Brick Quotations

I was walking down a street and after his death and saw a billboard on the side of a brick wall for Van's shoes. It was a picture of Hopper's face, and all it said was, 'Hopper Lives.' So I think he's still part of youth culture. There are lessons to be learned from Hopper about being a young person who wants to live the art life in America.

Thinking back to boyhood days, I remember the bright sun on Harlem streets, the easy rhythms of black and brown bodies, the sounds of children streaming in and out of red brick tenements.

I went home one night and told my dad that an older kid was picking on me. My Dad, a Korean War vet and a Chicago cop for 30 years, told me, 'You better pick up a brick and hit him in the head.' That's when I thought, 'Wow, I'm going to have to start dealing with things in a different way.'

Writing a film is like building a brick wall. You have a plan, and you have the blocks. Then, somebody says, 'I think we'll take this stone out of here and put it over there. And while we're at it, let's make this stone red and that stone green.'

We played one warm-up gig at this bar that was kinda like that bar in 'The Blues Brothers' with the chicken wire. This place called The Brick House, in Housatonic. I really can't believe we're going to play for people in New York City. I'm terrified, but it's a small enough room. But it's really just supposed to be for the fun of it.

You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings!

The point is that instead of a monolithic brick of printed content - delivered more or less unchanged to all subscribers - social media offers news that is personalized and nimble.

I loved being in London. Always walking everywhere, always out and about and always at markets, walking around Brick Lane and Covent Garden and Soho.

Pop music can absorb so many peculiar talents, ranging from the completely nonmusical poseur who just uses music as a kind of springboard for a sense of style, to people who just love putting all that complicated stuff together, brick by brick, on their computers, to people like me who like playing conceptual games and being surprised.

From space, the earth appears predominantly blue; the clouds are brilliant white. Surprisingly, you don't see much green, although Ireland looks green, and so do Scandinavia and New Zealand. The deserts are brick red and really stand out.

The person determined to achieve maximum success learns the principle that progress is made one step at a time. A house is built one brick at a time. Football games are won a play at a time. A department store grows bigger one customer at a time. Every big accomplishment is a series of little accomplishments.

We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyones arguing over where they're going to sit

We spent four days filming in a helicopter. I had never seen London from that viewpoint - you get a sense of how big it is and how easy it is to get lost. There was one day when we couldn't find Brick Lane: we spent 25 minutes looking and then realised it was directly below us.

When you've got a guy like Elliott between the pipes, he's like a brick wall. He's making every save we need. He's giving us all the confidence in the world.

What has us most upset is the short time frame and short notice we were given about this, ... They said they were going to tear up our brick sidewalks, and that we pretty much didn't have a choice in the matter.

We're going to make an investment in Second Avenue. It would be nice if we could keep some of that. It's not going to be an eyesore. It's not going to be a stucco box. It will be wood and brick and stone. It will be a consistent addition to Second Avenue.

We're fortunate that we've been able to build a fan base brick by brick. We never got the gold or platinum record. But through touring and just putting out music our fan base has gotten stronger and stronger to where it's sustaining (itself) without that big pop hit.

We ran into a brick wall. We did a lot of things right. We just couldn't find a way to beat him.

Let not one bottle be thrown. Let not one brick be thrown.

She's a kid that'll go through a brick wall for you.

No one likes to carry a brick around, and this is the smallest, thinnest, lightest device that has all those combined features.

My father had a big brick cell phone, before anyone had a cell phone, because he was really just into that kind of thing - communication devices. I grew up between my father's laboratory and my mother's library.

I wouldn't say that was his best strike for us but it must have been pretty close. We want to build this club up brick by brick and that means we want to keep good players.

I covered my face, jumped down off the bench right when something hit me in chest, like when someone pushes a brick real hard in your chest, pushed me back to fence and I fell down and passed out.

Capital is the essential raw material used in producing insurance products. The UK industry is lithe, lean and dynamic. If the present system lives on, this could dump a brick in a rucksack on its back.

I had hit a brick wall. I had gotten injured, and my grades were failing and I had to do something.

Getting in touch with Iraqis has not been the insurmountable challenge it seemed to be at the start. You run into more brick walls trying to get someone in the U.S. military to talk to you.

We can buy a three-year-old five-bedroom brick house for $350,000 to $400,000 and cut our property taxes to $3,000 to $4,000 a year.

To express is to drive.And when you want to give something presence, you have to consult nature.And there is where Design comes in.And if you think of Brick, for instance,and you say to Brick,""What do you want Brick?""And Brick says to you""I like an Arch.""And if you say to Brick""Look, arches are expensive, and I can use a concrete lentil over you. What do you think of that?""""Brick?""Brick says:""... I like an Arch

Holiday 2000 will be the revenge of the brick and mortars. Battle lines on the Internet are being drawn between the offline brick and mortar stores and the Internet pure plays. Offline giants such as Old Navy, Kmart and Best Buy, all of which had little or no Web presence last year, are poised for extraordinary growth during this holiday season.

He could have been killed if that brick hit him in the right place. The message is that the homeless in DeLand are vulnerable, that they are not any better than what happened to Mr. Roberts in Holly Hill.

Kanan is a big road through the Santa Monica Mountains. Between mid-March and mid-April, when you get over to the western side of the mountains, it's populated by Spanish broom - this beautiful, yellow, flowering weed that smells the way I imagine it smells along the Yellow Brick Road.

It appears after that, there was a group of individuals that pulled the passenger and the driver out of the vehicle and began beating them about the head with a large brick and sticks and stones. The investigation is ongoing.

I take leave of Prome and her towering god, Shwa Lan-dau, at whose base I have been laboring with the kindest intentions for the last three months and a half. Too firmly founded art thou to be overthrown at present; but the children of those who now plaster thee with gold will yet pull thee down, nor leave one brick upon another.

It is a bit unusual to see a brick building today, but it will work well in its location.

I think the good thing about the Internet is to give something away and to sell something else. Get a business model like that because the old brick and mortar record stores are falling apart, and the big record companies are collapsing under their own weight.

I think that brick is probably the best idea. It's pretty versatile. You can do just about anything with it.

It has been a longtime favorite of our citizenry, surviving graffiti and destruction all these years, ... As one of the last brick buildings, it is sad to see it go. It's a reminder of the businesses that once thrived along Spokane Street.

Last year I was told all throughout the (regular season) how good I was and how I could achieve and likely place at state. I got to the sectional and won that, but got to district and I hit a stumbling block and that's when I got hurt. That was a big letdown. I sort of hit a brick wall.

I went and looked out my door and he's got a big old brick banging and smashing my windshield in and I opened my door and yelled at him, 'hey!' but he just looked crazy so I slammed the door and locked it, called 9-1-1 and I went for my gun.

I require a mixed use of building materials. Some places require first-floor brick, and all you see is first-floor brick and second-floor vinyl, and then all you get is a sea of vinyl.

Some look at a brick and see something to break a window with, others look at a brick and see the building blocks of a great building. You tell me who was the true visionary.

It doesn't make any sense whatsoever. I'm just trying to improve myself and go forward in my career and you get brick walls built up all over the place.

I wasn't surprised in the least she came back (after the injury). Sascha will go through 17 brick walls and come back. She will always be there for you and was one of the best point guards we ever had.

We'll give people free oil changes, give them a warranty that says we'll fix anything that can possibly go wrong outside of hitting a brick wall. In return, owners will come in once a month for interviews about their cars, tell us what they like and, more important to us, what they don't like.

Those massive between-the-wars brick apartment buildings that stand in dour solidity - their benefits, their endurance all turned inward, and not nervously flaunted in the manner of their flimsier postwar descendants.

We were in the eye of the storm. We were four miles from the beach at a neighbor's brick house. It was clear out, no breeze, nothing. Then all of a sudden the water came down the street like someone was dumping a big bucket. Thirteen-foot-high tidal waves were coming straight at us.

When they finally hit the brick wall and reach out for help, they are worse off than ever.

We're laying the foundation one brick at a time. It'll come.

We're not going to come out and hit our heads against a brick wall if something is not going to work. We really caught them off guard because they weren't expecting all the passes. We jumped out on them early and that's what you have to do on the road.

Tough game, two nights in a row. We're up against a brick wall, that's what the girls are thinking.

We can't take anyone lightly. Every game is an important one -- we've got to build our season brick by brick, and that's what we're going to try and do.

Every yard is different to convey individualism, at least as much as you can with a 25-foot wide space. We have a whole pallet of materials for the buyers to choose from, beginning with the brick or masonry on the outside and continuing inside the units with a wide array of options. We wanted plenty of choices so each home would have an individual feel.

The recent rise in oil prices will certainly have a positive effect on this industry as the gambling public will be more likely to go online to gamble as opposed to traveling by airplane, car or train to its traditional brick and mortar casino as a result of the higher costs associated with traveling due to the skyrocketing price of oil. Oil companies such as American Energy (OTCBB: AMEP) are already seeing the effects of higher oil prices and we believe that Pegasus and the gaming industry in general will also benefit greatly.

This was absolutely a total team effort. Our defense has been a brick wall and just played the game of their lives. They earned this victory through hard work in practice.

What I've noticed over the last two years is that all of our supply houses have done the same thing. The net result of all these increases is that a brick walkway that might have cost $4,000 two years ago now costs close to $5,000 due to fuel costs alone.

To get their name on a brick, athletes simply need to collect $100 in donations. Included on the brick are their name, their hometown and the year they purchased the brick.

What was brick was beautiful, as far as Jack was concerned, and the more we had, the better he liked it.

We're piecing it together one brick at a time, ... We need to get more bricks.

We felt D.C. deserved to distinguish itself. Another red brick ballpark would be just like those in other cities.

We feel relaxed but we know that we must be patient ... and not be scared to take a step back during the game. The English are a brick wall that we must try to break.

We didn't pick up Gus for his brains. He's on this team because of his arm. How he chooses to celebrate is his business. He can butt heads with a brick wall as far as I'm concerned, as long as his right arm remains healthy.

Brick and I should have a ton of repetitions early on to get everything straightened out while much of the area will be preoccupied by the Red Sox in the playoffs.

Drew would run through a brick wall for (Temples). When he asked him to put his hand down, he didn't hesitate. I think it's the reason why he's playing college football, because he put his hand down.

There's no possible way you're going to drop a brick and have it fall on your toe. You're going to look at that brick all the way in. I think it's helped.

I've been looking for the yellow brick road and I can't find it.

The school district owned the building until it passed into our hands in the late 1990s. This building is a third in a series of schools at this location. The first was a log school built in 1772. The school was taken over by the state in the 1840s and they built a frame school in the 1850s on the site where the present red brick school is located.

It would be like throwing eggs against a brick wall.

The thing Brick showed in Mobile is that when there's competition, he shows up. He was well-appreciated for the fact that he was the highest-rated player in years to show up and play.

Science fiction was rocket-mad for about 40 years until aerospace hit a brick wall about 1970. I would not write off space colonisation or exploration completely, but we are profoundly ill adapted for going boldly into outer space.

Prison Break' is a thriller, but it's really a family drama, ... It's really the story of: How far would one go to save a loved one? And in Michael's case, it's to the wall. Each episode will be his resolve and ruthlessness and brilliance running smack into the brick wall that is chance and fate and human nature and all those things you cannot predict or prepare for.

So you can get one brick knocked out, but your wall is still standing.

Deplorable. Disappointing. Outrageous. That is how I feel about it. The federal response has just been unacceptable. It is like talking to a brick wall.

Back then, we had a cook who made lunch and dinner. Someone was in charge of making toast and coffee in the mornings. The toast was always really hard as a brick and the coffee tasted like battery acid, but it wasn't that bad.

All and All your just another brick in the wall.

You really get to know these people. It almost becomes a detective story. Why is Brick like this?

This is gutting us. We have a week and a half left of work and we are like delicate china speeding toward a brick wall. Sounds fun, huh?

This extends MIT's initiative in distance learning, and allows us to reach far beyond the brick and mortar of our Cambridge campus,

You don't value the house, until each brick is placed by you, so you don't value the business, until its made by you.

There were a lot of areas that we would've liked to work, but the areas just weren't safe. Like one of the construction workers said, it only takes one brick to fall.

This kind of advocacy can be an academic exercise, but John always wanted to make sure he could explain his arguments in real-world terms. He's not the kind of guy who makes up his mind right away. He goes through cases brick by brick.

They're a brick wall; a train if they run into you.

It seems like that is a pretty stable result. Oh, well. So much as for my efforts to change the course of Republican politics. That is a pretty hard brick to hit your head against.

It was done to save on brick cost.

I tried to look into the booking book, and what I saw was blackened. I've been running into a brick wall. That's why I submitted the FOIA request.

I took this brick and I tried to get in there to help her out.

It's not the old wrecking ball approach. It's being taken down literally brick by brick, and you're going to be seeing that in days to come.

It's like she slammed into a brick wall.

Everyone has a brick wall in their genealogy. Not too many people can trace their lineage back all the way.

That is very true for any walk of life and very true for my character in 'Prison Break' because he's a structural engineer. I did a little bit of reading about that. And structural engineering is the art and science of connectivity. The pieces of a building are all interdependent. My brother in the story is behind the wall and every brick in that wall represents the conspiracy that put him there. My job as his brother and as an engineer is to find that one brick and loosen it. And another and another and hopefully the whole thing will come down.

It's definitely shocking to see how ineffective we've been the past couple of weeks. We had been fairly solid in the preseason. We hadn't really missed a beat. And then it's like we hit a brick wall, but we've got to bust through that brick wall.

It will be different. I'll be standing against that brick wall, making a lot of decisions tonight. It's great. This is where it all started for me. I was drafted by the Cubs and played my first game here in 1989.

They want the brick streets, ... I think we just have to bite the bullet and pay for it.

This is just another brick in the wall, and there will be others. I don't see this as being significant except that we're trying to improve our basketball team.

Once again, this adds another brick to the building that people keep discussing that's rising around the world of voice.

It's no coincidence that Brick drinks Echo Springs bourbon. All the metaphors point to these broken people trying to heal their broken relationships.

Smith is hard to keep off the field. He's a brick wall.

I'm really excited for the NHL. It's just time, after so much negativity for so long, for optimism. It's almost as if a brick home has been destroyed and been rebuilt with superior bricks.

In general, given a choice between a device designed to be dedicated for a specific task (or a few tasks) and a general-purpose device that addresses the same needs -- without seeming like a clunky Swiss Army Knife device brick -- I'll take the general-purpose device every time.

In my fifth year in Beijing, I moved into a one-story brick house beside the Confucius Temple, a seven-hundred-year-old shrine to China's most important philosopher.