Wall Quotes · Page 21

If slaughter houses had glass walls, would we even be having this debate?

— Philip Wollen

Someday, when I'm no longer around, they will call at the Trump wall. It's got to be the greatest wall.

— Donald Trump

If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.

— John Cotton

Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion.

— Miguel

Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.

— Russell Baker

I have watched Occupy Wall Street mostly from the sidelines.

— Jami Attenberg

We're getting a wall. We're definitely getting a wall. That's the one thing we know about a Trump presidency.

— Ann Coulter

It is time we had democratic socialism for working families, not just Wall Street billionaires.

— Bernie Sanders

Go a little easier on yourself, and in so doing, be prepared to make and do things that might seem silly at…

— Merlin Mann

If you were the wall, what would you rather be? Dreary and dull, or alive with paint?" "Walls can't think!" "That doesn't…

— Brandon Sanderson

When I see a wall that's hung with different objects, framed or unframed, what I like about it is its fluidity and…

— Nate Berkus

If you were a gladiator in olden days, I bet the inefficiency of how the gladiator fights were organized and scheduled would…

— Jack Handey

No movie can be a downer that fills you with pure exhilaration. You leave WALL-E with a feeling of the rarest kind:…

— Peter Travers

To understand history,' Chacko said, 'we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and…

— Arundhati Roy

No one ever wanted to hire me. Ever. I've never been recruited anywhere. I have beat my head against every wall, at…

— Scott Pelley

Something I notice speaking to writers from south of Hadrians Wall is that the culture is different. At base, I think Scotland…

— Sara Sheridan

Drag is like breaking the fourth wall in theater where we're letting you know straight up that this is an illusion. People…

— RuPaul

Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She…

— Stephen King

Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second…

— Samuel Johnson

For a long time he had been white smoke. He did not realize that until he left the hospital, because white smoke…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

I find it painful when I'm without anything. But I work in multiple fields. If I can't write, I find myself taking…

— Patti Smith

You have to understand. I am no one special. I am just a single girl. I am five feet two inches tall…

— Lauren Oliver

Here's an interesting twist, though, President Pena Nieto later tweeting that he told [Donald] Trump in their private meeting that Mexico will…

— Steve Kornacki

Men say their pinnacles point to heaven. Why, so does every tree that buds, and every bird that rises as it sings.…

— John Ruskin

When your back is against the wall financially, creative juices flow.

— Anita Roddick

“When its back's against the wall, even positivity will come out fighting!”

— Serina Hartwell

“Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want something.”

— Anonymous

“Show me a ten-foot wall and I'll show you an eleven-foot ladder”

— Peter Bevelin

The greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from one another

— Barack Obama

The transfer of Wall Street from private ownership to public ownership has been a big step backward.

— John C. Bogle

All one needs to write a story is one feeling and four walls.

— Doris Betts

My god-father, Bob Wall, was in a couple of Bruce Lee movies, and he trained Bruce Lee when he came to America.

— Freddie Prinze, Jr

Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.

— Audre Lorde

It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers.

— Neil Gaiman

An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.

— Matt Taibbi

“Whatever I am, she thought, pressing her hand to the wall, let it be enough.”

— V.E. Schwab

“You see, long ago I built a wall, a defense mechanism as I recall.”

— Adiela Akoo

George Gervin was my childhood idol since I was little. In Oakland I had all his posters on my wall.

— Gary Payton

Less gossiping, more learning. Less complaining, more excelling. Less walls, more bridges. Less fear, more courage

— Robin Sharma

I'm pretty drunk and bored with yelling at the stone walls that are your minds.

— Doug Stanhope