Quotes about wall
wall doctors white
For a long time he had been white smoke. He did not realize that until he left the hospital, because white smoke had no consciousness of itself. It faded into the white world of their bed sheets and walls; it was sucked away by the words of doctors who tried to talk to the invisible scattered smoke... They saw his outline but they did not realize it was hollow inside. Leslie Marmon Silko
wall adventure common-sense
Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research. Friedrich Engels
wall people moats
A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far. Jon Meacham
wall audience fourth
If you're doing stand-up, there is no fourth wall; you're engaging an audience. Jon Glaser
wall fall order
San Quentin, may you rot and burn in hell. May your walls fall and may I live to tell. Johnny Cash
wall order law
Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free.
wall eye dark
I think films are perishable, because they depend too much on technology, which advances too quickly and the films become old-fashioned, antiques. What I hope for is that technology advances to the point that films in the future will depend on a little pill which you take; then you sit in the dark, and from your eyes you project the film you want to see on a blank wall. Luis Bunuel
wall moving waiting
We're like so many puppets hung on the wall, waiting for someone to come and move us or make us talk. Luigi Pirandello
wall dirty color
A color which would be 'dirty' if it were the color of a wall, needn't be so in a painting. Ludwig Wittgenstein
wall eye color
Imagine someone pointing to a place in the iris of a Rembrandt eye and saying, 'The walls of my room should be painted this color.
wall mean people
It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before. Luc Besson
wall lying heart
None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives. Are self deceivers, but the worst of all Deceits is to murmur 'Lord, I am not worthy' And, lying easy, turn your face to the wall. Louis MacNeice
wall autumn kissing
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 I give her this month and the next Though the whole of my year should be hers who has rendered already So many of its days intolerable or perplexed But so many more so happy. Who has left a scent on my life, and left my walls Dancing over and over with her shadow Whose hair is twined in all my waterfalls And all of London littered with remembered kisses.
wall live-life thinking
You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn. John Buchan
wall communication purpose
The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another. M. Scott Peck
wall rocks rock-n-roll
The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues. Luther Allison
wall character men
A man's character is not judged after he celebrates a victory, but by what he does when his back is against the wall. John Cena
wall bricks sometimes
Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous. John Bonham
wall light the-end-of-the-day
Movie-making is the process of turning money into light. All they have at the end of the day is images flickering on a wall. John Boorman
wall athlete accomplishment
As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that it strikes fear into your soul. You must stand ready, at any moment, to face the unknown. You must be ready to walk boldly thru the wall of uncertainty. John Bingham
wall men glasses
'Participant' is the incontrovertible new concept given by quantum mechanics. It strikes down the 'observer' of classical theory, the man who stands safely behind the thick glass wall and watches what goes on without taking part. It can't be done, quantum mechanics says it...May the universe in some sense be 'brought into being' by the participation of those who participate? John Archibald Wheeler
wall real self
A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of his envy, malice, pettiness and dishonesty. There is a wall of words between his consciousness and his real self. Eric Hoffer
wall army reason
Put the walls up. Get the better walls. There's no reason the army website should be hacked. Eric Bolling
wall cutting oil
You could pay a fair market price for a barrel of oil and cut 50 cents a barrel or a dollar barrel off what you're going to pay Mexico and use that money and put it towards to the building a wall. If they don't like it, too bad we're go buy the oil.
wall wailing moron
So I'm at the wailing wall, standing there like a moron, with my harpoon. Emo Philips
wall military army
One might as well try to charge through a wall. Napoleon Bonaparte
wall war cutting
More than 200 ships from 13 nations conducted over 10,000 flawless intercepts, which formed a steel wall around the waters leading to Iraq. And these operations continue today. Thanks to these superb efferts not one cargo hold, not one crate, not even one pallet of seaborne contraband even touched Saddam Hussein's shores. The result: Iraq lost 90% of its imports, 100% of its exports, and had its gross national product cut in half. Norman Schwarzkopf
wall pride blow
With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. Norman Mailer
wall dark average
As was noted in the Wall Street Journal, last March 21st, FDA approval of drug labelling, '...requires seven to ten years, and costs each applicant an average of $70 million.' Orrin Hatch
wall believe creativity
Today I believe that man cannot escape his destiny to create whatever it is we make - jazz, a wooden spoon, or graffiti on the wall. All of these are expressions of man's creativity, proof that man has not yet been destroyed by technology. But are we making things for the people of our epoch or repeating what has been done before? And finally, is the question itself important? We must ask ourselves that. The most important thing is always to doubt the importance of the question. Orson Welles
wall past everyday
You know from past experiences that whenever you have been driven to the wall, or thought you were, you have extricated yourself in a way which you never would have dreamed possible had you not been put to the test. The trouble is that in your everyday life you don't go deep enough to tap the divine mind within you. Orison Swett Marden
wall fun gymnastics
I think this is all my life. Because if I was split gymnastics and something else like far, fun or to go with friends. No, this, you're supposed to one go, one straight road and to do every day. And touch the wall, of the goal. Olga Korbut
wall iron kicks
Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down. Olive Schreiner