“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. The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!”
The Last Lecture (2007)
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Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book II, Chapter VIII, Sec. 19
“"Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" on The Wall (Pink Floyd, 1979)”
Variant: "Comfortably Numb" on The Wall (Pink Floyd, 1979)
“Today's draw is another little brick in the wall.”
15-Sep-2007, BBC Radio Humberside
An interesting metaphor, erm...
“If a brick don't sit on walls no more, what would you aks it?”
Variant: If a dick don't get hard off of cocaine, what would you aks it?
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book II, Chapter III, Sec. 2
Context: Bricks will be most serviceable if made two years before using; for they cannot dry thoroughly in less time. When fresh undried bricks are used in a wall, the stucco covering stiffens and hardens into a permanent mass, but the bricks settle and... the motion caused by their shrinking prevents them from adhering to it, and they are separated from their union with it.... at Utica in constructing walls they use brick only if it is dry and made five years previously, and approved as such by the authority of a magistrate.
“Ask a simple question, get a simple brick wall.”
Source: Chapter 3 (p. 44) Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book II, Chapter III, Sec. 4
“In an earlier life, were you a pair of brakes?"
"Try a brick wall.”
Source: Crave