Wall Quotes - Page 20

• Well, painting today certainly seems very vibrant, very alive, very exiting. Five or six of my contemporaries around New York are doing very vital work, and the direction that painting seems to be taken here - is - away from the easel - into some sort, some kind of wall, wall painting.

  Jackson Pollock

  New York, Taken, Alive

  "Interview by William Wright". as quoted in "Abstract Expressionism: Creators and Critics", ed. Clifford Ross, 1990, p.144, Summer 1950.

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• Looking into it a bit, Jamie found that the model used by Wall Street to price LEAPs, the Black-Scholes option pricing model, made some strange assumptions.

  Michael Lewis

  Black, Strange, Assumption

  Michael Lewis (2015). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)”, p.128, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The model used by Wall Street to price trillions of dollar's worth of derivatives thought of the financial world as an orderly, continuous process. But the world was not continuous; it changed discontinuously, and often by accident.

  Michael Lewis

  World, Derivatives, Dollars

  "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine". Book by Michael Lewis, March 15, 2010.

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• Seven years I worked at the Polish deli. It's a very slow deli. So I sat around a lot on my stool at the cashier. And I'd sign my autograph on all the bags I'd put the milk in. Just everyday, practice my autograph. And the manager of the store would take some of them and tape them against the wall. And he'd say, "Some day, I'm telling you, it will be worth something." And I'm like 13, going, "Really?!" And when I go back there, he still has them on the wall. It's very cute.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Cute, Years, Practice

  "Interview: Jenny Mccarthy" with Jenny Mccarthy, www.ign.com. September 21, 2005.

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• That's the words: "So I'm back to the velvet underground" - which is a clothing store in downtown San Francisco, where Janis Joplin got her clothes, and Grace Slick from Jefferson Airplane, it was this little hole in the wall, amazing, beautiful stuff - "back to the floor that I love, to a room with some lace and paper flowers, back to the gypsy that I was."

  Stevie Nicks

  Beautiful, Flower, Airplane

  "Stevie Nicks On Her Favorite Songs: A Music Mix Exclusive". Interview with Leah Greenblatt, www.ew.com. March 31, 2009.

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• Poetry, is the insulation that lies between the inner walls of the mind.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Lying, Mind, Insulation

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• There isn't any wall, however high, however wide or however big, whatever it is made from, that can bar you from achieving a better life. There isn't any wall or pit that is in front of you to stop you from achieving a future of wellbeing.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Bars, Pits, Achieve

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's speech as the guest of honour at the dinner hosted by Felipe Calderon at the National Palace in Mexico City, July 16, 2007.

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• Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?

  Charles Stross

  Running, Real, Writing

  Charles Stross (2005). “Accelerando”, p.388, Penguin

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• The first cup caresses my dry lips and throat, The second shatters the walls of my loneliness, The third explores the dry rivulets of my soul Searching for legends of five thousand scrolls. With the fourth the pain of past injustice vanishes through my pores. The fifth purifies my flesh and bone. With the sixth I commune with the immortals. The seventh conveys such pleasure I am overcome. The fresh wind blows through my wings As I make my way to Penglai.

  Lu Tong

  Pain, Loneliness, Blow

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• I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity.

  William Baziotes

  Painting, Ancient, Melancholy

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• I consider my painting finished when my eyes goes to a particular spot on the canvas. But if I put the picture away about thirty feet on the wall and the movements keep returning to me and the eye seems to be responding to something living, then it is finished.

  William Baziotes

  Eye, Feet, Movement

  "Abstract Expressionism, Creators and Critics". Book by Clifford Ross, 1990.

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• Make a small painting of what you want to do... and project it up on a white wall... The enlarged version is so changed that there is no way of just visualizing it in the brain... It's a whole new dimension in painting.

  Jim Rowe

  Technology, White, Brain

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• Art is the space between the viewer and the rectangle that hangs on the wall. Unless something of the person that created the work is there, there's nothing for the viewer to take away.

  T. Allen Lawson

  Art, Space, Rectangles

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• If there is writing on Hadrian's Wall, it reads that the English should leave Scotland to its own devices.

  Simon Heffer

  Writing, Scotland, Hadrian

  1999 Nor Shall My Sword: The Reinventing of England.

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• The world is a stone wall ... and they have put the stones so close together that there is not a single crack through which one may enter.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Together, Cracks, World

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• The truth is, everything we know about America, everything Americans come to know about being American, isn't from the news. I live there. We don't go home at the end of the day and think, "Well, I really know who I am now because the Wall Street Journal says that the Stock Exchange closed at this many points." What we know about how to be who we are comes from stories. It comes from the novels, the movies, the fashion magazines. It comes from popular culture.

  Chris Abani

  Fashion, Home, Thinking

  "On humanity". TED Talks, www.ted.com. February, 2008.

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• People who are intolerant, categorize and over-react... should all be dragged against a wall and shot.

  Arthur M. Jolly

  People, Tolerance, Should

  The Questionnaire Interview, 2010.

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• At home the very walls lend you strength.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Home

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• Remember, you cannot be responsible for the happiness of other people. You can do your best to be sensitive to the needs and desires of others, but some people will not be happy no matter how much you do for them. If you decided you were responsible for their happiness, you could drive yourself completely up the nearest wall.

  Kevin Leman

  Remember You, Remembers You, People

  Kevin Leman (2010). “Why Your Best Is Good Enough”, p.212, Revell

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• Mutual funds are an overrated investment heavily promoted by Wall Street.

  Peter Schiff

  Mutual Fund, Investment, Streets

  Peter D. Schiff (2011). “Crash Proof 2.0: How to Profit From the Economic Collapse”, p.135, John Wiley & Sons

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• There was sex, of course. Nakedness. Wall to wall, in and out of my thoughts. But when it was over it was her whispering voice I craved, and a human curled up in my arms.

  Markus Zusak

  Sex, Voice, Whispering

  Markus Zusak (2013). “Getting The Girl”, p.7, Scholastic Inc.

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• All this talk of using tax policy to 'assess social costs'...what a dumb idea. The only way to stop polluters is to put them against walls and shoot them.

  David Brin

  Ideas, Dumb, Cost

  David Brin (2009). “Earth”, p.265, Spectra

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• A precious place is Paradise and none may know its worth, But Eden ever longeth for the knicknacks of the earth. The angels grow quite wistful over worldly things below; They hear the hurdy-gurdies in the Candle Makers Row. They listen for the laughter from the antics of the earth; They lower pails from heaven's walls to catch the milk-maids mirth.

  Nathalia Crane

  Laughter, Angel, Eden

  Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”

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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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• In fact, of all hoodoos in Wall Street I think the resolve to induce the stock market to act as a fairy godmother is the busiest and most persistent.

  Edwin Lefevre

  Thinking, Godmother, Facts

  Edwin Lefevre (2013). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.261, Lulu Press, Inc

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