Wall Quotes

3017 quotes by 1990 authors

The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birdsâ€”the… — Chuck Jones
Teach yourself and teach your families about the gift of the Holy Ghost and the Atonement of Jesus Christ. You will do no greater eternal… — Boyd K. Packer
First, many in Wall Street - a community in which quality control is not prized - will sell investors anything they will buy. — Warren Buffett
A pack of lemmings looks like a group of rugged individualists compared with Wall Street when it gets a concept in its teeth. — Warren Buffett
It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair… — Boris Johnson
Ivan and Misha is the great American Russian Novel told as Chekhov would tell it, in stories of delicacy, humanity, and insight. From Kiev to… — Unknown Author
When I was 5, someone thought it was smart to let me watch The People Under the Stairs. It might not have even been that… — Ellen Page
At fourteen, my sister sailed away from me into a place Iâ€™d never been. In the walls of my sex there was horror and blood,… — Alice Sebold
The Beautiful is everywhere; perhaps more in the arrangement of your saucepans on the white walls of your kitchen than in your eighteenth-century living room… — Fernand Leger
The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the universe is only… — John Lothrop Motley
The minute you had kids you closed ranks. You didn't plan this in advance, but it happened. Families were like individual, discrete, moated island nations.… — Meg Wolitzer
Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall… — David Brin
You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes. — Andy Warhol
In a polling conducted by the Wall Street Journal, 11 out of 12 Americans said they oppose the taking of private property, even if it… — Jim Ryun
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, itâ€™s not the way. We must find a way… — Gyorgy Ligeti
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall-that of our consciousness-between the world and… — Octavio Paz
If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall. — Julian Schnabel
Really the writer doesn't want success. . . . He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he… — William Faulkner
The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall. — Heraclitus

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