Brick Quotes

312 Brick quotes by 257 unique authors

Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours… — Mumia Abu-Jamal
He handed her the other half of his candy bar. She stared at it like it was a brick of gold. "I'm on a diet."… — Jill Shalvis
Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to. — Charles Dickens
In my dream, it was the tongue of what is, and anything spoken in it becomes real, because nothing said in that language can be… — Neil Gaiman
One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What is the sense… — Dorothy Day
The brick of my life is music, but the mortar is faith. — Van Cliburn
You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls… — George Lucas
Our society is so caught up in winning, we forget that most of the great men and women in history have, at one time or… — Carleton Young
The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith… — Henry David Thoreau
We have embraced the 21st century by entering such cutting-edge industries as brick, carpet, insulation and paint. Try to control your excitement. — Warren Buffett
A politician's record is like a tin kettle to a dog's tale - it's a noisy appendage, wich makes the dog conspicuous and invites everybody… — Unknown Author
The ideal view for daily writing, hour for hour, is the blank brick wall of a cold-storage warehouse. Failing this, a stretch of sky will… — Edna Ferber
A lot of stand-up comedy is embarrassing: too many idiots doing it in orange neckties against brick walls. I find most sitcoms embarrassing, too, because… — Tracey Ullman
Pop music can absorb so many peculiar talents, ranging from the completely nonmusical poseur who just uses music as a kind of springboard for a… — Brian Eno
I loved being in London. Always walking everywhere, always out and about and always at markets, walking around Brick Lane and Covent Garden and Soho. — Alice Temperley
If London is the Emerald City, then Los Angeles is what exists at the other end of the yellow brick road. — Monika Chiang
When the days start to get shorter, I want to be in some nice brick building on the East Coast with the lights glowing in… — Ian Frazier
The point is that instead of a monolithic brick of printed content - delivered more or less unchanged to all subscribers - social media offers… — Ryan Holmes
I think the good thing about the Internet is to give something away and to sell something else. Get a business model like that because… — Roger McGuinn
The way to Everest is not a Yellow Brick Road. — Jon Krakauer
I would supplant the ox with the automobile and pave instead of plowing the fields. 1 have a theory that if a corn field were… — Susan Glaspell
I must have been very young, but I have a clear memory of drawing on a cream brick wall... with wax crayons. — Robert Ingpen
Chicago always hit me as such a gloomy place - I just remember all the snow getting dirty as soon as it would fall, all… — Terry Zwigoff
If you put a brick on my head and break it, I will be fine. — Chen Guangbiao
When I was at Berkeley, the framework of quantum field theory could calculate the dynamics of electromagnetism. It could roughly describe the motion of the… — David Gross

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