Wall Quotes - page 3

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between church and State. (Thomas Jefferson)
Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief. View quote
Dave Grohl
Oh, I'm not a Berkeleian. I believe my back's against this wall. I believe there's a sten gun over there. View quote
Graham Greene
A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with. View quote
Banksy
The purest evil that human efforts could attain, in other words, was probably achieved by those men who made their wills the same and who made their eyes see the world in the same way, men who went against the pattern of life's diversity, men whose spirits shattered the natural wall of the individual body, making nothing of this barrier, set up to guard against mutual corrosion, men whose spirit accomplished what flesh could never accomplish. View quote
Yukio Mishima
Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works. View quote
Haruki Murakami
In the long, sleepless watches of the night, A gentle face - the face of one long dead - Looks at me from the wall, where round its head The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion. View quote
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link. View quote
Simone Weil
My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall. Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don't think art is elite or mysterious. I don't think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention. View quote
Ai Weiwei
I come from a law enforcement family. My grandfather, William J. Comey, was a police officer. Pop Comey is one of my heroes. I have a picture of him on my wall in my office at the FBI, reminding me of the legacy I've inherited and that I must honor. (James Comey)
Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings. View quote
Sol LeWitt
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down. View quote
Robert Frost
I'm not really afraid of the dark, except if I'm walking. The thing that scares me the most is the possibility of walking into a wall and busting my lip. View quote
Vin Diesel
It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall. View quote
Boris Johnson
I would trade all the advantages of humanity to be a fly on the wall when Franklin and Jefferson discussed liberty, Lenin and Trotsky revolution, Newton and Halley the shape of the universe, or when Darwin entertained Huxley and Lyell at Down. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me. View quote
Elie Wiesel
To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
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. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
In 1929 the discovery of the wonders of the geometric series struck Wall Street with a force comparable to the invention of the wheel. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Time is running out for us But you just move the hands upon the clock You throw coins in the wishing well For us You just move your hands upon the wall. (Thom Yorke)
Panic in Wall Street, brokers feeling melancholy. View quote
Scott Joplin
But I don't even think you hear me at all Under your medieval ceiling behind your biblical wall. View quote
Rufus Wainwright
There's a place in the world for the angry young man With his working class ties and his radical plans He refuses to bend, he refuses to crawl He's always at home with his back to the wall And he's proud of his scars and the battles he's lost And he struggles and bleeds as he hangs on the cross And he likes to be known as the angry young man. View quote
Billy Joel
Having hit a wall, the next logical step is not to bang our heads against it. View quote
Stephen Harper