Bricks Quote by Tom Stoppard Download Open image “We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?” — Tom Stoppard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bricks Drowning Men Time
“A brick could be used as a floatation device. But only use it if the person drowning is a politician. ” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“The stream of life is black and angry; how so many of us get across without drowning, I often wonder. The best way is… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Copy Share Image
We cling to words like drowning men to straws. But still we drown, we drown. — Anna Kamienska Copy Share Image
“A brick could be used to tell time. And just between you and me, I hope that brick tells time to go to hell. ” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“When you hang on to your past, you are gripping an anchor that is swiftly moving to the bottom of the ocean. Sure, you… — Brooks Palmer Copy Share Image
A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself. — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
“Bricks could be used to pad the pockets of crooked politicians. Why stuff their greedy pockets with cash, when we could load them up… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“A brick could be used to save humanity from mortality. Or at least save us from mortar. ” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The universe is deterministic all right, just like Newton said, I mean it's trying to be, but the only thing going wrong is people… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“What is an artist? For every thousand people there's nine hundred doing the work, ninety doing well, nine doing good, and one lucky bastard… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and thanked him… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Leave a cavity behind the [wall] facings, and on the inside build walls two feet thick, made of red dimension stone or burnt brick… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
LEGO is universal. So many people enjoy it, from all different walks of life, all different ages, all different cultures. When I was in… — Nathan Sawaya Copy Share Image
Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in ... Guys would drink and fight one another like circle saws.… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
I am always really buzzed after each performance, and at around one in the morning, Ill hit a brick wall and need to sleep. — Hattie Morahan Copy Share Image
I still have the desire to do the job of acting. It's just a matter of whether I'll be allowed to do the job… — Gary Coleman Copy Share Image
Rebuilding a network is a slow, brick-by-brick process. It's not just creating a hit show - it's building shows to back up that hit… — Leslie Moonves Copy Share Image
Build your life brick upon brick, Live a life of truth, And you will look back on a life of truth. Live a life… — Ming-Dao Deng Copy Share Image
You have those walls up all around you...Come a day you gonna want to tear them down brick by brick and gonna find that… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
If you don't break a hole through the brick wall, don't just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image