Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.

Michael Leunig

It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say.

Nathan Sawaya

When I was in South Africa, I was meeting with people who never heard of Lego bricks. And yet, when I was like, 'Here they are,' they immediately got it. They saw the appeal, were snapping bricks and creating their little creations right there immediately.

Gary Barnett

Web services are the mortar. But you also have to consider the bricks and the shape of the building.

Johnson Honimae

Mobs and looters have been hurling rocks and bricks at passing patrol police vehicles.

Reed PhD

Leadership without support is like trying to make bricks without enough straw. True leaders reinforce their ideas and plans with strategic partnerships, alliances and supportiveaudiences.

Bill Jr

Time marches on. We've got a wonderful new facility under construction and it's Busch Stadium - it's just different bricks and mortar.

Lars von Trier

Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls.

Anselm Kiefer

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.

Charles Spurgeon

You may alter an opinion, but you cannot alter a #‎ fact .

Glenn Parker

We want to thank Robert for his valuable contribution to the Company's development and growth since its inception, ... His entrepreneurial vision has been a leading factor in our success to date.

David Graeber

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

Carlos Salinas de Gortari

Globalization is a fact of economic life

C. P. Scott

Comment is free but facts are sacred.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Well, I'm celebrating the fact that Republicans are doing better with women.

Luke Bracey

I wake up every day and look at my own ugly mug in the mirror and don't think twice about it. The fact that other people might want to look at me still feels funny. It's flattering, but funny.

Gene Smith

The positives are closure. The fact is we participated with an ineligible player. That's the truth. You can't sugar-coat that.

Robert Fraser

We are proud of the fact that we surpassed last year's donation.

E. M. Forster

Live in fragments no longer. Only connect...

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I am a writer of fragments.

Virginia Woolf

We must reconcile ourselves to a season of failures and fragments.

Kurt Schwitters

New things had to be made out of fragments.

Fred Goss

I think if people never knew it was an improvised show it wouldn't matter.

Aya Cash

I work constantly to be better at being rejected.

Aya Cash

Even in success, you're going to be constantly rejected.

Stephen Merchant

Things don't get better when you become well known or go on TV. I'm just being rejected by a better class of women.

Laird Barron

My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.

Rabih Alameddine

When I wrote my first book, 'Koolaids,' I felt rejected and not wanted.

Peter Zumthor

My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons.

Francois Fenelon

The gifts of God are not to be rejected on account of the channel that brings them.

David Carson

A lot of commercials that have been rejected are really entertaining.

Alexandra Chando

You're constantly getting rejected in acting. You get rejected more than you get hired!