Noel Clarke

Generally, an indie film in the U.K. is put together much like in the states. We got a tax credit. You sell the domestic rights, which can be quite low, but it's enough to push you over the line. And you get a tax credit on top of that, and then you cobble it together with private equity or gap financing and things like that.

English Actor

Paul DePodesta

The A's were a team with very few resources. We didn't have access to players who were obviously great, who could do it all and were always in the headlines. We couldn't afford those types of players. So we had to figure out a way of cobbling together players into a team that might be competitive.

American Businessman

Guy Pearce

I feel I do my best work when it's all there on the page, and I feel that the character is very vivid as I read the script and I'm not having to create stuff and trying to cobble together something. If I have to do that, then I don't entirely trust what I'm doing.

Vladimir Putin

Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force, cobbling coalitions together under the slogan, 'You're either with us or against us.

Russian Statesman

Terry Gilliam

People used to think we just faked all that stuff... it was all written, rehearsed. The fact that it looks as cobbled together as it does is just that we weren't very good.

American Director

Sebastian Horsley

I am a fraud. I have cobbled together my personality from hundreds of little bits. I am simultaneously the most genuine and the most artificial person you will ever meet.

British Artist

Yahoo Serious

Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.

Australian Director

Jenny Zhang

Growing up, I had to cobble together a scarecrow of things I loved from various different writers.

Chinese Actress

Adam Scott

For years and years, I was doing extra work and guest spots and anything I could cobble together.

American Actor

Eniola Aluko

I'm absolutely loving Turin's old, historical-city vibe, with the narrow, cobbled streets.

English Athlete

Use 'cobble' when describing streets and walkways made with rounded stones.

Streets and Paths

'Cobble' often evokes a quaint or picturesque atmosphere, like in old towns.

Old World Charm

Use 'cobble' to suggest hastily putting something together without much planning.

Quick Fixes

'Cobble' implies a temporary or improvised solution to a problem.

Makeshift Solutions

As an archaic term, use 'cobble' to refer to shoes when discussing historical contexts.

Historic Footwear

Mention 'cobbles' to highlight the traditional craft of a cobbler.

Cobbler's Craft

Use 'cobble' to talk about the tools used in traditional metal or leather work.

Crafting Tools

'Cobble' can refer to a specialized skill set of shaping materials, tying to craftsmanship.

Artisan Skill

 he cobbled together fragments of myth and poetry to compensate for the almost complete lack of official records. A few of his sources contained mentions of Arthur, and some others were realistic accounts of battles and places. But many featured mythic heroes fighting long odds with the help of magical swords and sorcery.

Is there any truth to...

 The thing that was always striking to me was that we as people could have so many really amazing ideas about things we'd like to do, but are so often unable, in the real world, to actually do those things -- to actually cobble together the materials and go through the actual execution phase of building something

Philip Rosedale: Second...

 these activities were very structured and prescribed, whereas this type of flow art seemed like a form of meditation but with a focus on fire, this thing that scared me so deeply for my entire life. After that first time practicing, my friend and I cobbled together our own sets of homemade poi

I stepped out of grief...

 was this simple visual description. You know, we saw this in the core samples as they came up. We saw these alternations between sediments that look like this -- there's gravel and cobbles in there and a bunch of sand. That's the kind of material in the deep sea.

Rob Dunbar: The threat...

 It's true that there is no expiration date to grieve and time cannot undo a loss, but time away from work helped me figure out how daily life can coexist with grief. We don't want a grieving employee to have to cobble together vacation days and sick days

3 ways companies can...

 memory so how do we know this one we know that if you lose your memory you can't cobble together people with places or things but every day is new and not in a good way we live or you would live in an eternal presence and this is

Time is memory and you...

 from this mission. Now, here is a close up. Like I said sedimentary rock, so this is bits of old rock. So, think about the history here. There was rock on Mars. That rock broke apart, made sand and pebbles and cobbles and dust.

Mars Up Close, Part 3:...

 I'm giving a short slide show this morning that I'm giving for the very first time, so -- well it's -- I don't want or need to raise the bar, I'm actually trying to lower the bar. Because I've cobbled this together

New thinking on the...

 empty after calling cobble her home for six years she doesn't know if she can ever return you know today my uh we have a we have somebody who's very clear to us who helps out with the housework

Portraits of Afghanistan...

 meters of cobbles to dip our feet in the surf going to be walking across the world in the footsteps of the first ancestors who spread across the world