Bricks Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• 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, Praying

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• I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England when I was overtaken by a compulsion to start writing.

  Monica Ali

  Children, Writing, Holiday

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• A good Christian is a velvet-covered brick.

  Frederick W. Smith

  Christian, Velvet, Covered

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• 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, Watches

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• Healthy boundaries are important, but you may be building a brick wall when a picket fence would do.

  Amy Dickinson

  Wall, Women, Healthy

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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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• There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet?

  Charles Stross

  War, Believe, Writing

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• The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Spiritual, Science, Men

  "The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge".

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• The way to become famous fast is to throw a brick at someone who is famous.

  Walter Winchell

  Success, Way

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• Forty freaked me out. I didn't see it coming. My life was in a state of chaos - I was moving jobs and moving house - and it just hit me like a ton of bricks.

  Graham Norton

  Jobs, Moving, House

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• After the door of a woman's heart has once swung on its silent hinges, a man thinks he can prop it open with a brick and go away and leave it.

  Myrtle Reed

  Heart, Men, Thinking

  Myrtle Reed (2012). “The Spinster Book”, p.69, tredition

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• ’The Art of the Brick’ exhibition is accessible because it engages the child in all of us while simultaneously illuminating sophisticated and complex concepts. Everyone can relate to the medium since it is a toy that many children have at home. But my goal with this exhibition when it first debuted in 2007 was to elevate this simple plaything to a place it has never been before.

  Nathan Sawaya

  Art, Children, Home

  "The ‘Art of the Brick’ Is Coming to Boston". www.bostonmagazine.com. September 15, 2014.

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• If Mother had to be told not to shove the entire brick of Ivory up Junior's hindquarters, constipation is the least of his problems.

  James Lileks

  Mother, Ivory, Juniors

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