The Wall Quotes

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.

Never put sofas against wall.

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

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

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

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

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

The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.

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

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

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.

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.

I always drew dresses. I remember loving Richard Avedon's early Versace campaigns. I used to plaster my whole walls with them when I was a kid.

I try never to say no when it comes to creativity, but I do try and lead down an "appropriate road" - like not on furniture or the walls.

I don't approve of what Wall Street and the wealthy have done to this country, but they are the very ones buying my paintings.

I can really recommend a beautifully but sparsely furnished room with empty walls!

When a Wall Street analyst or broker expresses optimism, investors must take it with a grain of salt.

And I flunked anger management the moment I put the counselor through a stone wall. You might want to keep that in mind. [Thorn]

I had not yet gotten into the world of light. But I felt as one who, standing outside, could knock against the wall and hear an answering knock from within.

Wisdom is probably the ability to cope. That's why someone who has to walk seven miles every day to get water for their children can be wiser than someone sitting behind a desk in Wall Street.

Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.

I look back on my years as a Wall Street lawyer as time spent in a foreign country.

It may be true that the weak will always be driven to the wall; but it is the task of a just society to see that the wall is climbable.

I think audiences have hit the wall with CGI and special effects. They have seen so many over-the-top events that they can't suspend disbelief.

I found myself pinned to the hallway wall by six feet, two inches of hard, hot male.

I'd like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!

Web applications will become more and more ubiquitous throughout our human environment, with walls, automobile dashboards, refrigerator doors all serving as displays giving us a window onto the Web.

Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.

Dance, like music, knows no geographical boundaries, no linguistic barriers and no racial divisions. All walls crumble where art is concerned. It is a great unifying and integrating force.

We are not going to build a pressure in Mexico. We're not building walls to retain our people.

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

Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.

Wall Street makes its money on activity. You make your money on inactivity.

First, many in Wall Street - a community in which quality control is not prized - will sell investors anything they will buy.

We have to Build Bridges of Peace Instead of building Walls of Wars.

I'm not against (bull fighting). Some nations like to see blood, and some like to see their victims suffer from speculation... They kill the bull very quick. Wall Street lets you live and suffer.

Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call.

Wall Street is littered with the bones of those who knew just what to do, but could not bring themselves to do it.

To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.

I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall with our English dead.

With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls, for stony limits cannot hold love out

If you get stuck to the committed path then... this wall has to be.. KNOCKED DOWN!!

Step back from your Facebook Wall for a moment: Doesn't it, suddenly, look a little ridiculous? Your life in this format?

I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of humor. He never has anything funny in his stories.

Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants.

Obama took a tour of the Great Wall of China and said, 'We need one of these things around the White House.'

We're the perfect combination. Colonel's an old carny, and me, I'm off the wall.

I want to remind the viewers that people like Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama endorsed the Occupy Wall Street movement which is actually full of anarchists.

I remember when the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly intractable problems get solved.