Quotes about wall
wall believe men
Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow. George R. R. Martin
wall men curiosity
Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?
wall real lying
The real issue lies in the North beyond the Wall. Stannis becomes one of the few characters fully to understand that, which is why in spite of everything he is a righteous man.
wall men light
I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men.
wall jail want
They [the Reagan Administration] want to put street criminals in jail to make life safer for the business criminals. They're against street crime, providing that street isn't Wall Street. George Carlin
wall patriotic people
Obviously, there are people who constrict themselves and build walls around themselves, whether it's from a moral standpoint or a patriotic standpoint, or just plain old conformity, and who therefore live in those little prisons, and when things breach those walls, it's shocking for them.
wall book superhero
Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the wall and hope it will stick, and most of it slides off. Garth Ennis
wall eye track
In racing, they say that your car goes where your eyes go. The driver who cannot tear his eyes away from the wall as he spins out of control will meet that wall; the driver who looks down the track as he feels his tires break free will regain control of his vehicle. Garth Stein
wall students now-and-then
Now and then I'll get a student who asks a question that puts me up against the wall and maybe by the end of the semester I can begin to deal with the question. Garry Winogrand
wall towns cockroaches
Adolescents are like cockroaches: They come out the minute you leave town, crawl the walls, feed indiscriminately, reproduce alarmingly unless drugged, and will certainly outlast you. Gail Sheehy
wall secret feels
You keep a secret inside of you and it feels like a wall that separates you from others. Frank Warren
wall gestures abstract-painting
I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall Frank Stella
wall office people
People live and work in uninspiring environments, but look inside those rooms. Look at the painted walls and the decorations. People rebel even in the most controlled office environment in which they're not allowed to do anything. You see the little bulletin board in front of a person's desk with their photos, clippings, cartoons and whatever else. Frank Gehry
wall mirrors diversity
That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing, I desire nothing, I am nothing except an abstract centre of impersonal sensations, a sentient mirror fallen from the wall but still turned to reflect the diversity of the world. Fernando Pessoa
wall fall stills
If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile. Feist
wall old-woman
Old women can see through walls. Federico Garcia Lorca
wall spring light
Just as the light and weightless vegetation of saltpeter floats over the old walls of houses as soon as the owner gets careless, so the literary vocation springs up in you.
wall war fall
The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell. Fareed Zakaria
wall emotional garden
The Garden En robe de parade. - Samain Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens, And she is dying piece-meal of a sort of emotional anaemia. And round about there is a rabble Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor. They shall inherit the earth. In her is the end of breeding. Her boredom is exquisite and excessive. She would like some one to speak to her, And is almost afraid that I will commit that indiscretion. Ezra Pound
wall men every-man
Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand. Ezra Taft Benson
wall mind
What do you hang on the walls of your mind? Eve Arnold
wall names body
What happens when someone throws you against a wall or tells you you're a jackass or puts you down or calls you bad names? It goes into your body. We hold it in our body. If we don't have a way to let that go and release that, it becomes sickness eventually. Eve Ensler
wall couple dark
The problem [with genetic research] is, we're just starting down this path, feeling our way in the dark. We have a small lantern in the form of a gene, but the lantern doesn't penetrate more than a couple of hundred feet. We don't know whether we're going to encounter chasms, rock walls or mountain ranges along the way. We don't even know how long the path is. Francis Collins
wall stupid bagpipes
If the Scottish want to break away, I shall stand on Hadrian's Wall with a teary handkerchief, and say: 'Good riddance to the lot of you, and take your stupid bagpipes with you.' Jeremy Clarkson
wall water laughing
...water laughing softly down a black stone wall. Jennifer Egan
wall real thinking
I think people have a little wall they throw up real quick if they see swords and sorcery. Jeff Smith
wall thinking done
I think the elites who have done nothing about it, who don't want a wall and don't care that the border is illegal, they see this as a threat. Jeff Sessions
wall building trump
He [Donald Trump] is been bold. He's been bold on building a wall.
wall thinking oil
If you think Wall Street firms have it good, you haven't looked closely at Big Oil. Jeff Goodell
wall darkness like-you
It was the darkness that got you. It was heavy darkness, greasy and compelling. It made walls round you, and shut you in so that you felt like you could not breathe. Jean Rhys
wall people love-and-respect
When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them. Jean Vanier
wall inspiration hunting
A moose is an animal with horns on the front of its head and a hunting lodge wall on the back of it Groucho Marx
wall years killing
I made a killing on Wall Street a few years ago...I shot my broker.