Walls Quotes

1289 Walls quotes by 950 unique authors

A sudden cloud formation of birds was swallowed up by the moon, and he was just as suddenly penned in by four walls-the demons' pen. — Mo Yan
O, mighty, divinely delimited wisdom of walls, boundaries! I is perhaps the most magnificent of all inventions. Man ceased to be a wild animal only… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
The firelight magnified our shadows, glinted off the silver, flickered high upon the walls; its reflection roared orange in the windowpanes as if a city… — Donna Tartt
The Walls enriched with Fruit-trees and faced with a covering of their leafy extensions; I should rather have said hung with different Pieces of Nature's… — James Hervey
.... Anon from the castle walls The crescent banner falls, And the crowd beholds instead, Like a portent in the sky, Iskander's banner fly, The… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
PAINT THE WALLS OF your mind With many beautiful pictures. — William Lyon Phelps
Facebook is like jail, you sit around and waste time, you write on walls and you get poked by people you don't know — Will Ferrell
I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But… — Rainer Werner Fassbinder
The Zionist movement did not send any assistance, financial or otherwise, for the victims of Nazism and it did not allow any other side to… — Mahmoud Abbas
Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference. — Swami Vivekananda
The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little… — John Steinbeck
Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I… — Peter Zumthor
People talk about the Patriot Act that was passed immediately in the wake of September 11. What the Patriot Act did was break down the… — Robert Muller
Peoples lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, unfathomable-deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum. . . . What I wanted [to write down]… — Alice Munro
With great difficulty advancing by millimeters each year, I carve a road out of the rock. For millenniums my teeth have wasted and my nails… — Octavio Paz
I would call back at least for literature this world of shadows we are losing. In the mansion called literature I would have the eaves… — Junichiro Tanizaki
Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There… — Banksy
Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Humans tend to build walls when they should be opening doors. — Debbie Macomber
You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds you will be… — Leonardo da Vinci
How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell… — Lin Yutang
The crumbling castle, looming among the mists, exhaled the season, and every cold stone breathed it out. The tortured trees by the dark lake burned… — Mervyn Peake
One day the enemy will cross the Great Green. They will bring war and tragedy to these eastern lands. Such is the nature of vile… — David Gemmell
Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon. — Nicolas Gomez Davila
School is a building that has four walls-with tomorrow inside. Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. There are many ways… — Ferdinand Foch

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