Bricklike Quotes & Sayings

I want to get one thing straight right from the start: I am not a natural-born jock. I am about as intrinsically athletic as an oyster, with the innate grace and sporty prowess of a brick - a very cute oyster and a very intelligent brick, if I do say so myself, but oysterly and bricklike nevertheless. — Hanne Blank

The pleasure of the true dreamer does not lie in the substance of the dream, but in this: that there things happen without any interference from his side, and altogether outside his control. — Isak Dinesen

I never left you; I never will leave you. While life lasts, and beyond, I am here. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

My family came over from Spain about nine generations ago. I was born in San Diego, but by the time I was four days old, I was on a flight back to Spain because that's where my family was living at the time. — Bitsie Tulloch

Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much to make them mend those faults as to make them believe that we ourselves are without fault. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

With all singers, insecurity is your best security. That's why we're such loud people and why we walk all funny. You think, 'Are people interested?' But I think our band has something and they know we don't just put albums out. We do think about it. — Bono

In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem. — Allen Tate

Forks and spoons have probably done more to reconcile people who cannot agree than guns and bombs ever did — Theodore Zeldin

We lived in the bowels of New York City. It was a struggle just to survive. This nice suburban kid hadn't had to do much of that before. — Peter Bergman

Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them nest in our hair. — Martin Luther

I do not believe in inheriting your position in society based on which womb you come from ... I think a rich person should leave his children enough so they can do anything, but not enough so they can do nothing. — Warren Buffett

Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can't be constantly reinvented. — Michael Porter

Sometimes you could get so turned around that even breathing became complicated. — Ivy Devlin

But I do not actually remember being a monster. I just remember wanting my own way. — Neil Gaiman

Good God." he said incredulously. "You've got a black belt in purse attack, that's for damn sure. — Linda Howard