Bricks famous quotes

I could break bricks with my hands when I was 12.
-- Akshay Kumar

#Hands #Bricks #Break

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 Bocelli

#Careers #House #Bricks

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

#Writing #Artist #Bricks

Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Data #Clay #Bricks

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.
-- Ayah Bdeir

#Technology #World #Bricks

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 Tschumi

#Eye #Shelter #Bricks

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.
-- Bill Delahunt

#Community #Lines #Bricks

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 Schulz

#Meaningful #Wall #Bricks

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

#Needs #Bricks #Tvs

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

#Wall #Bricks #Fallen Angels

Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies/ a girder, still itself among the rubbish
-- Charles Reznikoff

#Lying #Rubbish #Bricks

I did not threaten anybody in any moment and even less with a brick.
-- Chico Flores

#Football #League #Bricks

Haters are my favorite. I´ve built an empire with the bricks they´ve thrown at me. Keep on hating.
-- CM Punk

#Hater #Empires #Bricks

We have got to extend the hand of friendship, we have got to take the peacelines down brick by brick
-- David Ervine

#Hands #Bricks

Good moods’re as fragile as eggs...Bad moods’re as fragile as bricks.
-- David Mitchell

#Eggs #Bad Mood #Bricks

Eventually, someone is going to pick up a brick.
-- David Simon

#Bricks

They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.
-- Dorothy Day

#Progress #Bricks #Steps

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.
-- Eminem

#Bricks #Fame

A good Christian is a velvet-covered brick.
-- Frederick W. Smith

#Christian #Velvet #Bricks

Lord Maccon was built like a brick outhouse, with opinions twice as unmoving and often equally full of crap.
-- Gail Carriger

#Bricks #Opinion #Lord

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 Jones

#Yellow #Flow #Bricks

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

#Hands #Years #Bricks

The important thing is to take the bricklayer and make him understand that he’s building a home, not just laying bricks.
-- Herb Kelleher

#Home #Important #Bricks

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

#Swimming #Feet #Bricks

Everything starts with one step, or one brick, or one word or one day
-- Jeremy Gilley

#One Day #Bricks #Steps

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

#Gold #Bricks #Bars

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

#Wall #Bricks #Sometimes

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 Passos

#Views #Bricks #Add

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

#Lying #Add #Bricks

The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different.
-- John Szarkowski

#Different #World #Bricks

In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
-- Jonathan Safran Foer

#Wall #Bricks #Brick Wall

Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
-- Kate Mosse

#Library #Watches #Bricks

Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks.
-- Khaled Hosseini

#Air #Breathing #Bricks

He really wished she would stop fingering the brick.
-- Larissa Ione

#Bricks

Don't wish for bricks when you can build from stone.
-- Leigh Bardugo

#Wish #Stones #Bricks

Lovers communicate not inside sentences, but between them. Passion lurks within interstice. It is grouting rather than bricks.
-- Lionel Shriver

#Passion #Bricks #Lovers

Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.
-- Lord Dunsany

#Memories #Imagination #Bricks

Even a brick wants to be something
-- Louis Kahn

#Want #Bricks

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

#Thinking #Bricks #Looks

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
-- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

#Two #Together #Bricks

This is about as comforting as a cold brick when you're lonely.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Lonely #Comforting #Bricks

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.
-- Mark Twain

#Doubt #Bricks #Watches

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 Astell

#Men #Want #Bricks

A brick layer, lays bricks... I'm an Actor, that's what I do.
-- Michael Chiklis

#Bricks #Actors #Layers

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

#Motivational #Bricks #Looks

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.
-- Muhammad Yunus

#Roots #Pieces #Bricks

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.
-- Neil Gaiman

#Stuff #Bricks #Clay

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

#Book #Reading #Bricks

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

#Art #Struggle #Bricks

You should go into every relationship as a brick and not a blanket.
-- Nicole McKay

#Bricks #Should #Blanket

Instead of putting flowers in books to flatten them you can use a brick.
-- Nicole McKay

#Book #Flower #Bricks

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

#Safe #Bricks

The Bible talks about building houses on sand and rock, but says nothing about a brick house built on a blanket.
-- Nicole McKay

#Rocks #House #Bricks

Angry and frustrated, the journalists set about making bricks without straw ...
-- Patricia Moyes

#Frustrated #Bricks #Journalism

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 Gasol

#Bullets #Way #Bricks

Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.
-- Paul Simon

#Wall #Believe #Bricks

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.
-- Peter Maxwell Davies

#Art #Wall #Bricks

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.
-- Philip Larkin

#Work #Bricks #Add

The family is where we are formed as people. Every family is a brick in the building of society
-- Pope Francis

#People #Bricks #Building

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

#Wall #Bricks #Helpful

How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road.
-- Ray Bolger

#Lonely #Yellow #Bricks

Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick.
-- Red Smith

#Writing #Bricks #Bricklaying

With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.
-- Rian Johnson

#Scripts #Bricks

The critical reaction to 'Bloom' has been similar to 'Brick.' There are people on board with it and people who are not.
-- Rian Johnson

#People #Bricks #Boards

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

#Gold #Bricks #Existence

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

#Wall #Digging #Bricks

I'd rather drive the yellow brick road, you wouldn't happen to know of a rental car place around.
-- Ryan Stiles

#Yellow #Car #Bricks

We'll build a democracy here, even if it's with Nazi bricks.
-- Samuel Fuller

#Democracy #Bricks #Nazi

Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in
-- Sandra Cisneros

#Doors #Bricks #Crumbling

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 Waters

#Space #House #Bricks

Enlightenment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn't it?
-- Scott Lynch

#Enlightenment #Bricks

My disinterest in your bullshit is so tangible you could make bricks out of it
-- Scott Lynch

#Bullshit #Bricks #Tangible

I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.
-- Shakira

#Careers #Sun #Bricks

An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist.
-- Sol LeWitt

#Artist #Bricks #Foundation

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
-- Stephen Leacock

#Trust #Half #Bricks

He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble. [Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit.]
-- Suetonius

#Cities #Bricks #Augustus

I found Rome built of bricks; I leave her clothed in marble.
-- Suetonius

#Rome #Bricks #Found

I thought we’d turned a corner. Maybe we did, but we hit a brick wall anyway.
-- Sylvia Day

#Wall #Bricks #Brick Wall

It's nice to be able to engage with this fan base that I've worked to build, brick by brick.
-- Terri Clark

#Nice #Able #Bricks

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

#Simple #Sun #Bricks

We pave the sunlit path toward justice together, brick by brick. This is my brick.
-- Tim Cook

#Justice #Together #Bricks

The brick of my life is music, but the mortar is faith.
-- Van Cliburn

#Inspirational #Bricks #Life Is

The way to become famous fast is to throw a brick at someone who is famous.
-- Walter Winchell

#Success #Bricks #Way

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

#Wall #Trying #Bricks

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

#Strong #Men #Bricks

Follow the yellow brick road.
-- Yip Harburg

#Yellow #Bricks #Brick Roads

I love the long-form rehearsal process with theater, brick by brick, to build another life.
-- Vik Sahay

#Long #Rehearsal #Bricks

All in all you're just another brick in the wall
-- Roger Waters

#Wall #Expression #Bricks

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 Tharoor

#Together #Democracy #Bricks

A heap of bricks is not yet a house.
-- I. L. Peretz

#House #Bricks

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

#Home #House #Bricks

The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.
-- John Oates

#Bricks And Mortar #Bricks #Mortar

Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.
-- John Simon

#Funny #Flying #Bricks