Quotes About Bricks

#1. I'm a troglodyte. I think that's the word for it. Like an old school weird person who throws bricks at their computers.

Joanne Kelly

#2. Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.

Virginia Woolf

#3. You are more thoughtful because you don't act as quickly anymore. When I turned 70 it was the first time I felt young for my age. Fifty dropped on me like a ton of bricks - there is something about that number - but when 70 came along I felt good about it.

Jack Nicholson

#4. If scattered and forsaken bricks are enough to build a house, a wise man will collect them and build one

Kenneth Mahuka

#5. Apparently after six days baking pigs and herding bricks, the inhabitants would kick back with a spot of cock-fighting, bullbaiting, and ratting. It was the sort of place an adventurous gentleman might venture only if he didn't mind being beaten, rolled, and catching an exciting venereal disease.

Ben Aaronovitch

#6. We pave the sunlit path toward justice together, brick by brick. This is my brick.

Tim Cook

#7. cats on hot bricks could take hints from me

P.G. Wodehouse

#8. Issues need to be addressed. So do boxes of bricks that need to be mailed. Make the shipping label out to Kat Nelb, 2332 Blanket Anagram Way, Jacksonville, Fl 3223.

Jarod Kintz

#9. Crafty writers ... don't allow Exposition to form Lumps. They break up the information, grind it fine, and make it into bricks to build the story with.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#10. Box-office poison? Mr. Louis B. Mayer always asserted that the studio had built Stage 22, Stage 24 and the Irving Thalberg Building, brick by brick, from the income on my pictures.

Joan Crawford

#11. Steve Bruce is like a cat on hot tin bricks.

Alvin Martin

#12. People think you must be crackers if you've got a psychologist but psychology is part of the building bricks to make a top athlete.

David James

#13. Good moods're as fragile as eggs ... Bad moods're as fragile as bricks.

David Mitchell

#14. Nothing lasts forever. But there is new life; new colours, fresh words, new tunes to compose. There is now; time present, time future. We build with new bricks and hope our voices are heard, our music is sung and our love cherished for as long as it is offered.

Carol Drinkwater

#15. We'll build a democracy here, even if it's with Nazi bricks.

Samuel Fuller

#16. Big data has been used by human beings for a long time - just in bricks-and-mortar applications. Insurance and standardized tests are both examples of big data from before the Internet.

Jose Ferreira

#17. Isaiah 9:10: "The bricks have fallen, But we will rebuild with hewn stone; The sycamores have been cut down, But we will plant cedars in their place.1 "Now, Isaiah 9:11: "Therefore the LORD shall set up The adversaries of Rezin against him, And spur his enemies on.

Jonathan Cahn

#18. Build your life brick upon brick,
Live a life of truth,
And you will look back on a life of truth.
Live a life of fantasy,
And you will look back on delusion.

Ming-Dao Deng

#19. Be united with other Christians. A wall with loose bricks is not good. The bricks must be cemented together.

Corrie Ten Boom

#20. I fear that in this thing many rich people deceive themselves. They go on accumulating the means but never using them; making bricks, but never building.

George Eliot

#21. Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.

John Simon

#22. Where others only see bricks,
train your eyes to see a palace.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#23. For Kips Bay, I had a wonderful client, William Zeckendorf, who was willing to gamble with me on using concrete and not brick for a high-rise apartment building. That was very innovative at the time.

I.M. Pei

#24. Life was built from the bricks of these connections and milestones and moments where you tell your two best friends that you're about to have a child.

Christina Lauren

#25. Even the disciples, who at times could be dense as bricks, realized that the true neighbor was the one who showed mercy to a stranger.

Scott Russell Sanders

#26. There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.

Nathan Sawaya

#27. So why did I think about her every second? Why was I so much happier the minute I saw her? I felt like maybe I knew the answer, but how could I be sure? I didn't know, and I didn't have any way to find out.
Guys don't talk about stuff like that. We just lie under the pile of bricks.

Kami Garcia

#28. It's uncomfortable for me, but at least they're bouquets. They're not bricks or tomatoes yet, although it's gonna feel nice to get that big, rotten tomato right in the face, just get it out of the way.

John Fullbright

#29. Even a brick wants to be something

Louis Kahn

#30. I don't think you can separate a place from its history. I think a place is much more than the bricks and mortar that go into its construction. I think it's more than the accidental topography of the ground it stands on.

Alan Moore

#31. Genius too does nothing but learn first how to lay bricks then how to build, and continually seek for material and continually form itself around it.Every activity of man is amazingly complicated, not only that of the genius: but none is a 'miracle.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#32. Bricks on your back are easier to carry than pebbles on your soul.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#33. Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.

P.G. Wodehouse

#34. I grew up in a brick house. What's wrong with bricks? An Englishman took me aside and said, "You have to understand, all the bricklayers in England are Irish, and the English hate the Irish."

Carl Andre

#35. Imagine a house coming together spontaneously from all the information contained in the bricks: that is how animal bodies are made.

Neil Shubin

#36. Ruined chimneys rose above masses of broken bricks

Jerzy Kosinski

#37. To put one brick upon another,
Add a third, and then a fourth,
Leaves no time to wonder whether
What you do has any worth.

Philip Larkin

#38. I've done pretty well in my career, and I've watched colleagues who have spent most of the paychecks they receive on shoes and cars rather than bricks and mortar, and that's not me.

Anthony Warlow

#39. Didn't every new thing you did become a part of you, one of your bricks?

Augusten Burroughs

#40. Places ain't home. People is. Bricks and chairs is nothing.

Paul Kearney

#41. You're not going to win anything with bottles and bricks.

John Doar

#42. The sky was something she'd so often dreamed of while the hoo-ha of the Sunday service carried on around her. There seemed to her infinitely more God to be found by staring up at the never-ending universe than by looking glumly around a building of bricks and stone.

Ali Shaw

#43. The art of writing, like the art of love, runs all the way from a kind of routine hard to distinguish from piling bricks to a kind of frenzy closely related to delirium tremens.

H.L. Mencken

#44. You are wise as well as short."
"I can also break bricks with my bare hands."
"That's a handy skill if you ever find yourself walled up in the basement of an abandoned house by a psychopath.

Nora Roberts

#45. When love dries in a marriage, the children become mortar for the bricks. When the children leave, the bricks just sit atop each other. When the children die, the bricks tumble.

Mitch Albom

#46. Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.

George Bernard Shaw

#47. A poet's words are like mortar to the bricks of society.

Jason E. Hodges

#48. I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific big-wigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them.

Samuel Butler

#49. I used myself, let nothing use me.
Like being on a private dole,
sometimes more like cutting bricks in Egypt.
What life there was, was mine,
now and again to lay
one hand on a warm brick
and touch the sun's ghost
with economical joy.

Adrienne Rich

#50. I have never laid a brick in my life. But my people have laid more bricks than anybody else put together. Because I know how to pay.

Harry Triguboff

#51. Down the sidewalk
where laborers feed their dirty
glistening torsos sandwiches
and Coca-Cola, with yellow helmets
on. They protect them from falling
bricks, I guess.

Frank O'Hara

#52. The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different.

John Szarkowski

#53. Now I'm thinking about letters, the molecules of sentences and songs, the bricks of words.

Paul Tremblay

#54. I've always wanted to go out with a bang, that's why I carry two bricks around with me wherever I go, so when I leave a room I clap them together.

Nicole McKay

#55. Old friends are the bricks and mortar of your life.

Nora Roberts

#56. Moving on sometimes is the best way to take all the bricks that life throws at you, and building a castle to chillax

Coleen Innis

#57. Arabella dangled her legs out of the bedroom window and closed her eyes. She felt a butterfly brush against her knee, rubbed her skin against the mortar and bricks, drank in the warmth of the morning sunshine on her face, her arms, her feet.

Pauline Fisk

#58. Sometimes, even when I'm trying to keep the load light it just feels so heavy. Like the sky is a ton of bricks waiting to fall and anything I might do, think or feel could cause it to come crashing down.

Jane Devin

#59. We speak piously of ... making small studies that will add another brick to the temple of science. Most such bricks just lie around the brickyard.

John R. Platt

#60. Conversation, fastidious goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will.

Virginia Woolf

#61. Many creative people are finding that creativity doesn't grow in abundance, it grows from scarcity - the more Lego bricks you have doesn't mean you're going to be more creative; you can be very creative with very few Lego bricks.

Jorgen Vig Knudstorp

#62. Where's he getting the bricks? Packard asks.
That's what I don't understand. He brought his own bricks?

Carolyn Crane

#63. A company could use bricks to measure their growth rate. How many bricks have angry investors thrown at you lately? If the answer is none, then your growth rate is probably pretty good ... for the moment.

Amy Summers

#64. If a man gives you bricks, build a house. If a man gives you a spear, hunt.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#65. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.

Shirley Jackson

#66. It's hard selling books in general: companies are merging, editors being laid off, bricks-and-mortar bookstores closing, large chain bookstores squeezing out independents, and online retailers squeezing out chain bookstores.

Christina Baker Kline

#67. The life you're meant to lead is worth fighting for. Worth crying for, even worth bleeding for. When you sing the right song, your life opens before you, and all the pain and sorrow become the bricks you build your castles with.

Heidi Cullinan

#68. She sniffled. "Does he know?"
"Not a clue," Law said. "There are concrete bricks less dense than my beloved.

Jez Morrow

#69. Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks.

Khaled Hosseini

#70. They been callin up here, asking when I am gonna get out. When I hit bricks, it all belongs to me.

Suge Knight

#71. Whenever someone says the word "month" to me, I call up an empty square filled with other empty squares, days, and hours and minutes, bricks on bricks spiraling inward, pinwheel and diamond, and herringbone patterns marching smaller and smaller to some vanishing point.

Patricia Lockwood

#72. I have managed to eke out a good and substantial existence. I'm not shoveling gold bricks or anything, but I do very, very well.

Rufus Wainwright

#73. Hungry not only for bread - but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing - but naked of human dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want of a home of bricks - but homeless because of rejection.

Mother Teresa

#74. Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.

Benjamin Britten

#75. A heap of bricks is not yet a house.

I.L. Peretz

#76. It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say.

Michael Leunig

#77. There are a lot of historical lofts in Houston, and it's amazing for me that a lot of them were built in the 1920s. I love the exposed bricks and the very industrial stuff.

Solange Knowles

#78. The way to become famous fast is to throw a brick at someone who is famous.

Walter Winchell

#79. My disinterest in your bullshit is so tangible you could make bricks out of it

Scott Lynch

#80. Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style.

Mark Twain

#81. I heaved into being, came out of the stone, the bricks, and other elements, and took form. (Dark City Lights)

Jerrold Mundis

#82. As a child I had no toys; our house was bombed, but there were lots of bricks. Ruins are wonderful because they are the beginning of something new, you can do something with them.

Anselm Kiefer

#83. Writing is still like heaving bricks over a wall ...

Virginia Woolf

#84. One modest suggestion for my friends in the academic community: the next time a mob of students, waving their non-negotiable demands, starts pitching bricks and rocks at the student union- just imagine they are wearing brown shirts or white sheets- and act accordingly.

Spiro T. Agnew

#85. The realisation hits me like a ton of bricks and I can't seem to catch my breath. I couldn't tell anybody my dreams if they asked me right now, nor my hopes and desires. If I was asked to put a plan into action, I wouldn't know where to start. I feel utterly lost.

Cecelia Ahern

#86. The truthfulness of materials of constructions, concrete, bricks and stone, shall be maintained in all buildings constructed or to be constructed.The seed of Chandigarh is well sown. It is for the citizens to see that the tree flourishes.

Le Corbusier

#87. The family is where we are formed as people. Every family is a brick in the building of society

Pope Francis

#88. I have about 4 million Lego bricks. And then a few million in storage in case something comes up. I still pay for them. I buy my bricks just like everyone else. It's by far my biggest capital expense.

Nathan Sawaya

#89. Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy
and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks.

Shashi Tharoor

#90. I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.

Jeanette Winterson

#91. An author is like an incompetent bricklayer - doesn't use mortar and keeps rearranging the bricks until someone tells him to stop.

Chris Everheart

#92. The past is never completely lost, however extensive the devastation. Your sorrows are the bricks and mortar of a magnificent temple. What you are today and what you will be tomorrow are because of what you have been.

Gordon Wright

#93. The two Weres circle each other, a bench between them. Suddenly, Cody lurched at Diego, grabbing him by the shirt, spinning him and slamming him into the wall causing bricks from the building to fall.

Kris Owens-Norris

#94. 'The Art of the Brick' is an exhibition I've done where I've taken some works of art from art history and replicated them all out of Lego bricks.

Nathan Sawaya

#95. The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

Douglas Adams

#96. The important thing is to take the bricklayer and make him understand that he's building a home, not just laying bricks.

Herb Kelleher

#97. Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture.

Scott Joplin

#98. If you think a story can be like a kind of cement, the sloppy kind that you put between bricks, the kind that looks like cake frosting before it dries hard, then maybe I thought it would be possible to use what Toby had to hold Finn together, to keep him here with me a little bit longer.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#99. I suddenly understood that even love and caring weren't always enough. They were the concrete bricks of our relationship, but unstable without the mortar of time spent together, time without the threat of imminent separation hanging over us.

Nicholas Sparks

#100. Paris was all so ... Parisian. I was captivated by the wonderful wrongness of it all - the unfamiliar fonts, the brand names in the supermarket, the dimensions of the bricks and paving stones. Children, really quite small children, speaking fluent French!

David Nicholls