Wall Quotes · Page 24

Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.

— Matt Taibbi

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

— Denis Healey

Unrequited love is like hitting your head against a wall that isn't there.

— Shannon Wheeler

It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands.

— Cornel West

I've built a wall. Not to block people out, but to see who loves me enough to climb over.

— Anonymous

“9 November 1989. A day nobody would forget. She had heard rumours about the wall.”

— F.C. Malby

For it is your business, when the wall next door catches fire.

— Horace

Farrah's dressing room was next to mine. There was a little hole in the wall. I let her look.

— Henny Youngman

The walls are white, the track is grey, the grass is green, and the sky is blue...your job is to keep them…

— Johnny Rutherford

A man's home is no longer his castle; it is no longer a place away from urgent tasks because the telephone breaches…

— Charles Hummel

Sometimes we put walls around our heart, Not just to be safe from getting hurt, But to find out who cares enough…

— Anonymous

Well enough. I won't ask you if your love is true or any of that rot—it's not my place to judge. After…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Brick walls are there for reason. And once you get over them-- even if someone has practically had to throw you over--…

— Randy Pausch

Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated…

— Dana Spiotta

Real practice means working on stuff you're not good at. Real practice is about butting your head against the wall repeatedly until…

— Damien Chazelle

In my head I am in one of those Buddhist caves where you see a thousand Buddha faces on the wall. In…

— Francesco Clemente

Sometimes you're gonna write a song and it's not gonna be right from the beginning. And you're just gonna have to work…

— Benny Blanco

By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to…

— Fatema Mernissi

You can show a guy sort of peeking over the wall, you can see a guy tunneling underneath, you can see a…

— Edward Snowden

When the truth is ugly, people try to keep it hidden, because they know if revealed, the damage it will do. So…

— Mary Alice

Her, cheer up. Zoey's grandma didn't say the Raven Mockers actually ate people. She said they just picked them up with their…

— Anonymous

When I see the mostly young people of Occupy Wall Street - a mixture of the bored, the nihilistic, the seekers of…

— Dennis Prager

Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were…

— Mervyn Peake

The Iranian government has become pretty open about the drug problem in recent years. Opium use is a very traditional, cultural thing…

— Hooman Majd

When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.

— John Major

Seems those with money who don't worry about money have big walls.

— Robert Genn

The smiling portrait of you is still hanging on my frowning wall.

— Jimi Hendrix

I was a fly on the wall at Gawker Media during the heyday of this thing called blogging.

— Mary Pilon

In the house of lovers, the music never stops, the walls are made of songs & the floor dances

— Rumi

“There crumbles my wall. God help me. And I start rebuilding it again”

— D.S. Wrights

I get the strange urge to hit my head against the wall. Other people's sobs make me feel uncomfortable.

— Veronica Roth

Religion is not a bridge between God and Man; it is a Great Wall of China between them!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

This peace on earth's not right with my back against the wall. No pain or sign of time I'm much too young…

— Avenged Sevenfold

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

— Benjamin Graham

I'd love to be a mole on the wall in the Liverpool dressing room at half-time.

— Kevin Keegan

Seeing my family have it all took the place of that desire for diplomas on the wall

— Drake

Wall Street is greedy, reckless and they operate illegally. That's fine. But what do you do?

— Bernie Sanders

An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket.

— Anton Chekhov

Life is politics, basically, but you don't just go to a gallery and put the words 'art' and 'politics' on the wall.

— Luc Tuymans

For a lot of people, I was a below-average guy who broke through a wall.

— Rudy Ruettiger