The Wall Quotes

I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.

[Occupy Wall Street] had an impact on consciousness. It was not effective in realizing change.

I love being down at Occupy Wall Street. The sincerity, the youth involvement, the desire for better, is palpable and moving. There is true caring, sharing, and refreshingly naïve hope.

Here is what is needed for Occupy Wall Street to become a force for change: a clear, and clearly expressed, objective. Or two.

Everyone feels some jealousy, some anger, and some hostility. Don't feel guilty. But to allow them to become dominant expressions of your way of life is off the wall.

I am always really buzzed after each performance, and at around one in the morning, Ill hit a brick wall and need to sleep.

Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale.

In an earlier life, were you a pair of brakes?" "Try a brick wall.

Herman Cain told a group of Occupy Wall Street protesters to go home, get a job, and get a life. That's the Republican version of hope and change, ladies and gentlemen.

If you have more fish on your wall than pictures, you might be a redneck.

As I've watched the Berlin Wall come down, the cry for freedom in China, and the eastern bloc nations, I rejoice, because I see the bankruptcy of Marxist-Leninism, socialism in this world.

First of all, no candidate is going to win by catering to the alleged Occupy Wall Street vote.

No one was responsible for the great Wall Street crash. No one engineered the speculation that preceded it. Both were the product of free choice and decision of hundreds of thousands of individuals.

I had always fantasized about going to the Pyramids, the Great Wall; I've always been sort of obsessed with the whole notion of Everest.

I would describe my style as off the wall. I like stuff that doesn't match. I just like to stand out.

It's soul force that removed the English from India. It's soul force that brought down the Berlin Wall. It's soul force that gave life to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle for civil rights.

There was a moment when the Berlin Wall came down and some people felt, "Oh capitalism won. That's the ideology we can believe in now."

Religion is not a bridge between God and Man; it is a Great Wall of China between them!

I like to do projects that are off-the-wall and on top-of-the-wall.

All I wanted was to break your walls, all you wanted was to break me

To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.

I'm open to anything. I would love to play someone completely off the wall.

The rich get richer and the poor get the picture. I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great.

Behind a rack of framed photos of Snow, we encounter a wounded Peacekeeper propped up against a strip of brick wall. He asks us for help. Gale knees him in the side of the head and takes his gun.

I thought we’d turned a corner. Maybe we did, but we hit a brick wall anyway.

I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall.

I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out of the bank until I saw how Citi Bank responded to Occupy Wall Street.

The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen. We can see it.

On the weekends I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.

The one-word cinema wasn't possible for me anymore. I'd hit a wall, a dead end. Therefore I thought I'd turn back.

It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.

This is Wall Street, and today is important. Because tomorrow, July 4th, I intended to make my first million dollars--an excitingday in a man's life. The enterprise was slightly illegal.

Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.

... every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.

It is over, the Reich walls have collapsed, my generals have betrayed me and my army refuses to fight, this is the herr Doernitz! I only hope you can turn this around.

One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill.

The way to get things out of a government is to back them to the wall, put your hands to their throats, and you will get all they have.

If you build a 50-foot wall, you'll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.

Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.

All of your errors have not built a wall against your success. They have paved your way to it.

Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.

I never walked out the door and said, "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest Baldwin brother of them all?"

In general, great companies prefer to grow organically, as Wall Street likes to say. That is, from the inside out, by finding new markets or by taking market share from their competitors.

Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.

I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side, And of all who assembled within those walls, That I was the hope and the pride.

Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.

Four grey walls, and four grey towers, Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle imbowers The Lady of Shalott.

A wall is the safeguard of simplicity.

And then like thunder broke the frost, The chill wall fell, and morrowless Immortal maid and man embraced, Their light and shadow mingling.

The dreary flies, lazy and casual, Stick to the ceiling, buzz along the wall. O heart, the spider shuffles from the mould Weaving, between the pinks and grapes, his pall.