Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance-will instantly vitiate the effect.

Selma Blair

I'm open to anything. I would love to play someone completely off the wall.

Scott Joplin

Panic in Wall Street, brokers feeling melancholy.

Scott Lynch

Cold walls do not a prison make, nor iron bands a bondsman.

Shunryu Suzuki

If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a thick wall.

Sean O'Casey

You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you can not put an idea up against a barracks-square wall and riddle it with bullets: you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell that your slaves could ever build.

Leonard Peltier

If you look at Iraq and Afghanistan's situations, they are quickly becoming much like our reservations. They will have puppet governments funded and controlled by a U.S. Government that siphoned off their resources. You don't have to be an English major to read the writing on the wall; I am in here as a warning to others, just like those men who are in Guantanamo are a warning to others - if you stand up to us you face these same consequences.

Lemn Sissay

I think I'll paint roads on my front room walls to convince myself that I'm going places

Laura Nyro

You can see the walls roar See your brains on the floor Become God Become cripple Become funky

Laura Riding

Every thought sounds like a footfall, Till a thought like a boot kicks down the wall.

Kweisi Mfume

Those who aren't caught up into this bigotry, this hatred, those who respect us when they see us. Then you have an obligation also, the good ones. To make sure you say to the others, that this blue wall of silence must come down and that everybody must be treated equally.

Marco Rubio

If he [Donald Trump] builds the wall the way he builds Trump Towers, he`ll be using illegal immigrant labor to do it.

Marcus Aurelius

Don't be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you've been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what?

Marcus Aurelius

Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything which needs walls and curtains.

Samuel Johnson

If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds neither wall, nor mountains, nor seas could afford any security.

Samuel Johnson

Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it

Safra A. Catz

My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.

Sadie Jones

I like to come into my workspace and feel its a living environment and not frozen, which is why I often change or add to the pictures on the wall.

Ryan Gosling

For now, I'm just going to keep doing the work and hope I don't get fired. If people want to put me up on their walls, I'll love it.

Ryan Adams

I think I've been incredibly raw my whole career. A lot of people spend a lot of time trying to look cool and spend time being guarded and putting up walls. I just never had the time. It seems more honest to say, 'Hey, this is who I am.

Ryan Adams

There is nothing wrong with loving the crap out of everything. Negative people find their walls. So never apologize for your enthusiasm. Never. Ever. Never.

Rufus Wainwright

But I don't even think you hear me at all Under your medieval ceiling behind your biblical wall

Ronald Reagan

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. And get a massage - you look really stressed

Ronald Reagan

I hope the people on Wall Street will pay attention to the people on Main Street. If they do, they will see there is a rising tide of confidence in the future of America.

Rodney Dangerfield

I tell ya I got a stupid son. That's one load that shoulda been shot on the wall.

Robertson Davies

Only in the theatre was it possible to see the performers and to be warmed by their personal charm, to respond to their efforts and to feel their response to the applause and appreciative laughter of the audience. It had an intimate quality; audience and actors conspired to make a little oasis of happiness and mirth within the walls of the theatre. Try as we will, we cannot be intimate with a shadow on a screen, nor a voice from a box.

Robert Owen

Where are these rational practices to be taught and acquired? Not within the four walls of a bare building, in which formality predominates... But in the nursery, play-ground, fields, gardens, workshops, manufactures, museums and class-rooms. ...The facts collected from all these sources will be concentrated, explained, discussed, made obvious to all, and shown in their direct application to practice in all the business of life.

Wall Street is where prophets tell us what will happen and profits tell us what did happen.

Robert Pattinson

I'm not particularly good at coping with it. I just cope. I just leave my brain at the door and just stand there. I can get the screaming more than I get the photo things. That's the worst, when you have this wall of photographers. I've never understood the logic in how they do it. Everybody shouts at the same time, and you're trying to do a logical thing, looking from the left to the right. And they almost always end up looking disappointed with you afterwards.

Robert Mapplethorpe

Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight.

Robert Evans

The impossible becomes possible when your back is against the wall

Robert E. Howard

I never saw a man fight as Conan fought. He put his back to the courtyard wall, and before they overpowered him the dead men were strewn in heaps thigh-deep about him. But at last they dragged him down, a hundred against one.

Walt Disney

It's silly to build a wall around your interests.