Bricks And Mortar Quotes

• 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

  Fog, Color, House

  "The Classical Music Experience: Discover the Music of the World's Greatest Composers". Book by Julius H. Jacobson (p.341), 2008.

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• Composing is like driving down a foggy road.

  Benjamin Britten

  Fog, Driving, Brick Roads

  "The Classical Music Experience: Discover the Music of the World's Greatest Composers". Book by Julius H. Jacobson (p.341), 2008.

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• 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

  Eye, Thinking, Hands

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• No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

  Plutarch

  Fate, Destiny, Men

  Plutarch (1906). “Essays & Miscellanies...”

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• Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Empathy, Apathy

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nathan Haskell Dole, George Henry Lewes, Thomas Carlyle, John Storer Cobb (1902*). “The Works of Goethe”

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• I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.

  Eric Bogosian

  House, Directors, Actors

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• All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.

  Stephen Covey

  Order, Mind, Each Day

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize.
  Behind every word flows energy.

  Sonia Choquette

  Dream, Healing, Empowering

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• Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Character, Men, Palaces

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nathan Haskell Dole, George Henry Lewes, Thomas Carlyle, John Storer Cobb (1902*). “The Works of Goethe”

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• Martin Luther King's legacy is never to be measured by bricks and mortar, but rather by the kind of lives that we live, and the kind of love and service that we render.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Legacy, Kind

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• 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

  Thinking, Topography, Construction

  "Alan Moore Gets Psychogeographical With Unearthing". Interview With Scott Thill, www.wired.com. August 9, 2010.

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• 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

  Eye, Comfort, Shelter

  Bernard Tschumi (1996). “Architecture and Disjunction”, p.247, MIT Press

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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

  Believe, Heart, Heaven

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.4552, Delphi Classics

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• Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.

  Virginia Woolf

  Wall, Years, Creative

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.617, Wordsworth Editions

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• The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar.

  Karl Marx

  Battle, Bourgeoisie, Looks

  Karl Marx, Terrell Carver (1996). “Marx: Later Political Writings”, p.202, Cambridge University Press

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• 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

  Community, Lines, Bears

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• We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for book talks, circles for story time; we'll always need brick-and-mortar libraries.

  Marilyn Johnson

  Book, Circles, Library

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• There was a place in New York called Tannen's Magic. It still exists. But back in the day, it was really fantastic. You'd go into the old Wurlitzer Building, take the elevator to the 13th floor, which was labeled 14, because of bad luck, the elevator would open, and you'd be in heaven. It was all of these guys doing magic stuff with props. It's kind of gone now, that experience, the brick-and-mortar magic shop, but you really felt like you'd landed in the most amazing place in the world.

  David Copperfield

  New York, Guy, Heaven

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Because nearly all digital libraries are tied to bricks-and-mortar institutions, the funding base tends to be quite localized.

  Tom Peters

  Library, Digital, Institutions

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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• One potential long-term problem with many current digital libraries is that they grew out of and aresupported by bricks-and-mortar libraries. Although there is nothing inherently wrong with that arrangement, inreality it creates a potentially dangerous situation that I call "the other digital divide."

  Tom Peters

  Dangerous Situations, Long, Library

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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• What I resist is techniques. I find techniques very problematic. So when critics talk about my work in those terms, I find that they miss the condition. I am comfortable with the notion of pattern and ornament as a system of organization, [but] for me it acts as a textile. So it's not about pattern, but the notion of architecture through the lens of textile, rather than architecture through the lens of brick and mortar.

  David Adjaye

  Organization, Missing, Technique

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• All new schools...should be models for sustainable development: showing every child in the classroom and the playground how smart building and energy use can help tackle global warming...Sustainable development will not just be a subject in the classroom: it will be in its bricks and mortar and the way the school uses and even generates its own power.

  Tony Blair

  Children, Smart, School

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• The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.

  John Oates

  Bricks, Mortar, Music Business

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• My relationship with brick-and-mortar shopping is, in general, unpleasant. I can't remember a time in my life when I could go to a physical store and find a variety of things in my size that excited me and fit my personal style. As a plus-size shopper at a typical mall, you're limited to at most five stores out of maybe 50 clothing retailers. That leaves us with very few options and, for people on a tight budget, pretty much no chance of comparison shopping. You take what you can get.

  Lindy West

  Shopping, People, Style

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• If you look at the top 20 companies of the world, 19 of them are still brick-and-mortar companies. I have nothing against tech companies. What I am saying is that if you have a car manufacturer or an oil and gas manufacturer, you won't get the supply over the Net.

  Anil Ambani

  Technology, Oil, Car

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