Quotes about wall
wall climbing years
This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom. Sam Mendes
wall looks want
When I read passages like this, I want to look for the nearest wall to bang my head against. S. T. Joshi
wall listening care
Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it. Saadi
wall moving men
A man or a woman is said to be absorbed when the water has total control of him, and he no control of the water. A swimmer moves around willfully. An absorbed being has no will but the water's going. Any word or act is not really personal, but the way the water has of speaking or doing. As when you hear a voice coming out of a wall, and you know that it's not the wall talking, but someone inside, or perhaps someone outside echoing off the wall. Saints are like that. They've achieved the condition of a wall, or a door. Rumi
wall heart way
Oh you, straying heart, just come! Oh you, aching liver, just come! If the path to the gate is closed, Take the way by the wall, but come!
wall sky prison-walls
Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape.
wall enemy important
The enemy of the moment is not as important as our own inner weakness. If this is not mended we are already defeated, though no foreign conqueror stands within our walls. Roger Zelazny
wall frustration class
I have a lot of sympathy with the ideas and frustration of the Occupy movement. I absolutely agree with the sense that Wall Street has brought an economic calamity to the middle class and that no one has been held accountable. Susan Bysiewicz
wall children cat
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 outside his La Jolla, California, house. Geisel was a much more quiet man than his jocular rhymes suggest. He rarely ventured out in public to meet his young readership, fretting that kids would expect a merry, outspoken, Cat in the Hat–like figure, and would be disappointed with his reserved personality. “In mass, [children] terrify me,” he admitted. Susan Cain
wall school light
Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating. Sufjan Stevens
wall humanity language
Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses ... Storm Jameson
wall knowing height
Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought. Robert Green Ingersoll
wall army men
If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds neither wall, nor mountains, nor seas could afford any security. Samuel Johnson
wall ambition passion
Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it
wall independent law
My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning. Safra A. Catz
wall add frozen
I like to come into my workspace and feel its a living environment and not frozen, which is why I often change or add to the pictures on the wall. Sadie Jones
wall people want
For now, I'm just going to keep doing the work and hope I don't get fired. If people want to put me up on their walls, I'll love it. Ryan Gosling
wall thinking who-i-am
I think I've been incredibly raw my whole career. A lot of people spend a lot of time trying to look cool and spend time being guarded and putting up walls. I just never had the time. It seems more honest to say, 'Hey, this is who I am. Ryan Adams
wall hate people
There is nothing wrong with loving the crap out of everything. Negative people find their walls. So never apologize for your enthusiasm. Never. Ever. Never.
wall biblical thinking
But I don't even think you hear me at all Under your medieval ceiling behind your biblical wall Rufus Wainwright
wall tears stressed
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. And get a massage - you look really stressed Ronald Reagan
wall america people
I hope the people on Wall Street will pay attention to the people on Main Street. If they do, they will see there is a rising tide of confidence in the future of America.
wall stupid son
I tell ya I got a stupid son. That's one load that shoulda been shot on the wall. Rodney Dangerfield
wall laughter oasis
Only in the theatre was it possible to see the performers and to be warmed by their personal charm, to respond to their efforts and to feel their response to the applause and appreciative laughter of the audience. It had an intimate quality; audience and actors conspired to make a little oasis of happiness and mirth within the walls of the theatre. Try as we will, we cannot be intimate with a shadow on a screen, nor a voice from a box. Robertson Davies
wall garden museums
Where are these rational practices to be taught and acquired? Not within the four walls of a bare building, in which formality predominates... But in the nursery, play-ground, fields, gardens, workshops, manufactures, museums and class-rooms. ...The facts collected from all these sources will be concentrated, explained, discussed, made obvious to all, and shown in their direct application to practice in all the business of life. Robert Owen
wall prophet profit
Wall Street is where prophets tell us what will happen and profits tell us what did happen.
wall doors brain
I'm not particularly good at coping with it. I just cope. I just leave my brain at the door and just stand there. I can get the screaming more than I get the photo things. That's the worst, when you have this wall of photographers. I've never understood the logic in how they do it. Everybody shouts at the same time, and you're trying to do a logical thing, looking from the left to the right. And they almost always end up looking disappointed with you afterwards. Robert Pattinson
wall flower artist
Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight. Robert Mapplethorpe
wall impossible-becomes-possible impossible
The impossible becomes possible when your back is against the wall Robert Evans
wall fighting men
I never saw a man fight as Conan fought. He put his back to the courtyard wall, and before they overpowered him the dead men were strewn in heaps thigh-deep about him. But at last they dragged him down, a hundred against one. Robert E. Howard
wall real men
I don't have 'The Jerry Springer Show'. I just got 'Family Feud', but some of them families, when they lose, man, they have some real conversations with each other back behind that wall, but I've never been involved in any of them. Steve Harvey
wall nice trying
Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture. Steve Albini
wall intuition compass
Be governed by your internal compass, not by some clock on the wall. Stephen Covey