Bricks Quotes - Page 4

Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.

The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar.

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.

We have got to extend the hand of friendship, we have got to take the peacelines down brick by brick

Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop.

Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies/ a girder, still itself among the rubbish

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.

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.

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.

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.

We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?

As large as worlds. As old as Time. As patient as a brick.

I found Rome built of bricks; I leave her clothed in marble.

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

She supposed that houses, after all - like the lives that were lived in them - were mostly made of space. It was the spaces, in fact, which counted, rather than the bricks.

If you're a struggling artist having money problems just superglue a brick in the middle of a blanket, and call it art. Someone will buy it.

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.

Lovers communicate not inside sentences, but between them. Passion lurks within interstice. It is grouting rather than bricks.

In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.

Eventually, someone is going to pick up a brick.

A politician's record is like a tin kettle to a dog's tale - it's a noisy appendage, wich makes the dog conspicuous and invites everybody to shy a brick at him.

Martin Luther King's legacy is never to be measured by bricks and mortar, but rather by the kind of lives that we live, and the kind of love and service that we render.

Modern man threw a brick through his own window in order to sell himself a burglar alarm.

A clear thought, a pure affection, a resolute act of a virtuous will, have a dignity of quite another kind, and far higher than accumulations of brick and granite and plaster and stucco, however cunningly put together.

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