morris

“ The moist, flavorful meat is concealed under a thick slab of crisp fat that would make a cardiologist blanch. ”

- Bryan Miller

“ Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars… ”

- Charles Dickens

“ A perfectly reasonable slab of chicken arrived coutured in garlands of watercress and crinolines of cilantro, but like Snow White was inevitably accompanied by a coterie of dwarfs-baby zucchini, baby carrots, tiny peas, small new potatoes in their jackets. ”

- Ellis Weiner

“ 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. ”

- Benjamin Britten
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