Bricks Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• You don’t try to build a wall, you don’t set out to build a wall. You don’t say ‘I’m going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that’s ever been built.’ You don’t start there… You say ‘I’m going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid.’ And you do that every single day and soon you have a wall.

  Will Smith

  Wall, Trying, Built

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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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• Everytime I see the Spice Girls, it makes me want to try to fly by
  climbing my roof and strapping bricks to my shoes.

  Eddie Vedder

  Girl, Shoes, Climbing

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• An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist.

  Sol LeWitt

  Artist, Foundation, Architect

  Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books

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• If we really believe that animals have the same right to be free from pain
  and suffering at our hands, then, of course we’re going to be, as a
  movement, blowing things up and smashing windows … I think it’s a great way
  to bring about animal liberation … I think it would be great if all of the
  fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories, and the banks that
  fund them exploded tomorrow. I think it's perfectly appropriate for people
  to take bricks and toss them through the windows ... Hallelujah to the
  people who are willing to do it.

  Bruce Friedrich

  Pain, Believe, Thinking

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

  Charles Reznikoff

  Lying, Rubbish, Stills

  Charles Reznikoff, Seamus Cooney (2005). “The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975”, p.107, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to the wonderful land of consensus. In place of honest argument among consenting adults the politicians substitute a lullaby for frightened children: the pretense that conflict doesn't really exist, that we have achieved the blessed state in which we no longer need politics.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Children, Blessed, Race

  Lewis H. Lapham (1995). “Hotel America: Scenes in the Lobby of the Fin-de-siècle”, p.18, Verso

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• I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and pebbles. I look upon the finest silken robes as tattered rags. I see myriad worlds of the universe as small seeds of fruit, and the greatest lake on Earth as a drop of oil on my foot.

  Gautama Buddha

  Kings, Lakes, Dust

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

  Jay-Z

  Rap, Hip Hop, Stones

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• 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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• 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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• 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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