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“It's a reality of art that the fewer lines you get, the harder it is. Cartooning is actually harder than realism. You have less to work with. It's like trying to build a house-if you have unlimited resources, you're in much better shape than if you get two bricks, a hammer, and a bent nail.”

Ifs Trying Art Two Reality House Lines Shapes Resources Harder Fewer Realism Nails Bent Unlimited Bricks Hammers

Author:Ursula Vernon

“I love the long-form rehearsal process with theater, brick by brick, to build another life.”

Long Form Process Theater Bricks Rehearsal Another Life

Author:Vik Sahay

“The art of writing, like the art of love, runs all the way from a kind of routine hard to distinguish from piling bricks to a kind of frenzy closely related to delirium tremens.”

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Book:Minority Report

Source: Minority Report

“Every apathetic individual is a brick in a tyrant's throne.”

Individual Tyrants Thrones Bricks Apathetic

Author:Philip Slater

“My daughter wants to throw a stone at a bad man. I stop her from throwing, shaking my head and giving her a little slap. My disapproval is complete. You think: 'That's right, she shouldn't throw a stone even at a villain.' Then I hand her a brick to throw.”

Thinking Men Want Giving Littles Hands Daughter Stones My Daughter Throwing Villain Bricks Shaking Slap Bad Man Disapproval Shaking My Head

Author:W. C. Fields

“Two bricklayers work side by side. The first lays bricks. The second builds magnificent cathedrals. Think small vs. think big.”

Thinking Firsts Two Bigs Sides Lays Magnificent Bricks Cathedrals Think Big Bricklayers

Author:Richard Branson

“The Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in ... Guys would drink and fight one another like circle saws. Bottles would come flying over the bandstand like crazy and there was lots of plain common shooting and cutting. But somehow all that jive didn't faze me at all. I was so happy to have some place to blow my horn.”

Guy Fighting House Common Audience Saws Cutting Crazy Drink Blow Circles Flying Shooting Bottles Bricks Joints Horns

Author:Louis Armstrong

“Video games don't make people go nuts. I played Super Mario forever. Not once hopping on a turtle or smash my head through a brick ceiling.”

People Games Forever Video Nuts Bricks Ceilings Turtles Mario Hopping Super Mario

Author:Dane Cook

“The only way to tell my Dad something is to write it on a note, and tie it to a brick, and throw it through a window. Of course, now Dad's armed with a brick.”

Way Writing Courses Dad Window Notes My Dad Ties Bricks

Author:Christopher Titus

“Whenever you see riot footage on TV - you know, someone throwing a brick in Pakistan or somebody throwing a fiery piece of pooh through a Starbucks window up in Seattle - you ever see anybody throwing anything underhand? I think it just takes all the aggression out of the act.”

Thinking Knows Pieces Tvs Window Throwing Aggression Pakistan Bricks Riot Fiery Seattle Starbucks

Author:Brian Posehn

“I was the worst bricklayer in the world. I can show you buildings I worked on - they're a hazard. I closed a window one time. I forgot to set back a brick and I just kept going - there I was singing 'There's no business like show business'.”

World I Can Shows Worst Building Singing Window One Time Bricks Show Business Hazards Bricklayers

Author:Pat Cooper

“A red brick Presbyterian church... captured by kudzu vines as surely as a butterfly in a net.”

Church Red Butterfly Bricks Captured Vines Presbyterians

Author:Barbara Ascher

“The place that I worked I used to joke about it. There was a, every morning at 10:30 I'd come into work and I'd go into this cubicle that had a little upright piano and fake white cork bricks on the wall, and a little slate that came out of the wall that you could actually write on. And a door that locked from the outside. Every day from 10 to 6, we'd go in there and pretend that we were 13 year old girls and write these songs. That was the gig.”

Writing Years Littles Used Song Girl White Morning Doors Wall Jokes Piano Fake Locked Every Morning Bricks Gigs Slate Cork Cubicles

Author:Al Kooper

“Digital makes it so much easier. No bricks of film, no worrying about airport X-rays, etc.”

Film Worry Easier Etc Digital Rays Bricks Airports

Author:Peter Menzel

“Only those who do not expect anything are never disappointed. Only those who never try, never fail. Anyone who is currently achieving anything in life is simultaneously risking failure. It is always better to fail in doing something than to excel in doing nothing. A flawed diamond is more valuable than a perfect brick. People who have no failures also have few victories.”

People Trying Life Is Perfect Failing Achieve Victory Valuable Disappointed Diamond Bricks Flawed Doing Nothing Anything In Life No Failure

Author:John Landis Mason

“Is there a brick wall getting in your way? Fine. That happens. But you have a choice. You can walk away from the wall. You can go over the wall. You can go under the wall. You can go around the wall. You can also obliterate the wall. In other words, don't let anything get in your way. Get a balance, and then let the positive outdistance the negative.”

Way Happens Choices Walks Wall Fine Balance Negative Bricks Brick Wall

Author:Donald Trump

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

“Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide the bricks from which we build these cathedrals.”

Ifs Stories Left Our Lives Personality Bricks Cathedrals Negation

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“So with science, it's original idea was to ignore the spiritual or nebulous side of reality and to strictly work on concrete things. Say there's a brick which we cut it in half and then see there's two half's of a brick. If we keep cutting we can then see there's particles and so on and so forth.”

Ifs Two Ideas Reality Spiritual Sides Half Cutting Originals Concrete Bricks Particles Original Ideas

Author:Brad Warner

“As you're implying, there's a new technology that can look even deeper into that brick and we can start getting into a level where it breaks down so that the brick isn't even there, but obviously it is because Moe can hit Curly on the head with it. It's quite bizarre and all relative.”

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Author:Brad Warner

“The first theatre I ever found was in the backyard of a new suburban community in the foothills of the Poconos. My dad was a young FBI agent at his first or second posting - we're all from New York. He was posted in Scranton, Pennsylvania and he put the family in a brand new red-brick apartment. It was in a C-shape and behind it was a small hill that led up to the woods. There was a white-washed brick wall that was a perfect theatre! There were windows and all the ladies behind the windows in their apartments. I would go out there after lunch every day and sing opera.”

“When I'm in a city that's just clean, concrete lines, I get really short of breath and confused. It's much more interesting to me when nature is creeping back and tearing the mortar apart between the bricks.”

Lines Interesting Cities Breaths Clean Confused Concrete Bricks Get Real Mortar Really Short

Author:Feist

“Right to privacy is really important. You pull that brick out and another and pretty soon the house falls.”

Important Fall House Privacy Bricks Right To Privacy

Author:Tim Cook

“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.”

Knows Flow Yellow Bricks Leading Me Yellow Brick Road Brick Roads

Author:Grace Jones

“I grew up in a brick house. What's wrong with bricks? An Englishman took me aside and said, "You have to understand, all the bricklayers in England are Irish, and the English hate the Irish."”

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Author:Carl Andre

“I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.”

Different School Forever Band Different Things Bricks Violin Choir After School Tinkering Clarinet Percussion School Band

Author:Quincy Jones

“I grew up in such a small area that there really weren't any acting classes. So I had to wait till I got to college, at the University of Washington. I was a theater major there and got my training. Then after college, I packed up my Honda Civic and kind of fulfilled the cliché of driving down to Los Angeles, and literally, brick by brick - you know, the slow and painful way - I built my career.”

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Author:Mariana Klaveno

“Man's history has been graven on the rock of Egypt, stamped on the brick of Assyria, enshrined in the marble of the Parthenon-it rises before us a majestic presence in the piled up arches of the Coliseum-it lurks an unsuspected treasure amid the oblivious dust of archives and monasteries-it is embodied in all the looms of religions, of races, of families.”

Men Has Beens Science Race History Rocks Treasure Dust Egypt Bricks Marble Family History Majestic Arches Oblivious Archives Monasteries Parthenon Coliseum

Book:Essays on Art and Archaeology

Source: Essays on Art and Archaeology

“You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.' And you say to brick, 'Look, I want one, too, but arches are expensive and I can use a concrete lintel.' And then you say: 'What do you think of that, brick?' Brick says: 'I like an arch.'”

Thinking Want Looks I Can Use Expensive Concrete Bricks Arches

Author:Louis Kahn

“Brick walls let us prove how badly we want our dream and they stop those who don't want it enough. Brick walls let us show our dedication.”

Want Enough Shows Dream Wall Prove Dedication Our Dreams Bricks Brick Wall

Author:Randy Pausch

“Science is the process of crash testing ideas: you ram the idea head-on into a brick wall at 60mph, and knowledge is gained by examining the pieces. If the theory is solid, the pieces are from the wall. Then we build a bigger wall.”

Ifs Ideas Process Pieces Theory Wall Bigger Crash Testing Bricks Examining Rams Brick Wall

Author:Jon Huntsman, Jr.

“Well, there was stuff going on, heroic events. One was what used to be, and probably still is, the largest moving project in history. The headquarters of the Bell Telephone Company used to be brick. What they did was take the old brick building - with the operators in there saying, "Number please" and all that - and they put it through a quarter of a turn and moved it half a block!”

Wells Stills Moving Used Turns Stuff Numbers Half Company Events Building Please Projects Moved Block Used To Be Quarters Heroic Bells Telephones Bricks Operators Headquarters

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.”

“I don't want to give any lines to anybody because otherwise they come out like bricks from their mouths. The important thing is the meaning of the scene, not the words you use, and I prefer that you find your own words to express the scene.”

Want Giving Important Use Lines Scene Mouths Important Things Bricks

Author:Gaspar Noe

“One potential long-term problem with many current digital libraries is that they grew out of and aresupported by bricks-and-mortar libraries. Although there is nothing inherently wrong with that arrangement, inreality it creates a potentially dangerous situation that I call "the other digital divide."”

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Author:Tom Peters

“Because nearly all digital libraries are tied to bricks-and-mortar institutions, the funding base tends to be quite localized.”

Institutions Library Digital Tied Bricks Funding Mortar Bricks And Mortar

Author:Tom Peters

“In fact if I see you drinking I'll come down on you like a ton of bricks and call your mom.”

Ifs Facts Mom Drinking Bricks Your Mom

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“There was a place in New York called Tannen's Magic. It still exists. But back in the day, it was really fantastic. You'd go into the old Wurlitzer Building, take the elevator to the 13th floor, which was labeled 14, because of bad luck, the elevator would open, and you'd be in heaven. It was all of these guys doing magic stuff with props. It's kind of gone now, that experience, the brick-and-mortar magic shop, but you really felt like you'd landed in the most amazing place in the world.”

“Martin Luther King's legacy is never to be measured by bricks and mortar, but rather by the kind of lives that we live, and the kind of love and service that we render.”

Kind Kings Legacy Bricks Luther Kinds Of Love Mortar Bricks And Mortar

Author:Cornel West

“I have faith that a script is going to hit me like a ton of bricks, and when that happens, it's undeniable that I should choose the role.”

Should Happens Roles Scripts Have Faith Bricks

Author:Tom Hanks

“The thing that's most uppermost in my mind and will continue to be until I hit a brick wall is that I am dead serious, dead serious about going after George Bush, trying to get him into an American courtroom and prosecute him for what happened in Iraq.”

Trying Mind Happened Serious Wall Iraq Bricks Courtroom Brick Wall

Author:Vincent Bugliosi

“Late one night our house was attacked with stones and bricks by five or six young Christians, and my father got very upset and frightened. Well, the next day he dropped dead of a heart attack. The community knew very well that he had a heart condition, so I lay a murder to the city of Baltimore.”

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Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“A lot of my colleagues are content to be character actors who are always in the background. I'm not that guy. I'm the guy who wants the limelight. Gimme the ball and I'll run it through a brick wall for you. I'll be your biggest soldier.”

Want Character Running Guy Actors Wall Balls Soldier Backgrounds Colleagues Bricks That Guy Character Actors Limelight Brick Wall

Author:Terry Crews

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

Whole Half Trust Argument Carrie Bricks Half Truth

Book:Leacock on Life

Source: Leacock on Life

“For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!”

Long Black Environment Flower Plant Sunshine Spontaneous Grandchildren Preference Bricks Thumbs Greenhouses Blossoming Wildflowers Flower Blossom Plants And Flowers Wild Free

Book:Desert Solitaire

Source: Desert Solitaire

“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.”

Trying Important Life Is Fun Process Loses Wall Lessons Let Me Important Things Life Lesson Bricks Learning Process Banging Learning Lessons Brick Wall Banging Your Head

Author:John McEnroe

“I don't think you can separate a place from its history. I think a place is much more than the bricks and mortar that go into its construction. I think it's more than the accidental topography of the ground it stands on.”

Thinking Construction Bricks Mortar Topography Bricks And Mortar

Author:Alan Moore

“The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.”

Cities Yellow Bricks Emeralds Yellow Brick Road Brick Roads

Author:L. Frank Baum

“No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.”

Ifs Men Would Be Left Chance Destiny Fate Fortune Bricks Clay Bricks And Mortar

Book:Essays & Miscellanies...

Source: Essays & Miscellanies...

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

Men Waste Independence Domestic Violence Bricks

Author:Candice Bergen

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