Wall Quotes - Page 23

• The Walls enriched with Fruit-trees and faced with a covering of their leafy extensions; I should rather have said hung with different Pieces of Nature's noblest Tapestry.

  James Hervey

  Tree, Fruit, Covering

  James Hervey (1856). “Meditations and contemplations: to which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.143

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• .... Anon from the castle walls The crescent banner falls, And the crowd beholds instead, Like a portent in the sky, Iskander's banner fly, The Black Eagle with double head. And shouts ascend on high .....'' Long live Scanderbeg.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fall, Eagles, Sky

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Horace Elisha Scudder (1922). “The Complete Poetical Works of Longfellow”

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• During college, when I was working full time for my father [the decorator Mark Hampton], I rented an apartment and I just couldn't take time off to paint it. So I went there one evening and stayed up all night painting the place what I thought was a lovely pale yellow. When the sun came up, I realized I'd painted the walls the color of insanity. I had to immediately mix in all my trim color to tone it down. Yellow is an electric color and wholly misleading. It becomes more yellow with the sun's yellow light on it. The moral is, even if you think your yellow is the one, go paler.

  Alexa Hampton

  Father, Night, College

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• And Sandy Martindale ... dated Elvis before the rhinestone jumpsuits and the drugs, when he was sharp and cool and jagged, like porcelain that has been hurled against a wall.

  Rick Bragg

  Drug, Porcelain, Jumpsuits

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• I have a picture of the Pont Neuf on a wall in my apartment, but i know that Paris is really on the closet shelf, in the box next to the sleeping bag, with the rest of my diaries.

  Thomas Mallon

  Sleep, Paris, Bags

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• Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It's my job to do the work for them because they have no one.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Jobs, Voice, People

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• How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell and a still one? If man is so generally less happy in the cities than in the country, it is because all these variations and nuances of sight and smell and sound are less clearly marked and lost in the general monotony of gray walls and cement pavements.

  Lin Yutang

  Summer, Country, Winter

  Lin Yutang (2013). “Lin Yutang - The Importance Of Living”, p.74, Read Books Ltd

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• I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers.

  Mickey Kaus

  Experts, Paper, Streets

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• One day the enemy will cross the Great Green. They will bring war and tragedy to these eastern lands. Such is the nature of vile men. Yet we cannot live in dread of them. We cannot hide behind these high walls, our hearts trembling. For that is not life. We must accept the needs and the duties of each day, and face them one at a time.

  David Gemmell

  Fear, War, Heart

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• I loved working on Wall Street. I loved the meritocracy of it and the camaraderie of the trading floor.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Trading Floor, Camaraderie, Streets

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• Honestly, the essence of publishing hasn't changed. Since the days of the cave man carving stuff on the cave walls, people have wanted stories, and storytellers have wanted an audience. That is still the case. The changes are really a matter of format.

  Susan Wiggs

  Men, Essence, People

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• My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.

  Kristin Hersh

  Brother, Years, Staring

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• In school, I learned about artists and how they were free to express themselves. I was allergic to conformity, and the lifestyle attracted me. I wanted to express myself in a way that slammed people up against the wall.

  Grace Slick

  School, Artist, People

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• You can laugh at somebody because they are innocent, and because they are naive or they are about to walk into a wall, but if somebody's giving you stuff, if somebody's talking, giving you their take on things, what makes you laugh, generally speaking, is going to be somebody who is telling it in an angry way.

  Dylan Moran

  Talking, Giving, Laughing

  "Half-cut? I'd be entirely cut, sliced and diced every which way". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2006.

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• Great communicators have an appreciation for positioning. They understand the people they're trying to reach and what they can and can't hear. They send their message in through an open door rather than trying to push it through a wall.

  John P. Kotter

  Appreciation, Doors, People

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• A small speckled visitor Wearing a crimson cape Brighter than a cherry Smaller than a grape A polka-dotted someone Walking on my wall A black-hooded lady In a scarlet shawl.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Black, Capes, Ladybugs

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• Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.

  Denis Diderot

  Views, Religion, Doe

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• A particular piece of music attaches itself to the piece I'm writing, and there is nothing else I can listen to. Every day I return to the same space to write, the music providing both the walls and the pictures on the walls.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Writing, Space, Pieces

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• No Western nation has to build a wall round itself to keep its people in.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, People, Cold

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

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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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• I try to play squash but I keep running into the walls.

  Matthew Bellamy

  Running, Play, Squash

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Often there is a wall between the journalist and the star because there is usually not much time to get to know a person, and the star is always asked the same questions, and may be defensive.

  Ruud Gullit

  Stars, May, Journalist

  "The flower and the glory". February 8, 2004.

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• A closed plant is like a cemetery; it really is. The walls will talk to you; the machines will talk to you if you really talk to them.

  Hamdi Ulukaya

  Machines, Plant, Cemetery

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• I think we need to teach children the importance of others, and that they cannot grow in this world without taking in others. The more worlds they take in, these unique worlds, the more they can become. We need to teach them to trust others again, because we're all frightened to death of each other. We're building higher and higher walls, stronger and stronger locks. Tear down the walls! Every day I see how we're distrusting and it hurts.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Hurt, Children, Unique

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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• When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On all the hills I haven't hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, Blade-end up and five feet tall, And plod: I go up to the stone wall For a friendly visit.

  Robert Frost

  Horse, Character, Feet

  Robert Frost (2012). “Frost: Poems”, p.177, Everyman's Library

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