Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things. — Randy Pausch
Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want — Randy Pausch
The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people! — Randy Pausch
There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall. — Bernard Malamud
What's the point in wasting a perfectly good brick wall when you have someone to throw against it, that's what I always say. — Cassandra Clare
Stone by stone, makes a wall, wall by wall makes a castle. — Albanian Proverbs
When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in. — Sam Shepard
If you are in front of a wall that you cannot get past, would you just keep banging your head into the wall?... No, you would find a new wall. — David Belle
If you've got a Corvette that runs into a brick wall, you know what's going to happen. He's a Corvette. I'm a brick wall. — Shaquille O'Neal
I’ve built a wall not to keep love out but to see who loves me enough to climb it. — Edward Barber
I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way. — Gustav Mahler
And if I know anything at all, it's that a wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down. — Assata Shakur
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out. — Robert Frost
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. — Steve Jobs
There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick. — Bill Belichick
We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Haters are my favorite. I´ve built an empire with the bricks they´ve thrown at me. Keep on hating. — CM Punk
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. — Augustus
Preparing a character is the opposite of building-it is a demolishing, removing brick by brick everything in the actor's muscles, ideas and inhibitions that stands between him and the part, until one day, with a great rush of air, the character invades his every pore. — Peter Brook
When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window. — Gilles Deleuze
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Each workout is like a brick in a building, and every time you go in there and do a half-ass workout, you're not laying a brick down. Somebody else is. — Dorian Yates
I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. — Edward Abbey
The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater. — Frank Zappa
The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people. — Randy Pausch
Remember, don't try to build the greatest wall that's ever been built. Focus on laying a single, expertly-placed brick. Then keep doing that, every day. — Will Smith
The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. — John McEnroe
You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle. — George Lucas
Life is brought down to the basics: if you are warm, regular, healthy, not thirsty or hungry, then you are not on a mountain... Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop. — Chris Darwin
I would run through brick walls for Spurs. — Graham Roberts
We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit. — David Suzuki
To propel a dirigible balloon through the air is like pushing a candle through a brick wall. — Alberto Santos-Dumont
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life? — Charles Lindbergh
A lesson will keep repeating itself until it is learned. Life first will send the lesson to you in the size of a pebble; if you ignore the pebble, then life will send you a brick; if you ignore the brick, life will send you a brick wall; if you ignore the brick wall, life will send you a demolition truck. — Oprah Winfrey
Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous. — John Bonham
Seize the opportunities life has to offer you. Embrace the changes, and have the courage to travel on roads less travelled, even though what is in front of you could be tough, make it successful. Have determination and courage to kick down the brick walls in front of you, and to go on and achieve bigger success than you ever thought possible. — Li Cunxin
If you don't break a hole through the brick wall, don't just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that wall. — Russell Simmons
The world has different owners at sunrise... Even your own garden does not belong to you. Rabbits and blackbirds have the lawns; a tortoise-shell cat who never appears in daytime patrols the brick walls, and a golden-tailed pheasant glints his way through the iris spears. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Comedy clubs have brick walls behind the performer. Bricks make you funny. When I'm in front of a fireplace, I'm hilarious. — Mitch Hedberg
All in all you're just another brick in the wall — Roger Waters
For a player to be good enough to play for Liverpool, he must be prepared
to run through a brick wall for me then come out fighting on the other side. — Bill Shankly
I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me! — Oscar Wilde
The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went. — Richard Branson
I took my father on a coach trip last summer.We were halfway there when the driver lost control of the coach, it flew down a hill around a bend and crashed through a brick wall. I wasn't hurt but luckily my father had the presence of mind to kick my head in. — Chic Murray
Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration. — Frank Yerby
Baseball is a lot like the ivy-covered wall of Wrigley Field--it gives off a great appearance, but when you run into it, you discover the bricks underneath. At times, it seems that we're dealing with a group of men who aren't much different than others we've all run into over the years, except they wear neckties instead of robes and hoods. — Hank Aaron
[Richard Drew] always encouraged his people to pursue ideas... He said, "If it's a dumb idea, you'll find out. You'll smack into that brick wall, then you'll stagger back and see another opportunity that you wouldn't have seen otherwise." — Arthur Fry
What I thought was an end turned out to be a middle. What I thought was a brick wall turned out to be a tunnel. What I thought was an injustice turned out to be a color of the sky. — Tony Hoagland
Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow, something will happen, something you couldn’t plan, will come along to move like to like, to set you loose, to set you on the way to your next brick wall. — Richard Bach
A lot of my colleagues are content to be character actors who are always in the background. I'm not that guy. I'm the guy who wants the limelight. Gimme the ball and I'll run it through a brick wall for you. I'll be your biggest soldier. — Terry Crews
Whenever we remove a brick from the wall that was designed to separate religion and government, we increase the risk of religious strife and weaken the foundation of our democracy. — John Paul Stevens
Doing a little work around the house. I put fake brick wallpaper over a real brick wall, just so I'd be the only one who knew. People come over and I'm gonna say, "Go ahead, touch it... it feels real." — Steven Wright
Over our history there are always those who want to take this wall of separation and remove a brick here or there or damage it more than that. I think one has to be vigilant and constantly on the alert. — Harry A. Blackmun
He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration. — Robert Musil
Remember brick walls let us show our dedication. They are there to separate us from the people who don't really want to achieve their childhood dreams. — Randy Pausch
I strained to remember where I was or even what I was wearing, touching my green corduroy jeans and staring at the exposed-brick wall. As my paranoia deepened, I became convinced that I had died and no one was telling me. — Maureen Dowd
Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics. — Virginia Woolf
Dennis Hutch had stepped up into the top seat when its founder had died of a lethal overdose of brick wall, taken while under the influence of a Ferrari and a bottle of tequila. — Douglas Adams
I still have the desire to do the job of acting. It's just a matter of whether I'll be allowed to do the job of acting that remains to be seen. There are only so many brick walls that I'm willing to beat my head on. — Gary Coleman
You can't change the bricks, and together, you still have to build a wall. — Chris Hadfield
At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall. — Peter Maxwell Davies
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