Bricks Quotes - Page 10

• The sunset looks beautiful over the projects...
  What a shame, it ain't the same where we stand at.
  If you look close, you can see the bricks chipped off.
  Sometimes niggas miss when they lick off.

  Prodigy

  Beautiful, Rap, Sunset

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• From this height the sleeping city seems like a child's construction, a model which has refused to be constrained by imagination. The volcanic plug might be black Plasticine, the castle balanced solidly atop it a skewed rendition of crenellated building bricks. The orange street lamps are crumpled toffee-wrappers glued to lollipop sticks.

  Ian Rankin

  Children, Sleep, Cities

  Ian Rankin (2010). “Dead Souls: An Inspector Rebus Novel”, p.3, Macmillan

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• A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of imporant things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the centre of his compass at his own home.

  Kobo Abe

  Home, Knowing, Glasses

  Kobo Abe (2011). “The Woman in the Dunes”, p.94, Vintage

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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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• Eternity is not a long time; rather, it is another dimension. It is that dimension to which time-thinking shuts us. And so there never was a creation. Rather, there is a continuous creating going on. This energy is pouring into every cell of our being right now, every board and brick of the buildings we sit in, every grain of sand and wisp of wind.

  Joseph Campbell

  Thinking, Cells, Wind

  Joseph Campbell, David Kudler (2003). “Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal”, p.52, New World Library

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• 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, Break Through, Digging

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• Do not dismantle the house, but look at each brick, and replace those which appear to be broken, which no longer support the structure.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Broken, House, Support

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.69, Penguin

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• 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, Building

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• As a child I had no toys; our house was bombed, but there were lots of bricks. Ruins are wonderful because they are the beginning of something new, you can do something with them.

  Anselm Kiefer

  Children, House, Ruins

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• Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United States are of the Ramshackle order, though some of our earlier architects preferred the Ironic. Recent additions to the White House in Washington are Theo-Doric, the ecclesiastic order of the Dorians. They are exceedingly fine and cost one hundred dollars a brick.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Order, White, House

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• You can spread your soul over a paddy field, you can whisper to a mango tree, you can feel the earth between your toes and know that this is the place, the place where it begins and ends. But what can you tell to a pile of bricks? The bricks will not be moved (page 87).

  Monica Denise Brown

  Tree, Soul, Fields

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• I strained to remember where I was or even what I was wearing, touching my green corduroy jeans and staring at the exposed-brick wall. As my paranoia deepened, I became convinced that I had died and no one was telling me.

  Maureen Dowd

  Wall, Jeans, Touching

  "Maureen Dowd Tries Edible Marijuana And Has A Really, Really Bad Trip" by Ed Mazza, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2014.

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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 Tharoor

  Together, Democracy, Window

  Speech at the UN's World Press Freedom Day, May 3, 2001.

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

  Scott Lynch

  Enlightenment

  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.129, Del Rey

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• Be united with other Christians. A wall with loose bricks is not good. The bricks must be cemented together.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Christian, Wall, Together

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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

  Lying, Add, Temples

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• The past is never completely lost, however extensive the devastation. Your sorrows are the bricks and mortar of a magnificent temple. What you are today and what you will be tomorrow are because of what you have been.

  Gordon Wright

  Past, Bricks And Mortar, Sorrow

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• If you want to knock down the wall between you and the life of your dreams, it's best to do it one brick at a time!

  Paul McKenna

  Dream, Wall, Want

  FaceBook post by Paul McKenna from Jun 12, 2016

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• Anyone who lives in a city will know the feeling of having been there too long. The gorge-vision that the streets imprint on us, the sense of blockage, the longing for surfaces other than glass, brick, concrete and tarmac....I have lived in Cambridge on and off for a decade, and I imagine I will continue to do so for years to come. And for as long as I stay here, I know I will have to also get to the wild places.

  Robert Macfarlane

  Years, Cities, Wild Places

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• Remember brick walls let us show our dedication. They are there to separate us from the people who don't really want to achieve their childhood dreams.

  Randy Pausch

  Dream, Wall, Dedication

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

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• I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.

  Victoria Wood

  Mean, Luck, Degrees

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• No man should think that peace comes easily. Peace does not come by merely wanting it, or shouting for it, or marching down Main Street for it. Peace is built brick by brick, mortared by the stubborn effort and the total energy and imagination of able and dedicated men. And it is built in the living faith that, in the end, man can and will master his own destiny.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Life, Peace, Thinking

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• It's a shame publishers send rejection slips. Writers should get something more substantial than a slip that amounts to a pile of confetti. Publishers should send something heavier. Editors should send out rejection bricks, so at the end of a lot of years, you would have something to show besides a wheelbarrow of rejection slips. Instead you could have enough bricks to build a house.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Years, Editors, Rejection

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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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• Sometimes life hits you like a brick in the face. Don't give up.

  Steve Jobs

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Faces

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