Top 100 Quotes About Walls
#1. The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp.
Elvis Presley
#2. As massive numbers of homeless, hungry, unemployed, drug-addicted, illiterate, and mentally ill people vanish behind its walls, the social problems of extreme poverty, homelessness, hunger, unemployment, drug addiction, illiteracy, and mental illness become more ignorable, too.
Maya Schenwar
#3. You wouldn't have the same art on the walls at every restaurant or the same waiter uniforms. Neither should you have the same service style at every restaurant.
Danny Meyer
#4. Baby bye Here's a fly, Let us watch him. you and I, How he crawls Up the walls Yet he never falls.
Theodore Tilton
#5. There are no walls at the edge of this universe ...
absence of gravity is the limit of space existence.
Toba Beta
#6. She doesn't understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings - they're helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in.
Sonya Hartnett
#7. People will never know how hard it is to get information, especially if it's locked up behind official doors where, if politicians had their way, they'd stamp 'top secret' on the color of the walls.
Helen Thomas
#8. A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work.
John Irving
#9. Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want
Jeffrey Zaslow
#10. The cream-tiled walls were spattered here and there with old dried bloodstains, deep gouges that might have been clawmarks, and all kinds of graffiti. As usual, someone had spelt Cthulhu wrongly.
Simon R. Green
#11. I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.
Richard Stallman
#12. Through other people's bodies she felt neither love nor hate distinctly. Most consciously she felt - she had drunk sweet wine at luncheon - a desire for water. "A beaker of cold water, a beaker of cold water," she repeated, and saw water surrounded by walls of shining glass.
Virginia Woolf
#13. If you can't believe in miracles, then believe in yourself. When you want something bad enough, let that drive push you to make it happen. Sometimes you'll run into brick walls that are put there to test you. Find a way around them and stay focused on your dream. Where there's a will, there's a way.
Isabel Lopez
#14. You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle.
George Lucas
#15. I want to make time stretchier. I would like much more rubbery days, and I just wish that you could lean on a week, and sort of push the walls out a bit, and suddenly about nineteen extra days would rush in to fill the vacuum.
Neil Gaiman
#16. Coming back to the topic of computer security, the TCP Wrapper is an example of such a safety net. I wrote it when my systems were under attack by someone who appeared to walk through walls.
Wietse Venema
#17. At the city gates a corpse or two hung, moldering, from the municipal gallows. Within the walls, there were the usual dirty streets, the customary gamut of smells, from wood smoke to excrement, from geese to incense, from baking bread to horses, swine and unwashed humanity. Peasants,
Aldous Huxley
#18. You get some success. You run into some walls ... it's how tenacious you are, how irrepressible, how ultimately optimistic and tenacious you are about it that will determine your success.
Steve Ballmer
#19. Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut fingernails, bears witness to the colonization of Nature of Reason.
C.S. Lewis
#21. Brick walls towered over her. Decrepit staircases crowded about her. Nothing had changed. The line there, the lessons there, the rape there. Shouldn't the place be crimson with blood and black with shame?
Sarah Sundin
#22. In one gallery they actually had a notice which said No Sketching. How obnoxious! I said, How do you think these things got on the walls if there was no sketching?
David Hockney
#23. Seek the ones who never stop caring, who break down your walls, and help you come back to yourself
Yasmin Mogahed
#24. The walls of the Franciscan Church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin Mary were ruined stucco chipping away from the brick underneath, with ghostly frescoes, concrete-filled niches, and one complete, vivid crucifix painted over the altar.
Elizabeth McCracken
#25. Upon the walls of the lonely locked room where he had spent so much of his boyhood, he had hung with his own hands the terrible portrait whose changing features showed him the real degradation of his life, and in front of it had draped the purple-and-gold pall as a curtain.
Oscar Wilde
#26. Based on German prototypes, green walls and roofs are a natural idea in Singapore's tropical environment, where mosses, ferns, philodendrons, orchids and other epiphytes literally grow on trees.
Alan Huffman
#27. Okay! I looked around the band hall, sure that Rachel was going to make a bunch of bloodthirsty nasties pop out of the walls; but we were still alone.
Rick Riordan
#28. I always try to find time to do some graffiti here and there, but most of the time, I have so many walls that are given to me now, so anytime I want to go out and do something illegal, I can just do it legally.
Alec Monopoly
#29. The inside house of the soul is magnificent but fragile; any betrayals and lies embedded in its walls and foundation shift its construction in directions unimagined.
Wm. Paul Young
#30. Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.
Pablo Neruda
#31. Within those confining walls, teachers - a bunch of men all armed with the same information - gave the same lectures every year from the same notebooks and every year at the same point in the textbooks made the same jokes.
Yukio Mishima
#32. Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.
Arthur Ashe
#33. I opened my door
and many, many crowded to come in
I therefore pushed back
the walls of my room
to welcome all my guests
And the room became the home
of my friends
and my room became the world.
Amir Gilboa
#34. In the end, the only safe place to put a Trojan horse is outside your walls.
Robert Harris
#35. You do not feel like
dancing and there are no
daffodils,
only walls, your bedroom door, and the quiet
of the house, tucked asleep in the night's thick cover.
You wait for dawn. You wait for your
dreams. You wait in the night, and you hunger.
Anna West
#36. Love, is sometimes a simpler form of slowly dying, it's like a bullet that ricochets off time's walls of desire, waiting to hit that picture perfect heart of regrets.
Anthony Liccione
#37. The walls you put between yourself and other people doesn't just keep them away, it also keeps God away.
Shannon L. Alder
#38. He was little more than halfway down the staircase when he heard an all-piercing, sustained scream
clearly coming from a small, female child. It was highly acoustical, as though it were reverberating within four tiled walls.
J.D. Salinger
#39. O pity the dead that are dead, but cannot make
the journey, still they moan and beat
against the silvery adamant walls of life's exclusive city.
D.H. Lawrence
#40. When the winds of change blow, some people build walls, and others build windmills. chinese proverb
Anonymous
#41. out of sight, out of mind, right? That motto is just a
temporary fix - until you're forced to come face to face with what you've been running from. That's when
the mental walls you've built to hide behind come crashing down in one hard blow.
Penelope Ward
#42. Were men everywhere to ignore the things that matter little or not at all and give serious attention to the few really important things, most of the walls that divide men would be thrown down at once and a world of endless sufferings ended.
A.W. Tozer
#43. Why the hell did he have to be so complicated? One minute he was charming, the next he withdrew behind his internal walls.
Lia Davis
#44. Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon the rocky walls of caves.
Kate Forsyth
#45. Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it's actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.
Banksy
#46. He wanted to roar like a lion on a cement floor. And bellow like a polar bear with yellow fur worn down to pink skin against the tiles of an enclosure in a zoo. The disgust must come. Let it drip down the walls. Scorch the ceiling black with hatred. Liberate rage.
Adam Nevill
#47. In their churches the Protestants taught believers to go out of the four walls of the church to demonstrate their love for God by how they serve fellow humans
Sunday Adelaja
#48. The Palestinian state is within our grasp. Soon the Palestinian flag will fly on the walls, the minarets and the cathedrals of Jerusalem.
Yasser Arafat
#49. The crunch of tires in the deep snow outside could be heard through the heavy cabin walls, and she followed Wolfie to see who was there. Rhys.
Shit.
Yay.
No, shit.
Really.....shit.
Sibylla Matilde
#50. I was just trying to open the doors ... but walls fell down
Saket Assertive
#51. In that first blow to the deaf walls of those who have everything, the blood of our people, our blood, ran generously to wash away injustice. To live, we die. Our dead once again walked the way of truth. Our hope was fertilized with mud and blood.
Subcomandante Marcos
#52. She knows her place in this world. She can tear down its walls, and still nobody knows her name. - Naomi
Tara Kelly
#53. Only bullets and walls make for honest neighbors.
Philipp Meyer
#54. We know the end is overrated, we'll become the walls we raise. We don't believe enough, but we still care.
Matchbox 20
#56. The power to homogenize is the heavy artillery that has battered down all Chinese walls.
Guy Debord
#57. Walls were invented simply to frustrate scientists. All walls should be banned.
Jules Verne
#58. I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#59. Only as an adult can a child imagine his parent as a whole person, as a husband, a brother, or a son. Only then can a child see how his parent fits into the world beyond four walls.
Nadia Hashimi
#60. The oversized chairs are white; the walls, covered with occasional landscape paintings, are white; and the plush carpet is the whitest of all. I'm insanely glad I didn't bring a cup of grape juice with me.
Wendy Mass
#61. I'm in a small room with pine walls and floorboards. Even the trim is pine, so. Either I was eaten by a tree or I'm in a cabin
Veronica Rossi
#62. A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what is this condition in which I can have peace only by refusing to know and to live, in which the appetite for conquest bumps into walls that defy its assaults?
Albert Camus
#63. I want to run
I want to hide
I want to tear down the walls
That hold me inside
I want to reach out
And touch the flame
Where the streets have no name
Bono
#64. If your enemy comes to speak bearing a sword, open your door to him and speak, but keep your own sword at hand. If he comes to you empty-handed, greet him the same way. But if he comes to you bearing gifts, stand on your walls and cast stones down on him.
Tad Williams
#65. The greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, nor in its gold. Its glory is in its Age, and in that deep sense of voicefulness, of stern watching, of mysterious sympathy ... which we feel in walls that have long been washed by the passing waves of humanity.
John Ruskin
#66. It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed.
George VI
#67. The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds.
Theo Jansen
#68. The walls are cracked and water runs upon them within threads without sound, black and glistening as blood.
Ayn Rand
#69. Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.
Charles Dudley Warner
#70. Our calling is not just within the walls of the congregation, but we are part of the life and community in which our condition resides.
Clementa C. Pinckney
#71. If only those old walls could talk ... how boring they would be.
Robert Benchley
#72. But this room's walls were completely covered by bookcases, filled, which reached to the ceiling. There must have been hundreds - perhaps thousands - of books, their titles embossed in shiny letters.
Lois Lowry
#73. Walls aren't put in our life to stop us, they are there to test how much we really want somthing.
Randy Pausch
#74. He looked at the walls,
Awed at the heights
His people had achieved
And for a moment -- just a moment --
All that lay behind him
Passed from view.
Herbert Mason
#75. They covered their walls with beautiful paintings for the same reason they drank - to distract themselves from the abyss.
Dominic Smith
#76. For the Spartans, it wasn't walls or magnificent public buildings that made a city; it was their own ideals. In essence, Sparta was a city of the head and the heart. And it existed in its purest form in the disciplined march of a hoplite phalanx on their way to war!
Bettany Hughes
#77. I am content, in these four walls, without normality. Lonely? Yes. Miserable? At times. But that is what being content is. Comfortable enough with the situation not to prompt change.
Alessandra Torre
#78. You were hidden behind walls of ice; no man had passed them; I broke them down and love leapt to love, and you lie here, my beautiful, love in the arms of its lover.
James M. Barrie
#79. He was about to kill another animal just as innocent as the one he mounted to his walls. This one, though, wasn't to be taken by sport, but by malice. Bray
Mike Kilroy
#80. Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks.
Bob Dylan
#81. We build too many walls to be honest with ourselves. -Allanon
Terry Brooks
#82. I saw the apartment almost as a sanatorium, a hospice clinic for my own recovery. I painted the walls in the warmest colors I could find and bought myself flowers every week, as if I were visiting myself in the hospital.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#84. In an ancient though not very populous settlement, in a retired corner of one of the New England states, arise the walls of a seminary of learning, which, for the convenience of a name, shall be entitled Harley College.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#85. It's more like she left some of herself behing in the walls and the floors and the books, like there's something she wants to tell me.
Marie Bostwick
#86. Everything about Wesley Ayers is messy. My three worlds are kept apart by walls and doors and locks, and yet here he is, tracking the Archive into my life like mud. I know what Da would say, I know, I know, I know. But the strange new overlap is scary and messy and welcome. I can be careful.
Victoria Schwab
#87. The girl who'd written volumes on the walls but never said a word.
Sarah Ockler
#88. If you're trapped in a room, and nobody is coming to save you, what can you do? You have to bang on the walls and break the windows. You have to climb out and save yourself. It's obvious, Li-ling, that crying doesn't help a person live.
Madeleine Thien
#89. I'm communicating with the directors of the Soviet companies, and I see that it is wrong, but when I go to the official discussions, they discuss we should change the color of the walls.
Anatoly Chubais
#90. It is interesting sometimes to stop and think and wonder what the place you are currently at used to be like in times past, who walked there, who worked there and what the walls have seen.
Patrick Geddes
#91. The walls of pride are high and wide, can't see over to the other side.
Bob Dylan
#92. Laziness builds walls and fences that keep the mind under control.
Auliq Ice
#93. I do recognize the most valuable work being done across the country is that work being done inside the four walls in our homes. And let us not forget how important the work of the mother and father are to raising responsible citizens.
Ann Romney
#94. Ahmed is not a murderer like my father, but within the walls of our apartment - among people he claims to love - he is every inch a terrorist.
Zak Ebrahim
#95. If you have white walls, human beings look better in a room than if you have red walls.
Minoru Yamasaki
#96. There is no paradise, no place of true completion
that does not include within its walls the unknown.
Jane Hirshfield
#97. Let the shameful walls of exclusion finally come tumbling down,
George H. W. Bush
#98. The walls are white, the track is grey, the grass is green, and the sky is blue ... your job is to keep them all where they belong.
Johnny Rutherford
#99. A lot of stand-up comedy is embarrassing: too many idiots doing it in orange neckties against brick walls. I find most sitcoms embarrassing, too, because they seem so forced.
Tracey Ullman
#100. Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.
Dogen
