Wall Quotes - Page 5

• Israel's capital will never again be a divided city, a city with a wall at its center, a city in which two flags fly. This city, will, in its entirety, absorb immigrants, welcome pilgrims and be the eternal capital of Israel forever.

  Yitzhak Shamir

  Israel, Cities, Two

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• You yourself are to blame. This weeping and wailing and knocking your heads into corners [against brick walls, as it were] will not do you the least good.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Bricks, Blame, Wailing

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4493, Manonmani Publishers

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• This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.

  Sam Mendes

  Climbing, Years, Hiking

  "TIME Asia story 'A Private, Interior Film'". Interview with Stephen Short, www.cnn.com. February 21, 2000.

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• The Stormlight rising from his exposed skin was enough to illuminate the chasm, and it cast shadows on the walls as he ran. Those seemed to become figures, crafted by the bones and branches stretching from the heaps on the ground. Bodies and souls. His movement made the shadows twist, as if turning to regard him.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Soul, Shadow, Skins

  Brandon Sanderson (2014). “Words of Radiance: Book Two of the Stormlight Archive”, p.496, Tor Books

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• The Ripe FigNow that You live here in my chest,anywhere we sit is a mountaintop.And those other images,which have enchanted peoplelike porcelain dolls from China,which have made men and women weepfor centuries, even those have changed now.What used to be pain is a lovely benchwhere we can rest under the roses.A left hand has become a right.A dark wall, a window.A cushion in a shoe heel,the leader of the community!Now silence. What we sayis poison to someand nourishing to others.What we say is a ripe fig,but not every bird that flieseats figs.

  Rumi

  Love, Pain, Dark

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• When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Country, Children, Writing

  Natalia Ginzburg (2017). “The Little Virtues: Essays”, p.49, Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

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• I was cutting and threading pipe in the tunnels to get water into the shower rooms for athletics. I was repairing old metal windows, fixing cement walls where rain was coming through, and drying out the maple gym floors in hopes of removing the warping.

  Tom Baker

  Rain, Cutting, Tunnels

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• You'll never have a garden - a garden needs walls and you have no walls.

  Russell Page

  Garden, Needs, Tools

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• Actually, who hasn't been through the ghastly experience of sitting in front of a blank page, with its toothless mouth grinning at you: Go ahead, let's see you lay a finger on me? A blank page is actually a whitewashed wall with no door and no window. Beginning to tell a story is like making a pass at a total stranger in a restaurant.

  Amos Oz

  Doors, Mouths, Crafts

  Amos Oz (1999). “The Story Begins: Essays on Literature”, Harcourt

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• Think of what big governments have gotten up to in this century : not one, but two world wars, the gulag, the holocaust, aerial bombing of civilian population centers, the Berlin Wall, nuclear explosions, the post office. A wicked individual might want these, but he wouldn't have the cash and connections to get them. A villainous corporation could afford them but has to market the products. The Vietnam draft would be a tough sell for even the most fiendish businessmen. "Get shot! Get killed! Get diseases from foreign women who despise you in their hearts!"

  P. J. O'Rourke

  War, Heart, Thinking

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• The grounds of the place were dominated by several large, old willow trees that towered over the surrounding stone wall and swayed soundlessly in the wind like lost souls.

  Haruki Murakami

  Wind, Tree, Soul

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• I think films are perishable, because they depend too much on technology, which advances too quickly and the films become old-fashioned, antiques. What I hope for is that technology advances to the point that films in the future will depend on a little pill which you take; then you sit in the dark, and from your eyes you project the film you want to see on a blank wall.

  Luis Bunuel

  Eye, Dark, Technology

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• O, mighty, divinely delimited wisdom of walls, boundaries! I is perhaps the most magnificent of all inventions. Man ceased to be a wild animal only when he build the first wall. Men ceased to be a wild man only when we built the Green Wall, only when, by means of that wall, we isolated our perfect machine world from the irrational, ugly world of trees, birds, and animals.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Mean, Men, Animal

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• The firelight magnified our shadows, glinted off the silver, flickered high upon the walls; its reflection roared orange in the windowpanes as if a city were burning outside. The whoosh of the flames was like a flock of birds, trapped and beating in a whirlwind near the ceiling. And I wouldn't have been at all surprised if the long mahogany banquet table, draped in linen, laden with china and candles and fruit and flowers, had simply vanished into thin air, like a magic casket in a fairy story.

  Donna Tartt

  Flower, Reflection, Cities

  Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.85, Vintage

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• A moose is an animal with horns on the front of its head and a hunting lodge wall on the back of it

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Animal, Hunting

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• Facebook is like jail, you sit around and waste time, you write on walls and you get poked by people you don't know

  Will Ferrell

  Writing, Jail, People

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• School is a building that has four walls-with tomorrow inside. Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. There are many ways of going forward, but there is only one way of standing still. A lot of us would like to move mountains, but few of us are willing to practice on small hills. Doing your best is more important than being the best. Giant oak trees started out as little nuts. The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Motivational, Powerful, Moving

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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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• 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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• As I was getting interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, or some big pub guy, all I remember was that he went off to the bathroom for a second, and they brought out my omelet. The next thing I remember, I woke up, and I was on the side of my own omelet, and there was no one at Buck's. Everyone was gone. They just let me sleep.

  Max Levchin

  Sleep, Guy, Gone

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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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• 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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• The basic success of the conga came from ...that basic principle of African music and dance: everybody participates. The conga eradicated the distinction between performer and audience, broke down the wall of the proscenium.

  Ned Sublette

  Principles, African Music, Broke

  Ned Sublette (2007). “Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo”, p.409, Chicago Review Press

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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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