Top 100 Quotes About The Wall
#1. Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.
Edward Abbey
#2. In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong go to the gutter.
Elbert Hubbard
#3. He picked the postage stamp over the wall with aplomb.
Tim Flowers
#4. Sometimes, when your back's against the wall, you can do things that you didn't know were possible.
Lisa De Jong
#5. 'Darling, you have to come home,' she started in as soon as I answered. 'You cannot possibly want to stay in that ... that tomb with bodies falling out of the wall!'
'I don't know why not,' I replied. 'It's everything a ghoul could ask for.'
Josh Lanyon
#6. You can either waltz boldly onto the stage of life and live the way you know your spirit is nudging you to, or you can sit quietly by the wall, receding into the shadows of fear and self-doubt.
Oprah Winfrey
#7. The wall has more moods than Mad King Aerys, they'd say, or sometimes the wall has more mood than a woman.
George R R Martin
#8. And the sun on the wall of her room, the block of sun with all the tiny flying things in it. When she was little she thought they were the souls of dead insects, still buzzing in the light.
Tim Winton
#9. Instead of trying to understand who we really are, we reach for the "Real Thing". And when the goods we buy fail to match up to those deep desires, instead of giving up on material goods, we just keep banging our heads against the wall and buying more.
James Wallman
#11. I tumble over and over, till the force of the deluge carries me away, out the door and into the passage. Photos of my family tumble from the wall and are swallowed by the sea. Her mouth opens and closes as she calls my name, but I'm already out of reach.
S.A. Partridge
#12. The difference between the three Abrahamic religions: Christianity - mumbling to the ceiling, Judaism - mumbling to the wall, Islam - mumbling to the floor.
Bill Maher
#13. In the wall-less house of sounds, humans became the animals that come together by listening. Whatever else they might be, they are sonospheric communards.
Peter Sloterdijk
#14. Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall with a joint, drinking some eight-ball.
Ice Cube
#15. The gray paint peels off the wall in odd and beautiful patterns, each cracked polygon of paint a snowflake of decay.
John Green
#16. Take your picture off the wall
So I won't have to see your eyes
And maybe soon I won't recall
The painful things that once were nice
Emily Ruskovich
#17. Photographs of girl-children; some gaudy moth or butterfly, still alive, safely pinned to the wall.
Vladimir Nabokov
#18. I think we all have a lot of room to drop and our takeovers were really safe so tonight we're still going to be safe but a little bit more risky than we were this morning and see if we can get our hand on the wall for a medal.
Brittany MacLean
#19. Think of life and the world as a wall and that we're all climbing up the wall. So just put one hand in front of the other, keep your eye on the prize, and then get there. And then turn around and help the other people - because you're already there, so start helping.
Laura Benanti
#20. Franklin D. Roosevelt was fortunate: He didn't take office until nearly four years after the Wall Street crash, by which time the Republicans' responsibility for the Depression was taken for granted.
Tina Brown
#21. Don't you ever pull that shit again," he said between bruising kisses. He pressed her up against the wall and trapped her with his body.
"Take your own advice," she shot back and wrapped her legs around his waist.
Mila Rossi
#22. There were a lot of fools at that conference - pompous fools - and pompous fools drive me up the wall. Ordinary fools are all right; you can talk to them, and try to help them out.
Richard Feynman
#23. Both Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich supported the Wall Street bailout.
Michele Bachmann
#24. The blood spurted from his neck and hit a copper pot hanging on the wall.
Elena Ferrante
#25. I was thinking about doing another film at the same time, which was the sequel to Basic Instinct and I just had a feeling that wasn't going to happen. You know, I just kind of read the writing on the wall.
Bruce Greenwood
#26. The Fed has gone about as if the problem is a shortage of liquidity. That is not the basic problem. The basic problem for the markets is that uncertainty that the balance sheets of financial firms are credible.
-Anna J. Schwartz interviewed in the Wall Street Journal, October 18-19, 2008.
John Brian Taylor
#27. Clinton's pardoning of Marc Rich was off-the-wall.
Morley Safer
#29. Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.
Sydney J. Harris
#30. An Anchorite was a girl who lived like a hermit in a cell, but in the wall of a church. A living human sacrifice, in a way.
David Mitchell
#31. Jericho's walls fell flat: Rahab's house was on the wall, and yet it stood unmoved; my nature is built into the wall of humanity, and yet when destruction smites the race, I shall be secure. My soul, tie the scarlet thread in the window afresh, and rest in peace.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#32. An idea built the wall of separation between the sexes, and an idea will crumble it to dust ...
Sarah Moore Grimke
#33. Girls barely budding open their legs to make a living, alongside the toothless and rancid of breath; hair thick with lice, they all find customers if the price is right, against the wall or on sheets well-soiled. Their holes cost but a shilling. Skins grow thick and claws sharp.
Emmanuelle De Maupassant
#34. I looked around at all the certificates on the wall and felt thankful to come from a place where personal success was meaningless.
Matt Haig
#35. How astonishingly intimate the business of fiction is, more intimate than anything that issues from the psychiatrist's couch or even the lovers' bed. You see the soul, pinned and wriggling on the wall.
Martin Amis
#37. She pointed above the little king's crib where a cutout piece of parchment hung from the ceiling. Froi's eyes followed her finger across the ceiling to the wall, where the light from the moon made a shape of a rabbit.
Melina Marchetta
#38. We always give our best when our back is against the wall. We will write a superlative essay when pushing hard against a deadline, make the most innovative presentation when our job is in jeopardy, and study the hardest when the exam is the next day.
Twinkle Khanna
#39. The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods.
Gustav Stickley
#40. When you run in fear, it's square into the wall.
Byron Katie
#41. Mr. Farquard Campbell, the butler said quietly, and stood back against the wall.
Diana Gabaldon
#42. The hope of free people in a frightened world is the values which people put ahead of inventions when their backs are to the wall. These values are beauty, truth, goodness and having a faith, all of which are bombproof.
Ralph Washington Sockman
#43. Most people here can't see it, even when they're right next to the wall. They're so absorbed in their own sadness that they cant' see past the darkness. But you can. You belong out there.
Sarah Fine
#44. Okay, then stay so we can have wild, up-against-the-wall sex, he said.
Her breath caught. She wasn't even sure what wild-up-against-the-wall sex would feel like, but she had a feeling she'd like it. ...
Jill Shalvis
#45. I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall.
Tab Hunter
#46. At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure - after 'Bad Girls,' nobody ever tried claiming disco sucked again. It set the template for what Michael Jackson would do a few months later with 'Off The Wall.'
Rob Sheffield
#47. My eyes flick up to the pane of glass punched into the wall. Pinks and reds filter into the room and I know it's the start of a new beginning. The start of the same end. Another day.
Tahereh Mafi
#48. Speaking of music, we will arrive with our own. We plan on delivering our baby to the soundtrack of Pink Floyd's The Wall while simultaneously watching The Wizard of Oz. If this kid works with us, we guarantee your minds will be blown!
Amy Poehler
#49. There. Layer by layer, it appeared. Behind the wall of words......
Nina George
#50. Remarkably, the light didn't shine on things but through them. Through the grass. Through the trees. Through the wall. And through the people who were gathered there. There
John Burke
#51. I always play every game like my back is against the wall, that this could be it.
Shaun Alexander
#52. You might have Bible verses on the wall in every room of the house and yet the unspoken rituals reinforce self-centeredness rather than sacrifice. Thus
James K.A. Smith
#53. You expect me to fall on my back with my legs spread."
"Not necessarily ... You can fall on your hands and knees if you prefer. Or against the wall. Or on the kitchen counter. I suppose I might let you be on top, if you make it worth my while.
Ilona Andrews
#54. Shaking his head at the way of the world, Fred Colon walked right up to the wall so cruelly - or cruelleah - denuded of its covering.
Terry Pratchett
#55. Once you cry it out, it's supposed to vanish ... right? It's not true. It's just ... a little less.
It was the first chink in my brickwall. The wall was still there. And it was still made of bricks,but one, maybe two, had been torn down
Tijan
#56. I looked past him, to the sea framed in the arched opening of the wall, to the line formed where the water met the sky. The world was not round, I realized. The world was a plate.
'Please,' he whispered. 'Don't.'
Unlike Rurick, Plesec did not die confused.
Rick Yancey
#57. It's pretty thin, the wall separating healthy confidence and unhealthy Pride.
Haruki Murakami
#58. I beat my children daily, with a shoe, because I don't want them to grow up fairies. At 9 p.m. I promptly play The Wall in full and walk around the house naked carrying cupcakes. It's important my children see my bits in graphic detail.
Thom Yorke
#59. Was there, after all, ever any green door in the wall at all?
H.G.Wells
#60. The two of us are linked together by the heavy bonds of silence that pass through the wall seperating our two worlds. We need each other more than anything, I feel without a doubt.
Haruki Murakami
#61. You've got to remember, the older you get the slower you get. I've seen a lot of players get old ... if I can have a good season in 1972 and come back with another good one, well, that's different. I might not quit. But two bad ones back to back and staying home would be written on the wall.
Hank Aaron
#62. I am the great test! a blackened shadow-boxing colossus jabjabbered, pounding his gloves against the wall. The heavyweight will be quillweight. Bantamweight, even. Ain't nobody can dethrone me, beyond my ken! he boasted,* sidling up to his shadow.
*Mad Ali?:
Julian Rios
#63. All in all, you're just another brick in the wall.
Pink Floyd
#64. Be governed by your internal compass, not by some clock on the wall.
Stephen Covey
#65. A gray leather couch was against the wall. Above it was a giant framed photo of One Direction.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#67. The usual graffiti on the wall. JRH WAS HERE. NICK LOVES CASS. Visitors leaving the worst parts of themselves behind in fluorescent paint.
Anthony Horowitz
#68. I like to come into my workspace and feel it's a living environment and not frozen, which is why I often change or add to the pictures on the wall.
Sadie Jones
#69. In elementary and middle school, I threw kids against the wall. I rubbed their heads in the dirt at recess. I bit them. I even knocked teeth out.
Russell Wilson
#70. As a dancer I had worked with really hard choreographers, Jerome Robbins being the toughest. And you learned what it is to hit against a brick wall. And you learned pretty quickly to go around the wall or say, "I can't take this job."
Joan Tewkesbury
#71. If you continue to hit your head against the wall, don't be surprised if your head hurts.
Charles F. Glassman
#72. He noticed that a bedraggled and desiccated pink poppy was growing out of a crack where the wall of the teacher's house intersected with the cobbles of the street.
Louis De Bernieres
#73. Oh, fuck the paperwork. The words come from nowhere and on instinct I grab her and push her against the wall. Clasping both her hands, I pin them above her head so she can't touch me, and once she's secure, I twist my other hand in her hair while my lips seek and find hers.
E.L. James
#74. But sometimes, in tight corners, when your back is against the wall and the world is against you, you have to fight back in unexpected ways.
Caroline B. Cooney
#75. I am in the process of nailing Mr. Humphrey Griffin to the wall so thoroughly that future generations will mistake him for a tapestry, ...
K.J. Charles
#76. The pine shadows moved across my blanket, the wall behind me. People were just like that. We couldn't even see each other, just the shadows moving, pushed by unseen winds.
Janet Fitch
#77. Judge tucked one of his guns under his head and put the other underneath the bed closest to the wall. He leaned back on top of the thin comforter and closed his eyes. His dreams immediately ventured to hot, naked sex with a headstrong detective.
A.E. Via
#78. It begins with the kind of story the writers want to tell. We never sit around in those retreats and say, 'We really need to make a change. Let's change this character.' Or throw a dart at the wall and see what hits. It all begins with story.
Jason Aaron
#80. I know not whether Laws be right,
Or whether Laws be wrong;
All that we know who be in jail
Is that the wall is strong;
And that each day is like a year,
A year whose days are long.
Oscar Wilde
#81. 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
#82. Mary, it must be remembered, was very nearly of the same age as Frank; but, as I and others have so often said before, 'Women grow on the sunny side of the wall.
Anthony Trollope
#83. Had that asshole from her date tried something? If he did, I'd kill him. I'd nail his fucking guts to the wall, so help me God.
Chance Carter
#84. A woman's orgasm," he began, his eyes drifting to a spot on the wall behind me, "is beyond beautiful. It's beyond sexy. It's one of those rare special, fleeting moments when life seems to make sense; my life seems to make sense, you know?" he finished, nervously searching my face for understanding.
Clara James
#85. We're about to run our heads against the same unyielding barrier, and once again, the brass seem to have concluded that our approach isn't working because we're not running at the wall fast enough.
Marko Kloos
#86. Your story is for - voting for every disastrous trade agreement, and voting for corporate America. Did I vote against the Wall Street bailout?
Bernie Sanders
#87. I was watching him crawl,
Back over the wall-!
Then bang! Crash!
And the lightning flash!
And- well, that's another story,
Never mind-
Anyway ...
Stephen Sondheim
#88. I need a night out away from crayon drawings on the wall, mushed food in the carpets, and poo-splosions in nappies.
K.M. Golland
#89. I simply constructed a project to try to snap Kurt [Cobain] out of a frame of mind. I sent him a plane ticket and a driver, and he tacked the plane ticket to the wall in the bedroom and the driver sat outside the house for 10 hours. Kurt wouldn't come out and wouldn't answer the phone.
Michael Stipe
#90. The oblong of light is back and motes of dust swirl in the sunshine slating down the wall of books. Golden pollen.
David Mitchell
#92. The joyous cries he heard over the wall were all the reward he needed for a job well done and he smiled as he heard them.
John Allyn
#93. Periodically, 'The New York Times' runs a business news story lamenting how few women still make it to the top in the Wall Street boys' club. Could it be that women are choosing to be conscientious objectors in these wars of one against all?
Tina Brown
#94. Osha," Bran asked as they crossed the yard. "Do you know the way north? To the Wall and ... and even past?" "The way's easy. Look for the Ice Dragon, and chase the blue star in the rider's eye.
George R R Martin
#95. It was easy to forget that
sometimes, when they were laughing together, or kissing. But then one of them would say something, or do something, and he would suddenly be reminded of the wall between their worlds.
George R R Martin
#96. I don't believe so much in the value of a single picture anymore. I don't really photograph for the wall.
Ernst Haas
#97. Always the wall, keeping him apart, this man who was a first-name friend to everyone and an intimate to none. And on it, it was almost as if there were a sign that read, THIS FAR YOU GO, and no further.
George R R Martin
#98. I told you what I want. You under me, on top of me, against the wall, on this table, against the sofa. Maybe even on the bed. Should I continue?
Monica La Porta
#99. Vashti was seized with the terrors of direct experience. She shrank back into the room, and the wall closed up again.
E. M. Forster
#100. Around the windows and above the doors were a multitude of small pictures, which you grow accustomed to regard as spots on the wall, and which you never look at.
Nikolai Gogol
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