Wall Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• When you're standing in deep water
  And you're bailing yourself out with a straw
  And when you're drowning in deep water
  And you wake up making love to a wall
  Well it's these little time that help to remind
  It's nothing without love, love, love

  Jewel

  Song, Deep Water, Making Love

  Song: Deep Water, Album: Spirit, 1998

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• Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.

  Joaquin Miller

  Moon, Purple, Broken

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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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• But no temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...as if into this one mountain mansion Nature had gathered her choicest treasures.

  John Muir

  Rocks, Hands, Mountain

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• Having worked at four separate Wall Street firms, having seen a variety of talent at those places, and having competed against Goldman as a banker, one thing you have to be struck by is the power of their recruiting.

  William D. Cohan

  Bankers, Four, Talent

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• You never saw such a crazy cat. 'Up the wall' took on a literal meaning.

  Arnold Hano

  Crazy, Cat, Saws

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• There are fashions in reading, even in thinking. You don't have to follow them unless you want to. On the other hand, watch out. Don't stick too closely to your favorite subject. That would keep you from adventuring into other fields. It's silly to build a wall around your interests.

  Walt Disney

  Fashion, Reading, Silly

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• No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life. Some lean back in majestic repose; others, absolutely sheer or nearly so for thousands of feet, advance beyond their companions in thoughtful attitudes, giving welcome to storms and calms alike, seemingly aware, yet heedless, of everything going on about them.

  John Muir

  Attitude, Thoughtful, Hands

  John Muir (2017). “The Yosemite: John Muir's quest to preserve the wilderness”, p.11, Vertebrate Publishing

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• The whole financial structure of Wall Street seems to rise or fall on the mere fact that the Federal Reserve Bank raises or lowers the amount of interest. Any business that can't survive a one percent change must be skating on thin ice.
  Why even the poor farmer took a raise of another ten percent just to get a loan from the bank, and nobody from the government paid any attention. But you let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help to get them back into bed again.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Fall, Skating On Thin Ice

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• Many evil things there are that your strong walls and bright swords do not stay.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Strong, Evil, Your Strong

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• Healthy boundaries are important, but you may be building a brick wall when a picket fence would do.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Healthy, Important

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• The battle outside raging will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.

  Bob Dylan

  Future, Battle, Window

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• All architecture, which does not express serenity, fails in its spiritual mission. Thus, it has been a mistake to abandon the shelter of walls for the inclemency of large areas of glass.

  Luis Barragan

  Spiritual, Mistake, Glasses

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• I just hand shoes on the wall. They're architecture you know.

  Tori Amos

  Hands, Shoes, Architecture

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• We can't be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths.

  Mark Lawrence

  Trapped

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• Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street. When you read contemporary accounts of booms or panics, the one thing that strikes you most forcibly is how little either stock speculation or stock speculators today differ from yesterday. The game does not change and neither does human nature.

  Edwin Lefevre

  Games, Indulge In, Yesterday

  Edwin Lefèvre (2004). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.165, John Wiley & Sons

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• Who says you can't rock Wall Street and wear purple at the same time? Jennifer Lee opens the door for artists, healers, and brilliant souls to take their passion into the marketplace.

  Tama J. Kieves

  Passion, Artist, Rocks

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• Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Race, Feelings, Library

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• Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting.

  David Gelernter

  Book, Symphony, Painting

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• And lastly, Chairman Khrushchev has compared the United States to a worn-out runner living on its past performance, and stated that the Soviet Union would out-produce the United States by 1970. Without wishing to trade hyperbole with the Chairman, I do suggest that he reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he his caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

  John F. Kennedy

  Past, Ideas, Long

  News Conferences, www.jfklibrary.org. June 28, 1961.

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• Plasma on the wall/Write my name on your heart like I'm Lucille Ball/But love changes, a thug changes/And best friends become strangers

  Ras Kass

  Writing, Heart, Thug

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