Wall Quotes · Page 47

There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.

— Victor Hugo

I always design a landscape with fixed horizons whether it be mountains or a stone wall around a 20-foot-square plot.

— Rachel Lambert Mellon

One man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm always hopeful. I feel like I'm at the prom sitting against the wall waiting for someone to ask me to dance.

— Sarah Dessen

These walls dont tremble, these walls dont cave, not for anything less than a real man

— Tashh Rdc

It is human nature to complain about a few cracked bricks in the wall but do nothing to fix it.

— Mak_786

Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall.

— Jeremiah Burroughs

I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who be in jail Is that…

— Oscar Wilde

The idea of the walls of monastery was to keep everybody else out because you wanted to develop a certain type of…

— Frederick Lenz

Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for…

— Jim Cooper

Rahul Dravid being known as 'The Wall' is pretty much spot on. 'The fortress' could also describe Rahul. Because once, Dravid was…

— Shane Warne

I pictured a low timber house with a shingled roof, caulked against storms, with blazing log fires inside and the walls lined…

— Bruce Chatwin

I was watching him crawl, Back over the wall-! Then bang! Crash! And the lightning flash! And- well, that's another story, Never…

— Stephen Sondheim

Using tax payers' money to provide liquidity to Wall Street so that the country wouldn't head into a depression was the right…

— George W. Bush

If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the…

— Jeff Bezos

It's always a better choice to write a new book than it is to keep pounding your head against the submissions wall…

— Diana Peterfreund

And if she asks you why you can tell her that I told you That I'm tired of Castles in the Air…

— Don McLean

So unless we come together as a people and stop our foolish beefing among each other, sit down like intelligent men and…

— Louis Farrakhan

One summer day, while I was walking along the country road on the farm where I was born, a section of the…

— John Burroughs

The saving of empty beer and liquor bottles is a strange college phenomenon. I bet most of you college students reading this…

— Aaron Karo

That's the words: "So I'm back to the velvet underground" - which is a clothing store in downtown San Francisco, where Janis…

— Stevie Nicks

The queen's eyes smouldered. "I know my own kind when I see them, and right now there is one in these city…

— Marissa Meyer

In five days, you can turn the page on policies that put greed and irresponsibility on Wall Street before the hard work…

— Barack Obama

Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm.

— William Shakespeare

Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting.

— David Gelernter

If stocks double but the dollar loses half its value, who beyond Wall Street are the winners and losers?

— David Malpass

We can't be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths.

— Mark Lawrence

Obama took a tour of the Great Wall of China and said, 'We need one of these things around the White House.'

— David Letterman

Pete and Repeat were sitting on a wall. Pete fell off. Who was left? Repeat.

— Bruce Nauman

People build up walls, not to keep others out but to see who cares enough to break them down.

— Anonymous

I am a huge, huge, huge fan of index funds. They are the investor’s best friend and Wall Street’s worst nightmare.

— Jonathan Clements

The BBC called me 'defiant' in a caption. I plan to frame and put it on my wall.

— Brianna Wu

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

— T.V. Mohandas Pai

If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily.

— Ben Bernanke

Imminent GM bankruptcy was always fiction, created by Wall Street and the media.

— Robert Lutz

Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.

— Edward Abbey

George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising.

— Al Gore

The people who work in Wall Street still look up to Gordon Gekko. He's sort of a guru.

— Michael Douglas

I can really recommend a beautifully but sparsely furnished room with empty walls!

— Semir Zeki