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Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture. -- Lydia M. Child
Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks. -- P. G. Wodehouse
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. -- Plutarch
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. -- David Brinkley
Follow the yellow brick road. -- E. Y. Harburg
Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories. -- Lord Dunsany
How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road. -- Ray Bolger
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. -- Steve Jobs
Bricks should be made in Spring or Autumn so that they may dry uniformly. -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
You build a golf game like you build a wall, one brick at a time. -- Tony Lema
I'd rather drive the yellow brick road, you wouldn't happen to know of a rental car place around. -- Ryan Stiles
I see ya waiting for the bus early in the morn', brick house with a face like Lena Horne. -- Coolio
Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in -- Sandra Cisneros
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. -- Stephen Leacock
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
Every time you lose an animal, it's like losing a brick from the house. Pretty soon the house just falls down, you know? -- Bindi Irwin
I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house. -- Eric Bogosian
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
I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, its governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye. -- David McCallum
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! -- Edward Abbey
When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think? -- Margery Allingham
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
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
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
I carry my own church about under my own hat," said I. "Bricks and mortar won't make a staircase to heaven. I believe with your Master that the human heart is the best temple. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
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
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
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
If I could only remember that the days were not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart. -- Edmund Wilson
I still have the desire to do the job of acting. It's just a matter of whether I'll be allowed to do the job of acting that remains to be seen. There are only so many brick walls that I'm willing to beat my head on. -- Gary Coleman
On the other hand in London you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go: they've seen the bricks of ideas built over a period so therefore there is an acceptance of what otherwise might seem out on a limb. -- Siobhan Davies
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
Fame hit me like a ton of bricks. -- Eminem
Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I could break bricks with my hands when I was 12. -- Akshay Kumar
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. -- William Blake
The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer. -- John Oates
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. -- Augustus
They been callin up here, asking when I am gonna get out. When I hit bricks, it all belongs to me. -- Suge Knight
The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar. -- Bernard Tschumi
I have managed to eke out a good and substantial existence. I'm not shoveling gold bricks or anything, but I do very, very well. -- Rufus Wainwright
I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, it's governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye. -- David McCallum
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
Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls. -- Lars von Trier
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
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. -- Alan Kay
The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses. -- Anselm Kiefer
If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart. -- Edmund Wilson
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. -- Benjamin Britten
I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins. -- Quincy Jones
Let us think of Nature as a builder, making all that we see out of atoms of a limited number of kinds, just as the builder of a house constructs it out of so many different kinds of things: bricks, slates, planks, panes of glass, and so on. -- William Henry Bragg
It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say. -- Michael Leunig
Writing is still like heaving bricks over a wall ... -- Virginia Woolf
A heap of bricks is not yet a house. -- I. L. Peretz
Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks. -- Khaled Hosseini
Don't wish for bricks when you can build from stone. -- Leigh Bardugo
Steve Bruce is like a cat on hot tin bricks. -- Alvin Martin
We'll build a democracy here, even if it's with Nazi bricks. -- Samuel Fuller
Angry and frustrated, the journalists set about making bricks without straw ... -- Patricia Moyes
I found Rome built of bricks; I leave her clothed in marble. -- Suetonius
A brick layer, lays bricks... I'm an Actor, that's what I do. -- Michael Chiklis
Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
It was much more than bricks and stone - It was an idea. -- Patricia C. McKissack
All you need to build a house, Is blood and bricks and plaster. -- Harriet Jones
Build your house with your bricks and your house will belong to you -- Constance Chuks Friday
The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness. -- John Updike
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. -- Douglas Adams
The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different. -- John Szarkowski
You can't change the bricks, and together, you still have to build a wall. -- Chris Hadfield
Good moodsâ??re as fragile as eggs...Bad moodsâ??re as fragile as bricks. -- David Mitchell
We build our character from the bricks of habit we pile up day by day. -- Zig Ziglar
My disinterest in your bullshit is so tangible you could make bricks out of it -- Scott Lynch
Digital makes it so much easier. No bricks of film, no worrying about airport X-rays, etc. -- Peter Menzel
It takes a thousand bricks to build a wall, but only one to tear it down. -- Markus W. Lunner
Even if I am predisposed to shop online, I see bricks and mortar as part of marketing. -- Natalie Massenet
Something about her suggested that her leisure activities included wrestling large woodland animals and banging bricks together. -- Maureen Johnson
Geoff Hurst had a hammer in his left boot and good left feet are like bricks of gold. -- Jimmy Greaves
The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble. -- Christopher Wren
Because nearly all digital libraries are tied to bricks-and-mortar institutions, the funding base tends to be quite localized. -- Tom Peters
Lovers communicate not inside sentences, but between them. Passion lurks within interstice. It is grouting rather than bricks. -- Lionel Shriver
Entrepreneurship: you put one dumb foot in front of the other while the world throws bricks at your head. -- Peter Thiel
Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures. -- Audre Lorde
You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw. -- Arnold Bennett
Be united with other Christians. A wall with loose bricks is not good. The bricks must be cemented together. -- Corrie Ten Boom
Two bricklayers work side by side. The first lays bricks. The second builds magnificent cathedrals. Think small vs. think big. -- Richard Branson
Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize. Behind every word flows energy. -- Sonia Choquette
The cost of acquiring new customers and maintaining those relationships in an online environment versus bricks and mortar is significant. -- Stephen Cohen
Haters are my favorite. IÂ´ve built an empire with the bricks theyÂ´ve thrown at me. Keep on hating. -- CM Punk
In fact if I see you drinking I'll come down on you like a ton of bricks and call your mom. -- Ayelet Waldman
The Nets' a stone throw from where I used to throw bricks ...So it's only right I'm still tossing 'round Knicks. -- Jay-Z
The important thing is to take the bricklayer and make him understand that he's building a home, not just laying bricks. -- Herb Kelleher
A brick could create a clear winner in a fight if instead of fighting pillows against blankets, you fought bricks against blankets. -- Amy Summers
Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights. -- George Bernard Shaw
Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture. -- Scott Joplin
An author is like an incompetent bricklayer - doesn't use mortar and keeps rearranging the bricks until someone tells him to stop. -- Chris Everheart
In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly. -- Jack Dee
People think you must be crackers if you've got a psychologist but psychology is part of the building bricks to make a top athlete. -- David James
Your past is like a bag of bricks; set it down and walk away. Quit collecting every painful word, memory and mistake. Collect hope. -- Bryant McGill
Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim. -- Oscar Wilde
The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars. -- Isaiah
You enrich people with creative resources, and over time, these Lego bricks that end up in their heads eventually build this enormous, incredible castle. -- Maria Popova
Everytime I see the Spice Girls, it makes me want to try to fly by climbing my roof and strapping bricks to my shoes. -- Eddie Vedder
We speak piously of ... making small studies that will add another brick to the temple of science. Most such bricks just lie around the brickyard. -- John R. Platt
Even the disciples, who at times could be dense as bricks, realized that the true neighbor was the one who showed mercy to a stranger. -- Scott Russell Sanders
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
I see the world in rectangles. If I am talking to someone, I find myself analysing their face, working out how to recreate it in bricks. -- Nathan Sawaya
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
She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time -- Ann Brashares
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
I have faith that a script is going to hit me like a ton of bricks, and when that happens, it's undeniable that I should choose the role. -- Tom Hanks
She was a beautiful woman dragging a crippled foot and I was that foot. I was bricks sewn into the hem of her clothes, I was a steel dress -- Janet Fitch
It's hard selling books in general: companies are merging, editors being laid off, bricks-and-mortar bookstores closing, large chain bookstores squeezing out independents, and online retailers squeezing out chain bookstores. -- Christina Baker Kline
I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons. -- George Bernard Shaw
I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons." -- George Bernard Shaw
The point is to strip down, get protestant, then even more naked. Walk over scorched bricks to find your own soul. Your heart a searching dog in the rubble. -- Barry Hannah
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
His eyes were rolling in their sockets, and his face had taken on the colour and expression of a devout tomato. I could see he loved like a thousand bricks. -- P. G. Wodehouse
There's definitely a role for online booksellers, but they can't host events, bring people together, and form a personal relationship in the way a bricks-and-mortar store and its staff can. -- Graeme Simsion

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