Bricked Quotes

#1. I was sleeping, and you woke me
To walk on the chilled shore
Of a night with no memory,
Till your voice forsook my ear
Till your two hands withdrew
And I was empty of tears,
On the edge of a bricked and streeted sea
And a cold hill of stars.

Philip Larkin

#2. By the eighteenth book, one has a sense of having bricked oneself into a niche, a roosting place for other people's pigeons. I wouldn't recommend it.

J.G. Ballard

#3. Out in the world not much happened. But here in the special night, a land bricked with paper and leather anything might happen, always did.

Ray Bradbury

#4. His library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.

Ray Bradbury

#5. You're not in love if you keep your own heart bricked up behind your bones. You're only playing.

Catherynne M Valente

#6. I have never seen a work of fiction so perfectly capture the out-of-nowhere shock of discovering that you've just bricked something important because you didn't pay enough attention to a loose wire.

Randall Munroe

#7. He had the singular ability to knock down her carefully bricked defenses, which was a compliment to them both and the secret to their love.

Eleanor Brown

#8. The bricked-up fourteenth-century "doors of the dead" are still visible. These ghosts of doors beside the main entrance were designed, some say, to take out the plague victims - bad luck for them to exit by the main entrance. I notice in the regular doors, people often leave their keys in the lock.

Frances Mayes

#9. If eyes were windows to the soul, hers had been bricked up to avoid taxation.

Courtney Milan

#10. The activist is not the person who says the river is dirty. The activist is the person who cleans up the river

H. Ross Perot

#11. If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.

Nathan Myhrvold

#12. Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

Honore De Balzac

#13. What is it in people, or just in people like me, that would rather let a lie go by, would rather wish it away or minimize it, than point it out and cause the liar embarassment?

Walter Kirn

#14. If you've got somebody in harm's way, you want the president being
making advice, not
be given advice by the military, and not making decisions based upon the latest Gallup poll or focus group.

George W. Bush