Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave; and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The wind shrieks, the wind grieves; It dashes the leaves on walls, it whirls then again; And the enormous sleeper vaguely and… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads rather than resounding off the… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I have times when I'm off-balance. I have times when I slur my words. I have times when I walk into walls.… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
Writing-wise, I like to have a lot of things on the burners at once, because when I hit a wall, I like… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
The Berlin Wall go down, that was the most wonderful thing that could happen, absolutely. I celebrated with everybody in Berlin that… — Nana Mouskouri Copy Share Image
From Wall Street to Drive was almost a year, when I didn't do anything 'cause there was just nothing that was significantly… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share Image
On a ruinous wall I came upon a poster dating from the previous year and announcing that ‘six handsome bulls’ would be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Rumors and reports of man's relation with animals are the world's oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
I was part of the first generation of girls and women to be educated and go to grammar school even if we… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Imagination is the politics of dreams; imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket. . . . Imagine every day is Independence… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I trust microphones, speakers and recordings less and less, and no longer buy into the idea that I can recreate at home,… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
Most people who live at the border or are familiar with the border know that a Berlin-like wall stretching from San Diego… — Alan Bersin Copy Share Image
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
Someone with whom we have a lifetime's worth of lessons to learn is someone whose presence in our lives forces us to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than… — Ray Davies Copy Share Image
And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
I want every family in America to have a carpet on the floor and a picture on the wall. After bread, you've… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
She looks like a jumper to me. Jumpers do that a lot, stand on the edge and stare out. Never kill yourself… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if you and everyone else in the room are thinking it. You don't say the words. Words are weapons.… — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
You've got the Wall Street situation, the sub-prime situation. You've got a black president. We've got wars. We've got unemployment. But the… — Ice T Copy Share Image
We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are… — John Donne Copy Share Image
If you were an elected member of Congress and people in your constituency were losing jobs and shutting businesses and everybody in… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
It often feels like a tremendous amount of work is required to get an idea moving forward, like pushing a train uphill.… — Danny Elfman Copy Share Image
We always seem to be surprised by events, especially by catastrophes, but also by wonderful events. Look at 1990, the year that… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Buffett's uncommon urge to chronicle made him a unique character in American life, not only a great capitalist but the Great Explainer… — Roger Lowenstein Copy Share Image
It's strange for me to say it, but this process of change has started because of the American invasion of Iraq. I… — Walid Jumblatt Copy Share Image
I do believe that we should substantially lower student debt in this country, which is crushing millions of people. We pay for… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
If people want to talk about Bob Dylan, I can talk about that. But my dad belongs to me and four other… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
Your normal Wall Street big-swinging Richard has enough of a lingering moral compass to at least tell himself that his wizardry benefits… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
When I was in therapy about two years ago, one day I noticed that I hadn't had any children. And I like… — Spalding Gray Copy Share Image
The underlying strategy of the Fed is to tell people, "Do you want your money to lose value in the bank, or… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
I might have arguments with the size of Reagan's military buildup, but given the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, staying ahead of the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The corporate scandals are getting bigger and bigger. In a speech on Wall Street, President Bush spoke out on corporate responsibility, and… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I didn't have to see this big clock on the wall and worry. Most of the record I made was experimental. If… — Daniel Powter Copy Share Image
What happened in Kosovo was the exact reversal of what happened in 'Fortress Europe' in 1943-45. Let me explain. Air Marshall 'Bomber'… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
I also talk about building a wall and oftentimes I'll say, and there's going to be a big beautiful door in that… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
