Walls Quotes
1289 Walls quotes by 950 unique authors
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Extremists, who thrive on conflict; who do not tolerate diversity; who seek power through division and destruction. The global system they hope to create is…
— Abdallah II
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The organic laws of construction tangled me in my desires, and only with great pain, effort, and struggle did I break through these 'walls around…
— Wassily Kandinsky
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The true professional makes art when he is not feeling good, if the studio is too cold or too warm or the walls are falling…
— Jack White
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A very young painter is seldom alone. If he is an art student, he is in an art school with other students. He does not…
— Pierre Alechinsky
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Seems those with money who don't worry about money have big walls.
— Robert Genn
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Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.
— Fernando Botero
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These beautiful days ... do not exist as mere pictures - maps hung upon the walls of memory to brighten at times when touched by…
— John Muir
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But no temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...as if into this one mountain…
— John Muir
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No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...Awful in stern, immovable majesty, how softly…
— John Muir
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Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.
— Joaquin Miller
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature's sources never fail. Like a generous host, she offers her brimming…
— John Muir
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No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life. Some lean back in majestic repose;…
— John Muir
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The groves and thickets of smaller trees are full of blooming evergreen vines. These vines are not arranged in separate groups, or in delicate wreaths,…
— John Muir
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I liked the taste of beer, its live, white lather, its brass-bright depths, the sudden world through the wet-brown walls of the glass, the tilted…
— Dylan Thomas
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The battle outside raging will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.
— Bob Dylan
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All architecture, which does not express serenity, fails in its spiritual mission. Thus, it has been a mistake to abandon the shelter of walls for…
— Luis Barragan
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In the closed world of the gynaeceum, despite the gardens and parkland extending beyong the horizon, despite the insurmountable walls separating pavillions and palaces, the…
— Shan Sa
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Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we…
— Kevin Malarkey
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We can't be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths.
— Mark Lawrence
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at conferences…
— E. M. Forster
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Many evil things there are that your strong walls and bright swords do not stay.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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When human men hold an object that makes a powerful noise, or has moving parts, or spins around fast, or has a button they can…
— Craig Stone
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Nothing in the next-door world of Dachau impinged on the great winter cycle of Beethoven chamber music played in Munich. No canvases came off museum…
— George Steiner
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There are a lot of people who are successful and have a lot of money, but you can almost see their limitations because they have…
— Riff Raff
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