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I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.
Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies/ a girder, still itself among the rubbish
We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?
Even if I am predisposed to shop online, I see bricks and mortar as part of marketing.
With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.
Modern man threw a brick through his own window in order to sell himself a burglar alarm.
What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.
I love the long-form rehearsal process with theater, brick by brick, to build another life.
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
I'm not a clicks man, I wasn't born in the clicks era. I'm a bricks man, I believe in bricks.
The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness.
Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop.
The family is where we are formed as people. Every family is a brick in the building of society
The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different.
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in
I'd rather drive the yellow brick road, you wouldn't happen to know of a rental car place around.
They been callin up here, asking when I am gonna get out. When I hit bricks, it all belongs to me.
Haters are my favorite. I´ve built an empire with the bricks they´ve thrown at me. Keep on hating.
We have got to extend the hand of friendship, we have got to take the peacelines down brick by brick
Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.
Conversation, fastidious goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will.
Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist.
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
Lord Maccon was built like a brick outhouse, with opinions twice as unmoving and often equally full of crap.
You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.
Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick)
The Bible talks about building houses on sand and rock, but says nothing about a brick house built on a blanket.
It's easy if you're Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh or even sometimes Newt Gingrich to stand back and throw bricks.
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.
Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick.
I love massive books: books so big, like bricks, you could drown yourself in a pool with them if you're not careful.
I'm a troglodyte. I think that's the word for it. Like an old school weird person who throws bricks at their computers.
The critical reaction to 'Bloom' has been similar to 'Brick.' There are people on board with it and people who are not.
The important thing is to take the bricklayer and make him understand that he’s building a home, not just laying bricks.
Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.
Houses are built brick-by-brick. HOMEs are built word-by-word. Houses don't build themselves. So YOU must build your home.
To put one brick upon another, Add a third, and then a fourth, Leaves no time to wonder whether What you do has any worth.
I take a lot of enjoyment out of imagining myself as... I dunno... a wall. I keep adding bricks to my wall or little house.
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.
Lovers communicate not inside sentences, but between them. Passion lurks within interstice. It is grouting rather than bricks.
I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.
I have managed to eke out a good and substantial existence. I'm not shoveling gold bricks or anything, but I do very, very well.
You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.
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.
In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.