The grounds of the place were dominated by several large, old willow trees that towered over the surrounding stone wall and swayed… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
… Anon from the castle walls The crescent banner falls, And the crowd beholds instead, Like a portent in the sky, Iskander's… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it,… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Wisdom is probably the ability to cope. That's why someone who has to walk seven miles every day to get water for… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
To obsess too virulently is to walk alone in anxiety. But to obsess too little is to wall oneself off from one's… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
You are going to hear many things from Mr. Trump today in his speech on immigration. One, no amnesty. He is absolutely… — Kellyanne Conway Copy Share Image
There are a lot of good ideas that could benefit from big media. You have a lot of companies that hit a… — Ross Levinsohn Copy Share Image
Brave old-flowers! Wall-flowers, Gilly flowers, Stocks! For even as the field-flowers, from which a trifle, a ray of beauty, a drop of… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Whatever your business - I don't care if it's radio, if it's Wall Street, if it's mainstream retail, whatever you do -… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Now we may have more preachers out there than we have drinkers. But a fellow told me a story one time about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pale and pinched-up faces hovered about the windows where was tempting food; hungry eyes wandered over the profusion guarded by one thin… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Billy had a framed prayer on his office wall which expressed his method for keeping going, even though he was unenthusiastic about… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp.… — Ciaran Carson Copy Share Image
Both 'Consenting Adults' and 'Glengarry Glen Ross' revolve around the economic stresses of the '90s. They are about what people do when… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
Your Majesty, you just-" Costis stopped. "Just what?" the king prompted wickedly. Nothing would induce Costis to say out loud that the… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them… — Al Lopez Copy Share Image
There was a moment when the Berlin Wall came down and some people felt, "Oh capitalism won. That's the ideology we can… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I staggered backward-her one hand gripping my shoulder, the other still holding my wrists behind her-and she followed until my back hit… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
He [Donald Trump]wants to build the wall. It would be silly to say we're going to - we're going to create an… — John Yarmuth Copy Share Image
The Aldrich Plan is the Wall Street Plan. It means another panic, if necessary, to intimidate the people. Aldrich, paid by the… — Charles August Lindbergh Copy Share Image
My dad's a history buff, and I spent a lot of time on Hadrian's Wall. I became fascinated by the idea of… — Neil Marshall Copy Share Image
Stand us against a wall and shoot us, well and good, you are victors. But why should I be brought before a… — Robert Ley Copy Share Image
At a certain point, we saw the police cracking down on the Occupy Wall Street activists. I won't call the actions of… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I have a motto on my bedroom wall: 'Obstacles are what you see when you take your eye off the goal.' Giving… — Chris Burke Copy Share Image
The victim of mind-manipulati on does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
You cannot save every fallen bird," said Woosley, leaning back against the wall and crossing his arms. "Even the handsome ones." "One… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Key to the societal significance of tomorrow's leaders is the way they embrace the totality of leadership, not just including 'my organization'… — Frances Hesselbein Copy Share Image
I realized that I had been living a great part of my life like an ostrich, with my head stuck in the… — James Wasserman Copy Share Image
First, many in Wall Street - a community in which quality control is not prized - will sell investors anything they will… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Long were the days of pain I have spent within its walls, and long were the nights of aloneness; and who can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Imagine someone pointing to a place in the iris of a Rembrandt eye and saying, 'The walls of my room should be… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I felt a bottomless sadness. So completely alone. Like one of my stuffed animals at home that I was too old for… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem… — Olivier Martinez Copy Share Image
Yesterday the CEO of Citigroup said that he can understand why all these Occupy Wall Street protesters are so frustrated. In fact,… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's… — Henry Kravis Copy Share Image