Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

Of course a sports psychologist can help - it's certainly helped me. People think you must be crackers if you've got a psychologist but psychology is part of the building bricks to make a top athlete.

No one likes to carry a brick around, and this is the smallest, thinnest, lightest device that has all those combined features.

I fought it hammer and tong, but the drummers had inoperable bricks in their head about it. What's worse is that they now want to remove all Dead music from the Web.

Getting in touch with Iraqis has not been the insurmountable challenge it seemed to be at the start. You run into more brick walls trying to get someone in the U.S. military to talk to you.

I had hit a brick wall. I had gotten injured, and my grades were failing and I had to do something.

She's a kid that'll go through a brick wall for you.

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

Shel Silverstein

He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else.

Steve Wilkos

I went home one night and told my dad that an older kid was picking on me. My Dad, a Korean War vet and a Chicago cop for 30 years, told me, 'You better pick up a brick and hit him in the head.' That's when I thought, 'Wow, I'm going to have to start dealing with things in a different way.'

Leigh Brackett

Writing a film is like building a brick wall. You have a plan, and you have the blocks. Then, somebody says, 'I think we'll take this stone out of here and put it over there. And while we're at it, let's make this stone red and that stone green.'

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.

When they finally hit the brick wall and reach out for help, they are worse off than ever.

We're laying the foundation one brick at a time. It'll come.

Ryan Holmes

The point is that instead of a monolithic brick of printed content - delivered more or less unchanged to all subscribers - social media offers news that is personalized and nimble.

We'll give people free oil changes, give them a warranty that says we'll fix anything that can possibly go wrong outside of hitting a brick wall. In return, owners will come in once a month for interviews about their cars, tell us what they like and, more important to us, what they don't like.

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.

Susan Hill

What has us most upset is the short time frame and short notice we were given about this, ... They said they were going to tear up our brick sidewalks, and that we pretty much didn't have a choice in the matter.

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

W. S. Gilbert

When you've got a guy like Elliott between the pipes, he's like a brick wall. He's making every save we need. He's giving us all the confidence in the world.

Benjamin Britten

Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.

We can buy a three-year-old five-bedroom brick house for $350,000 to $400,000 and cut our property taxes to $3,000 to $4,000 a year.

It hit me like a ton of bricks that I needed to be there. There are fascinating advancements occurring in the biotech and genomics fields. We'll have to learn what's going on or we'll be sitting on the sidelines and be left out of touch.

It hit me like a ton of bricks that I needed to be there, ... There are fascinating advancements occurring in the biotech and genomics fields. We'll have to learn what's going on or we'll be sitting on the sidelines and be left out of touch.

Roger McGuinn

I think the good thing about the Internet is to give something away and to sell something else. Get a business model like that because the old brick and mortar record stores are falling apart, and the big record companies are collapsing under their own weight.

He could have been killed if that brick hit him in the right place. The message is that the homeless in DeLand are vulnerable, that they are not any better than what happened to Mr. Roberts in Holly Hill.

Capital is the essential raw material used in producing insurance products. The UK industry is lithe, lean and dynamic. If the present system lives on, this could dump a brick in a rucksack on its back.

Alice Temperley

I loved being in London. Always walking everywhere, always out and about and always at markets, walking around Brick Lane and Covent Garden and Soho.

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.

I require a mixed use of building materials. Some places require first-floor brick, and all you see is first-floor brick and second-floor vinyl, and then all you get is a sea of vinyl.

Many creative people are finding that creativity doesn't grow in abundance, it grows from scarcity - the more Lego bricks you have doesn't mean you're going to be more creative; you can be very creative with very few Lego bricks.

Joe Girardi

I was the grunt. I used to carry the bricks and cement. I remember when my father gave me my first $100 bill. My eyes were huge.