Famous Quotes & Sayings

I would love to see it filled with named bricks, but we can work with whatever happens. We could fill in with regular bricks and leave spaces for more named bricks.

When the bricks are engraved on site, the engraver has to clean the brick, then glue the stencil and wait for it to dry. Then he sandblasts the name and then he has to get the stencil up, clean the glue up and then clean up the mess from the sandblasting.

You can enjoy it or use it as a burden, another stack of bricks on your back. We take it as a compliment. We're not going to hide.

Ezra Pound

You let me throw the bricks through the front window. You go in at the back and take the swag.

Joe Girardi

I was the grunt. I used to carry the bricks and cement. I remember when my father gave me my first $100 bill. My eyes were huge.

Vince Carter

It felt like I was playing with a ton of bricks on my chest.

When it let loose, it let loose. Bricks were falling on us. I gave up, and, somehow, floated to the top, and there was a big white roof there, and I got on top of it, and that was the end of it. I stayed there for four hours in the storm.

Herman Edwards

We're a little way away from where we want to be. We laid some bricks today.

I fought it hammer and tong, but the drummers had inoperable bricks in their head about it. What's worse is that they now want to remove all Dead music from the Web.

Charles Dickens

Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.

Michael Leunig

It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say.

Nathan Sawaya

When I was in South Africa, I was meeting with people who never heard of Lego bricks. And yet, when I was like, 'Here they are,' they immediately got it. They saw the appeal, were snapping bricks and creating their little creations right there immediately.

Web services are the mortar. But you also have to consider the bricks and the shape of the building.

Benjamin Britten

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.

Anselm Kiefer

The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.

Time marches on. We've got a wonderful new facility under construction and it's Busch Stadium - it's just different bricks and mortar.

Lars von Trier

Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls.

Many creative people are finding that creativity doesn't grow in abundance, it grows from scarcity - the more Lego bricks you have doesn't mean you're going to be more creative; you can be very creative with very few Lego bricks.

It hit me like a ton of bricks that I needed to be there. There are fascinating advancements occurring in the biotech and genomics fields. We'll have to learn what's going on or we'll be sitting on the sidelines and be left out of touch.

It hit me like a ton of bricks that I needed to be there, ... There are fascinating advancements occurring in the biotech and genomics fields. We'll have to learn what's going on or we'll be sitting on the sidelines and be left out of touch.

Leadership without support is like trying to make bricks without enough straw. True leaders reinforce their ideas and plans with strategic partnerships, alliances and supportiveaudiences.

Of course a sports psychologist can help - it's certainly helped me. People think you must be crackers if you've got a psychologist but psychology is part of the building bricks to make a top athlete.

Mobs and looters have been hurling rocks and bricks at passing patrol police vehicles.

Bill Delahunt

Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt.

I think having the names on bricks makes the statement that the community cares about people who serve this country.

David McCallum

I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, it's governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye.

As we get the plan solidified, you're going to see things start happening. Some you will physically see, and some will be more subtle. The physical bricks and mortar takes longer, because it does cost money.

Anthony Warlow

I've done pretty well in my career, and I've watched colleagues who have spent most of the paychecks they receive on shoes and cars rather than bricks and mortar, and that's not me.

David Simon

Eventually, someone is going to pick up a brick.

We knew he was going to step it up. He came up to me and Curtis and told us he was going to take some of the bricks off our shoulders. He made it a lot easier for me.

Karl Marx

The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar.

Hyman Rickover

Half-truths are like half a brick - they can be thrown farther.

Bryan Cranston

You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.