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Tag Name "Bricks" (101)

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Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in
Sandra Cisneros
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Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.
Lord Dunsany
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Bricks should be made in Spring or Autumn so that they may dry uniformly.
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
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Bricks are independent but can work well with other, tough to crack, fiercely loyal and put in the right spot will hold anything and everything that you’ve ever held dear with the greatest of ease.
Nicole McKay
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Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.
P. G. Wodehouse
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So we went to bed, assaulted by sleep that fumed at us from medicine glasses, or was wielded from small sweet-coated tablets -- dainty bricks of dream wrapped in the silk stockings of oblivion.
Janet Frame
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How can one not succumb and allow one's courage to fail when everything is shut tight, when all meaningful things are walled up, and when you constantly knock against bricks, as against the walls of a prison?
Bruno Schulz
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Digital makes it so much easier. No bricks of film, no worrying about airport X-rays, etc.
Peter Menzel
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If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for a show. Then the director takes that and hires people. It's like trying to build a house without any bricks.
John Patrick Shanley
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You can't change the bricks, and together, you still have to build a wall.
Chris Hadfield
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Two bricklayers work side by side. The first lays bricks. The second builds magnificent cathedrals. Think small vs. think big.
Richard Branson
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So why did I think about her every second? Why was I so much happier the minute I saw her? I felt like maybe I knew the answer, but how could I be sure? I didn't know, and I didn't have any way to find out. Guys don't talk about stuff like that. We just lie under the pile of bricks.
Kami Garcia
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The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.
Christopher Wren
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We'll build a democracy here, even if it's with Nazi bricks.
Samuel Fuller
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The whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man, but such conditions do not exist. Things may be treated without love one may chop wood, make bricks, forge iron without love, but one can no more deal with people without love than one can handle bees without care.
Leo Tolstoy
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What on earth have you packed in here? Bricks? asked Mo as he carried Meggie's book-box out of the house. You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them, said Meggie.
Cornelia Funke
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Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture.
Scott Joplin
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Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
David Brinkley
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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
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Late one night our house was attacked with stones and bricks by five or six young Christians, and my father got very upset and frightened. Well, the next day he dropped dead of a heart attack. The community knew very well that he had a heart condition, so I lay a murder to the city of Baltimore.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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Good moods’re as fragile as eggs...Bad moods’re as fragile as bricks.
David Mitchell
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Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize. Behind every word flows energy.
Sonia Choquette
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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.
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
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