Wall Quotes · Page 17

My memories of them had rubbed thin with overuse, worn to frail color transparencies flickering on the walls of my mind

— Tana French

“When you build a wall to protect yourself against one person be warned--everyone is now out there except for you.”

— Nakia R. Laushaul

Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.

— Pablo Neruda

I would love to be a fly on the wall watching other directors and actors to see what their process is like.

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

There is no wall that is high enough to stop a horse with a cart filled with gold.

— Philip II of Macedon

I'm told leather drives men up the wall. I like wearing it because it because it feels nice.

— Honor Blackman

Oh, I’m not a Berkeleian. I believe my back’s against this wall. I believe there’s a sten gun over there.

— Graham Greene

To walk through walls go two steps slower in the vast conspiracy of ignorace.

— Gary Gach

To enjoy a reasonable chance for continued better than average results, the investor must follow policies which are (1) inherently sound and…

— Benjamin Graham

Dear God, Tatiana prayed in bed that night, turning to the wall and pulling the white sheet and the thin brown blanket…

— Paullina Simons

I don't think this wall [Donald Trump wants to build], having the - there's no way to force them to, but expecting…

— John Yarmuth

The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of…

— Roald Dahl

From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of…

— Dan Rather

Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the…

— Jodi Picoult

But who knows what she spoke to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all her life seemed…

— Anonymous

Thomas Jefferson declared, stating that he was speaking on behalf of the other founding fathers, ...(that) we should build a wall between…

— Jimmy Carter

Look around. Oil companies guzzle down the billions in profits. Billionaires pay a lower tax rate than their secretaries, and Wall Street…

— Elizabeth Warren

My gaze flew to him once more,noting the cigarette he set down even as he exhaled a long plume of white."Why are…

— Jeaniene Frost

In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about…

— Nathan Myhrvold

Women and LBGT people have the advantage that they are everybody's son, daughter, cousin, nephew, aunt, uncle. They are in a position…

— Linda Hirshman

By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to…

— Matt Taibbi

It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance,…

— Glenn Greenwald

There is a reason why these people [from Wall Street] are putting huge amounts of money into our political system. And in…

— Bernie Sanders

Every inner touch, every one of its fingerprints on my brain, burned like acid. It shredded the walls of my soul like…

— Rob Thurman

I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of, you know, fat-cat bankers on Wall Street.

— Barack Obama

We will build a great wall. We are going to drain the swamp.

— Donald Trump

Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free.

— Johnny Cash

I really like to read when I'm eating - 'The New York Times' or the 'Wall Street Journal,' paper version.

— Kevin Nealon

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

— Khaled Hosseini

The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.

— Lech Walesa

People don't want to hear about me having leather walls or gold toilets.

— Kevin Hart

The greatest work we will ever do will be within the walls of our home.

— David O. McKay

That border wall's not going to put one single West Virginian to work.

— Richard Ojeda

Look at the walls of Pompeii. That's what got the internet started.

— Robin Williams

When I heard, Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, I thought, Did he fall or was he pushed?

— P. D. James

I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall.

— Annie Leibovitz

People can criticise me all day long. It just washes off me. You might as well be talking to a wall.

— Noel Clarke

A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.

— Banksy

We know we're up against the wall. We know how difficult a challenge it is, being in the minority.

— Tom Daschle

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.

— John Berger