Bricks Quotes
393 quotes by 333 authors
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She was a beautiful woman dragging a crippled foot and I was that foot. I was bricks sewn into the hem of her clothes, I…
— Janet Fitch
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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.…
— Jana Oliver
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As always, the blessed relief of starting, a feeling that was like falling into a hole filled with bright light. As always, the glum knowledge…
— Stephen King
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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.…
— Lauren DeStefano
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I swear, talking to you is like talking to a really good-looking and mildly stupid brick wall.
— Derek Landy
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Daddy gave me real useful information to protect me in the real world. If anyone hits me, I'm not to hit them back. I wait…
— Fannie Flagg
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Who's with her?" Roarke asked, though he already knew. It was just like her. "With her? Oh, ah, hmmm. Webster." Silence fell, a clatter of…
— Nora Roberts
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Behind a rack of framed photos of Snow, we encounter a wounded Peacekeeper propped up against a strip of brick wall. He asks us for…
— Suzanne Collins
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Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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[The kakapo] is an extremely fat bird. A good-sized adult will weigh about six or seven pounds, and its wings are just about good for…
— Douglas Adams
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You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful — and then you actually talk with them, and five minutes later they're as dull as…
— Steven Moffat
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For years and years, I convinced myself that I was unbreakable, an animal with an animal strength or something not human at all. Me, I…
— Dorothy Allison
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... He went under the stars, and the tender light of the moon, when it hung like an eyelash and the tree trunks shone like…
— Rachel Joyce
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This is about as comforting as a cold brick when you're lonely.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Separating them were two layers of brick, a few inches of plaster, and nine years of silence.
— Paolo Giordano
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I don't mean what other people mean when they speak of a home, because I don't regard a home as a...well, as a place, a…
— Tennessee Williams
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In a word, learning is decontextualized. We break ideas down into tiny pieces that bear no relation to the whole. We give students a brick…
— Alfie Kohn
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I thought we’d turned a corner. Maybe we did, but we hit a brick wall anyway.
— Sylvia Day
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We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?
— Tom Stoppard
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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
Who Wrote These Bricks Quotes
333 authors contributed a total of 393 Bricks Quotes, led by these top contributors: