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The way to Everest is not a Yellow Brick Road. -- Jon Krakauer
How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road. -- Ray Bolger
In New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours. -- George D. Prentice
Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want -- Randy Pausch
With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30. -- Rian Johnson
Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other. -- Tennessee Williams
Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick) -- Frances Hodgson Burnett
Comedy clubs have brick walls behind the performer. Bricks make you funny. When I'm in front of a fireplace, I'm hilarious. -- Mitch Hedberg
The critical reaction to 'Bloom' has been similar to 'Brick.' There are people on board with it and people who are not. -- Rian Johnson
I loved being in London. Always walking everywhere, always out and about and always at markets, walking around Brick Lane and Covent Garden and Soho. -- Alice Temperley
A lot of movies try to set up a world with cool sets, costumes, camera work. In Brick, the world is born from the words. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Instead of Rock, Paper, Scissors, you could play Brick, Blanket, Action Fingers, in which brick cripples action fingers, blanket smothers brick and action fingers beats blanket. -- Nicole McKay
Brick walls let us prove how badly we want our dream and they stop those who don't want it enough. Brick walls let us show our dedication. -- Randy Pausch
The Art of the Brick' is an exhibition I've done where I've taken some works of art from art history and replicated them all out of Lego bricks. -- Nathan Sawaya
With 'Brick' there was the Dashiell Hammett influence, and with 'Brothers Bloom' there was a really strong Fellini influence - both those movies wore that on their sleeve. -- Rian Johnson
Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things. -- Randy Pausch
Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt. -- Bill Delahunt
I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England when I was overtaken by a compulsion to start writing. -- Monica Ali
Brick walls are there for reason. And once you get over them-- even if someone has practically had to throw you over-- it can be helpful to others to tell them how you did it. -- Randy Pausch
A brick could be wrapped in plastic and sold individually to toddlers as toys. (Warning: Bricks can be harmful if swallowed. If ingested, please contact a physician first, and then the manager of a circus.) -- Jarod Kintz
I live in Brick Towers, a public housing project in Newark's Central Ward. I moved in when the projects were privately owned by a man who the residents and I believed was a grade A slumlord. -- Cory Booker
I always knew I could rap, and in a sense I always rapped. And [I've] always behaved like a rapper. But I started to take it seriously when I recorded with the people of Brick when I started to receive some money. -- Young Thug
Kanan is a big road through the Santa Monica Mountains. Between mid-March and mid-April, when you get over to the western side of the mountains, it's populated by Spanish broom - this beautiful, yellow, flowering weed that smells the way I imagine it smells along the Yellow Brick Road. -- John C. McGinley
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. -- Steve Jobs
I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun. -- Shakira
Everything starts with one step, or one brick, or one word or one day. -- Jeremy Gilley
They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. -- Dorothy Day
Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick. -- Candice Bergen
We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit. -- David Suzuki
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. -- Stephen Leacock
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
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
People who avoid the brick walls - all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve. -- Jennifer Aniston
The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice. -- John Dos Passos
Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw. -- William J. H. Boetcker
I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I'm so mean I make medicine sick. -- Muhammad Ali
The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went. -- Richard Branson
In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside. -- Tadao Ando
The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time. -- John McEnroe
I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence. -- King Hussein I
Pop music can absorb so many peculiar talents, ranging from the completely nonmusical poseur who just uses music as a kind of springboard for a sense of style, to people who just love putting all that complicated stuff together, brick by brick, on their computers, to people like me who like playing conceptual games and being surprised. -- Brian Eno
You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.' And you say to brick, 'Look, I want one, too, but arches are expensive and I can use a concrete lintel.' And then you say: 'What do you think of that, brick?' Brick says: 'I like an arch.' -- Louis Kahn
Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers of these empires who began hiring people to keep track of the wheat and sheep and wine that was owed and the taxes that was owed on them by making marks; marks on clay in that time. -- Howard Rheingold
One of my teachers once said that the way you know you're on the right path is that it works. Now, that doesn't mean you don't run into blocks and brick walls, but it does mean that you can find a way around them or find a way to change yourself or your project in order to find the flow again and have it work. -- James Redfield
When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which meant that one room in our house opened up onto a brick wall. And I was convinced all I had to do was just open it the right way and it wouldn't be a brick wall. So I'd sidle over to the door and I'd pull it open. -- Neil Gaiman
Follow the yellow brick road. -- E. Y. Harburg
Follow the yellow brick road. -- E. Y. Harburg
Even a brick wants to be something -- Louis Kahn
A good Christian is a velvet-covered brick. -- Frederick W. Smith
I would run through brick walls for Spurs. -- Graham Roberts
He really wished she would stop fingering the brick. -- Larissa Ione
Eventually, someone is going to pick up a brick. -- David Simon
All in all you're just another brick in the wall -- Roger Waters
Every apathetic individual is a brick in a tyrant's throne. -- Philip Slater
Your dreams are ballbusters; they're not the yellow brick road. -- Kelly Cutrone
In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall. -- Paul Simon
A brick could be used for note delivery, from the KKK. -- Nicole McKay
Half-truths are like half a brick - they can be thrown farther. -- Hyman Rickover
Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses. -- John Simon
The brick of my life is music, but the mortar is faith. -- Van Cliburn
This is about as comforting as a cold brick when you're lonely. -- Maggie Stiefvater
A brick layer, lays bricks... I'm an Actor, that's what I do. -- Michael Chiklis
The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick. -- L. Frank Baum
Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Sometimes life hits you like a brick in the face. Don't give up. -- Steve Jobs
As large as worlds. As old as Time. As patient as a brick. -- Terry Pratchett
You should go into every relationship as a brick and not a blanket. -- Nicole McKay
Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick. -- C. S. Lewis
You can sit on a brick, and milk a cow with a blanket. -- Nicole McKay
I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick. -- Jeanette Winterson
We want to make every single interaction in the world into a ready-to-use brick. -- Ayah Bdeir
A brick could be used as a deodorant deterrent. Just ask any stinky Congressman. -- Jarod Kintz
Enlightenment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn't it? -- Scott Lynch
Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick. -- Muhammad Ali
I hospitalized a rock, killed a brick...I'm so bad I make medicine sick! -- Muhammad Ali
I did not threaten anybody in any moment and even less with a brick. -- Chico Flores
Instead of putting flowers in books to flatten them you can use a brick. -- Nicole McKay
That city is well fortified which has a wall of men instead of brick. -- Lycurgus of Sparta
Everything starts with one step, or one brick, or one word or one day -- Jeremy Gilley
In an earlier life, were you a pair of brakes?""Try a brick wall. -- J.R. Ward
I love the long-form rehearsal process with theater, brick by brick, to build another life. -- Vik Sahay
Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies/ a girder, still itself among the rubbish -- Charles Reznikoff
You build a golf game like you build a wall, one brick at a time. -- Tony Lema
We pave the sunlit path toward justice together, brick by brick. This is my brick. -- Tim Cook
I would rather build a relationship than a wall. Can you pass me another brick? -- Jarod Kintz
Well, duh. He was six feet, six inches tall and built like a brick shithouse. -- J.R. Ward
A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house! -- Thomas Carlyle
Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration. -- Frank Yerby
A brick can be used to represent the zero probability of this book being any good. -- Amy Summers
The way to become famous fast is to throw a brick at someone who is famous. -- Walter Winchell
We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man? -- Tom Stoppard
Conversation, fastidious goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf
I thought we'd turned a corner. Maybe we did, but we hit a brick wall anyway. -- Sylvia Day
There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick. -- Bill Belichick
Separating them were two layers of brick, a few inches of plaster, and nine years of silence. -- Paolo Giordano
A red brick Presbyterian church... captured by kudzu vines as surely as a butterfly in a net. -- Barbara Ascher
To propel a dirigible balloon through the air is like pushing a candle through a brick wall. -- Alberto Santos-Dumont
I swear, talking to you is like talking to a really good-looking and mildly stupid brick wall. -- Derek Landy
Modern man threw a brick through his own window in order to sell himself a burglar alarm. -- Allen Carr
A blanket is great for covering things, like the dead guy, I just killed with this brick. -- Nicole McKay
Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body. -- Lady Gaga
It's the anarchy of poverty delights me, the old yellow wooden house indented among the new brick tenements -- William Carlos Williams
Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop. -- Chris Darwin
Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick. -- Kate Mosse
Houses are built brick-by-brick. HOMEs are built word-by-word. Houses don't build themselves. So YOU must build your home. -- Tara Fela-Durotoye
Healthy boundaries are important, but you may be building a brick wall when a picket fence would do. -- Amy Dickinson
I'd rather drive the yellow brick road, you wouldn't happen to know of a rental car place around. -- Ryan Stiles
You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker. -- Roger Daltrey
I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me! -- Oscar Wilde
A brick could be used to keep warm, and a blanket could be used to build a house. -- Jarod Kintz
I do not have to build a perfect wall today. I just have to lay a perfect brick. -- Will Smith
What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Right to privacy is really important. You pull that brick out and another and pretty soon the house falls. -- Tim Cook
It's nice to be able to engage with this fan base that I've worked to build, brick by brick. -- Terri Clark
[I will] totally dismantle every intelligence agency in this country piece by piece, nail by nail, brick by brick -- Ron Dellums
Lord Maccon was built like a brick outhouse, with opinions twice as unmoving and often equally full of crap. -- Gail Carriger
I see ya waiting for the bus early in the morn', brick house with a face like Lena Horne. -- Coolio
The family is where we are formed as people. Every family is a brick in the building of society -- Pope Francis
Soak blanket in gravy and make a delicious brick wrap. Serve in All Gravy Room at the Mandrake Hotel. -- Christoph Fischer

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