The Wall Quotes

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.

Have a determination that is strong enough to move walls.

I watched Picasso visit the Planet of the Apes, as the masters rot on walls and the angels eat the grapes.

Be aware of the walls you build and what could be on the other side

Most times, your blessings are also your curses. And for me, I have this ability to express myself so clearly with pen and paper, but when it comes to expressing myself verbally, I put up a big wall.

My husband says my toes are like Wall's cocktail sausages. He feels peckish whenever he sees them.

You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes.

I function better when my back is to the wall.

Together we have sent a message that will echo from Wall Street to Washington, from Maine to California.

I love jazz because it's so American; you know it's our Only Original Art Form. It just goes against the greed of corporate America and the Wall Street Banks that are destroying our economy.

The test of an abstract picture, for me, is not my first reaction to it, but how long I can stand it hanging on the wall of a room where I am living.

And just about the time I feel like screaming and finding me a wall to punch right through, I look up and I just can't help smiling, it's you.

The schools, the courts, the media - all seem determined to erase Christian influence from public life and confine religion to the four walls of the church or home.

Pete and Repeat were sitting on a wall. Pete fell off. Who was left? Repeat.

I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.

I think what's happened is that the general public has become much more aware of the destructive power of Wall Street.

I'm a strategic guy. I'm gonna figure out ways to hurt the defense, but it's not gonna be about throwing a ball through a wall.

Indeed we do not really live unless we have friends surrounding us like a firm wall against the winds of the world.

Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!

There is a sign that hangs on my wall that says, 'What is it you want me to do to somebody else that is more important than what you want me to do for you?

I'm a positive person, so I don't get bogged down with it. If you're expecting that, if you wall in that, if you practice that, then you'll attract what you fear.

I build a wall around myself. I'm hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along.

I touched the wall and all my dreams, hopes and ambitions basically coalesced into one moment.

If you covered a broom handle with oil and shoved it up my arse, then put me on a trampoline, in a lift, I could write a better song on the walls.

The chief difference between big-game fishing and weightlifting is that weightlifters never clutter up their library walls with stuffed barbells

The world is a stone wall ... and they have put the stones so close together that there is not a single crack through which one may enter.

Tribe cats are named after the first thing their mother sees, but I thing this would lead to a lot of kits being named 'wall of cave', 'side of cave' and 'floor of cave

One senses the figures as passing by the tree line and, caught in the presence of the wall, turning to gaze upon it almost as a vision.

If these walls could talk, I wonder what secrets they'd tell.

Art shouldn't be only the aesthetics we hang on the wall, but a dynamic to shape the society.

China is a long caravan, longer and stronger than the Wall.

September fattens on vines. Roses flake from the wall. The smoke of harmless fires drifts to my eyes. This is plenty. This is more than enough.

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

Did you ever have something to say and feel as if the whole side of the wall wouldn't be big enough to say it on, and then sit down on the floor and try to get it onto a sheet of charcoal paper?

Oh, I’m not a Berkeleian. I believe my back’s against this wall. I believe there’s a sten gun over there.

A closed plant is like a cemetery; it really is. The walls will talk to you; the machines will talk to you if you really talk to them.

I’ve built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself

The grounds of the place were dominated by several large, old willow trees that towered over the surrounding stone wall and swayed soundlessly in the wind like lost souls.

The wall around the window does not create two worlds.

We are all architects of faith, ever living in these walls of time.

The people must fight for their laws as for their walls.

Okay, well, I guess I'm still a kid. Because when I get really angry and fired up and I feel like my back is up against the wall, I will say vicious things.

When you hit the wall, it's how fast you come back.

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.

The contemporary quarrel over church and state is not really about whether a wall of separation of church and state should exist or not... The real question is what does 'separation' mean?

On Wall Street, there is no "Wall Street"; there are individuals.

A nation without borders is like a house without walls - it collapses. And that is what is going to happen to our wonderful America.

The most important job you'll ever have is in the walls of your own home.

Do you have any idea how cheap stocks are? Wall Street is now being called Wall Mart Street

Stones of judgment, discouragement or doubt may be thrown at you. You can't stop them, but you can make the choice to keep your walls up and not let them affect you.