Wall Quotes
3017 Wall quotes by 1990 unique authors
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alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against…
— Charles Bukowski
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Little solace comes to those who grieve when thoughts keep drifting as walls keep shifting and this great blue world of ours seems a house…
— Mark Z. Danielewski
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Tis a morning pure and sweet, And a dewy splendour falls On the little flower that clings To the turrets and the walls; 'Tis a…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Perhaps you can feel if you can’t hear,” was her fancy. “Perhaps kind thoughts reach people somehow, even through windows and doors and walls. Perhaps…
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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The more you try to simplify things the more you complicate them. You create rules, build walls, push people away, lie to yourself and ignore…
— Cecelia Ahern
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What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Saiman picked up a coffee mug, stared at it, and hurled it against the wall. It shattered into a dozen pieces. We looked at him.…
— Ilona Andrews
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In my dream I know I am falling. But there is no up or down, no walls or sides or ceilings, just the sensation of…
— Lauren Oliver
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Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my…
— Leon Trotsky
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Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so; And, being done, thus Wall away doth go.
— William Shakespeare
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Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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They say the cure is about happiness, but I understand now that it isn't, and it never was. It's about fear: fear of pain, fear…
— Lauren Oliver
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What you just had is nothing compared to what I want to do to you. I want my head between your legs so I can…
— J R Ward
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Angela had done a marvelous job, I tell you. The puke was everywhere except the toilet. The walls, the floor, the sinks - even on…
— Nicholas Sparks
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I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of…
— William Blake
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Find a printer paper and imagine a full-grown bird shaped something like a football with legs standing on it. Imagine 33,000 of these rectangles in…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a…
— Seth Godin
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You are all in jail. Each alone, solitary, with a heap of what he owns. You live in prison, die in prison. It is all…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don't need to make smart decisions--if they can get rich making…
— Michael Lewis
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A crystalline moment shatters, and the world is a different place. Where there was confinement, now there is release. Recoiling from my sudden liberation, my…
— Aron Ralston
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What about your freedom?" he whispered in her ear over a minute later, bracing his hands palms down on the wall beside her head. He…
— Nalini Singh
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A good book is like a seed: it produces fruit that has in it seed for more fruit. It is not a picture on the…
— Warren W. Wiersbe
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Oh you, straying heart, just come! Oh you, aching liver, just come! If the path to the gate is closed, Take the way by the…
— Unknown Author
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Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has,…
— Virginia Woolf
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