Wall Quotes

And the walls became the world all around.

I'd have liked to have leant against walls in thrillers.

If I were president of the United States, I'd build a great wall along the Mexican border and not let anybody in.

As the Wall Street Journal called our economic plan, supply-side economics for the working man, is resonating in Minnesota and here in Missouri and across this country.

The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.

I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.

Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.

If you've got a Corvette that runs into a brick wall, you know what's going to happen. He's a Corvette. I'm a brick wall.

Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture.

Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn't have any competition.

I'm very friendly or whatever, but I would hardly say that I'm that cookie-cutter. I don't live in L.A. or New York. I live in Texas, and I go to hole-in-the-wall bars, so there's no paparazzi there.

From 1934 to 1963, the biggest criminals in America ended up on Alcatraz. Nowadays they end up on Wall Street.

Do you know why that cow looks over that wall? She looks over the wall because she cannot see through it, and that is what you must do with your troubles... Look over and above them.

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues.

Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape.

It's common knowledge that a large percentage of Wall Street brokers use astrology.

Leave me in a room with some crayons and I'll draw on the wall.

The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion.

The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

You should be willing to bang your head against a wall until you find the solution.

Wall Street is one big turf war. By benefiting one person you are disadvantaging another person.

Real motivation is that drive from within: You know where you are going because you have a compelling image inside, not a travel poster on the wall.

You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.

I am sick of four walls and a ceiling I have need of the sky, I have business with the grass.

I'm told leather drives men up the wall. I like wearing it because it because it feels nice.

The darker the walls,the brighter the sky outside.

I think everyone has their own secret Dawn Wall to complete one day, and maybe they can put this project in their own context.

The wall! Your success is on the other side. Can't jump over it or go around it. You know what to do.

A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls

To be a Christian in a generously orthodox way is not to claim to have the truth captured, stuffed, and mounted on the wall

Start by assuming the market is always wrong, so if you copy everybody else on Wall Street, you're doomed to do poorly.

The person that is buying a share of stock is convinced he knows something that the other person who's selling it to him does not know. There's no zero sum game in Wall Street.

Winfield goes back to the wall. He hits his head on the wall and it rolls off! It's rolling all the way back to second base! This is a terrible thing for the Padres!

You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem.

I would run through brick walls for Spurs.

You only really discover the strength of your spine when your back is against the wall.

We just want to make the walls cave in and the ceiling collapse. Music is meant to be played as loudly as possible, really raw and punchy, and I'll punch out anyone who doesn't like it the way I do.

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

After working for 14 years on Wall Street and growing up in a family with strong roots in small business, I know how important the entrepreneurial spirit is to attaining the American dream.

Children cannot bounce off the walls if we take away the walls.

We do learn something about ourselves when we are up against the wall, and we do most certainly come out stronger.

A cat improves the garden wall in sunshine, and the hearth in foul weather.

In 6,000 years of storytelling, [people have] gone from depicting hunting on cave walls to depicting Shakespeare on Facebook walls.

Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.

Wall Street never changes, the pockets change, the suckers change, the stocks change, but Wall Street never changes, because human nature never changes.

Each one of us is called to be an artisan of peace, by uniting and not dividing, by extinguishing hatred and not holding on to it, by opening paths to dialogue and not by constructing new walls!

Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.