Walled Garden Quotes

#1. Facebook has focused on the conversation, but not really on absorbing the Web into its walled garden.

David Rusenko

#2. The Labyrinth, a walled garden where humans tortured plants and flowers into growing in straight lines and sharp corners so unnatural that it hurt the mind to see, was east of Thorn's court, on the very edge of the Center Kingdom.

Jon Evans

#3. Britain cherishes her eccentrics and wisely holds that the function of government is to build a walled garden in which anarchy can flourish.

Quentin Crisp

#4. Over the years, the idea seems to have grown up that brightly coloured flowers are vulgar, and that the only flowers to be admitted to the walled garden of good taste are discreet and pastel-hued.

Craig Brown

#5. Blended-reality technology could play in a limited, walled-garden world, but history suggests that it won't really take off until it offers broad freedom of use.

Jamais Cascio

#6. Okay, he said after forever. Maybe okay will be our always.
Okay, I said.

John Green

#7. I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.

Mark Twain

#8. Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated.

Robert Collier

#9. Every time we judge our brother in our hearts or worse when we speak badly of them with others, we are murdering Christians.

Pope Francis

#10. Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.

Margaret Atwood

#11. I just try to get people to laugh - I'm not trying to change the world or anything.

Drew Carey

#12. us not forget Charlie Watts punching Mick Jagger after Jagger called him "my drummer." "You're my singer," Watts snarled, before adjusting his cuffs, and walking away.

Caitlin Moran

#13. Defined brows instantly make you look more polished.

Bobbi Brown

#14. Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.

William Wordsworth

#15. They had a house there below Kelsha, one of the old mud-walled jobs, that has long disappeared back into its garden of fuchsia and orange lilies that the mother herself had planted in her first days of marriage, as women do in their gardens, all full of hope.

Sebastian Barry

#16. Atticus "three kinds of cat shit, Oberon."
Oberon "and an arrogant family of squirrels.

Kevin Hearne

#17. It matters what you believe. Some beliefs are like walled gardens. They encourage exclusiveness and the feeling of being especially privileged. Other beliefs are expansive and lead the way into wider and deeper sympathies.

Sophia Lyon Fahs