Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
Lord Maccon was built like a brick outhouse, with opinions twice as unmoving and often equally full of crap.
Don't wish for bricks when you can build from stone.
You simply keep putting down one damn word after the other, as you hear them, as they come to you. You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist.
Lovers communicate not inside sentences, but between them. Passion lurks within interstice. It is grouting rather than bricks.
If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance, and hit him with a brick.
A career is like a house: it's made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.
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.
In a word, learning is decontextualized. We break ideas down into tiny pieces that bear no relation to the whole. We give students a brick of information, followed by another brick, followed by another brick, until they are graduated, at which point we assume they have a house. What they have is a pile of bricks, and they don't have it for long.
I did not threaten anybody in any moment and even less with a brick.
You should go into every relationship as a brick and not a blanket.
I'd rather drive the yellow brick road, you wouldn't happen to know of a rental car place around.
She supposed that houses, after all - like the lives that were lived in them - were mostly made of space. It was the spaces, in fact, which counted, rather than the bricks.
Enlightenment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn't it?
For Kips Bay, I had a wonderful client, William Zeckendorf, who was willing to gamble with me on using concrete and not brick for a high-rise apartment building. That was very innovative at the time.
I love the long-form rehearsal process with theater, brick by brick, to build another life.
Good moods’re as fragile as eggs. . . Bad moods’re as fragile as bricks.
He really wished she would stop fingering the brick.
Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies a girder, still itself among the rubbish
Conversation, fastidious goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will.