Wall Quotes - Page 32

• Everything in my room was old and faded, but I loved that about it. It felt like there might be secrets in the walls, in the four-poster bed, especially in that music box.

  Jenny Han

  Secret, Bed, Four

  Shannon Messenger, Suzanne Young, Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer, Lauren Barnholdt (2013). “Get a Taste of Pulseit!: Free Pulseit eSampler”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• The word heaven means harmony. The word hell is from the old English hell, meaning to build a wall around, to separate; to be helled was to be shut off from. Now if there is such a thing as harmony there must be that something one can be in right relations with; for to be in right relations with anything is to be in harmony with it. Again, if there is such a thing as being helled, shut off, separated from, there must be that something from which one is held, shut off, or separated.

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Mean, Heaven, Hell

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• I don't run a non-profit. There are lots of non-profits in America - in Detroit, parts of Wall Street, etc. I run a not for profit. We're a business. The only difference is that instead of selling soap or sneakers, we sell hope and leadership.

  Nancy Lublin

  Running, Sneakers, Differences

  "Our Not-for-Profit Business" by Nancy Lublin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 21, 2008.

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• Do you know what Agelisas said, when he was asked why the great city of Lacedomonie was not girded with walls? Because, pointing out the inhabitants and citizens of the city, so expert in military discipline and so strong and well armed: "Here," he said, "are the walls of the city," meaning that there is no wall but of bones, and that towns and cities can have no more secure nor stronger wall than the virtue of their citizens and inhabitants.

  Francois Rabelais

  Strong, Military, Cities

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• Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Believe, Blow, Nails

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• Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone.

  Phillips Brooks

  Fire, Soul, World

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons”

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• Unlike flying or astral projection, walking through walls is an earthbound pursuit.

  Chris Rock

  Flying, Pursuit, Projection

  Source: nymag.com

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• Everything is this distorted mishmash of pop culture that pulls from this era and that era and is just thrown at the wall. These people have no clue what anything really means. There are guys out there getting a million hits for a video.

  Willis Earl Beal

  Mean, People, Guy

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 20, 2013.

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• On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see.... I call Christianity the single great curse, the single great innermost depravity, the single great instinct of revenge, for which no means is poisonous, secretive, subterranean, small enough--I call it mankind's single immortal blemish.... And we reckon time from the dies nefastus with which this calamity arose--following Christianity's first day!--Why not following its last day, instead?--Following today?--Transvaluation of all values!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Time, Revenge, Mean

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• If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see still upon the walls of the temple of Minerva the circular marks made by the shields taken from the enemy in the Persian war, which were suspended there. We have not far to seek for living and unquestionable evidence. The very dust takes shape and confirms some story which we had read.

  Henry David Thoreau

  War, Taken, Dust

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.178, Xist Publishing

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• The night in prison was novel and interesting enough.... I found that even here there was a history and a gossip which never circulated beyond the walls of the jail. Probably this is the only house in the town where verses are composed, which are afterward printed in a circular form, but not published. I was shown quite a long list of verses which were composed by some young men who had been detected in an attempt to escape, who avenged themselves by singing them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Night, Men, Jail

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• A temple, you know, was anciently "an open place without a roof," whose walls served merely to shut out the world and direct the mind toward heaven; but a modern meeting-house shuts out the heavens, while it crowds the world into still closer quarters.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Heaven, House, Mind

  Henry David Thoreau, Joseph O. Valentine, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Land: Nature's Canvas”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• O pity the dead that are dead, but cannot make
  the journey, still they moan and beat
  against the silvery adamant walls of life's exclusive city.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Death, Journey, Cities

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• My bad head cannot adjust itself to the way things are.... If I want to depict spring, it has to be in wintertime; if I want to describe a beautiful landscape, I must be enclosed within walls; and I have said a hundred times that if I were put in the Bastille, there I would paint a picture of liberty.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Beautiful, Truth, Spring

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• It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Years, Meat, Lasts

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.693, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Protestant parents still keep a Bible handy in the house, so that the children can study it, and one of the first things the little boys and girls learn is to be righteous and holy and not piss against the wall. They study those passages more than they study any others, except those which incite to masturbation. Those they hunt out and study in private.

  Mark Twain

  Bible, Girl, Children

  Mark Twain (1995). “The Bible According to Mark Twain: Writings on Heaven, Eden, and the Flood”, p.256, University of Georgia Press

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• Mountain, mountain, mountain,
  marking time. Each
  nameless, wall beyond wall, wavering
  redefinition of
  horizon.

  Denise Levertov

  Mountain, Horizon, Wavering

  Denise Levertov (1983). “Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967”, p.128, New Directions Publishing

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• There will be a rusty gun on the wall, sweetheart,
  The rifle grooves curling with flakes of rust.
  A spider will make a silver string nest in the darkest, warmest
  corner of it.

  Carl Sandburg

  Gun, Rifles, Spiders

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use the shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy's defensive line. In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! I hope I'll be safe at home!

  George Carlin

  Sports, Baseball, Football

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• Computer science … jobs should be way more interesting than even going to Wall Street or being a lawyer--or, I can argue, than anything but perhaps biology, and there it's just a tie.

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, Ties, Interesting

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• It was the first female-style revolution: no violence and we all went shopping.

  Gloria Steinem

  Shopping, Style, Female

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• Pale and pinched-up faces hovered about the windows where was tempting food; hungry eyes wandered over the profusion guarded by one thin sheet of brittle glass--an iron wall to them; half-naked shivering figures stopped to gaze at Chinese shawls and golden stuffs of India.

  Charles Dickens

  Eye, Iron, Glasses

  Charles Dickens (1875). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.426

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• There never seems to be any difficulty in stretching the laws and the constitution to fit any kind of a political deal, but when it is proposed to make some concession to women they loom up like an unscalable wall.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Law, Political, Constitution

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• A small boy puts his hand on the wall, and looks down intently as he wriggles his toes. The birth of thought?

  Mason Cooley

  Thoughtful, Boys, Thinking

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• One line typed twenty years ago
  can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint
  to glorify art as detachment
  or torture of those we
  did not love but also
  did not want to kill.

  Adrienne Rich

  Art, Years, Twenties

  Adrienne Rich (1993). “Your Native Land, Your Life”, p.27, W. W. Norton & Company

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