The Wall Quotes

Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put up a wall to keep our people in.

Ink cannot tell the glow that lights me at this moment in turning to the mountains. I feel strong [enough] to leap Yosemite walls at a bound.

The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little ‘why’.

A ship in dock, surrounded by quays and the walls of warehouses, has the appearance of a prisoner meditating upon freedom in the sadness of a free spirit put under restraint.

The walls of the closet are guarded by the dogs of terror, and the inside of the closet is a house of mirrors.

Wall Street is a place where the day begins with good buys.

That wall, embodied in the First Amendment, is perhaps America's most important contribution to political progress on this planet.

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

I don't hide out. If you build a wall around yourself, it draws people to invade it. Fear is the enemy.

An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.

I try to play squash but I keep running into the walls.

For someone who doesn't have the key, the door becomes a wall; for someone who has the key, there is no door!

If we are ready to tear down the walls that confine us, break the cage that imprisons us, we will discover what our wings are for.

I have times when I'm off-balance. I have times when I slur my words. I have times when I walk into walls. I have times when I can't remember somebody's name.

The CDO was, in effect, a credit laundering service for the residents of Lower Middle Class America. For Wall Street it was a machine that turned lead into gold.

Twitter is like Ozymandias' wall of tv's in Watchmen. You don't read every tweet, but from the whole you can absorb the zeitgeist.

When the boys at school found out I had a potentially fatal peanut allergy, they used to hold me up against a wall and play Russian Roulette with a bag of Revels!

I think you can photograph a certain sliver of human presence in its absence... images taken in the empty rooms, the marks left on the walls, disappearing shadows, etc.

Death is only an old door/Set in a garden wall.

When I see a wall that's hung with different objects, framed or unframed, what I like about it is its fluidity and rule-breaking nature. Just experiment a bit.

I think I work in two worlds. I'll always try to kick through a wall. I did that when I was younger and I still have my way of doing that.

We hereby declare the end to the wall dividing the sacred from the profane: from now on, all is sacred.

Underneath Day's azure eyes, Ocean's nursling, Venice lies, A peopled labyrinth of walls, Amphitrite's destined halls

I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall.

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall-that of our consciousness-between the world and ourselves.

You can either waltz boldly onto the stage of life and live the way you know your spirit is nudging you to, or you can sit quietly by the wall, receding into the shadows of fear and self doubt.

The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.

The wall that protects you from rejection also keeps out love and success. Accept your abundance.

If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.

I like to think that when I fall, A rain-drop in Death's shoreless sea, This shelf of books along the wall, Beside my bed, will mourn for me.

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.

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.

The Poplar grows up straight and tall, The Pear-tree spreads along the wall

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family.

The window-lights, myriads and myriads,Bloom from the walls like climbing flowers.

The Wall was the actual symbol of a defeat, of inferiority.

I was watching him crawl, Back over the wall-! Then bang! Crash! And the lightning flash! And- well, that's another story, Never mind- Anyway.

The wall that protects you, also imprisons you.

Dogs really are perfect soldiers. They are brave and smart; they can smell through walls, see in the dark, and eat Army rations without complaint.

We should be breaking down barriers, not building walls.

Baby bye Here's a fly, Let us watch him. you and I, How he crawls Up the walls Yet he never falls.

Time is running out for us But you just move the hands upon the clock You throw coins in the wishing well For us You just move your hands upon the wall

It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates what one feels from what one is capable of doing.

Sprigs of plum by the corner of the wall Are blooming alone in the cold; If not for the subtle fragrance drifting over Who could tell this from snow on the boughs.

I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity.

How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.

I swear, talking to you is like talking to a really good-looking and mildly stupid brick wall.

Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.

I went through about six or seven painting methods just to see what I didn't want to do. And then I got off the wall, and went into the environment.

Mirror, mirror on the wall, whos the dumbest of you all?