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Wall Quotes by Octavio Paz
- 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…
- With great difficulty advancing by millimeters each year, I carve a road out of the rock. For millenniums my teeth have wasted and my nails…
- Mineral cactai, quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls, the bird that punctures space, thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind. The pines taught…
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- The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved… — Diane Ackerman
- Both Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich supported the Wall Street bailout. — Michele Bachmann
- Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product. — Russell Baker
- I don't go to the cool, trendy restaurants. I go to either the holes in the wall or the super-fancy restaurants where… — Tyra Banks
- Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on scrap paper,… — Roseanne Barr
- Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid? — Lynda Barry
- Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I… — Harry Belafonte
- Our mothers put God first when they fill their highest mission within the walls of their own homes. — Ezra Taft Benson
- When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is… — John Berger
- It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the… — Luc Besson