Wall Quotes - Page 27

• Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Labels, Needs

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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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• Sarah Palin had a big op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal, and she said she's against death panels. And I thought, 'Really? She's the one who pulled the plug on the McCain campaign.'

  David Letterman

  Campaigns, Pieces, Bigs

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• Pride of opinion has been responsible for the downfall of more men on Wall Street than any other factor.

  Charles Dow

  Pride, Men, Opinion

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• My new house is going to have wall-to-wall awards!

  Patsy Cline

  Awards, House

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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 groves and thickets of smaller trees are full of blooming evergreen vines. These vines are not arranged in separate groups, or in delicate wreaths, but in bossy walls and heavy, mound-like heaps and banks. Am made to feel that I am now in a strange land. I know hardly any of the plants, but few of the birds, and I am unable to see the country for the solemn, dark, mysterious cypress woods which cover everything.

  John Muir

  Country, Dark, Land

  John Muir (2015). “John Muir’s Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs & Wilderness Studies from the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite and Picturesque California”, p.38, e-artnow

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• I liked the taste of beer, its live, white lather, its brass-bright depths, the sudden world through the wet-brown walls of the glass, the tilted rush to the lips and the slow swallowing down to the lapping belly, the salt on the tongue, the foam at the corners.

  Dylan Thomas

  Beer, Glasses, White

  Dylan Thomas (1986). “The Collected Stories”, p.211, New Directions Publishing

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• Most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wall.

  Matthew Arnold

  Dream, Work, Eye

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• Belshazzar had a letter,-- He never had but one; Belshazzar's correspondence Concluded and begun In that immortal copy The conscience of us all Can read without its glasses On revelation's wall.

  Emily Dickinson

  Glasses, Letters, Revelations

  Emily Dickinson (1959). “Selected poems and letters of Emily Dickinson: together with Thomas Wentworth Higginson's account of his correspondence with the poet and his visit to her in Amherst”, Turtleback

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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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• All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 tax decision: Where else are you going to read the paper? Outside? What if it rains?

  Dave Barry

  Humorous, Rain, Justice

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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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• 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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• Logic is the subject that has helped me most in picking stocks, if only because it taught me to identify the peculiar illogic of Wall Street. Actually Wall Street thinks just as the Greeks did. The early Greeks used to sit around for days and debate how many teeth a horse has. They thought they could figure it out just by sitting there, instead of checking the horse. A lot of investors sit around and debate whether a stock is going up, as if the financial muse will give them the answer, instead of checking the company.

  Peter Lynch

  Horse, Thinking, Giving

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• Night-dreams trace on Memory's wall Shadows of the thoughts of day, And thy fortunes, as they fall, The bias of the will betray.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Memories, Fall

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Susan Sutton Smith, Ralph H. Orth (1990). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.68, University of Missouri Press

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• Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at conferences unless she was convinced there was no danger of a satisfactory solution; then she strained every nerve in the cause of peace.

  E. M. Forster

  War, Nerves, Minorities

  "The Life to Come (and Other Stories)". Book by E. M. Forster, 1972.

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• No one was responsible for the great Wall Street crash. No one engineered the speculation that preceded it. Both were the product of free choice and decision of hundreds of thousands of individuals.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Decision, Choices, Crash

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1955). “The great crash, 1929”

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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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• 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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• Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.

  Alexander Pope

  Writing, Rooms, Muse

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1751). “The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq., with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death; Together with the Commentaries and Notes of Mr. Warburton”, p.49

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