Throw Bricks Quotes & Sayings

We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine. — Roald Dahl

Give a low man one ounce of power and he'll throw ten thousand pounds of bricks on your head. — Lisa See

The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight. — Daniel Day-Lewis

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. — Stephen Crane

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. — David Brinkley

If they throw sticks at you,
build a house.
If they throw stones at you,
build a mansion.
If they throw bricks at you,
build a palace. — Matshona Dhliwayo

It should be inserted here parenthetically that there's a school of mechanical thought which says I shouldn't be getting into a complex assembly I don't know anything about. I should have training or leave the job to a specialist. Thats a self-serving school of mechanical eliteness I'd like to see wiped out. [ ... ] You're at a disadvantage the first time around it may cost you a little more because of parts you accidentally damage, and it will almost undoubtedly take a lot more time, but the next time around you're way ahead of the specialist. You, with gumption, have learned the assembly the hard way and you've a whole set of good feelings about it that he's unlikely to have. — Robert M. Pirsig

The Nets' a stone throw from where I used to throw bricks
... So it's only right I'm still tossing 'round Knicks. — Jay-Z

Great preaching always depends upon great themes. — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

The way to become famous fast is to throw a brick at someone who is famous. — Walter Winchell

The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples - that is the one to throw bricks and sermons at. — Mark Twain

It's a landscape that controls you, sits you down and says, Shut up, pal, I'm in charge here. — Russell Banks

I'm not just building a foundation or a house with the bricks people throw at me. I'm building entire worlds. it's called writing. — Tracy Millosovich

I've also learned that you can't be all things to all people. Whatever it is that you're successful at, that has to be the No. 1 goal. — Rachael Ray

This, in a nutshell, is what "self-improvement" is really about: prioritizing better values, choosing better things to give a fuck about. Because when you give better fucks, you get better problems. And when you get better problems, — Mark Manson

A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction. — A.R. Ammons

If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later. When once we have grasped this point, final victory is beyond question. Whatever difficulties we encounter, whatever apparent reverses we sustain, we may not give up the quest for truth. — Mahatma Gandhi

We talk of independence. No man is independent. We are all interdependent; and we shall only rise as we carry others with us, and as we are assisted by others. — James E. Talmage

Creed, Im in love with your brother, and I think I fucked everything up. — T.J. Klune