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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
I don't think you can separate a place from its history. I think a place is much more than the bricks and mortar that go into its construction. I think it's more than the accidental topography of the ground it stands on. -- Alan Moore
The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer. -- John Oates
The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness. -- John Updike
Even if I am predisposed to shop online, I see bricks and mortar as part of marketing. -- Natalie Massenet
The cost of acquiring new customers and maintaining those relationships in an online environment versus bricks and mortar is significant. -- Stephen Cohen
I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house. -- Eric Bogosian
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 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
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
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
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
Big data has been used by human beings for a long time - just in bricks-and-mortar applications. Insurance and standardized tests are both examples of big data from before the Internet. -- Jose Ferreira
I've done pretty well in my career, and I've watched colleagues who have spent most of the paychecks they receive on shoes and cars rather than bricks and mortar, and that's not me. -- Anthony Warlow
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
Infrastructure alone won't end poverty. The World Bank had to learn this lesson, too. While we believed too much in bricks and mortar in our early days, we now understand that bringing together funding, technical expertise, and tested knowledge goes much further. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
I think the good thing about the Internet is to give something away and to sell something else. Get a business model like that because the old brick and mortar record stores are falling apart, and the big record companies are collapsing under their own weight. -- Roger McGuinn
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
Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize. Behind every word flows energy. -- Sonia Choquette
An author is like an incompetent bricklayer - doesn't use mortar and keeps rearranging the bricks until someone tells him to stop. -- Chris Everheart
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
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
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

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