Wall Quotes - Page 27

• The walls of the closet are guarded by the dogs of terror, and the inside of the closet is a house of mirrors.

  Judy Grahn

  Dog, Mirrors, House

  Judy Grahn (1990). “Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds”

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• All one needs to write a story is one feeling and four walls.

  Doris Betts

  Writing, Feelings, Needs

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• I come from down south, where vegetation does not know its place. Honeysuckle can work through cracks in your walls and strangle you while you sleep. Kudzu can completely shroud a house and a car parked in the yard in one growing season. Wisteria can lift a building off its foundation, and certain terrifying mints spread so rapidly that just the thought of them on a summer night can make your hair stand on end.

  Bailey White

  Summer, Sleep, Night

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• We're not choosing the art, the art is choosing us. The pieces are choosing the walls where they hang.

  Massimo Bottura

  Art, Pieces, Art Is

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• When our laws tell people that what lies behind the thin wall of a women's abdomen during pregnancy is not a human being and that the destiny of a preborn child lies with the private conscience of the mother, we are essentially telling society that life itself is not important enough to be called an inalienable right. If life itself is not the most fundamental of all rights, then what is?

  Bob Dornan

  Mother, Children, Lying

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• Rahul Dravid being known as 'The Wall' is pretty much spot on. 'The fortress' could also describe Rahul. Because once, Dravid was set, you needed the bowling equivalent of a dozen cannon firing all at once to blast him down.

  Shane Warne

  Dozen, Bowling, Cannons

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• All of your errors have not built a wall against your success. They have paved your way to it.

  Alan Cohen

  Errors, Way, Built

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• In Wall Street, the only thing that's hard to explain is next week.

  Louis Rukeyser

  Next Week, Streets, Hard

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• Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.

  Abby Sunderland

  Eye, Feet, Water

  Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Here at home, we will strengthen our defenses but not succumb to a siege mentality that sacrifices the open society and liberties and values that we cherish as Americans, because great and proud nations don't hunker down and hide behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

  Barack Obama

  Home, Sacrifice, Liberty

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The problem I've always discovered in my own work when this kind of thing happens when you hit the wall is there's almost always a reason. You've almost always made a mistake in the initial conception of the project. You misapprehended something or you thought something would work and now you're three quarters on the way through and you see that it doesn't work.

  Steven Pressfield

  Mistake, Way, Three

  "Special Interview with Steven Pressfield and Ishita Gupta". "Marketing Over Coffee" podcast with John Wall, www.marketingovercoffee.com. May 16, 2011.

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• As a child I did a lot of imaginary bits, you know. It depends on the individual, I enjoyed then knocking the nail in, I enjoy knocking nails in walls to hang pictures up, but I also enjoy thinking 'I'm gonna do that' but I actually won't do it, I enjoy imagining doing things just as much.

  John Lennon

  Children, Thinking, Nails

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• I think I work in two worlds. I'll always try to kick through a wall. I did that when I was younger and I still have my way of doing that.

  Patti Smith

  Thinking, Two, Trying

  "A Minute With: Patti Smith on her photography show". Interview with Julie Mollins, www.reuters.com. January 16, 2013.

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• Key to the societal significance of tomorrow's leaders is the way they embrace the totality of leadership, not just including 'my organization' but reaching beyond the walls as well.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Keys, Organization, Leader

  Frances Hesselbein (2002). “Hesselbein on Leadership”, p.9, John Wiley & Sons

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• Pain is like a new room in your house that you never knew you had. If you had known, you would have bolted and locked the room past any entering. But truly, it is a room like any other, four glaring white walls and a dark hard floor, and if you don't try to get out, it is possible to remain in it. Once you tried to get out, you ... couldn't ... stand ... it. Don't think of getting out.

  Willa Gibbs

  Pain, Dark, Past

  Willa Gibbs (1953). “Seed of Mischief”

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• Belief in oneself is a crucial quality of leadership, because 'a house divided against itself cannot stand.' A leader who fluctuates back and forth sends a very wavery signal. Like the soprano who can shatter glass by finding that high note and holding it, a leader who can hold that high note, without wavering, can shatter walls.

  Laurie Beth Jones

  Leadership, Glasses, House

  Laurie Beth Jones (1995). “Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership”, Hyperion Books

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• How can one not succumb and allow one's courage to fail when everything is shut tight, when all meaningful things are walled up, and when you constantly knock against bricks, as against the walls of a prison?

  Bruno Schulz

  Meaningful, Bricks, Prison

  Bruno Schulz, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Goldfarb (2008). “The street of crocodiles and other stories”, Penguin Classics

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• To invoke a Kierkegaardesque figure of speech, the beauty of the language of the Bible can be like a set of dentist's instruments nearly laid out on a table and hanging on a wall, intriguing in their technological complexity and with their stainless steel highly polished--until they set to work on the job for which they were originally designed. Then all of a sudden my reaction changes from "How shiny and beautiful they all are!" to "Get that damned thing out of my mouth!

  Jaroslav Pelikan

  Beautiful, Bible, Jobs

  Jaroslav Pelikan (2006). “Whose Bible Is It?: A Short History of the Scriptures”, p.229, Penguin

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• We can no longer speak of a bourne from which no traveler e'er returns. The middle wall of partition has been broken down and the boundary become but an invisible line by the resurrection of Christ. That He who died has been raised again and ever lives in the form of a complete humanity is the fundamental fact in the revelation of the Christian doctrine of immortality.

  B. B. Warfield

  Christian, Easter, Broken

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• Unrequited love is like hitting your head against a wall that isn't there.

  Shannon Wheeler

  Unrequited Love, Love Is, Hitting

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• You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.

  Klaus Kinski

  Ghetto, Finding Yourself, Leap

  "Klaus Kinski & The Thing" by Marcelle Clements. Playboy, Vol. 32, Iss. 11, November 1985.

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• I'm open to anything. I would love to play someone completely off the wall.

  Selma Blair

  Play, Off The Wall

  "Selma Blair's Praying for A Breakout Role". Interview with Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. April 11, 2011.

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• I do not have to build a perfect wall today. I just have to lay a perfect brick.

  Will Smith

  Perfect, Today, Bricks

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• I turned down the lead role in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, because that idiot Oliver Stone didn't think the character should play the alto sax.

  Michael Cera

  Character, Sleep, Thinking

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• In fact, I don't think I'll ever make anything that will feel as divinely dropped in my lap as the opening of 'Wall-E.'

  Andrew Stanton

  Thinking, Lap, Facts

  "Second-Act Twist". Interview with Tad Friend, www.newyorker.com. October 17, 2011.

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