Wall Quotes

3017 Wall quotes by 1990 unique authors

Better to be the cat gazing coolly down from a high wall, its expression inscrutable. The cat that shunned petting, that needed no one. Why… — Laini Taylor
That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter does a painting,… — Joni Mitchell
For a long time he had been white smoke. He did not realize that until he left the hospital, because white smoke had no consciousness… — Leslie Marmon Silko
You can't go forward if you're looking backward. You run into walls that way. — Karen Marie Moning
The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud,… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high. — William Goldman
The monster behind the wall stirred. I'd come to think of it as a monster, but it was just me. Or the darker part of… — Dan Wells
I have you fast in my fortress, And will not let you depart, But put you down into the dungeon, In the round-tower of my… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
How big are souls anyway?" asked Coraline. The other mother sat down at the kitchen table and leaned against the back wall, saying nothing. She… — Neil Gaiman
Suddenly Saffron had a picture in her mind of Sarah waiting at the bottom of the wall, and she was angry with herself. Something changed… — Hilary McKay
Darling Daddy, This is Rose. So flames went all up the kitchen wall. Saffron called the fire brigade and the police came too to see… — Hilary McKay
Cold walls do not a prison make, nor iron bands a bondsman. — Scott Lynch
You are free when you gain back yourself,â€ Madame Wu said. â€œYou can be as free within these walls as you could be in the… — Pearl S. Buck
I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls. — Michel Foucault
Well enough. I won't ask you if your love is true or any of that rotâ€”it's not my place to judge. After all, I'm a… — Catherynne M. Valente
He sighed heavily. "Girls are mean. At least faeries simply kill you if they don't want you around." He put a hand on the wall,… — Kiersten White
As always, the blessed relief of starting, a feeling that was like falling into a hole filled with bright light. As always, the glum knowledge… — Stephen King
...the more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves. If you never let them take any risks,… — Roald Dahl
The walls of the arch are covered with blood-red jellies that wink and glisten at me by the light of the moon. My father told… — Maggie Stiefvater
There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing. — Victor Hugo

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