Wall Quotes
3017 Wall quotes by 1990 unique authors
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The walls are covered -crammed- with writing. No. Not writing. They are covered with a single four-letter word that has been inscribed over and over,…
— Lauren Oliver
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I found myself pinned to the hallway wall by six feet, two inches of hard, hot male.
— Sylvia Day
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I thought we’d turned a corner. Maybe we did, but we hit a brick wall anyway.
— Sylvia Day
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The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics…
— Douglas Adams
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When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and…
— Carl Jung
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The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it’s supposed sophistication, it’s cynicism that’s…
— Ann Voskamp
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She led him past the engine room, which looked like a very dangerous, mechanized jungle gym, with pipes and pistons and tubes jutting from a…
— Rick Riordan
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What will you do with them?" "Redo them in charcoal, probably." "And then?" "Tack them to my bedroom wall." Bedroom wall? "Who wouldn't want to…
— Tammara Webber
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I started to duck under the spears, only to have the two vamps on the other wall suddenly appear in my face. Or, at least,…
— Karen Chance
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Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the…
— Aldous Huxley
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Theodor Geisel (otherwise known as Dr. Seuss) spent his workdays ensconced in his private studio, the walls lined with sketches and drawings, in a bell-tower…
— Susan Cain
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Jared had his back to the wall, which Kami thought was a reflex when he was uncomfortable. She wanted to shield him. “He was doing…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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I guess I make things that need energy stronger. I'm like a walking battery." "You're the table everyone wants at Starbucks," Gansey mused as he…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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When you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and you're life is just to live your…
— Steve Jobs
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Its like a hypnotist put everyone from Seattle into a collective trance. "You are getting sleepy, when you wake up you will want to live…
— Maria Semple
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I want you. Bad. Right now. Against the wall. On my bed. The floor and maybe in the bathroom later. I have a shower stall…
— Unknown Author
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A gunshot rang out, blasting a hole in the door. A crossbow quarrel zinged through the hole and stuck quivering into the opposite wall. Seth…
— Brandon Mull
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It’s pretty thin, the wall separating healthy confidence and unhealthy Pride.
— Haruki Murakami
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I am someone who has a cold heart. If I am beside a great grief I throw barriers up so the loss cannot go too…
— Michael Ondaatje
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It's a sponge and I'm a sponge and for a second there all our sponge parts are one and I don't just have square pants,…
— Karen Marie Moning
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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
— Carson McCullers
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The pale pink light of dawn sparkled on branch and leaf and stone. Every blade of grass was carved from emerald, every drip of water…
— George R. R. Martin
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Now I understand why King Stannis let the wildlings through the Wall. He means for us to eat them.
— George R. R. Martin
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And the walls became the world all around.
— Maurice Sendak
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Everything had shattered. The fact that it was all still there — the walls and the chairs and the children’s pictures on the walls —…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Who Wrote These Wall Quotes
1,990 authors contributed a total of 3,017 Wall Quotes, led by these top contributors: