Bricks Quotes - Page 13

• I see ya waiting for the bus early in the morn', brick house with a face like Lena Horne.

  Coolio

  House, Waiting, Musical

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• There was something about the Cleveland Play House that was the holiest place - you know, with the ghost light on the stage and the brick. It was just the most beautiful theater in the world.

  Kathryn Hahn

  Beautiful, Light, Play

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

  Kate Mosse

  Library, Watches, Cherish

  "Author, author: Kate Mosse" by Kate Mosse, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2010.

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• Rebuilding a network is a slow, brick-by-brick process. It's not just creating a hit show - it's building shows to back up that hit show; it's creating an identity of success so that people want their shows on your network.

  Leslie Moonves

  Creating, People, Identity

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• Instead of putting flowers in books to flatten them you can use a brick.

  Nicole McKay

  Flower, Book, Use

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• You could carve out the inside of a brick and hide your money in it for safe keeping. It’s certainly safer than keeping it in the bank!

  Nicole McKay

  Safe Keeping, Safe

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• The Bible talks about building houses on sand and rock, but says nothing about a brick house built on a blanket.

  Nicole McKay

  Rocks, Building Houses, Sand

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• The critical reaction to 'Bloom' has been similar to 'Brick.' There are people on board with it and people who are not.

  Rian Johnson

  People, Boards, Reactions

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• With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.

  Rian Johnson

  Scripts

  "Rian Johnson on his writing process and the appeal of alternate-history films". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 27, 2012.

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• Back before 'Brick,' I wrote a short film that I never ended up shooting: hit men in the present who work for a mob in the future who send their victims back in time. A guy is sent his future self, he lets him run, and the whole short was them chasing each other across the city. That sat in a drawer for 10 years until after I made 'Brothers Bloom.

  Rian Johnson

  Running, Brother, Men

  "Why Looper is director Rian Johnson's best film yet". Interview with Peter Rubin, www.wired.com. September 27, 2012.

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• In New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours.

  George D. Prentice

  New York, Twilight, Cities

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• Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Character, Men, Bricks And Mortar

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nathan Haskell Dole, George Henry Lewes, Thomas Carlyle, John Storer Cobb (1902*). “The Works of Goethe”

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

  Chris Hadfield

  Wall, Together, Collaboration

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.69, Pan Macmillan

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• Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration.

  Frank Yerby

  Wall, Believe, Inspiration

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• 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.

  David James

  Athlete, Thinking, People

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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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• At Halicarnassus, the house of that most potent king Mausolus, though decorated throughout with Proconnesian marble, has walls built of brick which are to this day of extraordinary strength, and are covered with stucco so highly polished that they seem to be as glistening as glass. That king did not use brick from poverty; for he was choke-full of revenues, being ruler of all Caria.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Kings, Wall, Glasses

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book II, Chapter VIII, Section 10), circa 15 BC.

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• 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.

  Sarah Waters

  Space, House, Facts

  Sarah Waters (2006). “The Night Watch”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• One modest suggestion for my friends in the academic community: the next time a mob of students, waving their non-negotiable demands, starts pitching bricks and rocks at the student union- just imagine they are wearing brown shirts or white sheets- and act accordingly.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Education, Rocks, White

  John R. Coyne, Spiro T. Agnew (1972). “The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment”, New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House

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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 difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional deadness of his academic prose; and is always coining newer, deader words with a natural preference for Greek formations. The poet avoids the entire vocabulary of logic unless for satiric purposes, and treats words as living creatures with a preference for those with long emotional histories dating from mediaeval times. Poetry at its purest is, indeed, a defiance of logic.

  Robert Graves

  Simple, Emotional, Differences

  Robert Graves, Patrick J. Quinn (2000). “Some speculations on literature, history, and religion”, Carcanet Press Ltd.

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• The whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man, but such conditions do not exist. Things may be treated without love; one may chop wood, make bricks, forge iron without love, but one can no more deal with people without love than one can handle bees without care.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Lying, Men, Thinking

  Leo Tolstoy (2015). “The Resurrection: Tolstoy's Collections”, p.274, 谷月社

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• It’s up to you to fill it. Find things that mean something to you, that represent times where you’ve overcome an obstacle, learned something important. Put those items in the bag and they’ll help you find your strength.’ ‘I’m not sure if that’s going to help much.’ Unless I put a brick in it and nail Brandy between the eyes.

  Jana Oliver

  Mean, Eye, Important

  Jana Oliver (2013). “Demon Trappers 1-3: Forsaken, Forbidden, Forgiven”, p.207, Pan Macmillan

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• Once upon a time there were two parents, two children, and a brick house with lilies in the yard. The parents died, the lilies wilted. One child disappeared. Then the other." Pg 225

  Lauren DeStefano

  Children, Two, House

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• I swear, talking to you is like talking to a really good-looking and mildly stupid brick wall.

  Derek Landy

  Wall, Stupid, Talking

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