In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.

- Jack Dee

I see the world in rectangles. If I am talking to someone, I find myself analysing their face, working out how to recreate it in bricks.

- Nathan Sawaya

I have about 4 million Lego bricks. And then a few million in storage in case something comes up. I still pay for them. I buy my bricks just like everyone else. It's by far my biggest capital expense.

- Nathan Sawaya

Even if I am predisposed to shop online, I see bricks and mortar as part of marketing.

- Natalie Massenet

When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think?

- Margery Allingham

A brick layer, lays bricks... I'm an Actor, that's what I do.

- Michael Chiklis

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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.

- Lars von Trier

I'm a troglodyte. I think that's the word for it. Like an old school weird person who throws bricks at their computers.

- Joanne Kelly

You're not going to win anything with bottles and bricks.

- John Doar

I could break bricks with my hands when I was 12.

- Akshay Kumar

The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.

- John Oates

The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness.

- John Updike

Baghdad is altogether built of chrome-yellow kiln-dried bricks.

- Isabella Bird

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

- Eminem

I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, it's governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye.

- David McCallum

House Speaker Paul Ryan has actually started using a phrase lately - 'Raise our gaze.' He's exactly right, too. That's what I'd like to see in a presidential candidate. I don't like the bricks being thrown back and forth. That's not inspiring to me and to most of our electorate, I think.

- Bill Flores

Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.

- B. R. Ambedkar

I don't think you can separate a place from its history. I think a place is much more than the bricks and mortar that go into its construction. I think it's more than the accidental topography of the ground it stands on.

- Alan Moore

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

- Augustus