Wall Quotes

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. (Robert A. Heinlein)
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. View quote
Coco Chanel
Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway. View quote
Warren Buffett
There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. View quote
Colette
Every wall is a door. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall. View quote
Ani DiFranco
A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings. View quote
Anton Chekhov
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
All I ever wanted to do is to paint sunlight on the side of a wall. View quote
Edward Hopper
You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn. View quote
John Buchan
There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall. (Bernard Malamud)
In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall. View quote
Bob Dylan
If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. View quote
Michael Jordan
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind. View quote
Frank Herbert
I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
If bringing down the wall would require you to fly, you must believe you can fly. Otherwise, when the decisive moment comes, you will surely discover you ahve no wings. View quote
Patrick Carman
Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, "We've always done it this way." I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise. View quote
Grace Hopper
Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The fall of Wall Street is for market fundamentalism what the fall of the Berlin Wall was for communism. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
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)
If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door The chest, contriv'd a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
The Wall will be standing in 50 and even in 100 years, if the reasons for it are not removed. View quote
Erich Honecker
It is no difficult trick to bring a great deal of energy, study, and native ability into Wall Street and to end up with losses instead of profits. These virtues, if channeled in the wrong directions, become indistinguishable from handicaps. View quote
Benjamin Graham