If These Walls Could Talk Quotes

#1. There's four sides to every story ...
If these walls could talk, they'd probably still ignore me.

Daniel Dumile

#2. If these walls could talk, I wonder what secrets they'd tell.

Gayle Forman

#3. If these walls could talk, the buildings would stutter, wouldn't remember their names.

NoViolet Bulawayo

#4. The only walls that talk, are the white ones.

Anthony Liccione

#5. I'm not sorry, it's human nature.

Madonna Ciccone

#6. Our men and women in uniform put their lives on the line for our nation every day; they should not have to jeopardize their financial well-being as well.

Mark Pryor

#7. A closed plant is like a cemetery; it really is. The walls will talk to you; the machines will talk to you if you really talk to them.

Hamdi Ulukaya

#8. I have always been psychic. The walls of any room I walk into talk to me.

Ethel Waters

#9. All this talk of using tax policy to 'assess social costs' ... what a dumb idea. The only way to stop polluters is to put them against walls and shoot them.

David Brin

#10. Here, in a few words, you've said all you need to say. People stand by each other, but they don't talk. It's remarkable. I've investigated the extraordinary history of these walls. I think I'm the only person who knows that it's the stones, the stones alone that set the tone here.

Jacques Yonnet

#11. It's quiet for a while, and then Rowan says; "We could talk now. We're alone out here. No walls."
"There are always walls." I say.

Lauren DeStefano

#12. The pictures on the walls aren't like movies. They don't move, they don't talk, and they'll last longer. They will last longer.

David Hockney

#13. She stood motionless like that for

Donna Leon

#14. We can't talk about it, or I know she won't so I don't even try, but it's what goes unsaid between people tat builds up like masonry. You have to either knock the bricks out with other things, or let them keep stacking until eventually you are alone in a room.

Justin Taylor

#15. We should all realize that we can only talk about the bad forgeries, the ones that have been detected; the good ones are still hanging on the walls

Frank Wynne

#16. The thing about hearing loss is that no one can see it. Most people are so impatient; they just assume that the person with hearing loss is being rude, or slow-witted.

Marion Ross

#17. Maybe I've got to admit that what I did here was enough. I can make some more films. Maybe I'll direct a film. Maybe I'll have my musical put on stage. But nothing, really, to be absolutely honest, competes with making a very successful pop band for 10 years of my life.

Gary Kemp

#18. If only those old walls could talk ... how boring they would be.

Robert Benchley

#19. This was what it meant to live in Botswana; when the rest of the world might work itself into a frenzy of activity, one might still sit, in the space before a house with ochre walls, a mug of bush tea in one's hand, and talk about very small things: headmen in wells, goats and jealousy.

Alexander McCall Smith

#20. Mineral cactai, quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls, the bird that punctures space, thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind. The pines taught me to talk to myself. In that garden I learnedto send myself off. Later there were no gardens.

Octavio Paz

#21. Politicians could talk about building walls and changing laws to keep people out, but in the end they were just symbols. Neither would stop the tide any more than the rock jetties at the mouth of the port did. Nothing could stop the tide of hope and desire. Bosch

Michael Connelly

#22. Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.

Iain Duncan Smith

#23. I'm watching her talk. Watching her jaw move and collecting her words one by one as they spill from her lips. I don't deserve them. Her warm memories. I'd like to paint them over the bare plaster walls of my soul, but everything I paint seems to peel.

Isaac Marion

#24. Can we talk of integration until there is integration of hearts and minds? Unless you have this, you only have a physical presence, and the walls between us are as high as the mountain range.

Chief Dan George

#25. I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.

Rosa Parks

#26. ...the tendency of all men who ever tried to write or talk Ethics or Religion was to run against the boundaries of language. This running against the walls of our cage is perfectly, absolutely hopeless.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#27. If walls could talk - scratch that, if walls could make sarcastic comments... well, things would be interesting.

Meghan Apriceno Carr

#28. She was an original ... She was an eccentric. She'd come alive like a fire, telling funny stories and entertaining everyone, then she'd suddenly run out of fuel, make her excuses and leave. You always knew when she'd had enough. Those that didn't would find themselves talk to the walls.

Santa Montefiore

#29. Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.

Byron Katie

#30. So what. He was made of awesome. Anyone who couldn't see that wasn't smart enough to be with him, anyway.

Gena Showalter

#31. I'm a slave to the beats of the story, not to the words we use to tell the story.

Steve Dildarian

#32. When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it.

Jessica Savitch

#33. his talk dwelt on walls and weapons, and the mustering of men; and he drew plans for great alliances and glorious victories to be; and he cast down Mordor, and became himself a mighty king, benevolent and wise. Suddenly

J.R.R. Tolkien

#34. When we went to Iraq, we stayed in one of Saddam's palaces. It was kind of creepy. If those walls could talk, there's no telling what stories they'd tell.

Kellie Pickler

#35. Is that all we are? he thinks. Unmistakable clothing, a hairstyle, a few exaggerated features, a gesture? -

Margaret Atwood

#36. And more than echoes talk along the walls.

Alexander Pope

#37. Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me, I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough it'll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read.

Ray Bradbury

#38. People talk about the Patriot Act that was passed immediately in the wake of September 11. What the Patriot Act did was break down the walls between the various agencies.

Robert Mueller

#39. The principal factor promoting historically significant social change is contact with strangers possessing new and unfamiliar skills.

Thomas L. Friedman

#40. The remaining half-hour of the drive passed quite peacefully for me, and it's a pretty drive along I-70 and the Evergreen Parkway, if you don't have a towel taped over your face.

Mark Henwick