Wall Quotes · Page 116

I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The record of racketeering…

— Smedley Butler

Neil Young and Barry Friedman had stolen a Buffalo Springfield sign off the steamroller for Barrys house. They put it up. We…

— Stephen Stills

Levin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only…

— Leo Tolstoy

Even if you make a movie about a criminal locked up in prison, you may not support him as a criminal, but…

— Mano Khalil

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

— Coco Chanel

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

— Robert Genn

I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly, as the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands. I am…

— Sylvia Plath

A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is…

— Eric Hoffer

Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.

— Alan Bersin

We've turned off all the lights in the living room to make hand shadows. We've got this big flashlight aimed at the…

— Sonya Sones

For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground, and tell sad stories of the death of kings... All murdered; for within…

— William Shakespeare

Well we're waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard…

— Billy Joel

We found that if you played a bunch of punk singles in a row, people would dance like crazy and then get…

— Dave Wakeling

The mounted knight is irresistible; he would bore his way through the walls of Babylon.

— Anna Komnene

We showed people we can win with our backs against the wall. We've just got to do that more often.

— Jameis Winston

And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall.…

— Matt Stone

You don't seem mad at all,' she said. But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I…

— Paulo Coelho

There is an episode [in "Mary and Jane"] where there is not a lot of pot smoking, but there is a giant…

— Harry Elfont

Children cannot bounce off the walls if we take away the walls.

— Erin Kenny

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Underneath Day's azure eyes, Ocean's nursling, Venice lies, A peopled labyrinth of walls, Amphitrite's destined halls

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

May your rivers flow without end... down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless…

— Edward Abbey

It's the rule of the wilds. You must be bigger, and stronger, and tougher. A coldness radiates through me, a solid wall…

— Lauren Oliver

I was kind of scared at first to do that [vice-over] because when you're on set, a lot of the things going…

— Elle Fanning

We should thank God that He did not give us the power of hearing through walls; otherwise there would be no such…

— Austin O'Malley