The Wall Quotes

There's not a ship that sails the ocean, But every climate, every soil, Must bring its tribute, great or small, And help to build the wooden wall!

The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind in never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary.

The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis

I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street.

After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.

We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in the darkness.

And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it.

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.

Graffiti is something written on a wall, and, of course, art can be exhibited or produced anywhere: a wall is just another venue.

They say every man needs protection They say every man must fall So, I swear I see my reflection Somewhere inside these walls... I shall be released.

Really new trails are rarely blazed in the great academies. The confining walls of conformist dogma are too dominating. To think originally, you must go forth into the wilderness.

WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in Heaven.

I'm communicating with the directors of the Soviet companies, and I see that it is wrong, but when I go to the official discussions, they discuss we should change the color of the walls.

My goodness, why is this woman [ Hillary Clinton ] at 46%? She's like the magic 46. She's 46% in the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, she's 46% in a lot of these swing states.

I believe Wall Street needs serious ongoing regulation.

In fact, I don't think I'll ever make anything that will feel as divinely dropped in my lap as the opening of 'Wall-E.'

I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all.

In elementary and middle school, I threw kids against the wall. I rubbed their heads in the dirt at recess. I bit them. I even knocked teeth out.

The mounted knight is irresistible; he would bore his way through the walls of Babylon.

What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.

I rot on the wall, my own Dorian Gray.

I always felt like an outer-space alien. I was always breaking the fourth wall.

The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.

Pale sunlight, pale the wall. Love moves away. The light changes I need more grace than I thought.

People who are intolerant, categorize and over-react... should all be dragged against a wall and shot.

I felt a bottomless sadness. So completely alone. Like one of my stuffed animals at home that I was too old for now, that sat on the shelf in my closet, mashed against the back wall.

The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.

The longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England

Congress doesn't regulate Wall Street. Wall Street regulates Congress.

Great achievement often happens when our backs are up against the wall. Pressure can actually enhance your performance.

I like photographs of anything uninteresting. Maybe just two doors on a wall... The point is to be uninteresting.

You can't climb a tile wall.

[Jay] Gould sets up an artificial wall between the two worldviews that doesn't exist in my life.

If they don't go to law school, bright college graduates head to Wall Street precisely because they have no real plan for their careers.

No movie can be a downer that fills you with pure exhilaration. You leave WALL-E with a feeling of the rarest kind: that you've just enjoyed a close encounter with an enduring classic.

If you look around my room, you see lots of lists. I'm inspired by what's up on the wall.

People don't know what it's like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you.

One of the things Wall Street does not like is ambiguity. Now that the agreement is there, it begins to make the future look a little less cloudy, and that's positively received by Wall Street.

There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue, Like to the wall that circles it about.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

One man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars

I'm trying to climb up both walls at once.

In America, dogs are viewed by their names first, breed second. And dogs live behind walls. It's an unnatural point of view.

They've got to deliver twenty-six episodes a season and they're not going to beat their heads up against a wall if they feel something didn't, like, pan out the way they had hoped.

And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the People, then I shall send my voice beyond the walls of this Capitol for redress.

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.

Something there is that doesn't love a wall, and wants it down.

I didn't have an identity. It was manufactured. My identity now? It was written on the wall by ancient forces.

Never put sofas against wall.

It is hard going to the door cut so small in the wall where the vision which echoes loneliness brings a scent of wild flowers in the wood.