You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle.
If you lie to your husband - even about something so banal as how much you drink - each lie is a brick in a wall going up between you, and when he tells you he loves you, it's deflected away.
Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.
Healthy boundaries are important, but you may be building a brick wall when a picket fence would do.
As large as worlds. As old as Time. As patient as a brick.
How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road.
Build your life brick upon brick, Live a life of truth, And you will look back on a life of truth. Live a life of fantasy, And you will look back on delusion.
I have heard of a man who had a mind to sell his house, and therefore carried a piece of brick in his pocket, which he shewed as a pattern to encourage purchasers.
I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.
He handed her the other half of his candy bar. She stared at it like it was a brick of gold. "I'm on a diet. " But she took it. "A see-food diet, apparently. I see food and I eat it.
Half-truths are like half a brick - they can be thrown farther.
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.
I took my father on a coach trip last summer. We were halfway there when the driver lost control of the coach, it flew down a hill around a bend and crashed through a brick wall. I wasn't hurt but luckily my father had the presence of mind to kick my head in.
My father was a better bricklayer than I am a theologian. I am still in too much of a hurry. But if the work I have done in theology is of any use, it is because of what I learned on the job, that is, you can lay only one brick at a time.
This is about as comforting as a cold brick when you're lonely.
To propel a dirigible balloon through the air is like pushing a candle through a brick wall.
After the door of a woman's heart has once swung on its silent hinges, a man thinks he can prop it open with a brick and go away and leave it.
People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.
A brick layer, lays bricks. . . I'm an Actor, that's what I do.
Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.