Bricks Quotes

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

Even a brick wants to be something

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

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

Follow the yellow brick road.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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."

A good Christian is a velvet-covered brick.

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

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

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

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