The Wall Quotes

See... What I felt they should have done, for our first public works project, is build a giant wall... across the entire border of Canada. Because that's where the cold air comes from.

Janie blinks and leans against the wall, just in case. But it's no one's dream. It's just the end of some things. And the beginning of others.

When the horse was little, Massie had covered the walls with posters of young fillies that she thought Brownie would find sexy.

Popcorn-can cover / screwed to the wall / over a hole / so the cold / can't mouse in.

All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.

A color which would be 'dirty' if it were the color of a wall, needn't be so in a painting.

Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.

I want every family in America to have a carpet on the floor and a picture on the wall. After bread, you've got to have a picture on the wall.

As paredes tem ouvidos. (Portuguese: The walls have ears.)

The entire room was so yellow that it looked like the sun had thrown up on the walls and wiped its mouth afterward on the dresser and curtains. ---Cole

India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.

The only way I can cope with me and my environment is to have this kind of wall around me. I'm exhausting myself.

The muted color scheme allows the occasional brighter yellow or red to pop out on the wall in a show, which I like.

The thickness of the walls should be sufficient for two armed men to pass each other with ease.

There are also half bricks. As the bricks are always laid so as to break joints, this lends strength and a not unattractive appearance to both sides of such walls.

Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side our prison walls the immutable limitations of temperament

Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls.

Paintings are seldom guilty and often framed for crimes they did not commit. Some cover holes-holes in walls, holes in lives. Some make holes-in wallets, holes in hearts...in negative space.

I like having my back pressed against a wall and being made to work harder so I don't embarrass myself.

Speaker [Paul] Ryan made clear that the Republican congress agrees with [Donald Trump], and [building a wall] that's something that should be done.

All social space is suffused with political meanings and agendas, the very stones and walls a kind of testament to the ongoing struggles for liberation and justices.

We can't be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths.

We can never be prepared for everything. No one person can anticipate all of life. In fact, overpreparation is yet another way to wall ourselves in from life.

Richard Nixon said it best. It makes no difference whether they hold your nose or whether they go would through a wall to vote for you. It counts the same with the X.

He who commits a wrong will himself inevitably see the writing on the wall, though the world may not count him guilty.

Every word and deed must contribute to an understanding with the enemy and release those vast reservoirs of goodwill which have been blocked by impenetrable walls of hate.

If you lie to your husband - even about something so banal as how much you drink - each lie is a brick in a wall going up between you, and when he tells you he loves you, it's deflected away.

On the wall of our life together hung a gun waiting to be fired in the final act.

It is the mind that speaks a woman's heart, not the vaginal walls.

Herbert used to say that he was as tight as the paper on the wall.

The New York action painters want their pictures to jump off the walls and chase you down the street.

A small boy puts his hand on the wall, and looks down intently as he wriggles his toes. The birth of thought?

Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass of the middle class.

The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.

According to a Wall Street Journal article some 59 percent of Americans don t own a single book. Not a cookbook or even the Bible.

In a long meter hymn, a singer - they call it 'lays out a line.' And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can't wedge a pin between it.

I can't leave her there all alone, surrounded by stone walls... She's too precious to give up.

Staring at the wall opposite him he presented the queen with a view of his ear and awaited her orders.

Walls are made of fear; bridges are made of love!

Working in an open air is a magic! If you are tired of the walls surrounding you, work in the fields to heal yourself!

Be clever and do not build walls, because in the future they will bring only shame to you!

Cowards cannot pass beyond the walls or beyond the wire fences! For them, frontiers are always the end of the road!

Wherever you see a wall, demolish it to broaden the horizons of the world! Wherever you see a tyrant, take him down to increase the light of the world!

With stones, you can build walls to separate people or build bridges to unite them.

The ideological foundation of today's business schools is that economic control should be shifted out of government hands into those of financial managers - that is, Wall Street.

Wall Street is not being made a scapegoat for this crisis: they really did this.

If you're the kind of kid who thinks that all that's important in life is making money, Wall Street is probably still the place to go, especially now that Trump's elected.

I didn't think one day something would happen that would bring me back to Wall Street to write what is essentially a sequel.

I struggle against photography. I struggle against the fact that it is silent, that it is just a piece of paper on the wall, often presented in a tedious white matt frame.

The upper 1 percent, the people down on Wall Street, the corporate executives, they're the people that control this economy.