Wall Quotes

3017 Wall quotes by 1990 unique authors

I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his… — Sylvia Plath
Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out… — Charles Bukowski
we left about midnight and walked down the hill in silence. the night was muggy, and all around me i felt the same pressure, a… — Hunter S. Thompson
On the wall next to the table, next to the scones that provided each table with its own circle of lamplight were quotations about reading,… — Haven Kimmel
I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at… — Ernest Hemingway
The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses… — Anais Nin
Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for. — Molly Ivins
Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in… — J.R.R. Tolkien
My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story?… — Diane Setterfield
With blue vinyl-tile floor, pale-green wainscoating, pink walls, a yellow ceiling, and orange-and-white stork-patterned drapes, the expectant fathers' lounge churned with the negative energy of… — Dean Koontz
Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept… — Franz Kafka
Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so… — Charles Sanders Peirce
Billy had a framed prayer on his office wall which expressed his method for keeping going, even though he was unenthusiastic about living. A lot… — Kurt Vonnegut
Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow, something will happen, something you couldn’t plan, will come along to move like to… — Richard Bach
Win by losing. Before your outer walls break, as break they must, build an inner place to protect your truth. Protect that you are infinite… — Richard Bach
...we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing. — Ian Caldwell
We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different… — Albert Einstein
If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write… — Henry Rollins
When I returned home that day, I saw my life as if I already knew the happy ending of a story. I looked around the… — Amy Tan
Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have a… — Betty Smith
One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls. — Khaled Hosseini
That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that… — George Orwell
If you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then… — Stephen King
The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give… — Randy Pausch
I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the… — Emily Bronte

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