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

Adversaries are my preferred. I've created a dominion with the blocks they've tossed at me. Continue loathing.
Authors on Bricks Quotes: Nicole McKay Mark Twain Scott Lynch Virginia Woolf Rian Johnson Suetonius Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Sol LeWitt Louis Kahn Teresa of Avila Anne Lamott J.R. Ward David Mitchell Patricia Briggs Tom Hanks Michael Chiklis Tara Fela-Durotoye Grace Jones Bruno Schulz I. M. Pei Philip Larkin Sarah Waters John Simon William Ellery Channing Harry S. Truman Charles Dickens Sylvia Day Stephen Jay Gould Hyman Rickover Sandra Cisneros Jeanette Winterson Audre Lorde Gail Carriger
2.
Even a brick wants to be something
Louis Kahn

Even an inanimate object desires purpose.
3.
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

'Construction commences the moment two bricks are shrewdly united. This is where it all begins.'
4.
The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.
L. Frank Baum

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Follow the yellow brick road.
Yip Harburg

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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.
Cassandra Clare

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Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.
Paul Simon

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

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

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

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Half-truths are like half a brick - they can be thrown farther.
Hyman Rickover

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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.
Mark Twain

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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.
Grace Jones

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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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Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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The transistor was a small plastic unit that would take us from a world of static bricks piled on top of each other to a world where everything was interactive.
Ayah Bdeir

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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.
John Bonham

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

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

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Whenever the press quits abusing me I know Im in the wrong pew. I dont mind it because when they throw bricks at meIm a pretty good shot myself and I usually throw em back at em.
Harry S. Truman

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

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They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.
Dorothy Day

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All in all you're just another brick in the wall
Roger Waters

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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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

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Everything starts with one step, or one brick, or one word or one day
Jeremy Gilley

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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.
Muhammad Yunus

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

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Every apathetic individual is a brick in a tyrant's throne.
Philip Slater

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Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.
Eminem

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To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar.
Teresa of Avila

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

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We build our character from the bricks of habit we pile up day by day.
Zig Ziglar

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You don’t try to build a wall, you don’t set out to build a wall. You don’t say ‘I’m going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that’s ever been built.’ You don’t start there… You say ‘I’m going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid.’ And you do that every single day and soon you have a wall.
Will Smith

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I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.
Shakira

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How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road.
Ray Bolger

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The brick of my life is music, but the mortar is faith.
Van Cliburn

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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.
Andrea Bocelli

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I won't forget the hood. I won't forget the days of catching a bullet on the way to the mailbox or bricks with death threats that somehow made their way through the window.
Pau Gasol

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

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

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

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You should go into every relationship as a brick and not a blanket.
Nicole McKay

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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.
Peter Maxwell Davies

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The family is where we are formed as people. Every family is a brick in the building of society
Pope Francis

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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."
Carl Andre

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A good Christian is a velvet-covered brick.
Frederick W. Smith

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What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick)
Frances Hodgson Burnett

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