Wall Quotes - Page 16

• May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Happiness, Christmas, Laughter

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• He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of him. He had lived as an outsider, an idler and onlooker, well liked in his young manhood, alone in his illness and advancing years. Seized with weariness, he sat down on the wall, and the river murmured darkly in his thoughts.

  Hermann Hesse

  Fall, Rivers, Years

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• I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.

  Callan McAuliffe

  Running, Flip, Impressive

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• I had always fantasized about going to the Pyramids, the Great Wall; I've always been sort of obsessed with the whole notion of Everest.

  Justin Zackham

  Pyramids, Obsessed, Notion

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• One day, I got so disgusted that I sat down and wrote a list called 'Justin's list of things to do before he kicks the bucket.' I wrote it for myself and shortened it to 'Justin's Bucket List.' It was there on the wall, not as a story idea but as a motivational tool for myself, which actually ended up working pretty well.

  Justin Zackham

  Ideas, One Day, Buckets

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• I would describe my style as off the wall. I like stuff that doesn't match. I just like to stand out.

  Kevin Durant

  Style, Stuff, Standing Out

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I came to love Fenway. It was a place that rejuvenated me after a road trip; the fans right on top of you, the nutty angles. And the Wall. That was my baby, the left-field wall, the Green Monster.

  Carl Yastrzemski

  Baby, Monsters, Fans

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• I’m the least fanciful guy around, but on nights when I wonder whether there was any point to my day, I think about this: the first thing we ever did, when we started turning into humans, was draw a line across the cave door and say: Wild stays out. What I do is what the first men did. They built walls to keep back the sea. They fought the wolves for the hearth fire.

  Tana French

  Heart, Night, Men

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• When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.

  Philip Yancey

  Suffering, World, Doe

  Philip Yancey (2010). “What Good is God?: On the Road with Stories of Grace”, p.174, Hachette UK

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• 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

  School, Kids, Teeth

  "Wilson's an ideal role model". www.foxnews.com. January 28, 2015.

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• You can go bang a ball against a wall all you want, but how do you become a better team player? By playing other team sports.

  Dom Starsia

  Sports, Team, Player

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• Vermilion alone could render the brilliant red of the tiles on the opposite slope. The orange of the soil, the harsh crude colors of the walls and greenery, the ultramarine and cobalt of the sky achieved an extreme harmony that was sensually and musically ordered.

  Maurice de Vlaminck

  Orange, Color, Opposites

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• Yet we can be sure that whatever fictions exist in Wall Street bookkeeping, the earth is a faithful scribe, a faultless calculator, a superb bookkeeper; we will be held responsible for every bit of our economic folly.

  Thomas Berry

  Integrity, Faithful, Fiction

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• It's amazing that something only an atom thick can be an impenetrable barrier. You can have gas on one side and vacuum or liquid on the other, and with a wall only one atom thick, nothing would go through it.

  Paul McEuen

  Vacuums, Atoms, Sides

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• Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class - which again breeds isolation, loneliness.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Loneliness, Race, Class

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1963-1964): The New Mind”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

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• It's often been said, "Violence never solved anything." The simple truth is that when you are slammed up against the wall and the knife is at your throat, when a circle of teenagers is kicking you as you curl into a ball on the sidewalk, or when the man walks into your office building or school with a pair of guns and starts shooting, only violence, or the reasonable threat of violence, is going to save your life. In the extreme moment, only force can stop force.

  Rory Miller

  Teenager, School, Simple

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• One of the things Wall Street does not like is ambiguity. Now that the agreement is there, it begins to make the future look a little less cloudy, and that's positively received by Wall Street.

  Philip M. Condit

  Agreement, Doe, Looks

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• I look back on my years as a Wall Street lawyer as time spent in a foreign country.

  Susan Cain

  Country, Years, Looks

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.218, Broadway Books

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• Fat slips through the intestinal wall and into the bloodstream where it distributes the nutrients throughout the body. Olestra can't get through the wall, and it continues down the intestines and out the body.

  Michael F. Jacobson

  Body, Fats, Intestines

  "FDA looks at fat substitute" by Eugenia Halsey, www.cnn.com. November 18, 1995.

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• I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting . . . it was the start of a new Arab world.. The Berlin Wall has fallen.

  Walid Jumblatt

  Iraq, People, Cynical

  "Arnold An 'Arrogant Patriarch'?". www.foxnews.com. April 05, 2012.

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• Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Ideas, Drawing

  "Sol LeWitt by Saul Ostrow". Interview with Saul Ostrow, bombmagazine.org. October 1, 2003.

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• The true professional makes art when he is not feeling good, if the studio is too cold or too warm or the walls are falling down. We are painters and we paint. If I were a sculptor, I'd sculpt.

  Jack White

  Art, Fall, Feel Good

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• Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration.

  Frank Yerby

  Believe, Inspiration, Writing

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• When you see something special, something inspired, you realise the debt we owe great curators and their unforgettable shows - literally unforgettable because you remember every picture, every wall and every juxtaposition.

  Charles Saatchi

  Special, Debt, Juxtaposition

  Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press

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• Wall Street is being investigated, but they are not asleep while it's being done. You see where the Senate took that tax off the sales of stocks, didn't you? Saved 'em $48,000,000. Now, why don't somebody investigate the Senate and see who got to them to get that tax removed? That would be a real investigation.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Real, Would Be

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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