Bricked Up Quotes

#1. 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

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

Courtney Milan

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

Catherynne M Valente

#4. That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Francis Quarles

#5. And as you walk yr road, as you live yr life, RELISH THE ROAD. And relish the fact that the road of yr life will probably be a windy road.

Suzan-Lori Parks

#6. If you're not going to use your free speech to criticize your own government, then what the hell is the point of having it?

Michel Templet

#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. I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.

Bette Davis

#9. I feel like there is a bubble in my chest that expands more by the second, threatening to break me apart from the inside.

Veronica Roth

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Should one name one central concept, a first principle, of cybernetics, it would be circularity.

Heinz Von Foerster

#15. History, with its hard spine & dog-eared Corners, will be replaced with nuance, Just like the dinosaurs gave way To mounds and mounds of ice.

Tracy K. Smith

#16. I don't think the NFL had the slightest intention of taking me, except as maybe a water boy.

Joel McHale

#17. 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

#18. This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can't live without love. That life has very little meaning without love.

Leonard Cohen

#19. I got stuck up a tree when I was about seven, and my dad had to come and get the ladder to get me down. I loved to climb all the way up to the top. I must have been a koala in my past life.

Miranda Kerr

#20. Friendship is the complete explanation of what a Cheetah Girl is - if you have that true friendship, you can conquer anything you want.

Sabrina Bryan