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We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit. -- David Suzuki
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
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 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
When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry about how their hair looked, and everybody wore sensible, comfortable clothes. It ran into an absolute brick wall. -- Gail Collins
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
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
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
I would run through brick walls for Spurs. -- Graham Roberts
I swear, talking to you is like talking to a really good-looking and mildly stupid brick wall. -- Derek Landy
I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me! -- Oscar Wilde
I must have been very young, but I have a clear memory of drawing on a cream brick wall... with wax crayons. -- Robert Ingpen
The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people! -- Randy Pausch
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
I am always really buzzed after each performance, and at around one in the morning, I'll hit a brick wall and need to sleep. -- Hattie Morahan
As a producer and director, I've tried for years to get properties off the ground for girls, and I've been hitting a brick wall. -- Melanie Mayron
Remember brick walls let us show our dedication. They are there to separate us from the people who don't really want to achieve their childhood dreams. -- Randy Pausch
The ideal view for daily writing, hour for hour, is the blank brick wall of a cold-storage warehouse. Failing this, a stretch of sky will do, cloudless if possible. -- Edna Ferber
For a player to be good enough to play for Liverpool, he must be prepared to run through a brick wall for me then come out fighting on the other side. -- Bill Shankly
Science fiction was rocket-mad for about 40 years until aerospace hit a brick wall about 1970. I would not write off space colonisation or exploration completely, but we are profoundly ill adapted for going boldly into outer space. -- Charles Stross
Behind a rack of framed photos of Snow, we encounter a wounded Peacekeeper propped up against a strip of brick wall. He asks us for help. Gale knees him in the side of the head and takes his gun. -- Suzanne Collins
If I dream that I'm directing, it's not a film, it's like a commercial for cotton candy, and I've got four feet of cotton candy all around me that I've got to break through, like a brick wall or a fortress. -- Mike Birbiglia
Life is brought down to the basics: if you are warm, regular, healthy, not thirsty or hungry, then you are not on a mountain... Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop. -- Chris Darwin
When I was at Berkeley, the framework of quantum field theory could calculate the dynamics of electromagnetism. It could roughly describe the motion of the weak nuclear force, radiation. But it hit a brick wall with the strong interaction, the binding force. -- David Gross
People are used to getting a lot of information quickly, and they're used to being quite empowered as consumers, and they go to governments expecting a similar treatment; they want to find data and they want to influence events quickly, and yet they come into this brick wall. -- Heather Brooke
The fact is that you could not be, and still cannot be, a 25-year-old homosexual trying to make it in the British film business or the American film business or even the Italian film business. It just doesn't work and you're going to hit a brick wall at some point. -- Rupert Everett
As always, the blessed relief of starting, a feeling that was like falling into a hole filled with bright light. As always, the glum knowledge that he would not write as well as he wanted to write. As always the terror of not being able to finish, of accelerating into a brick wall. As always, the marvelous joyful nervy feeling of journey begun. -- Stephen King
The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater. -- Frank Zappa
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
A lot of stand-up comedy is embarrassing: too many idiots doing it in orange neckties against brick walls. I find most sitcoms embarrassing, too, because they seem so forced. -- Tracey Ullman
Dennis Hutch had stepped up into the top seat when its founder had died of a lethal overdose of brick wall, taken while under the influence of a Ferrari and a bottle of tequila. -- Douglas Adams
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
In an earlier life, were you a pair of brakes?""Try a brick wall. -- J.R. Ward
I thought we'd turned a corner. Maybe we did, but we hit a brick wall anyway. -- Sylvia Day
To propel a dirigible balloon through the air is like pushing a candle through a brick wall. -- Alberto Santos-Dumont
Healthy boundaries are important, but you may be building a brick wall when a picket fence would do. -- Amy Dickinson
Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop. -- Chris Darwin
Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want -- Randy Pausch
He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration. -- Robert Musil
I am always really buzzed after each performance, and at around one in the morning, Ill hit a brick wall and need to sleep. -- Hattie Morahan
Many people see a brick wall as an obstacle, when it's really a how to for success. You build both, one brick at a time. -- Rob Liano
If you don't break a hole through the brick wall, don't just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that wall. -- Russell Simmons
Ever hear of the phrase, Banging you're head on a brick wall?" Ah, but you forget, Darren, vampires can break brick walls with their heads. -- Darren Shan
What I play now isn't surf music. It's too powerful. I used to go through paper bags; now I go through brick walls. I play hard. -- Dick Dale
Many people see a brick wall as an obstacle, when it's really a 'how to' for achieving success. You have to build either of them one brick at a time. -- Rob Liano
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
Whether it's a street poster on a brick wall, a magazine cover on a newsstand, or animation on a movie screen - art is an effective means of communicating with large numbers of people. -- Eric Drooker
The opposite of humility is arrogance--the belief that we are wiser or better than others. Arrogance promotes separation rather than community. It looms like a brick wall between us and those from whom we could learn. -- John Templeton
If ants had a language they would, no doubt, call their anthill an artifact and describe the brick wall in its neighborhood as a natural object. Nature in fact would be for them all that was not 'ant-made'. -- C. S. Lewis
[Richard Drew] always encouraged his people to pursue ideas... He said, "If it's a dumb idea, you'll find out. You'll smack into that brick wall, then you'll stagger back and see another opportunity that you wouldn't have seen otherwise." -- Arthur Fry
Doing a little work around the house. I put fake brick wallpaper over a real brick wall, just so I'd be the only one who knew. People come over and I'm gonna say, "Go ahead, touch it... it feels real." -- Steven Wright
What I thought was an end turned out to be a middle. What I thought was a brick wall turned out to be a tunnel. What I thought was an injustice turned out to be a color of the sky. -- Tony Hoagland
Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow, something will happen, something you couldn't plan, will come along to move like to like, to set you loose, to set you on the way to your next brick wall. -- Richard Bach
I strained to remember where I was or even what I was wearing, touching my green corduroy jeans and staring at the exposed-brick wall. As my paranoia deepened, I became convinced that I had died and no one was telling me. -- Maureen Dowd
Fred: "Is that brick wall your boyfriend?" Doug: "Only in my dreams." Fred: "Oh, you too? I'm Fred." Doug: "Doug. I should mention, in all fairness though that Christy's boyfriend is my best friend. He's the brick wall you should be worried about. -- Robin Jones Gunn
As a dancer I had worked with really hard choreographers, Jerome Robbins being the toughest. And you learned what it is to hit against a brick wall. And you learned pretty quickly to go around the wall or say, "I can't take this job." -- Joan Tewkesbury
Science is the process of crash testing ideas: you ram the idea head-on into a brick wall at 60mph, and knowledge is gained by examining the pieces. If the theory is solid, the pieces are from the wall. Then we build a bigger wall. -- Jon Huntsman, Jr.
The world has different owners at sunrise... Even your own garden does not belong to you. Rabbits and blackbirds have the lawns; a tortoise-shell cat who never appears in daytime patrols the brick walls, and a golden-tailed pheasant glints his way through the iris spears. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
But one kiss levitates above all the others. The intersection of function and desire. The I do kiss. The I'll love you through a brick wall kiss. Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones. -- Jeffrey McDaniel
I stumble across the sea of tarmac, finding pavement, concealment and a brick wall. Palms brace against the scrubby surface. My stomach churns and then bubbles over, burning my throat as acrid yellow acid spills from my lips in frothy discomposure. It splatters the pavement like a spray of blood. -- Rebecca Clare Smith
Pattern recognition and association make up the core of our thought. These activities involve millions of operations carried out in parallel, outside the field of our consciousness. If AI appeared to hit a brick wall after a few quick victories, it did so owing to its inability to emulate these processes. -- Daniel Crevier
You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle. -- George Lucas
A lesson will keep repeating itself until it is learned. Life first will send the lesson to you in the size of a pebble; if you ignore the pebble, then life will send you a brick; if you ignore the brick, life will send you a brick wall; if you ignore the brick wall, life will send you a demolition truck. -- Oprah Winfrey
I was walking down a street and after his death and saw a billboard on the side of a brick wall for Van's shoes. It was a picture of Hopper's face, and all it said was, 'Hopper Lives.' So I think he's still part of youth culture. There are lessons to be learned from Hopper about being a young person who wants to live the art life in America. -- Tom Folsom
You build a golf game like you build a wall, one brick at a time. -- Tony Lema
You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings! -- Randy Bachman
All in all you're just another brick in the wall -- Roger Waters
That city is well fortified which has a wall of men instead of brick. -- Lycurgus of Sparta
I would rather build a relationship than a wall. Can you pass me another brick? -- Jarod Kintz
Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration. -- Frank Yerby
I do not have to build a perfect wall today. I just have to lay a perfect brick. -- Will Smith
Remember, don't try to build the greatest wall that's ever been built. Focus on laying a single, expertly-placed brick. Then keep doing that, every day. -- Will Smith
If you want to knock down the wall between you and the life of your dreams, it's best to do it one brick at a time! -- Paul McKenna

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