Wall Quotes
3017 Wall quotes by 1990 unique authors
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Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
— Banana Yoshimoto
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Although love could grow in times of peace, it tempered in battle. Daddy told me once - when I'd said something about how perfect his…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the naughtiest of them all?
— Sara Shepard
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His life has been like a ballpark, hasn't it? All lines, structure, and rules, never changing. But now he's been hit over the wall into…
— Neal Shusterman
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once you laugh at you own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill…
— Goldie Hawn
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Most of them... most of us never figure it out. Bad dream, they think, or good one. Funny rash, never really goes away, but Doc…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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Regardless of the overall state of the economy, there is now a large enough elite made up of new multi-millionaires and billionaires for Wall Street…
— Naomi Klein
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something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. before that, it is something real. what caused the disillusionment? no one told me the print on…
— Lynda Barry
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If you lie to your husband - even about something so banal as how much you drink - each lie is a brick in a…
— Mary Karr
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One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not…
— Elie Wiesel
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In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it 'Christmas' and went to church; the Jews called it 'Hanukkah'…
— Dave Barry
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Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been broken up into…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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It's like the smell of burned toast. You made the toast. You looked forward to it. You even enjoyed making it, but it burned. What…
— Elliot Perlman
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You will find yourself among people. There is no help for this nor should you want it otherwise. The passages where no one waits are…
— Paul Bowles
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And what’s important to you?” I asked. Marshal thought while we maneuvered around Darth Vader, who was struggling to keep from hitting the wall with…
— Kim Harrison
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nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing.
— Charles Bukowski
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No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the walls…
— Algernon Blackwood
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Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can…
— George R. R. Martin
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I'm all right,' Jace protested, but his hand gripped Alec's sleeve tightly. 'I can stand.' It looks to me like you're using a wall to…
— Cassandra Clare
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Mene mene tekel upsharin,' Jace said with a faint smile. 'You don't recognize it? It's from the Bible, vampire. The old one. That's your book,…
— Cassandra Clare
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But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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You have those walls up all around you...Come a day you gonna want to tear them down brick by brick and gonna find that the…
— Jacqueline Woodson
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Hannah leaned against the wall. "Mind if I call shotgun?" Since you're carrying one? Feel free.
— Rachel Caine
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The Hermit was known to be pretty sniffy about disciples who returned in failure. There was a wall of the institute layered with their skins-…
— Jonathan Stroud
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Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for…
— Tom Clancy
Who Wrote These Wall Quotes
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