Brick Wall Quotes - Page 3

• Ever hear of the phrase, Banging you're head on a brick wall?" Ah, but you forget, Darren, vampires can break brick walls with their heads.

  Darren Shan

  Wall, Vampire, Phrases

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• Whether it's a street poster on a brick wall, a magazine cover on a newsstand, or animation on a movie screen - art is an effective means of communicating with large numbers of people.

  Eric Drooker

  Art, Wall, Mean

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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

  Wall, Bricks, Helpful

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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

  Chris Darwin

  Wall, Climbing, Bricks

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• When you feel that you are at the end of your path and there is a ten foot high brick wall right there in front of you, and you have nowhere to go but backwards, break down that wall and move forward. There are great and wonderful things on the other side of that wall... and, they have always been there. Let nothing divide you from what you need to do in life, and see the solutions that are right in front of you. The key is, you must break down what separates you from them and choose to find them.

  Rich Barnes

  Motivational, Wall, Moving

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• When Christian pushes into the brick wall of the building catty-corner to the rear of BB&B—first left on the Dark Zone side—and disappears, I melt down in a fit of the giggles. I toss a rock at the spot where he vanished. It bounces off the brick and clatters to the cobblestone. I'm feeling twenty shades of Harry Potter's train station, especially when he pokes his head out of the wall and says impatiently, "Come on, lass. This is hardly my favorite place to be.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Christian, Wall, Dark

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• The opposite of humility is arrogance--the belief that we are wiser or better than others. Arrogance promotes separation rather than community. It looms like a brick wall between us and those from whom we could learn.

  John Templeton

  Wall, Humility, Opposites

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• Vladimir Putin is a smart guy. I don't like him, smart guy. He is going to advance the cause of Russia until he hits a brick wall. He's hit a brick wall in a few areas. I think we need to make it clear that your growth of the former Soviet Union is over. You can be a great power that's respected. Fine. But this is not going to be the old Soviet Union.

  Adam Kinzinger

  Wall, Smart, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• But one kiss levitates above all the others. The intersection of function and desire. The I do kiss. The I’ll love you through a brick wall kiss. Even when I’m dead, I’ll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.

  Jeffrey McDaniel

  Wall, Love You, Kissing

  Jeffrey McDaniel (2002). “Splinter Factory”, p.55, Manic D Press

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• A lot of my colleagues are content to be character actors who are always in the background. I'm not that guy. I'm the guy who wants the limelight. Gimme the ball and I'll run it through a brick wall for you. I'll be your biggest soldier.

  Terry Crews

  Running, Wall, Character

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• The thing that's most uppermost in my mind and will continue to be until I hit a brick wall is that I am dead serious, dead serious about going after George Bush, trying to get him into an American courtroom and prosecute him for what happened in Iraq.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Wall, Iraq, Mind

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• As a dancer I had worked with really hard choreographers, Jerome Robbins being the toughest. And you learned what it is to hit against a brick wall. And you learned pretty quickly to go around the wall or say, "I can't take this job."

  Joan Tewkesbury

  Jobs, Wall, Dancer

  Interview with Meredith Danluck, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 22, 2015.

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• Science is the process of crash testing ideas: you ram the idea head-on into a brick wall at 60mph, and knowledge is gained by examining the pieces. If the theory is solid, the pieces are from the wall. Then we build a bigger wall.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Wall, Ideas, Rams

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• If it had been easy for Romeo to get to Juliet, nobody would have cared. Same goes for Cyrano and Don Quixote and Gatsby and their respective paramours. What captures the imagination is watching men throw themselves at a brick wall over and over again, and wondering if this is the time that they won't be able to get back up.

  Jodi Picoult

  Wall, Men, Imagination

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.333, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which meant that one room in our house opened up onto a brick wall. And I was convinced all I had to do was just open it the right way and it wouldn't be a brick wall. So I'd sidle over to the door and I'd pull it open.

  Neil Gaiman

  Wall, Kids, Doors

  "Author Neil Gaiman Plays Not My Job". Interview with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. December 22, 2011.

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• You yourself are to blame. This weeping and wailing and knocking your heads into corners [against brick walls, as it were] will not do you the least good.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Wall, Bricks, Blame

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4493, Manonmani Publishers

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• No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume. We can't bear to be without it, but no, nobody's addicted. We could turn it off anytime we wanted. I fit a window frame into a brick wall. With a little brush, the size for fingernail polish, I glue it. The window is the size of a fingernail. The glue smells like hair spray. The smell tastes like oranges and gasoline.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Wall, Hair, Smell

  "Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2002.

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• He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration.

  Robert Musil

  Running, Wall, Freedom

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• Dennis Hutch had stepped up into the top seat when its founder had died of a lethal overdose of brick wall, taken while under the influence of a Ferrari and a bottle of tequila.

  Douglas Adams

  Wall, Taken, Ferrari

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.410, Simon and Schuster

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• The fact is that you could not be, and still cannot be, a 25-year-old homosexual trying to make it in the British film business or the American film business or even the Italian film business. It just doesn't work and you're going to hit a brick wall at some point.

  Rupert Everett

  Wall, Italian, Years

  "I wouldn't advise any actor thinking of his career to come out" by Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2009.

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• No," he said calmly, filled with purpose. he took her arms lightly in his hands and shook her. "I am not giving you up." Emily looked at him, and for just a moment he could read her thoughts. Melanie use to say they were like twins, with their own secret, silent language. in that instant, Chris felt her fear and her resignation, and the knotty pain of coming up against a brick wall again and again. She glanced away, and he could breathe again. "The thing is, Chris" Emily said, "it's not your choice.

  Jodi Picoult

  Pain, Wall, Hands

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• He..." Richard began. "The marquis. Well, you know, to be honest, he seems a little bit dodgy to me." Door stopped. The steps dead-ended in a rough brick wall. "Mm," she agreed. "He's a little bit dodgy in the same way that rats are a little bit covered in fur.

  Neil Gaiman

  Wall, Doors, Fur

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• Pattern recognition and association make up the core of our thought. These activities involve millions of operations carried out in parallel, outside the field of our consciousness. If AI appeared to hit a brick wall after a few quick victories, it did so owing to its inability to emulate these processes.

  Daniel Crevier

  Wall, Victory, Inability

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• Wind and storm colored July. Also, in the middle, cadaverous, awful, lay the grey puddle in the courtyard, when holding an envelope in my hand, I carried a message. I came to the puddle. I could not cross it. Identity failed me. We are nothing, I said, and fell. I was blown like a feather. I was wafted down tunnels. Then very gingerly, I pushed my foot across. I laid my hand against a brick wall. I returned very painfully, drawing myself back into my body over the grey, cadaverous space of the puddle. This is life then to which I am committed.

  Virginia Woolf

  Wall, Tunnels, July

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• If you've got a Corvette that runs into a brick wall, you know what's going to happen. He's a Corvette. I'm a brick wall.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Running, Wall

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