Wall Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• The test of an abstract picture, for me, is not my first reaction to it, but how long I can stand it hanging on the wall of a room where I am living.

  Bill Vaughan

  Long, Tests, Hanging On

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• I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls! I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls! I felt her presence, by its spell of might, Stoop o'er me from above; The calm, majestic presence of the Night, As of the one I love.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Night, Light, Might

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.2

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• I remember I went to Berlin right after the Wall came down. I first went to East Berlin, and all the buildings were old and falling down, and now when you go back to Berlin, you know you're in the East because all the buildings are brand new and very tall.

  Moby

  Fall, East Berlin, Down And

  "Giorgio Moroder". Interview with Moby, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 23, 2015.

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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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• I want every family in America to have a carpet on the floor and a picture on the wall. After bread, you've got to have a picture on the wall.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  America, Want, Bread

  On visiting Pittsburgh's Polish - Czech area. Quoted in Alistair Cooke The Americans (1980).

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• The ancients, even though they believed in destiny , believed primarily in nature , in which they participated wholeheartedly. To rebel against nature amounted to rebelling against oneself. It was butting one's head against a wall.

  Albert Camus

  Destiny, Rebel, Oneself

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.27, Vintage

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• What misery to live in this world! We are like men whose enemies are at the door, who must not lay aside their arms, even while sleeping or eating, and are always in dread lest the foe should enter the fortress by some breach in the walls. O my Lord and my all! How canst thou wish us to prize such a wretched existence?

  Teresa of Avila

  Life, Sleep, Men

  St. Teresa of Avila (1921). “The Interior Castle, or the Mansions”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• Sometimes the longer you are inside a prison, the harder it is to fathom what is possible beyond its walls.

  Suki Kim

  Sometimes, Prison, Fathom

  Suki Kim (2014). “Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite”, p.44, Crown

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• There isn't a single government agency that can't function. There's more money in this federal government, there's more money allocated than these people can possibly spend. They have to concoct asinine ways to spend it, like advertising for new food stamp users. I've gotten to the point, I'm just so righteously indignant and offended at the very idea that our government could ever run out of money when we've got a printing press, for crying out loud. Printed three and a half trillion dollars over seven years and flooded Wall Street with it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Years, Ideas

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• Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research.

  Friedrich Engels

  Adventure, Common Sense, Research

  Friedrich Engels (2008). “Socialism: Utopian and Scientific”, p.47, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Business has to have capital.I think Wall Street is a necessary ingredient of the global economy, you've just got to keep people realizing that helping clients is the most important thing, not helping yourself.

  John Kasich

  Thinking, People, Important

  "John Kasich Tells TIME: The Republican Party Is My Vehicle, Not My Master". Interview with Zeke J Miller, Deer Valley, time.com. June 18, 2015.

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• I really think more about being honest and truthful about feelings and how people behave for the movies that I direct, but I also love movies like Zohan and Anchorman, just balls to the wall, how much can you make people laugh in one 90 minute period.

  Judd Apatow

  Anchorman, Thinking, People

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I try to find a compositional structure in the subject itself, in nature... I rely on the angle where the wall meets the floor as a constant reference point, and against that I oppose the movements of the model's limbs.

  Philip Pearlstein

  Trying, Movement, Structure

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• Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell?

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Cells, Next, Succeed

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• Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.

  George Eliot

  Truth, Paradise, Plant

  George Eliot (1863). “Romola”, p.105

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• Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.

  Jonathan Swift

  Ears, Tongue

  'A Pastoral Dialogue between Richmond Lodge and Marble Hill' (1727) l. 8

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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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• 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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• For in the night, unseen, a single warrior, In sombre harness mailed, Dreaded of man, and surnamed the Destroyer, The rampart wall has scaled. He passed into the chamber of the sleeper, The dark and silent room, And as he entered, darker grew, and deeper, The silence and the gloom.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Warrior, Dark, Night

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (185?). “The Poetical Works of Henry W. Longfellow”, p.471

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• When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.

  Hans Haacke

  Art, Butterfly, Admire

  "Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre, and Elsewhere". Book by Michael Kimmelman, 1998.

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• A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way. And you, sitting around here like a knot on the wall, saying, “I’m going to love these folks no matter how much they hate me.” No, you need a revolution. Whoever heard of a revolution where they lock arms, as Reverend Cleage was pointing out beautifully, singing “We Shall Overcome”? Just tell me. You don’t do that in a revolution. You don’t do any singing; you’re too busy swinging.

  Malcolm X

  Hate, Singing, Arms

  "Message to Grassroots" by Malcolm X, teachingamericanhistory.org. November 10, 1963.

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• Only in the theatre was it possible to see the performers and to be warmed by their personal charm, to respond to their efforts and to feel their response to the applause and appreciative laughter of the audience. It had an intimate quality; audience and actors conspired to make a little oasis of happiness and mirth within the walls of the theatre. Try as we will, we cannot be intimate with a shadow on a screen, nor a voice from a box.

  Robertson Davies

  Laughter, Voice, Oasis

  "Lew Fields". 1941.

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• Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.

  Tennessee Williams

  Sight, People, Broken

  Tennessee Williams (1961). “Period of Adjustment”, p.19, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Sometimes a god comes.... He brings a new way to do a thing, or a new thing to be done. A new kind of singing, or a new kind of death. He brings this across the bridge between the dream-time and the world-time. When he has done this, it is done. You cannot take things that exist in the world and try to drive them back into the dream, to hold them inside the dream with walls and pretenses. That is insanity. What is, is. There is no use pretending, now, that we do not know how to kill one another.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Dream, Bridges, Insanity

  "The Word for World Is Forest". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1972.

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