Wall Quotes · Page 80

I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I'm much more of a minimalist. My mom was Russian, so she loved lots of jewelry and opulence and tons of paintings…

— Natasha Gregson Wagner

I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were…

— Frank Stella

Imagine a wall that's green on one side and red on the other. You stand on one side and only see green.…

— Oliver Gaspirtz

But what is the way forward? I know what it isn't. It's not, as we once believed, plenty to eat and a…

— Laurence Gonzales

Maybe if you spend your life pretending you're on a movie set, you don't ever have to admit that the walls are…

— Jodi Picoult

Now, is it possible not to be hurt at all? Because the consequences of being hurt are the building of a wall…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

He..." Richard began. "The marquis. Well, you know, to be honest, he seems a little bit dodgy to me." Door stopped. The…

— Neil Gaiman

Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It's my job to do the work for them because…

— Mumia Abu-Jamal

It's the only pawnshop I know that's got real Picassos hanging on the wall. I have Salvador Dalis on the wall. I…

— Rick Harrison

[Richard Drew] always encouraged his people to pursue ideas... He said, "If it's a dumb idea, you'll find out. You'll smack into…

— Arthur Fry

When I showed ‘Black and the Red III’ in Malmö, Sweden, it was a continuum- a band- all around the galleryseeing this…

— Nancy Spero

The Financial Times is a wonderful publication, as is the Wall Street Journal and many others. But the new generation is consuming…

— Henry Blodget

Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out.

— Jessica Mitford

We have a Democratic Party that cannot defend the American people from the worst Republican Party in history because it's a Democratic…

— Ralph Nader

You will find yourself among people. There is no help for this nor should you want it otherwise. The passages where no…

— Paul Bowles

He [Donald Trump] is been bold. He's been bold on building a wall.

— Jeff Sessions

A good rule of thumb is as follows: If the numbers come from somebody wearing a tie (Wall Street economist or analyst,…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We want to build a wall.

— Steve Scalise

I don't hide out. If you build a wall around yourself, it draws people to invade it. Fear is the enemy.

— Matt Dillon

He picked the postage stamp over the wall with aplomb.

— Tim Flowers

I liked the feeling of love,' [Jonas] confessed. He glanced nervously at the speaker on the wall, reassuring himself that no one…

— Lois Lowry

Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling…

— John Berger

I always have a problem liking things that I'm told I should like. This has been the problem with most of the…

— Karl Pilkington

It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God's finger crushes against the wall.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Nothing in the next-door world of Dachau impinged on the great winter cycle of Beethoven chamber music played in Munich. No canvases…

— George Steiner

Popcorn-can cover / screwed to the wall / over a hole / so the cold / can't mouse in.

— Lorine Niedecker

The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door; The chest, contriv'd a double debt to…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Captain Richard Phillips of the good ship Maersk Alabama - and Sully Sullenberger splashing down his crippled airliner in the Hudson River…

— Tina Brown

As a kid I would always be in my bedroom constantly staring at the same four pink walls in it, aspiring to…

— Alessia Cara

People see you onstage and the glamorous side, but they don't see you traveling 600 miles a night, eating truck stop food…

— Jason Aldean

I think that America is an ideal place for the privileged homeless, who are used to different cultures. It's easiest and most…

— Pico Iyer

You'll never have a garden - a garden needs walls and you have no walls.

— Russell Page

Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.

— Barbara Amiel

See... What I felt they should have done, for our first public works project, is build a giant wall... across the entire…

— Lewis Black

I'll leave you with one that I have hanging on my office wall, compliments of Nike: Impossible is nothing.

— Muhammad Ali

Success is the ability to meet worthy goals, but it's also the ability to love and have compassion and the ability to…

— Deepak Chopra

Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full…

— Zhuangzi

The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on…

— James Laughlin