Quotes about wall
wall men breakfast
At one point, she'd wanted to hurl the whole breakfast at the wall. And then she'd remember why it was that men had temper tantrums and women didn't: cleanup. Kristin Hannah
wall ghetto finding-yourself
You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto. Klaus Kinski
wall doors hands
About 25 years ago, I was in an apartment, and next door, they put on the radio, so I struck the wall with my fist, but they did not put the radio down. I took a tool and banged until I made a hole through the wall. It was like a comedy movie. Klaus Kinski
wall television care
Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for. Molly Ivins
wall book fall
The fall of the Berlin Wall did more for the progress of freedom than all of the books written by myself or Friedrich Hayek or others. Milton Friedman
wall fall doubt
The fall of the Berlin Wall really demonstrated beyond the shadow of a doubt that there was a bad system, and what subsequently happened in the Soviet Union, that that system was a failure. Milton Friedman
wall writing film
I wrote on my desk wall when I was writing the film...'Art is socialism, but life is capitalism.' That's the hard thing in all of it if you expect to make a living. Mike Birbiglia
wall today immigration
You are going to hear many things from Mr. Trump today in his speech on immigration. One, no amnesty. He is absolutely going to build that wall. That`s been the center piece of his campaign from day one.
wall memories spring
All the wild sweetness of the flower Tangled against the wall. It was that magic, silent hour.... The branches grew so tall They twined themselves into a bower. The sun shown ... and the fall Of yellow blossom on the grass! You feel that golden rain? Both of you could not hold, alas, (both of you tried, in vain) A memory, stranger. So I pass.... It will not come again. Katherine Mansfield
wall cockroaches predator
sexual predators were like cockroaches. For every one you saw, there were twenty more hiding behind the walls. Karin Slaughter
wall our-world looks
There must be something innate about maps, about this one specific way of picturing our world and our relation to it, that charms us, calls to us, won’t let us look anywhere else in the room if there’s a map on the wall. Ken Jennings
wall yelling hands
turns me on so loud it's like no sound, everybody yelling at me hands over their ears from behind a glass wall, faces working around in talk circles but no sound from the mouths. my sound soaks up all other sound. Ken Kesey
wall years tourists
Ive been on Wall Street once in my life in 1980 as a tourist. I went to see the stock exchange when I was 18 years old. Im not a Wall Street lawyer, Im a Stanwix Street lawyer. Stanwix Street is a street in downtown Pittsburgh. Keith Rothfus
wall creative spontaneous
Find Eloy. Smack his head into a wall, dance on his guts... I'd get creative. Spontaneous like. Kim Harrison
wall fun block
And what’s important to you?” I asked. Marshal thought while we maneuvered around Darth Vader, who was struggling to keep from hitting the wall with his helmet blocking his vision. “Success at work. Having fun doing it. Caring for someone and supporting their interests because you like to see them happy. Having them care about and support yours simply because they want to see you happy. Kim Harrison
wall hands gripping
I staggered backward-her one hand gripping my shoulder, the other still holding my wrists behind her-and she followed until my back hit the wall. Kim Harrison
wall past mind
That wall is your mind playing tricks on you. You just need to say, 'One more step, I can do this. I have more in me.' You'll be so proud of yourself once you push yourself past your threshold. Kerri Walsh
wall war challenges
You've got the Wall Street situation, the sub-prime situation. You've got a black president. We've got wars. We've got unemployment. But the music doesn't reflect that. And I challenge anybody to show me a music that's on the radio that reflects that. Ice T
wall drinking eight-ball
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall with a joint, drinking some eight-ball. Ice Cube
wall thinking house
You need a blueprint to build a house because you need to know how far the concrete is going to be poured and you need to know how think the walls have to be. Isaiah Washington
wall world might
When one is engaged in a desperate defense of one's world and its values, nothing can be given away, any breach in the walls might be fatal, every point must be defended to the death. Isaiah Berlin
wall simple hands
Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very simple... compared with the artistic and skillful portraits made in later days... Here was a photograph that at one time had been the last word, a very modern portrait... Today it is just a part of cultural history. The small yellowed surface has acquired depth, an admonishing perspective. We hold in our hand a symbol of the structure and ideology of an epoch. Isak Dinesen
wall moments pleasure
Oily marks appear on walls / Where pleasure moments hung before Imogen Heap
wall cutting organization
Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks. They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization. Ida Tarbell
wall men silence
I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat in silence, gazing at the barren canyon walls. And the mute desert seemed to carry on our conversation for us. Huston Smith
wall childhood understanding
I wasn't ever unable to function, but I did realize at some point that I had built a wall between myself and my childhood by saying, "I'm so glad that's over. Nothing can ever be as bad again," without understanding that my childhood was still very much with me. Gloria Steinem
wall shopping style
It was the first female-style revolution: no violence and we all went shopping. Gloria Steinem
wall streets
I'm not in Wall Street for my health. J. P. Morgan
wall flower bird
Everything was curved to fit the walls: the stove, the sink and the cupboards, and all of it had been painted with flowers, insects and birds in bright primary colours. J. K. Rowling
wall mad water
They don’t need walls and water to keep the prisoners in, not when they’re trapped inside their own heads, incapable of a single cheerful thought. Most go mad within weeks - Lupin J. K. Rowling
wall eye thinking
He sounds exactly like Moody," said Harry quietly, tucking the letter away again inside his robes. "'Constant vigilance!' You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls.... J. K. Rowling
wall eye thinking
You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls. J. K. Rowling
wall children atoms
Everything had shattered. The fact that it was all still there — the walls and the chairs and the children’s pictures on the walls — meant nothing. Every atom of it had been blasted apart and reconstituted in an instant, and its appearance of permanence and solidity was laughable; it would dissolve at a touch, for everything was suddenly tissue-thin and friable. J. K. Rowling