Brick Wall Quotes
Words for the moments that feel like hitting a wall.
These brick wall quotes use the image literally and figuratively — an actual billboard on a brick wall, and the frustration of banging your head against one while working. Many are about Ambition meeting resistance.
I was walking down a street and after his death and saw a billboard on the side of a brick wall for Van's shoes. It was a picture of Hopper's face, and all it said was, 'Hopper Lives.' So I...
The fact is that you could not be, and still cannot be, a 25-year-old homosexual trying to make it in the British film business or the American film business or even the Italian film business. It just doesn't work and...
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I think my best songs come from me sitting at a piano, bashing my head against a brick wall for hours and hours on end to get one good melody.
The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your...
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I am always really buzzed after each performance, and at around one in the morning, I'll hit a brick wall and need to sleep.
We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.
When I was at Berkeley, the framework of quantum field theory could calculate the dynamics of electromagnetism. It could roughly describe the motion of the weak nuclear force, radiation. But it hit a brick wall with the strong interaction, the...
Science fiction was rocket-mad for about 40 years until aerospace hit a brick wall about 1970. I would not write off space colonisation or exploration completely, but we are profoundly ill adapted for going boldly into outer space.
A lot of people, I think, harbor some kind of ambition to write a novel - they say, 'One day I'm going to write a novel,' and they maybe find the first three pages quite easy, and then they hit...
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One quote candidly names the real barriers a 25-year-old gay actor once faced trying to break into film. Read more About persistence, or browse our American Film quotes.
