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“Moss grows where nothing else can grow. It grows on bricks. It grows on tree bark and roofing slate. It grows in the Arctic Circle and in the balmiest tropics; it also grows on the fur of sloths, on the backs of snails, on decaying human bones. ... It is a resurrection engine. A single clump of mosses can lie dormant and dry for forty years at a stretch, and then vault back again into life with a mere soaking of water.”

Source: The Signature of All Things

“Women are from their very infancy debarred those advantages with the want of which they are aftewards reproached, and nursed up in those vices which will hereafter be upbraided to them. So partial are men as to expect bricks when they afford no straw.”

Men Want Advantage Vices Womens Rights Bricks Hereafter Infancy Straws

Author:Mary Astell

“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.”

Noble Arguing Dirt Bricks Disputes Mortar

Author:Teresa of Avila

“He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides of bacon, and ropes of onions.”

Sides Food Red Cooking Culinary Apartment Bricks Rope Ceilings Onions Ham Chimneys

Book:The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club

Source: The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club

“Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.”

Wall Guilt Our Future Bricks Defensiveness

Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“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.”

Thinking Men Heart Doors Silent Going Away Bricks Props Hinges

Book:The Spinster Book

Source: The Spinster Book

“When you feel that you are at the end of your path and there is a ten foot high brick wall right there in front of you, and you have nowhere to go but backwards, break down that wall and move forward. There are great and wonderful things on the other side of that wall... and, they have always been there. Let nothing divide you from what you need to do in life, and see the solutions that are right in front of you. The key is, you must break down what separates you from them and choose to find them.”

“Angry and frustrated, the journalists set about making bricks without straw.”

Angry Journalism Journalist Frustrated Bricks Straws

Author:Patricia Moyes

“He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble. [Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit.]”

Found Left Cities Built Bricks Marble Augustus Augustus Caesar

Author:Suetonius

“How can one not succumb and allow one's courage to fail when everything is shut tight, when all meaningful things are walled up, and when you constantly knock against bricks, as against the walls of a prison?”

Failing Wall Prison Meaningful Bricks Meaningful Things

Book:The street of crocodiles and other stories

Source: The street of crocodiles and other stories

“I do not have to build a perfect wall today. I just have to lay a perfect brick.”

Today Perfect Wall Lays Bricks

Author:Will Smith

“I could break bricks with my hands when I was 12.”

Hands Break Bricks

Author:Akshay Kumar

“Music, from being an ordered succession of sounds, has become a matter of "sonorities", and anyone who can produce a brightly coloured brick of unusual shape is henceforth hailed as an architect.”

Matter Sound Produce Shapes Unusual Architect Bricks Succession

Author:Constant Lambert

“Remember, don't try to build the greatest wall that's ever been built. Focus on laying a single, expertly-placed brick. Then keep doing that, every day.”

Trying Remember Focus Wall Built Bricks

Author:Will Smith

“One modest suggestion for my friends in the academic community: the next time a mob of students, waving their non-negotiable demands, starts pitching bricks and rocks at the student union- just imagine they are wearing brown shirts or white sheets- and act accordingly.”

Source: The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment

“I love mythic stuff. I love playing with gods, I love playing with myths. A lot of it has to do with that they're the basic places stories come from. They're the clay that you make the bricks out of.”

Stories Stuff Myth Bricks Clay

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man's inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,-in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home?”

Men Giving Should May Home Beautiful Easy Technology Fit Offers Stones Wings Spots Dust Prisoner Transition Toil Worms Bricks Pilgrimage Timber

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“When the days start to get shorter, I want to be in some nice brick building on the East Coast with the lights glowing in the windows. When the daylight starts changing, I want to be out West.”

Want Light Nice Building Window West East Coast Bricks Glowing Daylight East Coast Some Nice

Author:Ian Frazier

“Seize the opportunities life has to offer you. Embrace the changes, and have the courage to travel on roads less travelled, even though what is in front of you could be tough, make it successful. Have determination and courage to kick down the brick walls in front of you, and to go on and achieve bigger success than you ever thought possible.”

Opportunity Successful Achieve Fronts Wall Goes On Offers Tough Determination Bigger Embrace Kicks Bricks Brick Wall Road Less Travelled

Author:Li Cunxin

“If I were a person of color in Florida, I would pick up a brick and start walking toward that courthouse in Sanford. Those that do not, those that hold the pain and betrayal inside and somehow manage to resist violence - these citizens are testament to a stoic tolerance that is more than the rest of us deserve. I confess, their patience and patriotism is well beyond my own.”

Ifs Wells Persons Pain My Own Violence Color Citizens Walking Picks Deserve Betrayal Tolerance Manage Florida Testament Bricks Stoic Courthouses

Author:David Simon

“Don't wish for bricks when you can build from stone.”

Wish Stones Bricks

Author:Leigh Bardugo

“There is no real answer [to the U.S. economic crisis] but to remove brick by brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles.”

Real Answers Principles Economic Crisis Remove Capitalist Socialist Bricks Rebuilding Economic Crisis

Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“We have got to extend the hand of friendship, we have got to take the peacelines down brick by brick”

Hands Bricks

Author:David Ervine

“In Los Angeles, the jury in the Reginald Denny Beating trial, after much thinking, concludes, that Person A is not necessarily trying to kill Person B just because Person A happens to very deliberately bash Person B's skull in with a brick. The verdict is applauded by scientists at the Tobacco Institute.”

Thinking Trying Persons Happens Scientist Trials Los Angeles Bricks Jury Tobacco Skulls Institute Verdict Bash

Author:Dave Barry

“Brick walls are there for reason. And once you get over them-- even if someone has practically had to throw you over-- it can be helpful to others to tell them how you did it.”

Ifs Reason Wall Helpful Over It Get Over Bricks Brick Wall

Book:The last lecture

Source: The last lecture

“I think with my hands, it was catching a lot of footballs and working with my father during the summer because he would always make me. My father was a bricklayer so I was a helper. My job was to make sure that he had bricks to lay.”

Thinking Hands Jobs Father Football Summer Lays Bricks Catching Helpers Bricklayers

Author:Jerry Rice

“The private buildings [of Virginia] are very rarely constructed of stone or brick; much the greatest proportion being of scantlingand boards, plastered with lime. It is impossible to devise things more ugly, uncomfortable, and happily more perishable.”

Impossible Building Stones Ugly Architecture Uncomfortable Boards Proportion Bricks Virginia Limes

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Is it possible, after all, that spite of bricks and shaven faces, this world we live in is brimmed with wonders, and I and all mankind, beneath our garbs of common-placeness, conceal enigmas that the stars themselves, and perhaps the highest seraphim can not resolve?”

World Faces Stars Common Wonder Mankind This World Highest Spite Resolve Can Not Bricks Enigma

Book:Pierre; or The Ambiguities

Source: Pierre; or The Ambiguities

“It's the anarchy of poverty delights me, the old yellow wooden house indented among the new brick tenements”

House Poverty Delight Anarchy Yellow Bricks Tenements Wooden House

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional deadness of his academic prose; and is always coining newer, deader words with a natural preference for Greek formations. The poet avoids the entire vocabulary of logic unless for satiric purposes, and treats words as living creatures with a preference for those with long emotional histories dating from mediaeval times. Poetry at its purest is, indeed, a defiance of logic.”

Source: Some speculations on literature, history, and religion

“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.”

Work Wonder Thirds Add Fourth Bricks

Author:Philip Larkin

“You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.”

Firsts Ideas Particular Acquire Bricks Straws

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Arnold Bennett (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Arnold Bennett (Illustrated)

“Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop.”

Wall Climbs Climbing Hitting Bricks Mountaineering Mountain Climbing Climbing Mountain Rock Climbing Inspirational Mountain Climbing Hiking In The Mountains Brick Wall Climbing Mountains Inspirational Climbing To The Top Mountain Climbers Hitting Your Head

Author:Chris Darwin

“down the sidewalk where laborers feed their dirty glistening torsos sandwiches and Coca-Cola, with yellow helmets on. They protect them from falling bricks, I guess.”

Fall Cities Protect Labor Dirty Yellow Bricks Sandwiches Sidewalk Helmet Laborers Coca Cola Torso

Book:The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

Source: The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

“We'll build a democracy here, even if it's with Nazi bricks.”

Ifs Democracy Nazi Bricks Expediency

Author:Samuel Fuller

“Protoplasm, simple or nucleated, is the formal basis of all life. It is the clay of the potter: which, bake it and paint it as hewill, remains clay, separated by artifice, and not by nature from the commonest brick or sun-dried clod.”

Simple Sun Bases Remains Paint Formal Bricks Clay Potters Artifice

Book:A Scientific Education

Source: A Scientific Education

“A lot of movies try to set up a world with cool sets, costumes, camera work. In Brick, the world is born from the words.”

World Trying Born Cameras Costumes Bricks

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“In Sparta, paintings have been taken out of certain walls by cutting through the bricks, then have been placed in wooden frames, and so brought to the Comitium to adorn the aedileship of [C. Visellius] Varro and [C. Licinius] Murena.”

Has Beens Certain Taken Cutting Painting Wall Bricks Sparta

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“At Halicarnassus, the house of that most potent king Mausolus, though decorated throughout with Proconnesian marble, has walls built of brick which are to this day of extraordinary strength, and are covered with stucco so highly polished that they seem to be as glistening as glass. That king did not use brick from poverty; for he was choke-full of revenues, being ruler of all Caria.”

Use Seems House Poverty Wall Kings Built Extraordinary Glasses This Day Covered Rulers Bricks Revenue Choke Marble Polished

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Dimension stone, flint, rubble, burnt or unburnt brick, use them as you find them. For it is not every neighborhood or particular locality that can have a wall built of burnt brick like that at Babylon, where there was plenty of asphalt to take the place of lime and sand, and yet possibly each may be provided with materials of equal usefulness so that out of them a faultless wall may be built to last forever.”

May Use Lasts Forever Particular Materials Wall Equal Built Stones Plenty Dimensions Sand Neighborhood Bricks Usefulness Babylon Rubble Limes Locality Asphalt

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Bricks should be made in Spring or Autumn so that they may dry uniformly.”

Should May Made Spring Dry Autumn Bricks

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Bricks will be most serviceable if made two years before using; for they cannot dry thoroughly in less time. When fresh undried bricks are used in a wall, the stucco covering stiffens and hardens into a permanent mass, but the bricks settle and the motion caused by their shrinking prevents them from adhering to it, and they are separated from their union with it. At Utica in constructing walls they use brick only if it is dry and made five years previously, and approved as such by the authority of a magistrate.”

Ifs Years Made Two Use Used Five Wall Authority Mass Unions Permanent Settling Dry Five Years Two Years Bricks Covering Approved Shrinking Magistrates

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“There are also half bricks. As the bricks are always laid so as to break joints, this lends strength and a not unattractive appearance to both sides of such walls.”

Sides Half Break Wall Appearance Both Sides Bricks Joints Unattractive

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Leave a cavity behind the [wall] facings, and on the inside build walls two feet thick, made of red dimension stone or burnt brick or lava in courses, and then bind them to the fronts by means of iron clamps and lead. The beds and builds, all settling equally and bonded at the joints, will not let the work bulge out, nor allow the fall of the face walls which have been tightly fastened together.”

Mean Has Beens Made Two Together Faces Fall Courses Behinds Feet Fronts Wall Bed Red Stones Settling Dimensions Iron Thick Bricks Joints Lava

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“The opposite of humility is arrogance--the belief that we are wiser or better than others. Arrogance promotes separation rather than community. It looms like a brick wall between us and those from whom we could learn.”

Belief Community Humility Wall Opposites Separation Arrogance Wiser Bricks Brick Wall

Author:John Templeton

“Belfastas uncivilised as ever--savage black mothers in houses of dark red brick, friendly manufacturers too drunk to entertain you when you arrive. It amuses me till I get tired.”

Mother House Black Dark Red Tired Drunk Friendly Savages Bricks

Author:E. M. Forster

“I think it's the real world. The people we're writing about in professional sports, they're suffering and living and dying and loving and trying to make their way through life just as the brick layers and politicians are.”

People Thinking World Way Writing Trying Real Suffering Sports Dying Politician Real World Layers Bricks Professional Sports

Author:Red Smith

“Sometimes among our more sophisticated, self-styled intellectuals--and I say self-styled advisedly; the real intellectual I am notsure would ever feel this way--some of them are more concerned with appearance than they are with achievement. They are more concerned with style then they are with mortar, brick and concrete. They are more concerned with trivia and the superficial than they are with the things that have really built America.”

Way Feels Real Self Sometimes America Style Achievement Intellectual Built Concerned Criticism Appearance Ideology Concrete Sophisticated Superficial Bricks Academia Mortar Trivia

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“I am very fond of the modest manner of life of those solitary owners of remote villages, who in Little Russia are commonly called "old-fashioned," who are like tumbledown picturesque little houses, delightful in their simplicity and complete unlikeness to the new smooth buildings whose walls have not yet been discolored by the rain, whose roofs are not yet covered with green lichen, and whose porch does not display its bricks through the peeling stucco.”

Source: The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol

“A heap of bricks is not yet a house.”

House Bricks

Author:I. L. Peretz

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