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“Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.”

Law Religion Built Stones Prison Bricks Brothels

“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.”

Made Values House Careers Collapse Bricks

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“I have managed to eke out a good and substantial existence. I'm not shoveling gold bricks or anything, but I do very, very well.”

Wells Existence Gold Bricks

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“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.”

Men Strong Weakness Weak Valuable Flaws Diamond Bricks Strong Man Weak Man Weak Points

Author:William J. H. Boetcker

“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.”

Knows Sometimes Wall Come Up Bricks Halfway Brick Wall

Author:John Bonham

“Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.”

Trusted Bricks Within Reach

Book:What Ho!: The Best of Wodehouse

Source: What Ho!: The Best of Wodehouse

“Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.”

“Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers of these empires who began hiring people to keep track of the wheat and sheep and wine that was owed and the taxes that was owed on them by making marks; marks on clay in that time.”

People Firsts Bigs Courses Cities Civilization Taxes Built Mark Wine Track Empires Sheep Agriculture Mud Bricks Clay Hiring Wheat

Author:Howard Rheingold

“With that, the poignant charm vanished. Inside the fifth machine, all was rampant malignity. Deformed flowers thrust monstrous horned tusks and trumpets ending in blaring teeth through the crimson walls, rending them; the ravenous garden slavered over its prey and every brick was shown in the act of falling. Amid the violence of this transformation, the oblivion of the embrace went on. The awakened girl, in all her youthful loveliness, still clasped in the arms of a lover from whom all the flesh had fallen. He was a grinning skeleton.”

“Ever hear of the phrase, Banging you're head on a brick wall?" Ah, but you forget, Darren, vampires can break brick walls with their heads.”

Forget Break Wall Vampire Phrases Bricks Banging Brick Wall Darren

Author:Darren Shan

“The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect of which is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.”

Existence Brain Effects Drink Gold Rounds Guides Alcohol Galaxy Bricks Lemons Hitchhikers Guide Hiker

Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts

“What we need to question is bricks, concrete, glass, our table manners, our utensils, our tools, the way we spend our time, our rhythms. To question that which seems to have ceased forever to astonish us. We live, true, we breathe, true; we walk, we go downstairs, we sit at a table in order to eat, we lie down on a bed on order to sleep. How? Where? When? Why? Describe your street. Describe another. Compare.”

Way Needs Seems Lying Order Sleep Walks Forever Streets Bed Tools Tables Glasses Breathe Rhythm Manners Compare Our Time Concrete Bricks Table Manners Utensils

Author:Georges Perec

“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”

Way Funny Sky Humour Laughter Ships Aviation Hung Galaxy Bricks Hilarious Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Hitchhikers Guide Hitchhiking

Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”

Way Long Moving Wall Illusion Theater Tables Expensive Chairs Curtains Bricks Profitable Scenery Brick Wall Illusion Of Freedom Tables And Chairs

Author:Frank Zappa

“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.”

Found Strong Force Wind Wall Speed Streams Pushing Very Strong Bricks Jet Balloons Brick Wall

Author:Richard Branson

“Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.”

Way One Way Bricks Liquor Mendacity Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

Author:Tennessee Williams

“Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow, something will happen, something you couldn’t plan, will come along to move like to like, to set you loose, to set you on the way to your next brick wall.”

Way Happens Moving Next Plans Wall Bricks Brick Wall

Author:Richard Bach

“When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples.”

Men Feels Firsts Doe Important Facts Hate Universe Wish Regard Environmental Temples Bricks Naturalism

Book:The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories

Source: The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories

“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”

“But one kiss levitates above all the others. The intersection of function and desire. The I do kiss. The I’ll love you through a brick wall kiss. Even when I’m dead, I’ll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.”

Earth Desire Next Love You Wall Kissing Function Bones Soil Swim Bricks Mermaid Intersections Brick Wall

Book:Splinter Factory

Source: Splinter Factory

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”

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Author:David Brinkley

“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.”

House Color Shapes Window Notes Details Driving Fog Bricks Composing Slate Mortar Bricks And Mortar Brick Roads

Author:Benjamin Britten

“What I thought was an end turned out to be a middle. What I thought was a brick wall turned out to be a tunnel. What I thought was an injustice turned out to be a color of the sky.”

Ends Sky Middle Color Wall Injustice Bricks Tunnels Brick Wall

Author:Tony Hoagland

“Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.”

Giving Special Goodbye Bricks

Author:C. S. Lewis

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”

Years Long Dream Reality Might House Silence Darkness Doors Conditions Wall Mets Horror Stones Absolutes Lays Woods Hills Firm Sane Organisms Bricks Eighty Larks Darkness Within

Book:The Haunting of Hill House

Source: The Haunting of Hill House

“Wind and storm colored July. Also, in the middle, cadaverous, awful, lay the grey puddle in the courtyard, when holding an envelope in my hand, I carried a message. I came to the puddle. I could not cross it. Identity failed me. We are nothing, I said, and fell. I was blown like a feather. I was wafted down tunnels. Then very gingerly, I pushed my foot across. I laid my hand against a brick wall. I returned very painfully, drawing myself back into my body over the grey, cadaverous space of the puddle. This is life then to which I am committed.”

Said Body Hands Space Feet Middle Identity Wind Wall Messages Crosses Lays Committed Storm Drawing Awful Grey Feathers Bricks July Tunnels Envelopes Puddles Brick Wall

Author:Virginia Woolf

“Careful with the accusations of insanity, oh my lady whose home is a tower with windows of brick, all for the sake of some skinny-ankled, laugh-prone boy of a khan.”

Home Boys Laughing Window Sake Careful Insanity Towers Bricks Skinny Accusation

Author:Shannon Hale

“There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can't solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years -- block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.”

Knows Way Years Done Problem Hands Government America Faces Asks Nations President Challenges Decision Honest Policy Agree Solve Block Being Honest Disagree Bricks Setback Challenges We Face

Author:Barack Obama

“If it had been easy for Romeo to get to Juliet, nobody would have cared. Same goes for Cyrano and Don Quixote and Gatsby and their respective paramours. What captures the imagination is watching men throw themselves at a brick wall over and over again, and wondering if this is the time that they won't be able to get back up.”

Ifs Men Able Easy Imagination Wonder Wall Get Back Capture Bricks Juliet Brick Wall

Book:The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes

Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes

“He..." Richard began. "The marquis. Well, you know, to be honest, he seems a little bit dodgy to me." Door stopped. The steps dead-ended in a rough brick wall. "Mm," she agreed. "He's a little bit dodgy in the same way that rats are a little bit covered in fur.”

Knows Way Wells Littles Seems Bits Steps Doors Honest Wall Little Bit Being Honest Rough Covered Rats Bricks Fur Brick Wall

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Here's something else to think about: calling when you say you're going to is the very first brick in the house you are building of love and trust. If he can't lay this one stupid brick down, you ain't never gonna have a house baby, and it's cold outside.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Romance House Stupid Building Baby Cold Calling Dating Lays Bricks Love And Trust Cold Outside

Book:He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

“This morning, as Charlotte approached the brick facade of Hartnett, she found herself overcome with a great sense of dread. It hit her with a strange and sudden force, and she had an overwhelming urge to turn back, get into bed and not go out for about three weeks. She stopped in her tracks. The feeling itself was alarming to Charlotte - was she sensing something? Something dangerous? And was it something supernatural or just middle school? Sometimes it was hard to tell the difference.”

“What on earth have you packed in here? Bricks?" asked Mo as he carried Meggie's book-box out of the house. You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them," said Meggie.”

World Said Book Whole Earth House Boxes Heavy Whole World Bricks

Book:Inkheart

Source: Inkheart

“No," he said calmly, filled with purpose. he took her arms lightly in his hands and shook her. "I am not giving you up." Emily looked at him, and for just a moment he could read her thoughts. Melanie use to say they were like twins, with their own secret, silent language. in that instant, Chris felt her fear and her resignation, and the knotty pain of coming up against a brick wall again and again. She glanced away, and he could breathe again. "The thing is, Chris" Emily said, "it's not your choice.”

Giving Said Moments Use Hands Pain Purpose Choices Language Felt Secret Wall Arms Filled Silent Breathe Instant Again And Again Twins Bricks Resignation Emily Brick Wall

Author:Jodi Picoult

“Dennis Hutch had stepped up into the top seat when its founder had died of a lethal overdose of brick wall, taken while under the influence of a Ferrari and a bottle of tequila.”

Taken Influence Wall Died Seats Bottles Founders Bricks Ferrari Brick Wall Hitchhiking Overdose Tequila Tea Time

Book:Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“Fred: "Is that brick wall your boyfriend?" Doug: "Only in my dreams." Fred: "Oh, you too? I'm Fred." Doug: "Doug. I should mention, in all fairness though that Christy's boyfriend is my best friend. He's the brick wall you should be worried about.”

Should Dream Wall Worried Fairness Bricks My Best Friend Brick Wall Your Boyfriend

Author:Robin Jones Gunn

“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.”

Made Facts House Space Bricks

Book:The Night Watch

Source: The Night Watch

“So we went to bed, assaulted by sleep that fumed at us from medicine glasses, or was wielded from small sweet-coated tablets -- dainty bricks of dream wrapped in the silk stockings of oblivion.”

Dream Sleep Sweet Bed Medicine Glasses Bricks Oblivion Silk Tablets Stockings Dainty

Author:Janet Frame

“What’s your name?' she asked, and surprised herself. But for some reason, she wanted to know. Dean’s brother—he hadn’t been just some nameless Bad Guy Number Four. This vampire wasn’t,either. He had a name, a history, maybe even people who cared what happened to him. My name is none of your business,' he said, and continued to stare out the window, even though there was nothing but blurry brick out there. Can I call you None for short?”

People Knows Said Reason Wanted Guy Names Numbers Four Happened Brother Window Vampire Staring Bricks Bad Guys Dean Nameless Blurry None Of Your Business

Book:Carpe Corpus: The Morganville Vampires

Source: Carpe Corpus: The Morganville Vampires

“Over the summer we chatted one night while Angie stripped a bed, changed wet sheets, comforted and repajamaed a toddler, and chased down a car of speeding teenagers while shaking a brick at them, never once interrupting the conversation or setting down her margarita. The only reason this woman isn't president of General Motors is because she's chosen not to be.”

Reason Night President Car Changed Bed Conversation Summer Setting Chosen Settings Teenager Wet Sheets Bricks Motor Shaking One Night Toddler Speeding Interrupting General Motors Margarita

Author:Jen Lancaster

“I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!”

World Talking Wall Bricks Brick Wall

Book:Lady Windermere's Fan

Source: Lady Windermere's Fan

“The point is to strip down, get protestant, then even more naked. Walk over scorched bricks to find your own soul. Your heart a searching dog in the rubble.”

Heart Soul Walks Dog Naked Bricks Protestants Rubble

Book:Long, Last, Happy: New and Collected Stories

Source: Long, Last, Happy: New and Collected Stories

“No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume. We can't bear to be without it, but no, nobody's addicted. We could turn it off anytime we wanted. I fit a window frame into a brick wall. With a little brush, the size for fingernail polish, I glue it. The window is the size of a fingernail. The glue smells like hair spray. The smell tastes like oranges and gasoline.”

“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.”

Ifs Lying Love You Wall Drink Husband Bricks Your Husband

Author:Mary Karr

“So why did I think about her every second? Why was I so much happier the minute I saw her? I felt like maybe I knew the answer, but how could I be sure? I didn't know, and I didn't have any way to find out. Guys don't talk about stuff like that. We just lie under the pile of bricks.”

Thinking Knows Way Lying Guy Felt Stuff Answers Saws Minutes Bricks Every Second

Author:Kami Garcia

“We create the illusions we need to go on. And one day, when they no longer dazzle or comfort, we tear them down, brick by glittering brick, until we are left with nothing but the bright light of honesty. The light is liberating. Necessary. Terrifying. We stand naked and emptied before it. And when it is too much for our eyes to take, we build a new illusion to shield us from its relentless truth.”

Needs Light Eye Left Too Much Honesty Tears Goes On Comfort One Day Illusion Naked Bricks Liberating Shields Relentless Dazzle Bright Lights

Book:The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“You have those walls up all around you...Come a day you gonna want to tear them down brick by brick and gonna find that the cement is all hard. What you gonna do then?”

Want Hard Tears Wall Bricks Cement Walls Up

Author:Jacqueline Woodson

“Darius didn't have any trouble finding the Street Cats building. It was a cozy-looking square brick building with big front windows crowded with cat stuff. I made a mental note to pick up a little something for Nala from their gift shop. My cat was grumpy enough without her thinking that I'd been cheating on her (translation: I would smell like a zillion other cats) and hadn't even brought her a present.”

Source: Untamed: A House of Night Novel

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