Wall Quotes

3017 quotes by 1990 authors

Instead of looking at the screen, what I want to do is to turn around and look the other way. When we look the other… — Jacques Vallee
For the Spartans, it wasnâ€™t walls or magnificent public buildings that made a city; it was their own ideals. In essence, Sparta was a city… — Bettany Hughes
In one gallery they actually had a notice which said No Sketching. How obnoxious! I said, How do you think these things got on the… — David Hockney
The one thing I never get involved with is selecting art or pictures for a client. This is a very personal thing. If the clients… — Albert Hadley
Seeing your work on the wall is like the ultimate thing that can happen. — Roy DeCarava
To exist is to defy all that threatens you. To be a rebel is not to accumulate a library of subversive books or to dream… — Unknown Author
It's always a better choice to write a new book than it is to keep pounding your head against the submissions wall with a book… — Diana Peterfreund
I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all. — Ani DiFranco
But the most amazing, almost miraculous news is that the majority of the building is still intact. Due to one of the most astonishingly intelligent… — Unknown Author
The Israelis are mistaken if they think we do not have an alternative to negotiations. By Allah I swear they are wrong. The Palestinian people… — Yasser Arafat
One of the interesting initiatives we've taken in Washington, D.C., is we've got these vampire-busting devices. A vampire is a-a cell deal you can plug… — George W. Bush
I had a map on my wall that had a circle around Lubbock and then giant arrows pointing toward New York City and Los Angeles.… — Barry Corbin
Greek architecture taught me that the column is where the light is not, and the space between is where the light is. It is a… — Louis Kahn
I create enclosed spaces mainly by means of thick concrete walls. The primary reason is to create a place for the individual, a zone for… — Tadao Ando
The Palestinian state is within our grasp. Soon the Palestinian flag will fly on the walls, the minarets and the cathedrals of Jerusalem. — Yasser Arafat
You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more. — Salman Rushdie
Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down. — Olive Schreiner
Our lives are a battlefield on which is fought a continuous war between the forces that are pledged to confirm our humanity and those determined… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o
You know, I'm the President during this period of time, but I think when the history of this period is written, people will realize a… — George W. Bush
Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged… — Lewis H. Lapham

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