Top 250 Bricks Quotes & Sayings

Writing is still like heaving bricks over a wall.

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

When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples.

You can't change the bricks, and together, you still have to build a wall.

A heap of bricks is not yet a house.

Be united with other Christians. A wall with loose bricks is not good. The bricks must be cemented together.

Steve Bruce is like a cat on hot tin bricks.

My handwriting was nothing to write home about, and I had this idea that calligraphy was like taking Latin in high school: that it was one of the bricks, the building bricks, that you had to understand about the forms of writing.

Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.

Haters are my favorite. I´ve built an empire with the bricks they´ve thrown at me. Keep on hating.

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

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.

Baghdad is altogether built of chrome-yellow kiln-dried bricks.

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

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

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.

Bricks should be made in Spring or Autumn so that they may dry uniformly.

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Digital makes it so much easier. No bricks of film, no worrying about airport X-rays, etc.

I'm not a clicks man, I wasn't born in the clicks era. I'm a bricks man, I believe in bricks.

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

They been callin up here, asking when I am gonna get out. When I hit bricks, it all belongs to me.

I have about 4 million Lego bricks. And then a few million in storage in case something comes up. I still pay for them. I buy my bricks just like everyone else. It's by far my biggest capital expense.

I used to help out my father, a bricklayer, in the summer. I'd catch the bricks (that were dropped). And it made me strong, catching those bricks. I wouldn't change anything about it. That's why I'm where I am today. Really.

When I was in South Africa, I was meeting with people who never heard of Lego bricks. And yet, when I was like, 'Here they are,' they immediately got it. They saw the appeal, were snapping bricks and creating their little creations right there immediately.

I am confined to the Lego palate. I don't paint the bricks. I stick with what Lego has made. And the idea behind that is I do want to hopefully inspire kids to go home and create on their own. And if I do, I want them to be able to buy those very same bricks I use. So I don't alter the bricks; I just use what's provided.

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

LEGO is universal. So many people enjoy it, from all different walks of life, all different ages, all different cultures. When I was in Africa, I had LEGO bricks with me and I met some people who had never heard of LEGO, they had never seen it before and yet as soon as I gave them a few bricks, they immediately got it.

Many creative people are finding that creativity doesn't grow in abundance, it grows from scarcity - the more Lego bricks you have doesn't mean you're going to be more creative; you can be very creative with very few Lego bricks.

The important thing is to take the bricklayer and make him understand that he’s building a home, not just laying bricks.

It's a shame publishers send rejection slips. Writers should get something more substantial than a slip that amounts to a pile of confetti. Publishers should send something heavier. Editors should send out rejection bricks, so at the end of a lot of years, you would have something to show besides a wheelbarrow of rejection slips. Instead you could have enough bricks to build a house.

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

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

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

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

Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

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

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

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

In fact if I see you drinking I'll come down on you like a ton of bricks and call your mom.

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.

There are also half bricks. As the bricks are always laid so as to break joints, this lends strength and a not unattractive appearance to both sides of such walls.

Bricks will be most serviceable if made two years before using; for they cannot dry thoroughly in less time. When fresh undried bricks are used in a wall, the stucco covering stiffens and hardens into a permanent mass, but the bricks settle and the motion caused by their shrinking prevents them from adhering to it, and they are separated from their union with it. At Utica in constructing walls they use brick only if it is dry and made five years previously, and approved as such by the authority of a magistrate.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks.

Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in

The relation of the soul to the body is like that of a house to its bricks. The soul is a principle of organisation, which governs the flesh and endows it with meaning. It is no more separable from the flesh than is the house from its bricks, even if the soul may survive the gradual replacement of every bodily part.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

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

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

You're not going to win anything with bottles and bricks.

...the story of a man who saw three fellows laying bricks at a new building: He approached the first and asked, What are you doing? Clearly irritated, the first man responded, What the heck do you think I'm doing? I'm laying these darn bricks! He then walked over to the second bricklayer and asked the same question. The second fellow responded, Oh, I'm making a living. He approached the third bricklayer with the same question, What are you doing? The third looked up, smiled and said, I'm building a cathedral. At the end of the day, who feels better about how he's spent his last eight hours?

Words are not thoughts, just like bricks are not homes. But houses are made with bricks. If you have less bricks, you will make a small house. The more words you have, the clearer your thoughts, and the more clearly you can convey them.

You can spread your soul over a paddy field, you can whisper to a mango tree, you can feel the earth between your toes and know that this is the place, the place where it begins and ends. But what can you tell to a pile of bricks? The bricks will not be moved (page 87).

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

I don't have chips on my shoulders, I have bricks.

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