Wall Quotes

3017 Wall quotes by 1990 unique authors

If it had been easy for Romeo to get to Juliet, nobody would have cared. Same goes for Cyrano and Don Quixote and Gatsby and… — Jodi Picoult
Boundaries aren't all bad. That's why there are walls around mental institutions. — Peggy Noonan
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a… — William Shakespeare
When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it… — Stephen King
The Scarecrow watched the Woodman while he worked and said to him "I cannot think why this wall is here nor what it is made… — L. Frank Baum
When you do your research write down whatever interests you. Whatever stimulates your imagination. Whatever seems important. A story is built like a stone wall.… — Roland Smith
But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards. — Sherman Alexie
Over to my left is the big grey wall in front of the church. Are we the Thoughts of God? a poster asks. No, I… — Scarlett Thomas
What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise… — Margaret Atwood
Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers; we get Aquatruck. — Cassandra Clare
He..." Richard began. "The marquis. Well, you know, to be honest, he seems a little bit dodgy to me." Door stopped. The steps dead-ended in… — Neil Gaiman
Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me, I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls.… — Ray Bradbury
So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature’s geometric signs, In… — John Greenleaf Whittier
Chris would use the spiritual aspect to try to motivate us. "He'd tell us to think about all the evil in the world, all the… — Jon Krakauer
Everyone has to scratch on walls somewhere or they go crazy — Michael Ondaatje
pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the… — Charles Bukowski
Now that I think about it, it seems to me that’s what Idiocy is: the ability to be enthusiastic all the time about anything you… — Julio Cortazar
Paintings are seldom guilty and often framed for crimes they did not commit. Some cover holes-holes in walls, holes in lives. Some make holes-in wallets,… — Marilyn Manson
I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face. Some fatal… — Gustave Flaubert
Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within it… — Guy de Maupassant
None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives. Are self deceivers, but the worst of all Deceits is to murmur 'Lord, I… — Louis MacNeice
...but you are too much for them: the weak in courage are strong in cunning; and one by one, you have absorbed and have captured… — James Agee
Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some mysterious workings of… — Leon Uris
What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active,… — H.G. Wells
they say every man needs protection, they say every man must fall. yet I swear I see my reflection,some place high above this wall.....and someday… — Bob Dylan

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