Walls Quotes
1289 Walls quotes by 950 unique authors
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Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me, I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls.…
— Ray Bradbury
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So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature’s geometric signs, In…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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Everyone has to scratch on walls somewhere or they go crazy
— Michael Ondaatje
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pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the…
— Charles Bukowski
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Paintings are seldom guilty and often framed for crimes they did not commit. Some cover holes-holes in walls, holes in lives. Some make holes-in wallets,…
— Marilyn Manson
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I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face. Some fatal…
— Gustave Flaubert
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Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within it…
— Guy de Maupassant
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...but you are too much for them: the weak in courage are strong in cunning; and one by one, you have absorbed and have captured…
— James Agee
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The greatest work we will ever do will be within the walls of our home.
— David O. McKay
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She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance, and for the…
— Isabel Allende
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It is the mind that speaks a woman's heart, not the vaginal walls.
— Mary Roach
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Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls.
— Adrienne Rich
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I understood why she did it. At that moment I knew why people tagged graffiti on the walls of neat little houses and scratched the…
— Janet Fitch
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And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the Andes, and tumultuous…
— Che Guevara
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The spectacular landscape circling the fortress supplies an essential backdrop, inspiring dreamers to wander its ruins for the sake of it; North American tourists, bound…
— Che Guevara
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She goes where she pleases. She appears unhoped for, uncalled for. She moves through doors and walls and windows. Her thoughts move through minds. She…
— Rachel Klein
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at least nine-tenths of all the original reality ever created lies outside the multiverse, and since the multiverse by definition includes absolutely everything that is…
— Terry Pratchett
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After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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And that, ...is the story of our country, one invasion after another...Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we're like those walls up there.…
— Khaled Hosseini
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It seems to me that you need a lot of courage, or a lot of something, to enter into others, into other people. We all…
— Martin Amis
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The paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were the flat, thin…
— Irving Stone
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I tried to make meat loaf out of the girl but it becomes too frustrating a task and instead I spend the afternoon smearing her…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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All the pictures on the walls, they all white as lilies and smiling like alligators.
— Charlaine Harris
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He felt full of a dense and sour substance that was blocking his chest, and it wasn't grief. After all those years, life now seemed…
— Etgar Keret
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Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still…
— Stephen King
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