#bricks

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks. ↗

— Eminem

#fame #hit #like #me #ton

If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

#built #could #days #dwell #fires

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. ↗

— David McCallum

#bricks #eye #governed #hand #holds

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

— Plutarch

#chance #clay #ever #fortune #left

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. ↗

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

#begins #bricks #carefully #put #starts

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. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#around #band #bricks #came #choir

They been callin up here, asking when I am gonna get out. When I hit bricks, it all belongs to me. ↗

— Suge Knight

#asking #been #belongs #bricks #get

When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think? ↗

— Margery Allingham

#bricks #drop #everything #kicks #may

In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly. ↗

— Jack Dee

#constantly #disturbing #drawn #feet #found

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. ↗

— Anselm Kiefer

#around #bricks #buildings #built #childhood