Wall Quotes

3017 quotes by 1990 authors

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire. — Horace
Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and… — Robert Louis Stevenson
The basketball coach cut me within two days, so I was back in the pool. I was the first one in the wall after the… — Merlin Olsen
What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned… — Bill Veeck
One of the walls of my bedroom was a collage of about 15 years of baseball photos. I would cut out the baseball pictures from… — Curt Schilling
Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It is a simple matter of… — Zadie Smith
Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their… — Alcaeus
England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls? — William Blake
The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted… — Lee Friedlander
My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He… — Edward Abbey
Step back from your Facebook Wall for a moment: Doesn't it, suddenly, look a little ridiculous? Your life in this format? — Zadie Smith
I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The people on Wall Street broke this country, and they did it one lousy mortgage at a time. It happened more than three years ago,… — Elizabeth Warren
I never have [suffered writerâ€™s block], although Iâ€™ve had books that didnâ€™t work out. I had to stop writing them. I just abandoned them. It… — Margaret Atwood
The psychotic does not merely think he sees four blue bivalves with floppy wings wandering up the wall; he does see them. An hallucination is… — Philip K. Dick
The finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain from the little… — James Lane Allen
Nobody has the intention of building a wall — Walter Ulbricht
My life changed completely in 1989 with the fall of the wall, — Angela Merkel
I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how many new owners take… — Peter Carey
You're mistaken; men of sense often learn much from their enemies. Prudence is the best safeguard. This principle cannot be learnt from a friend: but… — Aristophanes

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