Bricks Quotes

If I could only remember that the days were not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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."

You can't change the bricks, and together, you still have to build a wall.

Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick)

A good Christian is a velvet-covered brick.

Geoff Hurst had a hammer in his left boot and good left feet are like bricks of gold.

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

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

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.

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

What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.

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

Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop.

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

The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar.

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.

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

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

Houses are built brick-by-brick. HOMEs are built word-by-word. Houses don't build themselves. So YOU must build your home.

As we've said, it's not a coincidence that Fear Itself, Schism, and other big stories end at the same time. This is the first brick in the next road.

A heap of bricks is not yet a house.

For Kips Bay, I had a wonderful client, William Zeckendorf, who was willing to gamble with me on using concrete and not brick for a high-rise apartment building. That was very innovative at the time.

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.

His eyes were rolling in their sockets, and his face had taken on the colour and expression of a devout tomato. I could see he loved like a thousand bricks.

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

Martin Luther King's legacy is never to be measured by bricks and mortar, but rather by the kind of lives that we live, and the kind of love and service that we render.

A politician's record is like a tin kettle to a dog's tale - it's a noisy appendage, wich makes the dog conspicuous and invites everybody to shy a brick at him.

Eventually, someone is going to pick up a brick.

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

The Nets' a stone throw from where I used to throw bricks ...So it's only right I'm still tossing 'round Knicks.

Box-office poison? Mr. Louis B. Mayer always asserted that the studio had built Stage 22, Stage 24 and the Irving Thalberg Building, brick by brick, from the income on my pictures.

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.

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.

As large as worlds. As old as Time. As patient as a brick.

We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?

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

Because nearly all digital libraries are tied to bricks-and-mortar institutions, the funding base tends to be quite localized.

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.

Steve Bruce is like a cat on hot tin 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.

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

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

In fact if I see you drinking I'll come down on you like a ton of bricks and call your mom.

Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.