Walls Quotes
1289 Walls quotes by 950 unique authors
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Ernest once told me that the word paradise was a Persian words that meant walled garden. I knew then that he understood how necessary the…
— Paula McLain
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And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy. It…
— Pablo Neruda
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But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing. For now, there is only a homestead built of trash and scraps, at the edge…
— Lauren Oliver
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Dear Anna, we will live in a home with no walls, so that everywhere we go will be our home.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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It's amazing how willpower can build walls.
— Yann Martel
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Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more…
— Anais Nin
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When we were first married, I thought he must have been the most heartless, hateful man I'd ever known, but he was just as much…
— Lauren DeStefano
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Nowadays I’m really cranky about comics. Because most of them are just really, really poorly written soft-core. And I miss good old storytelling. And you…
— Joss Whedon
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Any action a woman engages in from a spirit of joy, and within a similarly safe and joyous environment, falls within the city-walls of feminism.…
— Caitlin Moran
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Angel screeched with fury and despair to the empty walls around her. "I'm human, do you hear me? It hurts!
— James Patterson
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But perhaps the most important lesson I learned is that there are no walls between humans and the elephants except those that we put up…
— Lawrence Anthony
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September has come, it is hers Whose vitality leaps in the autumn, Whose nature prefers Trees without leaves and a fire in the fireplace. So…
— Louis MacNeice
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The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding…
— M. Scott Peck
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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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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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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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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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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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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
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We need a barn or one of those storage areas for the Broken vehicles." "A garage?" He gave her a short nod. "A private, relatively…
— Ilona Andrews
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I can't leave her there all alone, surrounded by stone walls... She's too precious to give up.
— Megan Whalen Turner
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He was falling between glacial walls, he didn't know how anyone could fall so far away from everyone else in the world. So far to…
— Nelson Algren
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Walls don't fall without effort.
— Neal Shusterman
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