Quotes about Brick

The way to Everest is not a Yellow Brick Road. Votes: 3

How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road. Votes: 3

In New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours. Votes: 3

Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want Votes: 3

With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30. Votes: 3

Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other. Votes: 3

Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick) Votes: 3

Comedy clubs have brick walls behind the performer. Bricks make you funny. When I'm in front of a fireplace, I'm hilarious. Votes: 3

The critical reaction to 'Bloom' has been similar to 'Brick.' There are people on board with it and people who are not. Votes: 3

I loved being in London. Always walking everywhere, always out and about and always at markets, walking around Brick Lane and Covent Garden and Soho. Votes: 3

A lot of movies try to set up a world with cool sets, costumes, camera work. In Brick, the world is born from the words. Votes: 3

Instead of Rock, Paper, Scissors, you could play Brick, Blanket, Action Fingers, in which brick cripples action fingers, blanket smothers brick and action fingers beats blanket. Votes: 3

Brick walls let us prove how badly we want our dream and they stop those who don't want it enough. Brick walls let us show our dedication. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

With 'Brick' there was the Dashiell Hammett influence, and with 'Brothers Bloom' there was a really strong Fellini influence - both those movies wore that on their sleeve. Votes: 3

Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things. Votes: 3

Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt. Votes: 3

I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England when I was overtaken by a compulsion to start writing. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

A brick could be wrapped in plastic and sold individually to toddlers as toys. (Warning: Bricks can be harmful if swallowed. If ingested, please contact a physician first, and then the manager of a circus.) Votes: 3

I live in Brick Towers, a public housing project in Newark's Central Ward. I moved in when the projects were privately owned by a man who the residents and I believed was a grade A slumlord. Votes: 3

I always knew I could rap, and in a sense I always rapped. And [I've] always behaved like a rapper. But I started to take it seriously when I recorded with the people of Brick when I started to receive some money. Votes: 3

Kanan is a big road through the Santa Monica Mountains. Between mid-March and mid-April, when you get over to the western side of the mountains, it's populated by Spanish broom - this beautiful, yellow, flowering weed that smells the way I imagine it smells along the Yellow Brick Road. Votes: 3

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. Votes: 1

I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun. Votes: 1

Everything starts with one step, or one brick, or one word or one day. Votes: 1

They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. Votes: 1

Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick. Votes: 1

We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit. Votes: 1

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. Votes: 1

I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don't know where it's going to lead me, but I follow it. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

People who avoid the brick walls - all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve. Votes: 1

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice. Votes: 1

Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw. Votes: 1

I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I'm so mean I make medicine sick. Votes: 1

The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went. Votes: 1

In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside. Votes: 1

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time. Votes: 1

I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence. Votes: 1

Pop music can absorb so many peculiar talents, ranging from the completely nonmusical poseur who just uses music as a kind of springboard for a sense of style, to people who just love putting all that complicated stuff together, brick by brick, on their computers, to people like me who like playing conceptual games and being surprised. Votes: 1

You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.' And you say to brick, 'Look, I want one, too, but arches are expensive and I can use a concrete lintel.' And then you say: 'What do you think of that, brick?' Brick says: 'I like an arch.' Votes: 1

Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers of these empires who began hiring people to keep track of the wheat and sheep and wine that was owed and the taxes that was owed on them by making marks; marks on clay in that time. Votes: 1

One of my teachers once said that the way you know you're on the right path is that it works. Now, that doesn't mean you don't run into blocks and brick walls, but it does mean that you can find a way around them or find a way to change yourself or your project in order to find the flow again and have it work. Votes: 1

When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which meant that one room in our house opened up onto a brick wall. And I was convinced all I had to do was just open it the right way and it wouldn't be a brick wall. So I'd sidle over to the door and I'd pull it open. Votes: 1

Follow the yellow brick road. Votes: 0

Follow the yellow brick road. Votes: 0

Even a brick wants to be something Votes: 0

A good Christian is a velvet-covered brick. Votes: 0

I would run through brick walls for Spurs. Votes: 0

He really wished she would stop fingering the brick. Votes: 0

Eventually, someone is going to pick up a brick. Votes: 0

All in all you're just another brick in the wall Votes: 0

Every apathetic individual is a brick in a tyrant's throne. Votes: 0

Your dreams are ballbusters; they're not the yellow brick road. Votes: 0

In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits. Votes: 0

Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall. Votes: 0

A brick could be used for note delivery, from the KKK. Votes: 0

Half-truths are like half a brick - they can be thrown farther. Votes: 0

Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses. Votes: 0

The brick of my life is music, but the mortar is faith. Votes: 0

This is about as comforting as a cold brick when you're lonely. Votes: 0

A brick layer, lays bricks... I'm an Actor, that's what I do. Votes: 0

The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick. Votes: 0

Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop. Votes: 0

Sometimes life hits you like a brick in the face. Don't give up. Votes: 0

As large as worlds. As old as Time. As patient as a brick. Votes: 0

You should go into every relationship as a brick and not a blanket. Votes: 0

Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick. Votes: 0

You can sit on a brick, and milk a cow with a blanket. Votes: 0

I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick. Votes: 0

We want to make every single interaction in the world into a ready-to-use brick. Votes: 0

A brick could be used as a deodorant deterrent. Just ask any stinky Congressman. Votes: 0

Enlightenment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn't it? Votes: 0

Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick. Votes: 0

I hospitalized a rock, killed a brick...I'm so bad I make medicine sick! Votes: 0

I did not threaten anybody in any moment and even less with a brick. Votes: 0

Instead of putting flowers in books to flatten them you can use a brick. Votes: 0

That city is well fortified which has a wall of men instead of brick. Votes: 0

Everything starts with one step, or one brick, or one word or one day Votes: 0

In an earlier life, were you a pair of brakes?""Try a brick wall. Votes: 0

I love the long-form rehearsal process with theater, brick by brick, to build another life. Votes: 0

Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies/ a girder, still itself among the rubbish Votes: 0

You build a golf game like you build a wall, one brick at a time. Votes: 0

We pave the sunlit path toward justice together, brick by brick. This is my brick. Votes: 0

I would rather build a relationship than a wall. Can you pass me another brick? Votes: 0

Well, duh. He was six feet, six inches tall and built like a brick shithouse. Votes: 0

A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house! Votes: 0

Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration. Votes: 0

A brick can be used to represent the zero probability of this book being any good. Votes: 0

The way to become famous fast is to throw a brick at someone who is famous. Votes: 0

We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man? Votes: 0

Conversation, fastidious goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. Votes: 0

I thought we'd turned a corner. Maybe we did, but we hit a brick wall anyway. Votes: 0

There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick. Votes: 0

Separating them were two layers of brick, a few inches of plaster, and nine years of silence. Votes: 0

A red brick Presbyterian church... captured by kudzu vines as surely as a butterfly in a net. Votes: 0

To propel a dirigible balloon through the air is like pushing a candle through a brick wall. Votes: 0

I swear, talking to you is like talking to a really good-looking and mildly stupid brick wall. Votes: 0

Modern man threw a brick through his own window in order to sell himself a burglar alarm. Votes: 0

A blanket is great for covering things, like the dead guy, I just killed with this brick. Votes: 0

Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body. Votes: 0

It's the anarchy of poverty delights me, the old yellow wooden house indented among the new brick tenements Votes: 0

Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop. Votes: 0

Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick. Votes: 0

Houses are built brick-by-brick. HOMEs are built word-by-word. Houses don't build themselves. So YOU must build your home. Votes: 0

Healthy boundaries are important, but you may be building a brick wall when a picket fence would do. Votes: 0

I'd rather drive the yellow brick road, you wouldn't happen to know of a rental car place around. Votes: 0

You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker. Votes: 0

I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me! Votes: 0

A brick could be used to keep warm, and a blanket could be used to build a house. Votes: 0

I do not have to build a perfect wall today. I just have to lay a perfect brick. Votes: 0

What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All. Votes: 0

Right to privacy is really important. You pull that brick out and another and pretty soon the house falls. Votes: 0

It's nice to be able to engage with this fan base that I've worked to build, brick by brick. Votes: 0

[I will] totally dismantle every intelligence agency in this country piece by piece, nail by nail, brick by brick Votes: 0

Lord Maccon was built like a brick outhouse, with opinions twice as unmoving and often equally full of crap. Votes: 0

I see ya waiting for the bus early in the morn', brick house with a face like Lena Horne. Votes: 0

The family is where we are formed as people. Every family is a brick in the building of society Votes: 0

Soak blanket in gravy and make a delicious brick wrap. Serve in All Gravy Room at the Mandrake Hotel. Votes: 0

A brick could be crushed into powder, like cocaine, and snorted to stimulate the previous highs of the housing market." Votes: 0

A brick could be used as a frame for a door, and the blanket could be used as the door. Votes: 0

An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist. Votes: 0

For loose teeth the tooth fairy recommends tying your tooth to a brick and throwing said brick down the stairs. Votes: 0

We have got to extend the hand of friendship, we have got to take the peacelines down brick by brick Votes: 0

I had a dream about you last night... I was a brick and you were a blanket. Damn that improbability drive. Votes: 0

He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble. [Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit.] Votes: 0

A brick should decide who gets to rule the people, and I should decide what rules determine whom the brick favors. Votes: 0

The Bible talks about building houses on sand and rock, but says nothing about a brick house built on a blanket. Votes: 0

If London is the Emerald City, then Los Angeles is what exists at the other end of the yellow brick road. Votes: 0

A brick and blanket could be used as a large slingshot, put the brick in the blanket swing it around and release. Votes: 0

We have embraced the 21st century by entering such cutting-edge industries as brick, carpet, insulation and paint. Try to control your excitement. Votes: 0

Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick. Votes: 0

A brick could create a clear winner in a fight if instead of fighting pillows against blankets, you fought bricks against blankets. Votes: 0

You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off. Votes: 0

I must have been very young, but I have a clear memory of drawing on a cream brick wall... with wax crayons. Votes: 0

He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration. Votes: 0

God does not live in structures of stone or brick. He lives in soft hearts warm with sympathy and fragrant with universal love. Votes: 0

A brand is built action by action, just as houses are built brick by brick. Is the identity of your personal brand homeless? Votes: 0

What's the point in wasting a perfectly good brick wall when you have someone to throw against it, that's what I always say. Votes: 0

A brick could be used as a doorstop. But why bother? To promote an open-door policy, I had all the walls knocked down. Votes: 0

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window. Votes: 0

Every time you lose an animal, it's like losing a brick from the house. Pretty soon the house just falls down, you know? Votes: 0

A brick could be used as a fashion accessory. Or an accessory to murder. I believe the phrase is, "If looks could kill. Votes: 0

Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to. Votes: 0

The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people! Votes: 0

If you've got a Corvette that runs into a brick wall, you know what's going to happen. He's a Corvette. I'm a brick wall. Votes: 0

If Mother had to be told not to shove the entire brick of Ivory up Junior's hindquarters, constipation is the least of his problems. Votes: 0

I am always really buzzed after each performance, and at around one in the morning, Ill hit a brick wall and need to sleep. Votes: 0

I am always really buzzed after each performance, and at around one in the morning, I'll hit a brick wall and need to sleep. Votes: 0

Do not dismantle the house, but look at each brick, and replace those which appear to be broken, which no longer support the structure. Votes: 0

As a producer and director, I've tried for years to get properties off the ground for girls, and I've been hitting a brick wall. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We live in a world where a hut made of clay is more durable than brick buildings, because poverty doesn't allow it to be reconstructed. Votes: 0

If you don't break a hole through the brick wall, don't just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that wall. Votes: 0

Ever hear of the phrase, Banging you're head on a brick wall?" Ah, but you forget, Darren, vampires can break brick walls with their heads. Votes: 0

In my fifth year in Beijing, I moved into a one-story brick house beside the Confucius Temple, a seven-hundred-year-old shrine to China's most important philosopher. Votes: 0

Remember, don't try to build the greatest wall that's ever been built. Focus on laying a single, expertly-placed brick. Then keep doing that, every day. Votes: 0

A brick could be modified to be a cell phone, for construction workers who miss the easy to find cell phone size of the 1980s. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Many people see a brick wall as an obstacle, when it's really a how to for success. You build both, one brick at a time. Votes: 0

Remember brick walls let us show our dedication. They are there to separate us from the people who don't really want to achieve their childhood dreams. Votes: 0

Message to all rioters: put down your brick, put away the spray paint, and leave the cop cars alone; you're acting like soccer fans! It's embarrassing. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What I play now isn't surf music. It's too powerful. I used to go through paper bags; now I go through brick walls. I play hard. Votes: 0

If you want to knock down the wall between you and the life of your dreams, it's best to do it one brick at a time! Votes: 0

The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith from. Votes: 0

Video games don't make people go nuts. I played Super Mario forever. Not once hopping on a turtle or smash my head through a brick ceiling. Votes: 0

People will watch you build a house, but won't pass you a brick. And once your home is built, they want to come inside for dinner. Votes: 0

You could carve out the inside of a brick and hide your money in it for safe keeping. It's certainly safer than keeping it in the bank! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides of bacon, and ropes of onions. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Never build after you are five and forty; have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate the expense at double the estimate. Votes: 0

I usually point out that most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry. Votes: 0

There is no real answer (to the U.S. economic crisis) but to remove brick by brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles. Votes: 0

Big things are built one brick at a time. Victories are achieved one choice at a time. A life well lived is chosen one day at a time. Votes: 0

Belfastas uncivilised as ever--savage black mothers in houses of dark red brick, friendly manufacturers too drunk to entertain you when you arrive. It amuses me till I get tired. Votes: 0

I really enjoy doing theater, but doing theater in Seattle is like dropping a brick in a bottomless well. It's gratifying, but it's almost like doing radio. It's ephemeral. Votes: 0

As we've said, it's not a coincidence that Fear Itself, Schism, and other big stories end at the same time. This is the first brick in the next road. Votes: 0

Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours and hours into days. Votes: 0

A lot of stand-up comedy is embarrassing: too many idiots doing it in orange neckties against brick walls. I find most sitcoms embarrassing, too, because they seem so forced. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The ideal view for daily writing, hour for hour, is the blank brick wall of a cold-storage warehouse. Failing this, a stretch of sky will do, cloudless if possible. Votes: 0

If I had a brick for every time I've repeated the phrase Quality, Service, Cleanliness and Value, I think I'd probably be able to bridge the Atlantic Ocean with them. Votes: 0

Careful with the accusations of insanity, oh my lady whose home is a tower with windows of brick, all for the sake of some skinny-ankled, laugh-prone boy of a khan. Votes: 0

Many people see a brick wall as an obstacle, when it's really a 'how to' for achieving success. You have to build either of them one brick at a time. Votes: 0

Whenever we remove a brick from the wall that was designed to separate religion and government, we increase the risk of religious strife and weaken the foundation of our democracy. Votes: 0

Each workout is like a brick in a building, and every time you go in there and do a half-ass workout, you're not laying a brick down. Somebody else is. Votes: 0

Sometimes something becomes a lot better. It's like a puzzle . You can't force a round brick into a square. It's a delicate thing. You need to let the song decide. Votes: 0

The point is that instead of a monolithic brick of printed content - delivered more or less unchanged to all subscribers - social media offers news that is personalized and nimble. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

After the door of a woman's heart has once swung on its silent hinges, a man thinks he can prop it open with a brick and go away and leave it. Votes: 0

At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall. Votes: 0

For a player to be good enough to play for Liverpool, he must be prepared to run through a brick wall for me then come out fighting on the other side. Votes: 0

Music, from being an ordered succession of sounds, has become a matter of "sonorities", and anyone who can produce a brightly coloured brick of unusual shape is henceforth hailed as an architect. Votes: 0

Once upon a time there were two parents, two children, and a brick house with lilies in the yard. The parents died, the lilies wilted. One child disappeared. Then the other." Pg 225 Votes: 0

A brick could used to translate and transform long cuneiform texts into shorter tweets. Sure, just take the brick and smash the clay tablets, and each broken fragment should be roughly 140 characters. Votes: 0

For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can't possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have. Votes: 0

The greenish sky glows up in misty reds, The purple shadows turn to brick and stone,The dreams wear thin, men turn upon their beds, And hear the milk-cart jangle by alone. Votes: 0

Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. Votes: 0

You simply keep putting down one damn word after the other, as you hear them, as they come to you. You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist. Votes: 0

His whole life was a sham, a fairy tale. The truth hidden behind a wall of lies, each lie another brick in the wall until he probably couldn't see the truth anymore. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Together a brick and a blanket create the perfect metaphor for life. Will you be a brick and make something of your life, or be a blanket and sleep your life away? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There are all sorts of things embodied in the LEGO brick - geometry and mathematics and truth and proportion and shape and colour ... It is a faintly spiritual activity that everybody connects with. Votes: 0

Thinking back to boyhood days, I remember the bright sun on Harlem streets, the easy rhythms of black and brown bodies, the sounds of children streaming in and out of red brick tenements. Votes: 0

I don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom,' by Jonathan Franzen, a great big brick of a book, and I'm loving it. Votes: 0

I have heard of a man who had a mind to sell his house, and therefore carried a piece of brick in his pocket, which he shewed as a pattern to encourage purchasers. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Whether it's a street poster on a brick wall, a magazine cover on a newsstand, or animation on a movie screen - art is an effective means of communicating with large numbers of people. Votes: 0

Dennis Hutch had stepped up into the top seat when its founder had died of a lethal overdose of brick wall, taken while under the influence of a Ferrari and a bottle of tequila. Votes: 0

Never was there a dingier, uglier, less picturesque city than London ... it is really wonderful that so much brick and stone, for centuries together, should have been built up with so poor a result. Votes: 0

If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance, and hit him with a brick. Votes: 0

Guilt is intense. Suffocating. A brick, tied quietly around your ankles while you sleep. You never fall slowly into guilt-you wake up with little time to take your last breath before being pulled under. Votes: 0

The only way to tell my Dad something is to write it on a note, and tie it to a brick, and throw it through a window. Of course, now Dad's armed with a brick. Votes: 0

You have those walls up all around you...Come a day you gonna want to tear them down brick by brick and gonna find that the cement is all hard. What you gonna do then? Votes: 0

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." Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0