quotes about Bricks
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I could break bricks with my hands when I was 12.
-- Akshay Kumar -
A career is like a house: it's made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.
-- Andrea BocelliSource : "Portrait of the Artist: Andrea Bocelli, Tenor". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2010.
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You simply keep putting down one damn word after the other, as you hear them, as they come to you. You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist.
-- Anne Lamott -
Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
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The transistor was a small plastic unit that would take us from a world of static bricks piled on top of each other to a world where everything was interactive.
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The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.
-- Bernard TschumiSource : Bernard Tschumi (1996). “Architecture and Disjunction”, p.247, MIT Press
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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.
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How can one not succumb and allow one's courage to fail when everything is shut tight, when all meaningful things are walled up, and when you constantly knock against bricks, as against the walls of a prison?
-- Bruno SchulzSource : Bruno Schulz, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Goldfarb (2008). “The street of crocodiles and other stories”, Penguin Classics
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You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.
-- Bryan Cranston -
What's the point in wasting a perfectly good brick wall when you have someone to throw against it, that's what I always say.
-- Cassandra Clare -
Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies/ a girder, still itself among the rubbish
-- Charles ReznikoffSource : Charles Reznikoff, Seamus Cooney (2005). “The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975”, p.107, David R. Godine Publisher
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I did not threaten anybody in any moment and even less with a brick.
-- Chico Flores -
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Haters are my favorite. I´ve built an empire with the bricks they´ve thrown at me. Keep on hating.
-- CM Punk -
We have got to extend the hand of friendship, we have got to take the peacelines down brick by brick
-- David Ervine -
Good moods’re as fragile as eggs...Bad moods’re as fragile as bricks.
-- David Mitchell -
Eventually, someone is going to pick up a brick.
-- David Simon -
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They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.
-- Dorothy Day -
A good Christian is a velvet-covered brick.
-- Frederick W. Smith -
Lord Maccon was built like a brick outhouse, with opinions twice as unmoving and often equally full of crap.
-- Gail Carriger -
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I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don't know where it's going to lead me, but I follow it.
-- Grace JonesSource : "We're Off to See the Wizard (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)" (song) (1939)
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Never build after you are five and forty; have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate the expense at double the estimate.
-- Henry Kett -
The important thing is to take the bricklayer and make him understand that he’s building a home, not just laying bricks.
-- Herb Kelleher -
In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
-- Jack Dee -
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Everything starts with one step, or one brick, or one word or one day
-- Jeremy Gilley -
He handed her the other half of his candy bar. She stared at it like it was a brick of gold. "I'm on a diet." But she took it. "A see-food diet, apparently. I see food and I eat it.
-- Jill Shalvis -
Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous.
-- John Bonham -
The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.
-- John Dos PassosSource : John Dos Passos (1970). “The theme is freedom”
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We speak piously of ... making small studies that will add another brick to the temple of science. Most such bricks just lie around the brickyard.
-- John R. Platt -
The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different.
-- John SzarkowskiSource : William Eggleston, John Szarkowski (2002). “William Eggleston's Guide”
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
-- Jonathan Safran Foer -
Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
-- Kate MosseSource : "Author, author: Kate Mosse" by Kate Mosse, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2010.
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Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks.
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He really wished she would stop fingering the brick.
-- Larissa Ione -
Don't wish for bricks when you can build from stone.
-- Leigh Bardugo -
Lovers communicate not inside sentences, but between them. Passion lurks within interstice. It is grouting rather than bricks.
-- Lionel ShriverSource : Lionel Shriver (2007). “The Post-Birthday World”, Harper
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Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.
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You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.' And you say to brick, 'Look, I want one, too, but arches are expensive and I can use a concrete lintel.' And then you say: 'What do you think of that, brick?' Brick says: 'I like an arch.'
-- Louis Kahn -
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
-- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -
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This is about as comforting as a cold brick when you're lonely.
-- Maggie Stiefvater -
If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance, and hit him with a brick.
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Women are from their very infancy debarred those advantages with the want of which they are aftewards reproached, and nursed up in those vices which will hereafter be upbraided to them. So partial are men as to expect bricks when they afford no straw ...
-- Mary AstellSource : 1694 A Serious Proposal to the Ladies For the Advancement of their True and Greatest Interest,'By a Lover of Her Sex', pt.1.
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A brick layer, lays bricks... I'm an Actor, that's what I do.
-- Michael Chiklis -
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Build your life brick upon brick, Live a life of truth, And you will look back on a life of truth. Live a life of fantasy, And you will look back on delusion.
-- Ming-Dao Deng -
I avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem and then work around it. It's building brick by brick.
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I love mythic stuff. I love playing with gods, I love playing with myths. A lot of it has to do with that they're the basic places stories come from. They're the clay that you make the bricks out of.
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I don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom,' by Jonathan Franzen, a great big brick of a book, and I'm loving it.
-- Nick Clegg -
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If you're a struggling artist having money problems just superglue a brick in the middle of a blanket, and call it art. Someone will buy it.
-- Nicole McKay -
You should go into every relationship as a brick and not a blanket.
-- Nicole McKay -
Instead of putting flowers in books to flatten them you can use a brick.
-- Nicole McKay -
You could carve out the inside of a brick and hide your money in it for safe keeping. It’s certainly safer than keeping it in the bank!
-- Nicole McKay -
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The Bible talks about building houses on sand and rock, but says nothing about a brick house built on a blanket.
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Angry and frustrated, the journalists set about making bricks without straw ...
-- Patricia Moyes -
I won't forget the hood. I won't forget the days of catching a bullet on the way to the mailbox or bricks with death threats that somehow made their way through the window.
-- Pau GasolSource : ""I've Never, Ever Liked Elvis": an Interview with Laker Pau Gasol". Interview with Dan Gurley, bleacherreport.com. May 8, 2008.
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Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.
-- Paul Simon -
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At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall.
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To put one brick upon another, Add a third, and then a fourth, Leaves no time to wonder whether What you do has any worth.
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The family is where we are formed as people. Every family is a brick in the building of society
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Brick walls are there for reason. And once you get over them-- even if someone has practically had to throw you over-- it can be helpful to others to tell them how you did it.
-- Randy Pausch -
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How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road.
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Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick.
-- Red Smith -
With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.
-- Rian Johnson -
The critical reaction to 'Bloom' has been similar to 'Brick.' There are people on board with it and people who are not.
-- Rian Johnson -
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I have managed to eke out a good and substantial existence. I'm not shoveling gold bricks or anything, but I do very, very well.
-- Rufus Wainwright -
If you don't break a hole through the brick wall, don't just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that wall.
-- Russell Simmons -
I'd rather drive the yellow brick road, you wouldn't happen to know of a rental car place around.
-- Ryan Stiles -
We'll build a democracy here, even if it's with Nazi bricks.
-- Samuel Fuller -
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Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in
-- Sandra Cisneros -
She supposed that houses, after all - like the lives that were lived in them - were mostly made of space. It was the spaces, in fact, which counted, rather than the bricks.
-- Sarah WatersSource : Sarah Waters (2006). “The Night Watch”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)
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Enlightenment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn't it?
-- Scott Lynch -
My disinterest in your bullshit is so tangible you could make bricks out of it
-- Scott LynchSource : Scott Lynch (2015). “The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves”, p.1999, Del Rey
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I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.
-- ShakiraSource : "'I Know What I Stand For'". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. November 29, 2009.
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An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist.
-- Sol LeWittSource : Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books
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A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
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He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble. [Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit.]
-- Suetonius -
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I found Rome built of bricks; I leave her clothed in marble.
-- SuetoniusSource : Suetonius (1980). “The twelve Caesars”, Penguin Group USA
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I thought we’d turned a corner. Maybe we did, but we hit a brick wall anyway.
-- Sylvia Day -
It's nice to be able to engage with this fan base that I've worked to build, brick by brick.
-- Terri Clark -
Protoplasm, simple or nucleated, is the formal basis of all life. It is the clay of the potter: which, bake it and paint it as hewill, remains clay, separated by artifice, and not by nature from the commonest brick or sun-dried clod.
-- Thomas Huxley -
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We pave the sunlit path toward justice together, brick by brick. This is my brick.
-- Tim Cook -
The brick of my life is music, but the mortar is faith.
-- Van Cliburn -
The way to become famous fast is to throw a brick at someone who is famous.
-- Walter Winchell -
You don’t try to build a wall, you don’t set out to build a wall. You don’t say ‘I’m going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that’s ever been built.’ You don’t start there… You say ‘I’m going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid.’ And you do that every single day and soon you have a wall.
-- Will Smith -
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Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.
-- William J. H. Boetcker -
I love the long-form rehearsal process with theater, brick by brick, to build another life.
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All in all you're just another brick in the wall
-- Roger WatersSource : Song: Another Brick in the Wall, Part II
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Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy -- and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks.
-- Shashi TharoorSource : Speech at the UN's World Press Freedom Day, May 3, 2001.
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Houses are built brick-by-brick. HOMEs are built word-by-word. Houses don't build themselves. So YOU must build your home.
-- Tara Fela-Durotoye -
The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.
-- John Oates -
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Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.
-- John SimonSource : "Michael Billington on actors" by Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2012.