Bricks Quotes - Page 2

Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous.

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.

All in all you're just another brick in the wall

I could break bricks with my hands when I was 12.

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

Whenever the press quits abusing me I know Im in the wrong pew. I dont mind it because when they throw bricks at meIm a pretty good shot myself and I usually throw em back at em.

They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.

The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.

Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick.

Don't wish for bricks when you can build from stone.

Everything starts with one step, or one brick, or one word or one day

He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.

What I resist is techniques. I find techniques very problematic. So when critics talk about my work in those terms, I find that they miss the condition. I am comfortable with the notion of pattern and ornament as a system of organization, [but] for me it acts as a textile. So it's not about pattern, but the notion of architecture through the lens of textile, rather than architecture through the lens of brick and mortar.

Every apathetic individual is a brick in a tyrant's throne.

I avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem and then work around it. It's building brick by brick.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

We build our character from the bricks of habit we pile up day by day.

You don’t try to build a wall, you don’t set out to build a wall. You don’t say ‘I’m going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that’s ever been built.’ You don’t start there… You say ‘I’m going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid.’ And you do that every single day and soon you have a wall.

To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar.

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

I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.

A career is like a house: it's made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.

The brick of my life is music, but the mortar is faith.

How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road.