Wall Quotes

If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall.

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

If you're a Black artist, you could paint a wall of smiley faces, and someone will still ask you, 'Why are you so angry?'

A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.

A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.

Fear builds walls to bar the light.

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

Wouldn't it be a tragedy to get to the top of the ladder and find you placed it against the wrong wall?

It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.

The nature of any human being, certainly anyone on Wall Street, is 'the better deal you give the customer, the worse deal it is for you'.

Every wall is a door.

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.

A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the paredón [execution wall].

If you can see the handwriting on the wall... you're on the toilet.

Look at the walls of Pompeii. That's what got the internet started.

The greatest work we will ever do will be within the walls of our home.

Donald, I'm not sure if you're even aware of this, but the only difference between you and Michael Douglas from the movie, Wall Street, is that no one's going to be sad when you get cancer.

I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But I hope in time there will be a house.

I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.

Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?

Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me. I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

The most important of the Lord's work you will ever do will be the work you do within the walls of your own home.

Remember, don't try to build the greatest wall that's ever been built. Focus on laying a single, expertly-placed brick. Then keep doing that, every day.

The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods.

A small speckled visitor Wearing a crimson cape Brighter than a cherry Smaller than a grape A polka-dotted someone Walking on my wall A black-hooded lady In a scarlet shawl.

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It's my job to do the work for them because they have no one.

I shot me a nice deer, and I hung it on the den wall in my house. My neighbor comes over and he says, Did you shoot that thing? I said, Nope. He ran through the wall and got stuck. Here's your sign.

Written in these walls are the stories that I can't explain

I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall.

We are still in Eden; the wall that shuts us out is our own ignorance and folly.

Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.

Warriors do not win victories by beating their heads against walls, but by overtaking the walls. Warriors jump over walls; they don't demolish them.

Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be - and not building bridges - is not Christian.

The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!

If I were president of the United States, I would include Moslems in my presidency.

The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and secretive economic and political force in America.

I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!

In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls.

What's the point in wasting a perfectly good brick wall when you have someone to throw against it, that's what I always say.

Hillary Clinton at the end of the day will be a friend of Wall Street.

I couldn't get any jobs, and when that happens, you get so humble it's disgusting. I didn't feel like a man anymore -- I felt really creepy. I was bumping into walls and saying, Excuse me.

Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls

A lot of rookies hit the wall after 50 or 60 games.

A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery.

The wall is silence, the grass is sleep, Tall trees of peace their vigil keep, And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings furled. Plays soft on her flute to the drowsy world.

Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.