Quotes about wall
wall character speaks-out
Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. Ralph Waldo Emerson
wall rude mind
The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.
wall heart men
Every friend whom not thy fantastic will but the great and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace. And this because the heart in thee is the heart of all; not a valve, not a wall, not an intersection is there anywhere in nature, but one blood rolls uninterruptedly in endless circulation through all men, as the water of the globe is all one sea, and, truly seen, its tide is one.
wall children father
We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when the boy grows to a man, and is master of the house, he pulls down that wall and builds it new and bigger.
wall honesty lying
Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance-will instantly vitiate the effect.
wall play off-the-wall
I'm open to anything. I would love to play someone completely off the wall. Selma Blair
wall feelings panic
Panic in Wall Street, brokers feeling melancholy. Scott Joplin
wall angel iron
Cold walls do not a prison make, nor iron bands a bondsman. Scott Lynch
wall pride practice
If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a thick wall. Shunryu Suzuki
wall squares cells
You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you can not put an idea up against a barracks-square wall and riddle it with bullets: you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell that your slaves could ever build. Sean O'Casey
wall writing men
If you look at Iraq and Afghanistan's situations, they are quickly becoming much like our reservations. They will have puppet governments funded and controlled by a U.S. Government that siphoned off their resources. You don't have to be an English major to read the writing on the wall; I am in here as a warning to others, just like those men who are in Guantanamo are a warning to others - if you stand up to us you face these same consequences. Leonard Peltier
wall thinking rooms
I think I'll paint roads on my front room walls to convince myself that I'm going places Lemn Sissay
wall brain cripples
You can see the walls roar See your brains on the floor Become God Become cripple Become funky Laura Nyro
wall boots sound
Every thought sounds like a footfall, Till a thought like a boot kicks down the wall. Laura Riding
wall blue hatred
Those who aren't caught up into this bigotry, this hatred, those who respect us when they see us. Then you have an obligation also, the good ones. To make sure you say to the others, that this blue wall of silence must come down and that everybody must be treated equally. Kweisi Mfume
wall way towers
If he [Donald Trump] builds the wall the way he builds Trump Towers, he`ll be using illegal immigrant labor to do it. Marco Rubio
wall soldier needs
Don't be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you've been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what? Marcus Aurelius
wall hate hypocrite
Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything which needs walls and curtains.
wall thinking consistency
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.
wall thinking rich
The rich get richer and the poor get the picture. I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great. Simon Baker
wall thinking voice
I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great. I think that is a good thing and that people need to stand up, voice their opinions, and be heard.
wall reality sky
Give weather reports. It helps the reality of a scene if foghorns are blowing or kites are in the sky on a windy afternoon or the day's so hot wallpaper is peeling off the walls. Sid Fleischman
wall rooms knows
No, I was an unknown when I walked in that room. He didn't know who I was from a fly on the wall. Shia LaBeouf
wall dozen bowling
Rahul Dravid being known as 'The Wall' is pretty much spot on. 'The fortress' could also describe Rahul. Because once, Dravid was set, you needed the bowling equivalent of a dozen cannon firing all at once to blast him down. Shane Warne
wall mind pearls
At the moment our rational mind stops, hits against a wall ... something else happens. And a bigger mind, like a pearl, rolls in a silver bowl. Natalie Goldberg
wall names light
It's a stage with four lights clamped to it with walls made out of plywood. And then my name's in the center. It's the type of thing that can be made over and over again. It's not like a Michelangelo sculpture. Josh Smith
wall writing mud
Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall. Joseph Conrad
wall moon men
The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver - over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation standing higher than the wall of a temple, over the great river I could see through a sombre gap glittering, glittering, as it flowed broadly by without a murmur. All this was great, expectant, mute, while the man jabbered about himself.
wall self foam
Sometimes it takes all my resolution and power of self-control to refrain from butting my head against the wall. I want to howl and foam at the mouth but I daren't.
wall sadness free-spirit
A ship in dock, surrounded by quays and the walls of warehouses, has the appearance of a prisoner meditating upon freedom in the sadness of a free spirit put under restraint.
wall thinking finding-the-one
I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy. Joseph Fiennes
wall reality doors
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, disappears; it’s just outside the door, but it might as well be a magical land far, far away. Kate Morton
wall lips ancient
A twinge at the edge of her lips and she continued, the soft, slow lilt of recitation: "Ancient walls that sing the distant hours.