Brick Roads Quotes

• Follow the yellow brick road.

  Yip Harburg

  Yellow, Bricks, Lullaby

  "We're Off to See the Wizard (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)" (song) (1939)

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• Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Steve Jobs' Commencement Address at Stanford University, news.stanford.edu. June 14, 2005.

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• The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.

  L. Frank Baum

  Cities, Yellow, Bricks

  TheWonderful Wizard of Oz ch. 2 (1900). The phrase "yellow brick road" does not appear in this book. See Harburg 6

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• Composing is like driving down a foggy road.

  Benjamin Britten

  Bricks And Mortar, Fog, Driving

  "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 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

  Bricks And Mortar, Fog, Color

  "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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• Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to the wonderful land of consensus. In place of honest argument among consenting adults the politicians substitute a lullaby for frightened children: the pretense that conflict doesn't really exist, that we have achieved the blessed state in which we no longer need politics.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Children, Blessed, Race

  Lewis H. Lapham (1995). “Hotel America: Scenes in the Lobby of the Fin-de-siècle”, p.18, Verso

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• Your dreams are ballbusters; they're not the yellow brick road.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Inspirational, Dream, Life Is Short

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• 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

  Yellow, Flow, Bricks

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• I'd rather drive the yellow brick road, you wouldn't happen to know of a rental car place around.

  Ryan Stiles

  Yellow, Car, Bricks

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• How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road.

  Ray Bolger

  Lonely, Yellow, Bricks

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