Written On The Wall Quotes

#1. I didn't have an identity. It was manufactured. My identity now? It was written on the wall by ancient forces.

Robert Downey Jr.

#2. Our culture highlights all the trouble, all the drama, all the affairs and all the junk. Do not believe for a minute that any of that reflects reality. That does not have to be your future. The handwriting is not written on the wall.

Andy Stanley

#3. 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

#4. The writing was so clearly written on the wall about me, but I didn't see it. I had no role models. I didn't know there was even a possibility of being gay. I battled with it, but this was the way God made me. If you have a problem with it, take it up with the man upstairs.

Bryan Batt

#5. Written on the wall behind them was: 'Blues for the body, food for the soul.

Jennifer Niven

#6. Being French, to me, is first and foremost being a revolutionary.

Eric Cantona

#7. The words come out of Helen Justineau in a flat monotone. Parks thinks of Gallagher's written report, with its proceeding tos and its thereupons. But Justineau's bowed head and the tightness of her grip on the parapet wall add their own commentary. "I

M.R. Carey

#8. She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#9. God didnt put you on earth just to read about what others do. He made you TO DO some things others will want to read about!

Rick Warren

#10. Writers sometimes cast themselves into the most profound depths of despair in order to master it and move on.
A person's true means of expression is his life. Living the shame of life and maintaining silence, that was the greatest accomplishment of all.

Imre Kertesz

#11. Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking of the backside of the picture on the wall, or as if the author expected that the dead would be his readers, and wished to detail to them their own experience.

Henry David Thoreau

#12. When you read a line that is just so well-written you just close the book and stare at the wall for a minute.

Anonymous

#13. If the art is created with the whole person, then the work will come out whole. Education must teach, reach, and vibrate the whole person rather than merely transfer knowledge.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#14. The mountain of despair has dwindled, and the stone of hope has size and shape, and can be fondled by the eyes and by the hand. But freedom has always been an elusive tease, and in the very act of grabbing for it one can become shackled.

Alice Walker

#15. I cant believe anybody would celebrate a holiday where a jolly prowler breaks into your house and leaves gifts.

Squidward Tentacles

#16. To the right of the speakwrite, a small pneumatic tube for written messages; to the left, a larger one for newspapers; and in the side wall, within easy reach of Winston's arm, a large oblong slit protected by a wire grating.

George Orwell

#17. All is well
or could be, if we worked to make it so. We were the fingers of the world, putting itself to rights.

Rachel Hartman

#18. Why the desire for death.
A clean paper or pure white wall.
One false line, a scratch, a mistake.
Unerasable. So obscureby
adding million other tracings,
blend it, cover over.
But the original scratch remains,
written in gold blood, shining.
Desire for a Perfect Life.

Jim Morrison

#19. Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies and directed by Sundance nominee James Ponsoldt, 'The End of the Tour' is a terrific film, among the year's best with its two-man tarantella of wall-to-wall talk - and I watched it through my fingers as though it were Mad Max.

Steve Erickson

#20. When I was young I was constantly reading walls; I took in everything written on walls, from love messages to political messages. It was my hobby and became my art.

Jose Parla

#21. Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have always assumed, when I thought about it at all, that she had come out of the same wall of nothingness as the poetry, myth and legend that had absorbed me all my writing life.

P.L. Travers

#22. You know, I'm the President during this period of time, but I think when the history of this period is written, people will realize a lot of the decisions that were made on Wall Street took place over a decade or so, before I arrived in President, during I arrived in President.

George W. Bush

#23. Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls. Put him in a nice detached villa and he'd never have written a word.

Alan Bennett

#24. Lewis Carroll and J. M. Barrie were very strange men, and such is the nature of the written word that their personal strangeness shines straight through all the layers of Disneyfication like X-rays through a wall. Probably

Neal Stephenson

#25. We are to take the baton of God's truth and pass it on to the next generation of believers.

Jim George

#26. A huge dog, tied by a chain, was painted on the wall and over it was written in capital letters 'Beware of the dog.'

Petronius

#27. I think. Therefore, I am. I think."
- Anonymous

I found this written in tiny letters in the grout between the wall tiles above a urinal in a restroom at the University of Washington, circa 1980. I don't know if Descartes would have approved but I thought it was brilliant.

Gary Val Tenuta

#28. He'll accept anyone at Hogwarts, s'long as they've got the talent. Knows people can turn out okay even if their families weren' ... well ... all tha' respectable.

J.K. Rowling

#29. I, as you may know, am no stranger to the organic courgette, but I still cannot work out who these gay footballers are.

Julian Clary

#30. Once you discover that failure is survivable, your fear of it subsides. Failure is not opposite to success, just part of its process.

T Jay Taylor

#31. I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.

Kristin Scott Thomas

#32. Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.

Ani DiFranco

#33. I had a map on my wall that had a circle around Lubbock and then giant arrows pointing toward New York City and Los Angeles. Written across both arrows were the words 'Toward Civilization.' Of course, by the time I got to New York, I realized there really isn't any civilization.

Barry Corbin

#34. Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.

David Herbert Donald

#35. The fall of the Berlin Wall did more for the progress of freedom than all of the books written by myself or Friedrich Hayek or others.

Milton Friedman