Bricks Quotes
393 quotes by 333 authors
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If you want to knock down the wall between you and the life of your dreams, it's best to do it one brick at a…
— Paul McKenna
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Anyone who lives in a city will know the feeling of having been there too long. The gorge-vision that the streets imprint on us, the…
— Robert Macfarlane
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On the other hand in London you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go: they've seen the…
— Siobhan Davies
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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…
— Randy Pausch
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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…
— Victoria Wood
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If I could only remember that the days were not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where…
— Edmund Wilson
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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…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Three men were laying brick. The first was asked: " What are you doing? He answered: " Laying some brick." The second man was asked:…
— Charles R. Schwab
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When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on…
— Margery Allingham
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I have a lot of energy. I have a great desire to absorb information. I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I…
— Martha Stewart
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Thus when a barber and a collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collier-white; The dusty collier heaves his ponderous sack, And big with vengeance…
— Christopher Smart
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We pave the sunlit path toward justice together, brick by brick. This is my brick.
— Tim Cook
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Preparing a character is the opposite of building-it is a demolishing, removing brick by brick everything in the actor's muscles, ideas and inhibitions that stands…
— Peter Brook
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I didn't want anyone getting close to me. I pushed people away. Built a wall around my heart to keep them out. I let one…
— Jacqueline Kelly
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There's so much myth and baloney. Like a 80-year-old man able to manhandle a 300-pounder with his little finger. Ridiculous. Or this matter of breaking…
— Bruce Lee
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Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived. What was then…
— David Starkey
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The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.
— Christopher Wren
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Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick.
— Red Smith
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Identity politics divides us; fiction connects. One is interested in sweeping generalizations, the other in nuances. One draws boundaries, the other recognizes no frontiers. Identity…
— Elif Safak
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Like Semmering Academy, the Grove School was a Gothic pile of bricks run by 1950s-era chalk drones, which maintained its cultural viability by perpetuating a…
— Heidi Julavits
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