Ton Of Bricks Quotes

#1. 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

#2. You're getting to know who the great chefs are through their books.

Thomas Keller

#3. You get more results with honey than with... being an arsehole.

Emma Kavanagh

#4. 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

#5. The career doesn't get any easier. A career stays tough.

Dabney Coleman

#6. There will be a quick rash of hairy American filth, but it shouldn't threaten the existence of decent, serious British filth.

John Osborne

#7. Love was not blind, but it might mimic a deteriorating case of cataracts.

Sherry Thomas

#8. 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

#9. Before people break the law, they need strong families - adult authority figures and the love of the family. When they step over the line, I'm a Tory. I believe in tough responses, in the law coming down on people like a ton of bricks.

David Cameron

#10. I've dated athletes before but it's too tough because we have the same job, we deal with the same problems and both do a very selfish sport.

Tyson Gay

#11. Forty freaked me out. I didn't see it coming. My life was in a state of chaos - I was moving jobs and moving house - and it just hit me like a ton of bricks.

Graham Norton

#12. I chose faces and figures as my subject matter simply due to the fact that the human form is already beautiful art.

Frank Bruno

#13. After two years in the songwriting world, I wrote 'All About That Bass.' L.A. Reid heard it and signed me as an artist.

Meghan Trainor

#14. I have no directing ambition whatsoever. And as long as I meet filmmakers like Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, and others who allow that collaboration, I can't see why I would ever want to direct.

Peter Morgan

#15. There was something special about the way his eyes met mine, the way his hands felt on my skin. It hit me like a ton of bricks when I realized that it was because he saw me, the woman, not the princess. I never thought that would happen, and the feeling was intoxicating.

Nichole Chase

#16. I drop styles on ears ... the public bite 'em.
Not many went to school, so the dummies wouldn't write 'em.
They say, "Yo Keith! You're Kool, you usin' big words!"
I went to college, I'm even more stupid, herb.

Kool Keith

#17. I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.

Quincy Jones

#18. How you, O Athenians, have been affected by my accusers, I cannot tell; but I know that they almost made me forget who I was - so persuasively did they speak; and yet they have hardly uttered a word of truth.

Plato

#19. Life is fifty wrong turns down a bumpy road. All you can hope is that you end up somewhere nice." "I

Penelope Douglas

#20. Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

Eminem

#21. When you're spending $200 million on a movie, you need to make $400 million to break even. It's a spectacle.

Joe Carnahan