Wall Quotes · Page 30

She's like a prisoner inside stone walls, and every day the walls get a little thicker, the doorways a little narrower.

— Megan Whalen Turner

Poetry, is the insulation that lies between the inner walls of the mind.

— Robert M. Hensel

Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.

— Aeschylus

I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall.

— Tab Hunter

I loved working on Wall Street. I loved the meritocracy of it and the camaraderie of the trading floor.

— Chelsea Clinton

I love writing from enclosed spaces: you really learn about your characters when they have tight walls to push against.

— Lauren Groff

After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.

— Henri Matisse

Palestine, as Icelanders see it, includes the Western Wall of the Second Temple, Judaism's holiest site.

— Elliott Abrams

That song ["Money to Burn"] is me being a fly on the wall in situations in LA. I mean, I've seen the…

— Ladyhawke

The truth is, I've always been afraid of letting anyone get too close. I built a wall around me, a barricade to…

— Ellen Hopkins

As we approached each other, the noise and the students around us melted away and we were utterly alone, passing, smiling, holding…

— Jerry Spinelli

It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his…

— Boris Johnson

We have a Democratic Party that cannot defend the American people from the worst Republican Party in history because it's a Democratic…

— Ralph Nader

You can never judge a paint hue by the liquid color in the paint pot. You must apply it to a wall,…

— Dorothy Draper

My goodness, why is this woman [ Hillary Clinton ] at 46%? She's like the magic 46. She's 46% in the new…

— Anderson Cooper

People will never know how hard it is to get information, especially if it's locked up behind official doors where, if politicians…

— Helen Thomas

What happens is all these things we're seeing – campylobacter, E coli, mad cow, listeria, salmonella, that weren't even in the lexicon…

— Joel Salatin

Knowledge of Rome must be physical, sweated into the system, worked up into the brain through the thinning shoe-leather. ... When it…

— Elizabeth Bowen

For years and years, I convinced myself that I was unbreakable, an animal with an animal strength or something not human at…

— Dorothy Allison

I think voters want somebody who understands their problems. You're right that they don't expect the president to fix everything. When he's…

— Gail Collins

The pale pink light of dawn sparkled on branch and leaf and stone. Every blade of grass was carved from emerald, every…

— Anonymous

Here's an irony of the history of conservatism's relationship with business and business's relationship with conservatism: 'Wall Street' used to be the…

— Rick Perlstein

I think, at the L.A. County Museum of Art, I saw my first example of Kerry James Marshall, who had a very…

— Kehinde Wiley

One third of the $15 trillion of mortgages in existence in 2008 are owned, or securitized by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Ginnie…

— Walter E. Williams

“Shrinking in a corner, pressed into the wall; do they know I'm present, am I here at all?”

— Lang Leav

One time I covered a wall with 8.5×11 pages of drawings, which made things feel a little bit different in the room.

— Jason Polan

Facebook is the only place where it's acceptable to talk to a wall.

— Anonymous

The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly branch shone on the old oak wall.

— Thomas Haynes Bayly

If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall.

— Julian Schnabel

All of my walls are covered with framed pictures of my friends.

— Taylor Swift

It was the first female-style revolution: no violence and we all went shopping.

— Gloria Steinem

Go ahead take a picture, hang it up on the wall so you can tear me down

— Ana

The more we preach hatred, division and putting up a wall, the less we progress.

— Edwin Hodge

If I worked 8 months on a deal and it didn't go through - I'd punch a wall, get depressed and change careers.

— Luis D. Ortiz

I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement..

— Bill Ayers

A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall.

— Anonymous

The Poplar grows up straight and tall, The Pear-tree spreads along the wall,

— Sara Coleridge

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

You can't tie a rope around the ice sheet. You can't build a wall around the ice sheets.

— James Hansen

Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.

— Horace