Wall Quotes

3017 Wall quotes by 1990 unique authors

When I pointed to him his palms slipped slightly, leaving greasy sweat streaks on the wall, and he hooked his thumbs in his belt. A… — Harper Lee
My mother is a big fan of precision, and tries her best to maintain it. Unfortunately, her own incompetence gets in the way. Dinner is… — Gregory Galloway
Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall. — Friedrich Nietzsche
As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are flowing, or the… — John Gardner
Wind and storm colored July. Also, in the middle, cadaverous, awful, lay the grey puddle in the courtyard, when holding an envelope in my hand,… — Virginia Woolf
Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment--the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the wall down at the… — Jasper Fforde
I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better… — Roger Zelazny
Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!" So up he got, and… — J.R.R. Tolkien
We are all architects of faith, ever living in these walls of time. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Go to bed, you fool," Calcifer said sleepily. "You're drunk." "Who, me?" said Howl. "I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober." He… — Diana Wynne Jones
You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real. — Chuck Palahniuk
Sometimes people call folks here at the Simple Way saints. Usually they either want to applaud our lives and live vicariously through us, or they… — Shane Claiborne
Nothing brings down walls as surely as acceptance. — Deepak Chopra
We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple,… — Mitch Albom
The cold stream of visual impressions failed him now as if the eye were a cup that overflowed and let the rest run down its… — Virginia Woolf
Besides, if I wanted to hear people speaking wall-to-wall French, all I had to do was remove my headphones and participate in what is known… — David Sedaris
I was watching him crawl, Back over the wall-! Then bang! Crash! And the lightning flash! And- well, that's another story, Never mind- Anyway... — Stephen Sondheim
Stupidity is like bumping into a wall all the time. After a while you get tired of it and try to look the situation over… — Robert Anton Wilson
People were so naive about plants, Ellie thought. They just chose plants for appearance, as they would choose a picture for the wall. It never… — Michael Crichton
Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall. — Joseph Conrad
He was walking into Faerie, in search of a fallen star, with no idea how he would find the star, nor how to keep himself… — Neil Gaiman
Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all… — Thomas Jefferson
Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands In choice of place, set Before the body of the mind in… — Gary Snyder

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