Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Hannah leaned against the wall. "Mind if I call shotgun?" Since you're carrying one? Feel free. — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
I remember when I was prosecutor we had truancy and curfew issues and we made a refrigerator magnet, and that was hot… — Amy Klobuchar Copy Share Image
I plant rosemary all over the garden, so pleasant is it to know that at every few steps one may draw the… — Gertrude Jekyll Copy Share Image
A prisoner lived in solitary confinement for years. He saw and spoke to no one and his meals were served through an… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an archaeologist. But in school you have to take a tremendous amount of statistics for that, and I… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
My grandmother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Prayer by its nature is communion and union of man with God; by its action it is the reconciliation of man with… — Ignatius Bryanchaninov Copy Share Image
Somebody at one of these places asked me: "What do you do? How do you write, create?" You don't, I told them.… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The public library building, in my view, is just a little lower than the church, the cathedral, the temple, the synagogue and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You do stuff that gets a reaction and you think 'that's a winner' and then it never sees the light of day.… — Rafe Spall Copy Share Image
Time is a dream ... a destroying dream; It lays great cities in dust, it fills the seas; It covers the face… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
Music is so clearly a commodity now. At one point, maybe 20 years ago, there were still some rumblings about keeping the… — Eef Barzelay Copy Share Image
Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The Occupy Wall Street collective is confused about what it wants but it wants it now! Some of the loonier demands from… — Mike Rosen Copy Share Image
The idea that it's smart to allow Wall Street firms, with this "too big to fail" imprimatur, to become hedge funds again… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
I do recognize the most valuable work being done across the country is that work being done inside the four walls in… — Ann Romney Copy Share Image
By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave One scent to hyson and to wall-flower, One sound to pine-groves and to water-falls, One… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you… — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
I am going to build a great border wall to stop illegal immigration, to stop the gangs and the violence and to… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
What Wall Street is, they're market makers. Wall Street's business model is making money on velocity of money. They're a click industry.… — Laurence D. Fink Copy Share Image
It bothered me in a kind of Charles Manson way to have a brown smear of blood on my wall but I… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
My name is Jordan Belfort. I was raised in a tiny apartment in Queens. At the tender age of 22 I headed… — Jordan Belfort Copy Share Image
You can't manage Wall Street. Wall Street has its own viewpoints on everything. I have always believed, if you manage your business… — Ross Levinsohn Copy Share Image
No statement is more true and better applicable to Wall Street than the famous warning of Santayana: "Those who do not remember… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
All roads lead to Wall Street, but we feel the effects of Wall Street on every street corner. Certainly in Syracuse, N.Y.,… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
The single most remarkable (and revealing) fact of the Obama presidency may very well be the lack of a single prosecution of… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Suddenly Saffron had a picture in her mind of Sarah waiting at the bottom of the wall, and she was angry with… — Hilary McKay Copy Share Image
Our society is so caught up in winning, we forget that most of the great men and women in history have, at… — Carleton Young Copy Share Image
The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Leaps over walls - especially when taken late in life - can be extremely perilous. To leap successfully, you need a sense… — Monica Baldwin Copy Share Image
People will get tired of overly retouched images soon and they'll want something different. If people have too much reality, they want… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
She threw the door open. The room seemed to be a sort of library, the walls lined with books. It was brightly… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
It's hard to tell / if we close our eyes or if night / opens in us other starred eyes, / if… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Angela had done a marvelous job, I tell you. The puke was everywhere except the toilet. The walls, the floor, the sinks… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
If you're a realist, you know that people have different roles to play in politics, economics, and this is an important role,… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
