A Quote by John Updike

The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness.

John Updike

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John Updike
American - Novelist
March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009

Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy -- and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks.

Shashi Tharoor

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. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Bernard Tschumi

Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.

Benjamin Britten

It is too expensive to have a bricks and mortar presence everywhere.

Arundhati Bhattacharya

The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.

John Oates

The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.

Christopher Wren

Even if I am predisposed to shop online, I see bricks and mortar as part of marketing.

Natalie Massenet

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.

Eric Bogosian

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

Tom Peters

The cost of acquiring new customers and maintaining those relationships in an online environment versus bricks and mortar is significant.

Stephen Cohen

Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize. Behind every word flows energy.

Sonia Choquette

You can't deny the experience of a store. It's fantastic if you're a global brand and you've got the power or the funds to support that bricks-and-mortar space, but we certainly weren't and aren't.

Matthew Williamson

I always say, my set is like building a brick wall that all the jokes are the bricks but the improv is the mortar. You piece it all together and have a certain flow to it.

Josh Blue

Bricks and mortar Berlin has become a kind of network across which visitors and residents interact as if on some sort of comfortable global platform.

Rory MacLean

I've done pretty well in my career, and I've watched colleagues who have spent most of the paychecks they receive on shoes and cars rather than bricks and mortar, and that's not me.

Anthony Warlow

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