Wall Quotes · Page 49

O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

If you lie to your husband - even about something so banal as how much you drink - each lie is a…

— Mary Karr

At Cornell University, it was well known that after five years on Wall Street, you could expect to be making half a…

— Philipp Meyer

I'm not going to Wall Street [after the presidency]. The amount of time that I'll be investing in issues is going to…

— Barack Obama

nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing.

— Charles Bukowski

It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of…

— Herman Melville

I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them…

— Al Lewis

You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can…

— Lauren Oliver

We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads rather than resounding off the…

— James Wolcott

When you visit a foreign city you are in it, but not of it, separated by a glass wall. Once, while a…

— Simon Hoggart

Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very…

— Anonymous

Because actually it's really hard to get things made. It takes years. To fight the fights you inevitably have to fight, even…

— David Heyman

Television is just like making a hole in the wall. All kinds of stuff comes in, on the screen, that we would…

— Albert Borgmann

Wall Street was sort of at the height of the fame, everyone thought it was really cool, and I think taking that…

— Anne Wojcicki

It is time we had democratic socialism for working families, not just Wall Street billionaires.

— Bernie Sanders

We will build the wall faster and better if I'm elected.

— Kris Kobach

Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any…

— Marcus Aurelius

I could make a film in front of a wall if I knew how to find the data of man's true humanity…

— Luchino Visconti

At Halicarnassus, the house of that most potent king Mausolus, though decorated throughout with Proconnesian marble, has walls built of brick which…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

It's a stage with four lights clamped to it with walls made out of plywood. And then my name's in the center.…

— Josh Smith

A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the paredón [execution wall].

— Che Guevara

I don't want to be Wall Street's candidate. I want to be Argentines' candidate.

— Alberto Fernandez

Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able…

— Anonymous

If I traveled all my life And I never get to stop and settle down Long as I have you by my…

— Billy Joel