Brick Quotes

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

Life, Faith, Sometimes

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
Stephen Leacock

Truth, Whole, Half

We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.
David Suzuki

Car, Everyone, Sit

Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.
William J. H. Boetcker

Strong, Point, Weak

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

Power, Through, Sometimes

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

Strong, Whatever, Once

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

Two, Door, Point

In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.
Benjamin Carson

Good, Anger, Rock

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

Life, Time, Best

You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker.
Roger Daltrey

Play, Guitar, Off

You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.
Bryan Cranston

Truth, Through, Tell

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

Through, Sometimes, Against

I don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom,' by Jonathan Franzen, a great big brick of a book, and I'm loving it.
Nick Clegg

Great, Freedom, Book

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

Work, Business, Trying

In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside.
Tadao Ando

God, Try, Whether

I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence.
King Hussein I

Life, Successful, Help

Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.
Candice Bergen

Love, Men, Woman

Follow the yellow brick road.
E. Y. Harburg

Road, Follow, Yellow

With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.
Rian Johnson

Until, Movie, Script

Back before 'Brick,' I wrote a short film that I never ended up shooting: hit men in the present who work for a mob in the future who send their victims back in time. A guy is sent his future self, he lets him run, and the whole short was them chasing each other across the city. That sat in a drawer for 10 years until after I made 'Brothers Bloom.'
Rian Johnson

Work, Time, Men

With 'Brick' there was the Dashiell Hammett influence, and with 'Brothers Bloom' there was a really strong Fellini influence - both those movies wore that on their sleeve.
Rian Johnson

Movies, Strong, Both

The critical reaction to 'Bloom' has been similar to 'Brick.' There are people on board with it and people who are not.
Rian Johnson

Reaction, Critical, Board

With 'Brick,' the style with language and the way it was shot was to create a world obviously elevated from the very first frame above a typical high school.
Rian Johnson

School, High, Language

I usually point out that most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry.
Charles Francis Richter

Life, Point, Loss

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

Job, Acting, Matter

I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.
Victoria Wood

Life, Mean, Why

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.
John Dos Passos

Work, Rather, Individual

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

Car, Happen, Place

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

Rock, Used, Looking

They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.
Dorothy Day

Time, Cannot, Step

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