Bricks Quotations

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.

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

I would run through brick walls for Spurs.

The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.

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

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.

I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, it's governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye.

The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.

I have never laid a brick in my life. But my people have laid more bricks than anybody else put together. Because I know how to pay.

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

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

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.

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

It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say.

Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.

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.

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.

The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.

I am confined to the Lego palate. I don't paint the bricks. I stick with what Lego has made. And the idea behind that is I do want to hopefully inspire kids to go home and create on their own. And if I do, I want them to be able to buy those very same bricks I use. So I don't alter the bricks; I just use what's provided.

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

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls.

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

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.

When I was in South Africa, I was meeting with people who never heard of Lego bricks. And yet, when I was like, 'Here they are,' they immediately got it. They saw the appeal, were snapping bricks and creating their little creations right there immediately.

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.

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.

You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

I don't think you can separate a place from its history. I think a place is much more than the bricks and mortar that go into its construction. I think it's more than the accidental topography of the ground it stands on.

Of course a sports psychologist can help - it's certainly helped me. People think you must be crackers if you've got a psychologist but psychology is part of the building bricks to make a top athlete.

Leadership without support is like trying to make bricks without enough straw. True leaders reinforce their ideas and plans with strategic partnerships, alliances and supportiveaudiences.

Mobs and looters have been hurling rocks and bricks at passing patrol police vehicles.

So far, there have been nearly 300 red athlete bricks purchased. Bricks in the Tribute Park are reserved for current and past Special Olympics Illinois athletes.

Composing is like driving down a foggy road.

I fought it hammer and tong, but the drummers had inoperable bricks in their head about it. What's worse is that they now want to remove all Dead music from the Web.

But still, I kept thinking, if I'm still troubled by this, if I'm still carrying it around like a big rucksack full of bricks and my father's dead, I need someone to tell me how to get rid of this great weight. . . . The most awful thing was that it was kind of pleasant physically, you know. That's why nobody tells.

Modern man threw a brick through his own window in order to sell himself a burglar alarm.

I firmly believe that the church is the people, not bricks and mortar,

Many creative people are finding that creativity doesn't grow in abundance, it grows from scarcity - the more Lego bricks you have doesn't mean you're going to be more creative; you can be very creative with very few Lego bricks.

I think the future lies in two different kinds of Internet players. The one is the bricks and clicks, and that will be the dominant factor in the business, ... The other one will be highly specialized pure play click operations that carry things, do things that are simply not available elsewhere through other channels.

I was the grunt. I used to carry the bricks and cement. I remember when my father gave me my first $100 bill. My eyes were huge.

I think having the names on bricks makes the statement that the community cares about people who serve this country.

It felt like I was playing with a ton of bricks on my chest.

It hit me like a ton of bricks that I needed to be there, ... There are fascinating advancements occurring in the biotech and genomics fields. We'll have to learn what's going on or we'll be sitting on the sidelines and be left out of touch.

It hit me like a ton of bricks that I needed to be there. There are fascinating advancements occurring in the biotech and genomics fields. We'll have to learn what's going on or we'll be sitting on the sidelines and be left out of touch.

I would love to see it filled with named bricks, but we can work with whatever happens. We could fill in with regular bricks and leave spaces for more named bricks.

Most disabled people would tell you that the bigger concerns they have around the workplace are not around physical accessibility. They're more around attitudes. I think it's easier to legislate and see change around bricks and mortar than it is around attitudes.

You let me throw the bricks through the front window. You go in at the back and take the swag.

You can enjoy it or use it as a burden, another stack of bricks on your back. We take it as a compliment. We're not going to hide.

When it let loose, it let loose. Bricks were falling on us. I gave up, and, somehow, floated to the top, and there was a big white roof there, and I got on top of it, and that was the end of it. I stayed there for four hours in the storm.

We're a little way away from where we want to be. We laid some bricks today.

When the bricks are engraved on site, the engraver has to clean the brick, then glue the stencil and wait for it to dry. Then he sandblasts the name and then he has to get the stencil up, clean the glue up and then clean up the mess from the sandblasting.

I carry my own church about under my own hat," said I. "Bricks and mortar won't make a staircase to heaven. I believe with your Master that the human heart is the best temple.

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

Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.

Time marches on. We've got a wonderful new facility under construction and it's Busch Stadium - it's just different bricks and mortar.

Those are $100,000 bricks of $100 bills and that?s $2 million there. This, in fact, is a payment that we made on the 1st of August to a company called Custer Battles.

We'd like the thread of history to stay alive, ... Even if the bricks were used for signage along the Centennial Trail, that would lessen the impact of losing the building.

Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide the bricks from which we build these cathedrals.

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.

Steve Bruce is like a cat on hot tin bricks.

For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can't possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have.

If you look at the top 20 companies of the world, 19 of them are still brick-and-mortar companies. I have nothing against tech companies. What I am saying is that if you have a car manufacturer or an oil and gas manufacturer, you won't get the supply over the Net.

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

I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, its governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye.

I really enjoy doing theater, but doing theater in Seattle is like dropping a brick in a bottomless well. It's gratifying, but it's almost like doing radio. It's ephemeral.

Eventually, someone is going to pick up a brick.

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

I grew up in a brick house. What's wrong with bricks? An Englishman took me aside and said, "You have to understand, all the bricklayers in England are Irish, and the English hate the Irish."

There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick.

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?

Good moods’re as fragile as eggs...Bad moods’re as fragile as bricks.

I could break bricks with my hands when I was 12.

You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.

Web services are the mortar. But you also have to consider the bricks and the shape of the building.

When you do landscaping, it's really expensive to buy old bricks like this.

Every year we have made it to the finals, it's like a ton of bricks have been lifted off my shoulders. But I am so at ease with this bunch. It reminds me of when my kids played all-stars (at Southeastern). Everybody is involved and that's what makes it special.

We think these results indicate the critical role Web shopping is beginning to play in the U.S. economy. Last year was the beta testing year online for holiday shopping?now we believe the gauntlet for traditional bricks and mortar stores has been thrown down.

Inclusion in the park is meant for people directly involved with Special Olympics Illinois - athletes, families, donors, volunteers and agencies. However, anyone can make a contribution to the park, either for the purchase of athlete bricks for those who cannot afford them or for an endowment fund to ensure that Special Olympics Illinois will be able to continue to offer the same quality sports training and competition opportunities for athletes in the future.

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.

I never fail to be amazed by the great number of people who do not practice scales and arpeggios, the very bricks and mortar of our everyday repertoire.

Infrastructure alone won't end poverty. The World Bank had to learn this lesson, too. While we believed too much in bricks and mortar in our early days, we now understand that bringing together funding, technical expertise, and tested knowledge goes much further.

I'm a troglodyte. I think that's the word for it. Like an old school weird person who throws bricks at their computers.

I haven't been to the free throw line in so long I forgot what it was like. I feel like I have to redo everything. Start all back over again. I couldn't believe how many bricks I shot at the free throw line.

I love to go out there and look at those bricks and imagine the stories behind them. There are bricks out there that clearly have secret messages and hidden messages to those who they are for, and there are some there for their family.

If the voters knew we were going to spend more money on bricks and mortar than we spend on the entire education system today ... these things don't look so rosy.

I've got to watch the film. I'm still not sure what happened. It just hit me like a ton of bricks throwing the game away.

The center only exists in a metaphysical sense at the moment. There are no bricks and mortar involved now. And indeed, in a strange way, I'm rather glad that it's not related to a specific building; in some way, I don't think it ever can be. I think there's going to be an expansion and a consolidation so that arts aren't ghettoized in a single building, but can instead interact across the campus.

As we get the plan solidified, you're going to see things start happening. Some you will physically see, and some will be more subtle. The physical bricks and mortar takes longer, because it does cost money.

Iraq was awash in cash - in dollar bills. Piles and piles of money. We played football with some of the bricks of $100 bills before delivery. It was a wild-west crazy atmosphere, the likes of which none of us had ever experienced.

In the name of 'mutual assistance,' the Soviet Union would occupy Latvia until 1991, and it continues to occupy Latvia: in the obedient, epic lines at the post office, in the fug of coal smoke outside cities, in the notorious apartment buildings made of bricks of radioactive compressed ash.

Children need to move to develop their brain; it's a natural urge. That's why boys will run after a ball and play soccer despite how many video games are available to them, and they can't help themselves from building with Lego bricks as well. They want to be creating something that's uniquely their own.

In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.

You can't have practice on the field when there's bricks and boards on the sidelines. ... It was a yard, two yards off the actual sideline, so anybody that runs out of bounds, you're going to run into a brick.

A good Christian is a velvet-covered brick.

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

In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.