Walls Quotes
1289 Walls quotes by 950 unique authors
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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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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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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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There’s something about hospital walls; though only made of bricks and plaster, when you’re inside them the noise, the reality of the teeming city beyond,…
— Kate Morton
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It's surprisingly nice out here, peaceful and pretty-strange to be standing in the middle of a little garden while enclosed by the massive stone walls…
— Lauren Oliver
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I am not a religious man. I have not attended a service for many years. But I do believe in God. My own practice of…
— Jodi Picoult
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You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin…
— Lauren Oliver
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Walls aren't put in our life to stop us, they are there to test how much we really want somthing.
— Randy Pausch
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The heavy smell of flower petals stroked the walls of my lungs.
— Haruki Murakami
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Because you are never here but always there, I forget not you but what you look like You drift down the street in the rain,…
— Margaret Atwood
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Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so…
— Virginia Woolf
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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As soon as a man and woman of almost any age are alone together within four walls it is assumed that anything may happen. Spontaneous…
— Alice Munro
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Change is freedom, change is life. It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes,…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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I don’t suppose I really know you very well - but I know you smell like the delicious damp grass that grows near old walls…
— Zelda Fitzgerald
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Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to…
— Jodi Picoult
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There is no such thing as Freedom (though it is the most important condition of human life, after Humility, -which does not exist either). There…
— John Berryman
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grief is a house where the chairs have forgotten how to hold us the mirrors how to reflect us the walls how to contain us…
— Jandy Nelson
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Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want
— Randy Pausch
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We followed the bondage Bobbsey Twins across the crowded dance floor. Those leather shorts were an adventure from behind, let me tell you. And the…
— Charlaine Harris
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But the monotonous life led by invalids often makes them like children, inasmuch as thy have neither of them any sense of proportion in events,…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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You'll enjoy it. There is much you can learn from books and scrolls," said Jeod. He gestured at the walls. "These books are my friends,…
— Christopher Paolini
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The window opened in the same direction as the king's, and there, summer-bright and framed by the darkness of the stairwell, was the same view.…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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Hopes were wallflowers. Hopes hugged the perimeter of a dance floor in your brain, tugging at their party lace, all perfume and hems and doomed…
— Karen Russell
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I myself shall continue living in my glass house where you can always see who comes to call, where everything hanging from the the ceiling…
— Andre Breton
Who Wrote These Walls Quotes
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