Wall Quotes

I think I'll paint roads on my front room walls to convince myself that I'm going places

Oh you, straying heart, just come! Oh you, aching liver, just come! If the path to the gate is closed, Take the way by the wall, but come!

If there is writing on Hadrian's Wall, it reads that the English should leave Scotland to its own devices.

As always, I am saved by the inability of living creatures to believe anything that might cause the walls of their little mental assumptions to crumble.

Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.

It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God's finger crushes against the wall.

Make your attacker advance through a wall of bullets. I may get killed with my own gun, but he's gonna have to beat me to death with it, cause it's gonna be empty.

I give you the end of a golden string, Only wind it into a ball, It will lead you in at Heaven's gate Built in Jerusalem's wall.

I've found that often, just when you think you've hit a wall, you experience a breakthrough that takes you to new heights in accomplishment

The enemy of the moment is not as important as our own inner weakness. If this is not mended we are already defeated, though no foreign conqueror stands within our walls.

I guess the glass ceiling is in the West. For us, it's the glass wall.

Having hit a wall, the next logical step is not to bang our heads against it.

Be sensitive to your mistakes. Put it on the wall for a couple of weeks. It may be that you can learn more from the study of your own work than from others.

Wall Street has a few prudent principles; the trouble is that they are always forgotten when they are most needed.

Nothing important on Wall Street can be counted on to occur exactly in the same way as it happened before.

These walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That's institutionalized.

It’s pretty thin, the wall separating healthy confidence and unhealthy Pride.

The Best of the artist's art, which will one day be in a Museum wall, the Painting that sets the artist apart of all other artist artists.

When we judge, we are pushing people away; we are creating a wall, a barrier. When we forgive we are destroying barriers, we come closer to others.

Twenty years in this business convinces me that any normal person using the customary three percent of the brain can pick stocks just as well, if not better, than the average Wall Street expert.

You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in.

What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.

I'm not really afraid of the dark, except if I'm walking. The thing that scares me the most is the possibility of walking into a wall and busting my lip.

All that occurs within the walls of the temple is uplifting and enobling.

When you keep it within the walls, it dies. When you take it out where Jesus intended it to be, it happens.

I wonder why people use only walls for hanging pictures.

The danger isn't that Big Brother may storm the castle gates. The danger is that Americans don't realize that he is already inside the castle walls.

Be prepared to do whatever you have to do. If you get put in a situation where your back is up against the wall let your gun go off.

I can't just have one painting - I need to cover the wall in paintings. It's the same with my music. I want to mix everything together to create more.

I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.

I think my gift expressed itself in every way possible. When I was a little child, my mother said I used to draw on the walls.

Key to the societal significance of tomorrow's leaders is the way they embrace the totality of leadership, not just including 'my organization' but reaching beyond the walls as well.

By tearing down the wall between law enforcement and the intelligence community, we have been able to share information in a way that was virtually impossible before the Patriot Act.

A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war.

I collect fantasy swords, replicas from films, and have them displayed on the wall as you go up the stairs.

The blue wall will always be there because the system supports it.

A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.

Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the content is controlled by everyone and no one at the same time.

Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.

Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.

I never expected the White House to be warm, and the artwork on the walls was extraordinary. I am a fan of the Louvre, but being there it was almost just as good.

Thought is matter as much as the floor, the wall, the telephone, are matter.

Knowledge and imagination are the life buoy and the extra lung for breathing outside the walls of a tainted reality.

Comedy breaks down walls. It frees us for just a moment from the ugliness of this world.

People who avoid the brick walls - all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve.

We in this country, in this generation, are, by destiny rather than choice, the watchmen on the walls of world freedom.

You must accept it as it is, and hence accept all consequences. A wall is indeed a wall.

A good book is like a seed: it produces fruit that has in it seed for more fruit. It is not a picture on the wall; it is a window that invies us to wider horizons.

You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more.