Wall Quotes

3017 Wall quotes by 1990 unique authors

With that, the poignant charm vanished. Inside the fifth machine, all was rampant malignity. Deformed flowers thrust monstrous horned tusks and trumpets ending in blaring… — Angela Carter
he looked around at the books on the walls, at their dark, worn spines, and he seemed to hear a strange, distant murmur coming from… — Arturo PÃ©rez-Reverte
And so I went through the looking glass, stepped into the netherworld, where up is down and food is greed, where convex mirrors cover the… — Marya Hornbacher
The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in our lives; while… — Anne Lamott
I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Ever hear of the phrase, Banging you're head on a brick wall?" Ah, but you forget, Darren, vampires can break brick walls with their heads. — Darren Shan
In a dream I walked with God through the deep places of creation; past walls that receded and gates that opened through hall after hall… — Dag Hammarskjold
If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it… — Jonathan Safran Foer
You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
With my cheek leant upon the window pane I like to fancy that I am pressing as closely as can be upon the massy wall… — Virginia Woolf
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… — Octavio Paz
Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it. — Dan Millman
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet,… — Robert A. Heinlein
The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to… — Frank Zappa
It is so easy to be hopeful in the daytime when you can see the things you wish on. But it was night, it stayed… — Zora Neale Hurston
Baby," groaned the guy-Ted? Tad?-something like that-and crushed his lips against the side of her neck, shoving her face against the wall of the toilet… — Jennifer Weiner
I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores. — Mario Vargas Llosa
Introduction To Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear… — Billy Collins
So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on… — Roald Dahl
Hullo… the wall is a looking-glass! — Gaston Leroux
Time passed. Art came off the walls and became rituals. Ritual became religion. Religion spawned science. Science led to big business. And big business, if… — Tom Robbins
The house became full of love. Aureliano expressed it in poetry that had no beginning and no end. He would write it on the harsh… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
If bringing down the wall would require you to fly, you must believe you can fly. Otherwise, when the decisive moment comes, you will surely… — Patrick Carman
I don't want unnecessary violence, sergeant," said Blouse. "Right you are, sir!" said the sergeant. "Carborundum! First man comes through that door runnin', I want… — Terry Pratchett
Mama's love had always been the kind that acted itself out with soup pot and sewing basket. But now that these things were taken away,… — Corrie Ten Boom

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