The Wall Quotes

We in this country, in this generation, are, by destiny rather than choice, the watchmen on the walls of world freedom.

A good book is like a seed: it produces fruit that has in it seed for more fruit. It is not a picture on the wall; it is a window that invies us to wider horizons.

I have been around a long time and Wall Street has changed a lot.

The walls of people hardly affected me. You closed your mind to such things.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners.

I've been inspired by people's work, but I never grew up with posters on my bedroom wall or obsessed with one person.

To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall.

Rincewind gave his fingers a long shocked stare, as one might regard a gun that has been hanging on the wall for decades and has suddenly gone off and perforated the cat.

Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down.

Art is the space between the viewer and the rectangle that hangs on the wall. Unless something of the person that created the work is there, there's nothing for the viewer to take away.

In the long, sleepless watches of the night, A gentle face the face of one long dead Looks at me from the wall, where round its head The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light.

The light of love sees no walls.

Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.

Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.

The economic insecurity of the past ten to 15 years, the 2008 Wall Street crash, NAFTA, and the loss of millions of good jobs - these directly grow out of Democratic Party neo-liberal policies.

In fact, of all hoodoos in Wall Street I think the resolve to induce the stock market to act as a fairy godmother is the busiest and most persistent.

We have a responsibility to control our borders. Building a wall is not an answer, not here in America or any place.

Give weather reports. It helps the reality of a scene if foghorns are blowing or kites are in the sky on a windy afternoon or the day's so hot wallpaper is peeling off the walls.

I never expected the White House to be warm, and the artwork on the walls was extraordinary. I am a fan of the Louvre, but being there it was almost just as good.

Thought is matter as much as the floor, the wall, the telephone, are matter.

He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads and the wall on which he leans.

You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more.

People who avoid the brick walls - all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve.

Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.

The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition.

There will be a rusty gun on the wall, sweetheart, The rifle grooves curling with flakes of rust. A spider will make a silver string nest in the darkest, warmest corner of it.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

You may build walls in my path, but I will knock them down. then all your hard work only made me stronger, and all you have is gravel.

Those who live by the wall must die by the wall.

I'm not interested into victim photography. Photographing people suffering and putting it on a museum wall is too weird.

Laughter shall drown the raucous shout; And, though these shelt'ring walls are thin, May they be strong to keep hate out And hold love in.

If a man, cautious, hides his limp, Somebody has to limp it! Things do it; the surroundings limp. House walls get scars, the car breaks down; matter, in drudgery, takes it up.

When backed up against a wall, dig deep, demand excellence, stand tall, and be strong.

Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.

One of the walls of my bedroom was a collage of about 15 years of baseball photos. I would cut out the baseball pictures from every issue and I had this huge montage of thousands of pictures.

Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.

Why should a man deliberately encircle his mind with needless prison walls. No man can reach highest excellence who puts limits to his own thought.

The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the gun by act three, scene two. If you fire a gun in act three, scene two, you must see the gun on the wall in act one, scene one.

If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.

Imagine if your kids had to carry a ladder to climb an apartheid wall to get to school everyday.

Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture.

Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.

The iPad - is that a phone or a computer? If I put it on my wall is it a TV?

No no there wasn't any planned 14th season, we all saw the writing on the wall. The ratings had been going down and so fourth, that curve goes on every show and in everybody's life.

I loved working on Wall Street. I loved the meritocracy of it and the camaraderie of the trading floor.

When we talk about power, we talk about Wall Street.

Stand us against a wall and shoot us, well and good, you are victors. But why should I be brought before a Tribunal like a c-c-c-... I can't even get the word [criminal] out!

Far be it for me to imagine that Zion contains none but Calvinistic Christians within her walls, or that there are none saved who do not hold our views