Quotes about wall
wall paper mouths
Maybe if you spend your life pretending you're on a movie set, you don't ever have to admit that the walls are made out of paper and the food is plastic and the words in your mouth aren't really yours. Jodi Picoult
wall promise castles
Words, for all they were flimsy and invisible, had great strength. They could be fortified as a castle wall and sharp as a foil. They could bite, slap, shock, wound. But unlike deeds, words couldn't really help you. No promise ever rescued a person; it was the carrying-through of it that brought about salvation.
wall nursing doctors
Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down.
wall book library
Her library filled her bookshelves and then overflowed into waist-high stacks of books everywhere, piled haphazardly against the walls. If just one of them moved... the domino effect could engulf the three of us in an asphyxiating mass of literature. John Green
wall thinking two
I think I work in two worlds. I'll always try to kick through a wall. I did that when I was younger and I still have my way of doing that. Patti Smith
wall fall sat
When I heard, Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, I thought, Did he fall or was he pushed? P. D. James
wall war heart
Think of what big governments have gotten up to in this century : not one, but two world wars, the gulag, the holocaust, aerial bombing of civilian population centers, the Berlin Wall, nuclear explosions, the post office. A wicked individual might want these, but he wouldn't have the cash and connections to get them. A villainous corporation could afford them but has to market the products. The Vietnam draft would be a tough sell for even the most fiendish businessmen. "Get shot! Get killed! Get diseases from foreign women who despise you in their hearts!" P. J. O'Rourke
wall heart mind
It is the mind that speaks a woman's heart, not the vaginal walls. Mary Roach
wall paper used
Herbert used to say that he was as tight as the paper on the wall. Mary Roberts Rinehart
wall writing world
He who commits a wrong will himself inevitably see the writing on the wall, though the world may not count him guilty. Martin Farquhar Tupper
wall school leaving
When I was 14, I used to have a calendar on my wall, crossing the days off until I was 15, because the school leaving age was 15. Then three months before I turned 15 they changed the leaving age to 16. Mark E. Smith
wall white grandparent
I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores. Mario Vargas Llosa
wall integrity world
Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the 'Wall Street Journal.' Noam Chomsky
wall order people
There are moments when a kind of clarity comes over you, and suddenly you can see through walls to another dimension that you'd forgotten or chosen to ignore in order to continue living with the various illusions that make life, particularily life with other people, possible. Nicole Krauss
wall people enemy
I don't hide out. If you build a wall around yourself, it draws people to invade it. Fear is the enemy. Matt Dillon
wall gun waiting
On the wall of our life together hung a gun waiting to be fired in the final act. Mary McCarthy
wall doors your-side
I had an apartment and I had a neighbor, and whenever he would knock on my wall I knew he wanted me to turn my music down and that made me angry 'cause I like loud music... so when he knocked on the wall, I'd mess with his head. I'd say Go around I cannot open the wall I dunno if you have a door on your side but over here there's nothin'. It's just flat. Mitch Hedberg
wall clubs bricks
Comedy clubs have brick walls behind the performer. Bricks make you funny. When I'm in front of a fireplace, I'm hilarious.
wall thinking people
I think that life is a paradox and you have to embrace that in your work and your belief systems.... You can't be a literalist, and that's the trouble that people always find themselves in. That's why people always hit a wall with any of my stuff, because you can't take it literally. Madonna Ciccone
wall world thunder
All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder. Lucretius
wall events architecture
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became. Louis Kahn
wall artist space
Greek architecture taught me that the column is where the light is not, and the space between is where the light is. It is a matter of no-light, light, no-light, light. A column and a column brings light between them. To make a column which grows out of the wall and which makes its own rhythm of no-light, light, no-light, light: that is the marvel of the artist.
wall firsts architecture
Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall. The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall.
wall two bullshit
whenever they get a chance, never fear, people make you waste hours and months ... they use you as a wall to bounce their bullshit off of ... blah! and blah! and blahblahblah! ... you put up with it for an hour, you'll need two weeks to recover ... blah! blah! Louis-Ferdinand Celine
wall intelligent men
So unless we come together as a people and stop our foolish beefing among each other, sit down like intelligent men and women and settle the things that divide us from each other, then come together like a solid wall and we could make something happen. Louis Farrakhan
wall boys rooms
All over the walls of my room are pictures of Peter Pan. I've read everything that Barrie wrote. I totally identify with Peter Pan, the lost boy from Never Neverland. Michael Jackson
wall people defense
People were so naive about plants, Ellie thought. They just chose plants for appearance, as they would choose a picture for the wall. It never occurred to them that plants were actually living things, busily performing all the living functions of respiration, ingestion, excretion, reproduction---and defense. Michael Crichton
wall moving journey
First, if it is true that a spatial order organizes an ensemble of possibilities (e.g., by a place in which one can move) and interdictions (e.g., by a wall that prevents one from going further), than the walked actualizes some of these possibilities. In that way, he makes them exist as well as emerge. But he also moves them about and he invents others, since the crossing, drifting away, or improvisation of walking privilege, transform, or abandon spatial elements. Michel De Certeau
wall house coal
What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them? Michel de Montaigne
wall college remember
I remember coming to this college in the 1960s as a new legislator when a road divided the campus - and it was not fully paved at that - and no wall defined the campus from the highway. Michael N. Castle
wall race pay
Individuals seem to have reached their walls and so has the entire human race. Whatever isn't working, isn't life-producing, isn't producing love for ourselves or others, is going to have to go now. Or, literally, there will be hell to pay. Marianne Williamson
wall want wheels
Wall Street wants to keep its schemes too complicated to understand so that the roulette wheel can keep turning. Maria Cantwell
wall government acting
It appears that Wall Street is not acting as a force for economic expansion, providing access to capital for companies that make things. Rather, it seems, Wall Street is using government bailouts to lever up.