Bricks Quotes - Page 19

• Of true knowledge at any time, a good part is merely convenient, necessary indeed to the worker, but not to an understanding of his subject: One can judge a building without knowing where to buy the bricks; one can understand a violin sonata without knowing how to score for the instrument. The work may in fact be better understood without a knowledge of the details of its manufacture, of attention to these tends to distract from meaning and effect.

  Jacques Barzun

  Knowledge, Knowing, Judging

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• There’s something about hospital walls; though only made of bricks and plaster, when you’re inside them the noise, the reality of the teeming city beyond, disappears; it’s just outside the door, but it might as well be a magical land far, far away.

  Kate Morton

  Wall, Reality, Doors

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• When she left for a third time and returned with a giant box, I started to get irate. "What is this?" I demanded, taking it from her. It felt like it had bricks in it. "Grandmother needs you to carry some things," Paul told me. "Yes," I said through gritted teeth. "I sort of figured that out fifty pounds ago.

  Richelle Mead

  Grandmother, Teeth, Giants

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.663, Penguin

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• Courage is required not only in a person's occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.

  Rollo May

  Courage, Responsibility, Decision

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.173, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I used to help out my father, a bricklayer, in the summer. I'd catch the bricks (that were dropped). And it made me strong, catching those bricks. I wouldn't change anything about it. That's why I'm where I am today. Really.

  Jerry Rice

  Summer, Strong, Father

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• Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• 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

  Wall, Perfectly Good, Fallen Angels

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• Lovers communicate not inside sentences, but between them. Passion lurks within interstice. It is grouting rather than bricks.

  Lionel Shriver

  Passion, Lovers, Communicate

  Lionel Shriver (2007). “The Post-Birthday World”, Harper

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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, Bricks And Mortar

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

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• I suddenly understood that even love and caring weren't always enough. They were the concrete bricks of our relationship, but unstable without the mortar of time spent together, time without the threat of imminent separation hanging over us.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Caring, Together, Separation

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• For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can't possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Giving, Hazards, Sake

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Busman's Honeymoon”, p.392, Open Road Media

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• Anyway, he's [Simon] obviously not here. Go back to what you were doing. 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." And she [Isabelle] stalked off, back toward the bar. - City of Fallen Angels pg 188 hardcover

  Cassandra Clare

  Wall, Angel, Perfectly Good

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• In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Wall, Brick Wall, Manufacturing

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• So one day he found her crying Coiled up on the dirty ground Her prince finally came to save her & the rest you can figure out But it was a trick & the clock struck twelve Well make sure to build your home brick by boring brick or the wolf's gonna blow it down Keep your feet on the ground When your head's in the clouds

  Hayley Williams

  Dirty, Home, Blow

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• Well, duh. He was six feet, six inches tall and built like a brick shithouse.

  J.R. Ward

  Feet, Duh, Six

  J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.175, Penguin

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• Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick)

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Rights, White, Sometimes

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• In an earlier life, were you a pair of brakes?" "Try a brick wall.

  J.R. Ward

  Wall, Trying, Pairs

  J.R. Ward (2010). “Crave: A Novel of the Fallen Angels”, p.62, Penguin

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• 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

  Smile, Knees, Lava

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.62, Penguin

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• Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want

  Randy Pausch

  Happiness, Success, Perseverance

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• Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.

  Sarah Dessen

  Home, People, House

  "What Happened To Goodbye". Book by Sarah Dessen, May 10, 2011.

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• To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time, or like finding a forest without roads or footpaths, or the blemish of an axe. You know then what you had always been told -- that the world once lived and grew without adding machines and newsprint and brick-walled streets and the tyranny of clocks.

  Beryl Markham

  Nature, Animal, Mountain

  Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

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• I didn't want anyone getting close to me. I pushed people away. Built a wall around my heart to keep them out. I let one person take down the bricks, and I suppose it was a good idea, but, sometimes, he hurts me too. And it hurts so much worse then any other hurt I've felt because he is one of the very few that matter anymore.

  Jacqueline Kelly

  Hurt, Wall, Heart

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• There's so much myth and baloney. Like a 80-year-old man able to manhandle a 300-pounder with his little finger. Ridiculous. Or this matter of breaking bricks and boards wth the edge of your hand. Now I ask you, did you ever see a brick or a board pick a fight with anybody?

  Bruce Lee

  Fighting, Men, Hands

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• Identity politics divides us. Fiction connects. One is interested in sweeping generalizations. The other, in nuances. One draws boundaries. The other recognizes no frontiers. Identity politics is made of solid bricks. Fiction is flowing water.

  Elif Safak

  Identity Politics, Water, Fiction

  "The politics of fiction". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July 2010.

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• I got a burlap sack, put a brick in the middle, and filled it with rags, corncobs, some Spanish moss, and sand. I hung that sack off the branch of an oak tree. I'd wrap my hands with a necktie of my daddy's and punch at it. My mom gave me an hour a day. My brothers and sisters said, "Nah." I said, "You'll see."

  Joe Frazier

  Mom, Brother, Hands

  "Joe Frazier: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 7, 2011.

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