Bricks Quotes - Page 5

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

Writing is still like heaving bricks over a wall.

I love the long-form rehearsal process with theater, brick by brick, to build another life.

One potential long-term problem with many current digital libraries is that they grew out of and aresupported by bricks-and-mortar libraries. Although there is nothing inherently wrong with that arrangement, inreality it creates a potentially dangerous situation that I call "the other digital divide."

Because nearly all digital libraries are tied to bricks-and-mortar institutions, the funding base tends to be quite localized.

I have faith that a script is going to hit me like a ton of bricks, and when that happens, it's undeniable that I should choose the role.

Protoplasm, simple or nucleated, is the formal basis of all life. It is the clay of the potter: which, bake it and paint it as hewill, remains clay, separated by artifice, and not by nature from the commonest brick or sun-dried clod.

A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!

I thought we’d turned a corner. Maybe we did, but we hit a brick wall anyway.

You yourself are to blame. This weeping and wailing and knocking your heads into corners [against brick walls, as it were] will not do you the least good.

Before Kuhn, most scientists followed the place-a-stone-in-the-bright-temple-of-knowledge tradition, and would have told you that they hoped, above all, to lay many of the bricks, perhaps even the keystone, of truth's temple. Now most scientists of vision hope to foment revolution. We are, therefore, awash in revolutions, most self-proclaimed.

An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist.

Enlightenment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn't it?

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.

With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.

The critical reaction to 'Bloom' has been similar to 'Brick.' There are people on board with it and people who are not.

Brick walls are there for reason. And once you get over them-- even if someone has practically had to throw you over-- it can be helpful to others to tell them how you did it.

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.

Angry and frustrated, the journalists set about making bricks without straw.

The warmth of his body shouldn’t have felt good. He was angry and every muscle was tense. It was like being leaned on by a very heavy, warm brick. A sexy brick.

The Bible talks about building houses on sand and rock, but says nothing about a brick house built on a blanket.

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.

We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for book talks, circles for story time; we'll always need brick-and-mortar libraries.

This is about as comforting as a cold brick when you're lonely.

My relationship with brick-and-mortar shopping is, in general, unpleasant. I can't remember a time in my life when I could go to a physical store and find a variety of things in my size that excited me and fit my personal style. As a plus-size shopper at a typical mall, you're limited to at most five stores out of maybe 50 clothing retailers. That leaves us with very few options and, for people on a tight budget, pretty much no chance of comparison shopping. You take what you can get.