The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble. — Christopher Wren Copy Share Image
It is too expensive to have a bricks and mortar presence everywhere. — Arundhati Bhattacharya Copy Share Image
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift, that's why we call it the present. If I am not… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Identity politics divides us; fiction connects. One is interested in sweeping generalizations, the other in nuances. One draws boundaries, the other recognizes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Boxing’s an art, it’s a science, and you don’t go out to knock people out. If they happen to get knocked out,… — Roy Jones Jr Copy Share Image
Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
To propel a dirigible balloon through the air is like pushing a candle through a brick wall. — Alberto Santos-Dumont Copy Share Image
Anyone who lives in a city will know the feeling of having been there too long. The gorge-vision that the streets imprint… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
So we went to bed, assaulted by sleep that fumed at us from medicine glasses, or was wielded from small sweet-coated tablets… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
I have managed to eke out a good and substantial existence. I'm not shoveling gold bricks or anything, but I do very,… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
It's supposed to feel good to throw a brick at the right people. There is a long tradition of naming and ridiculing… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
Fang looked at the newest bird kid. Dylan was an inch or two taller than he was, and somewhat heavier built, though… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Time is in itself [not] a difficulty, but a time-rate, assumed on very insufficient grounds, is used as a master-key, whether or… — Joseph Prestwich Copy Share Image
The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful feeling to have a niece like you Because you are always so dear You are so dear no matter… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Where are Shakespeare's imagination, Bacon's learning, Galileo's dream? Where is the sweet fancy of Sidney, the airy spirit of Fletcher, and Milton's… — Bryan Procter Copy Share Image
I love the long-form rehearsal process with theater, brick by brick, to build another life. — Vik Sahay Copy Share Image
I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving… — Victoria Wood Copy Share Image
Remember brick walls let us show our dedication. They are there to separate us from the people who don't really want to… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
We have got to extend the hand of friendship, we have got to take the peacelines down brick by brick — David Ervine Copy Share Image