Wall Quotes - Page 35

• Why should a man deliberately encircle his mind with needless prison walls. No man can reach highest excellence who puts limits to his own thought.

  Arthur Desmond

  Men, Mind, Excellence

  "Rival Caesars". Book by Arthur Desmond, 1903.

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• The corporate scandals are getting bigger and bigger. In a speech on Wall Street, President Bush spoke out on corporate responsibility, and he warned executives not to cook the books. Afterwards, Martha Stewart said the correct term was to saute the books.

  Conan O'Brien

  Book, Responsibility, President

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• Don't write naughty words on the wall if you can't spell!

  Tom Lehrer

  Writing, Naughty, Spells

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• Wall Street is one big turf war. By benefiting one person you are disadvantaging another person.

  Bernard Madoff

  War, Bigs, Streets

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• Better to build a bridge than a wall.

  Elton John

  Bridges

  "Elton John and Darren Walker on Race, Sexual Identity and Leaving the Past Behind". Interview with Philip Galanes, www.nytimes.com. November 28, 2014.

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• Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking of the backside of the picture on the wall, or as if the author expected that the dead would be his readers, and wished to detail to them their own experience.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thinking, Air, History

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.549, Simon and Schuster

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• And now that we have returned to the desultory life of the plain, let us endeavor to import a little of that mountain grandeur into it. We will remember within what walls we lie, and understand that this level life too has its summit, and why from the mountain-top the deepest valleys have a tinge of blue; that there is elevation in every hour, as no part of the earth is so low that the heavens may not be seen from, and we have only to stand on the summit of our hour to command an uninterrupted horizon.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Lying, Blue

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.103, Rowman & Littlefield

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• A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods; and we can pardonpride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she stands, or moves, or leaves a shadow on the wall, or sits for a portrait to the artist, she confers a favor on the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Women

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.202, Graphic Arts Books

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• My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself,I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of the individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Sex, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.62, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The New York action painters want their pictures to jump off the walls and chase you down the street.

  Mason Cooley

  New York, Want, Action

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• Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave; and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, aman of honor, but, that, in failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Integrity, Men, Thinking

  "Wealth". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860.

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• Electricity, water, gas, and steam course through the walls of my building, keeping it alive.

  Mason Cooley

  Water, Alive, Building

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• They [US soldiers] started to commit suicide on the Baghdad walls. We will encourage them to double their suicide attempts.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Suicide, Soldier, Baghdad

  "Iraqi information minister denies presence of US forces in Baghdad". BBC Monitoring, April 7, 2003.

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• Years ago, as I was beginning my professional career on Wall Street, I volunteered as a Big Brother in New York City.

  Gerald Chertavian

  Brother, New York, Years

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• Every position must be held to the last man. There must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight to the end.

  Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

  Retirement, War, Believe

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• In Sparta, paintings have been taken out of certain walls by cutting through the bricks, then have been placed in wooden frames, and so brought to the Comitium to adorn the aedileship of [C. Visellius] Varro and [C. Licinius] Murena.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Taken, Cutting, Sparta

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book II, Chapter VIII, Section 9), circa 15 BC.

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• At Halicarnassus, the house of that most potent king Mausolus, though decorated throughout with Proconnesian marble, has walls built of brick which are to this day of extraordinary strength, and are covered with stucco so highly polished that they seem to be as glistening as glass. That king did not use brick from poverty; for he was choke-full of revenues, being ruler of all Caria.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Kings, Glasses, House

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book II, Chapter VIII, Section 10), circa 15 BC.

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• Dimension stone, flint, rubble, burnt or unburnt brick, use them as you find them. For it is not every neighborhood or particular locality that can have a wall built of burnt brick like that at Babylon, where there was plenty of asphalt to take the place of lime and sand, and yet possibly each may be provided with materials of equal usefulness so that out of them a faultless wall may be built to last forever.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Forever, Use, May

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter V, Section 8,

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• Bricks will be most serviceable if made two years before using; for they cannot dry thoroughly in less time. When fresh undried bricks are used in a wall, the stucco covering stiffens and hardens into a permanent mass, but the bricks settle and the motion caused by their shrinking prevents them from adhering to it, and they are separated from their union with it. At Utica in constructing walls they use brick only if it is dry and made five years previously, and approved as such by the authority of a magistrate.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Years, Two, Covering

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book II, Chapter III, Section 2,

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• There are also half bricks. As the bricks are always laid so as to break joints, this lends strength and a not unattractive appearance to both sides of such walls.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Half, Unattractive, Joints

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book II, Chapter III, Section 4,

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• There are two styles of walls "opus reticulatum," now used by everybody and the ancient style called "opus incertum." Of these, the reticulatum looks better, but its construction makes it likely to crack. On the other hand, in the opus incertum, the rubble lying in courses and imbricated, makes a wall which though not beautiful, is stronger.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Beautiful, Lying, Hands

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book II, Chapter VIII: "Methods of Building Walls", Sec. 1,

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• Leave a cavity behind the [wall] facings, and on the inside build walls two feet thick, made of red dimension stone or burnt brick or lava in courses, and then bind them to the fronts by means of iron clamps and lead. The beds and builds, all settling equally and bonded at the joints, will not let the work bulge out, nor allow the fall of the face walls which have been tightly fastened together.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Fall, Mean, Two

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book II, Chapter VIII, Section 4,

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• The opposite of humility is arrogance--the belief that we are wiser or better than others. Arrogance promotes separation rather than community. It looms like a brick wall between us and those from whom we could learn.

  John Templeton

  Humility, Opposites, Community

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• Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe and powerful. Through your little fortress of lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. But the fortress needs walls, so you build some. These are the justifications for your lies. You know, like you are doing this to protect someone you love, to keep them from feeling pain. Whatever works, just so you feel okay about the lies.

  William P. Young

  Running, Pain, Powerful

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• Dancing brings an endlessness in which nothing matters but to go on dancing - in a room, till the walls disappear - in the open, till the sky, moving as you dance, seems to cleave and let you through.

  Dorothy Richardson

  Dance, Moving, Sky

  Dorothy Miller Richardson (1925). “The Trap”

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