The Wall Quotes

Getting an unsophisticated client was the golden prize. The quickest way to make money on Wall Street is to take the most sophisticated product and try to sell it to the least sophisticated client.

[Adolf Hitler] had stubborn ideas about clothes and didn't care how he looked and this drove [Eva Braun] up the wall.

Fully fund the construction of a wall on our southern border. Don't worry about it. Remember, I said Mexico is paying for the wall.

There is an episode [in "Mary and Jane"] where there is not a lot of pot smoking, but there is a giant wall of weed in their apartment.

The heavy smell of flower petals stroked the walls of my lungs.

Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works.

Not one Wall Street executive has been charged with crimes since the 2008 financial crash.

When I talked with an opposing coach before a game and he mentions the pink walls, I know I've got him. I can't recall a coach who has stirred up a fuss about the color and then beat us.

We've got to break through the wall of secrecy. It's America's fate.

The gospel word of the day can become like a painting on the walls. of your inner room, the inner room that is your heart.

Deep are the foundations of sincerity. Even stone walls have their foundation below the frost.

I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial-ground God's-Acre! It is just; It consecrates each grave within its walls, And breathes a benison o'er the sleeping dust.

All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme.

When a church is faithless to its duties, the real church is outside its walls, in the community.

The people should fight for the law as for their city wall.

People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city s walls.

The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall.

At the end of a down day on Wall Street, we all need to be able to sleep peacefully at night. That comfort won't come from our bank balance.

Wall Street can never be allowed to threaten main street again. No bank can be too big to fail, no executive too powerful to jail.

Sometimes, in public life, people ask inappropriate, off-the-wall kinds of questions, don't they?

If we're going to be an effective, efficient economy, we need to have all part of that engine running well, and that includes Wall Street and Main Street.

A Wall Street money manager should not be able to pay a lower tax rate than a teacher or a nurse.

It's starting to sink in," Corny said. "I can almost look at you without wanting to bang my head against the wall.

Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.]

Second of all, I don't think Wall Street is doing what it's supposed to be doing, even after the shameful performance of the last two years. They're are not allocating capital.

My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight.

"Don't you have a religion?" Dorolow asked Horza. "Yes," he replied, not taking his eyes away from the screen on the wall above the end of the main mess-room table. "My survival."

The problem is efforts by liberals to establish a wall between religion and society, in the guise of maintaining the wall between church and state.

I came from nothing. I came from the projects and welfare and ended up a millionaire with no frame of reference. I was bound to hit a wall sooner or later.

It is in bed that we learn to bear the inevitable. We are learning this all the time while we lie with our face turned to the wall thinking we are doing nothing.

He sounds exactly like Moody," said Harry quietly, tucking the letter away again inside his robes. "'Constant vigilance!' You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls.

You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls.

They don’t need walls and water to keep the prisoners in, not when they’re trapped inside their own heads, incapable of a single cheerful thought. Most go mad within weeks - Lupin

Many evil things there are that your strong walls and bright swords do not stay.

I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.

I went through a long period when I thought my photographs were not visible - on the wall, but not visible.

You have those walls up all around you...Come a day you gonna want to tear them down brick by brick and gonna find that the cement is all hard. What you gonna do then?

She and Thomas had helped construct the Maze; at the same time she’d exerted a lot of effort to build a wall holding back her emotions.

None of the threats to the global commons will be solved by building walls.

The Walls enriched with Fruit-trees and faced with a covering of their leafy extensions; I should rather have said hung with different Pieces of Nature's noblest Tapestry.

You were hidden behind walls of ice; no man had passed them; I broke them down and love leapt to love, and you lie here, my beautiful, love in the arms of its lover.

If you can give your walls history, it supports the action that's happening in front of them.

God is the God of the people who are at their wits end, who are right up against it with their backs to the wall, and He delights to come to our help when we need Him most.

Wall Street has come a long way from the insider-dominated world that was blown apart by the Great Depression.

Wall Street gives money to both [Democrats and Republicans] because they want to be on the good side of whoever becomes president .

It was a weird sensation. Like getting caught eavesdropping, or lying, or sitting on the toilet and having the bathroom walls suddenly drop away.

People see you onstage and the glamorous side, but they don't see you traveling 600 miles a night, eating truck stop food and spending by yourself staring at walls.

One time I covered a wall with 8.5×11 pages of drawings, which made things feel a little bit different in the room.

Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.

Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment--the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the wall down at the local madhouse.