Walls Quotes

• Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Want
  • Reason
  • Walls

• I always try to find time to do some graffiti here and there, but most of the time, I have so many walls that are given to me now, so anytime I want to go out and do something illegal, I can just do it legally.

  

  Alec Monopoly
  • Graffiti
  • Walls
  • Legally

• All of my walls are covered with framed pictures of my friends.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Friends
  • Pictures
  • Framed

• There’s something about hospital walls; though only made of bricks and plaster, when you’re inside them the noise, the reality of the teeming city beyond, disappears; it’s just outside the door, but it might as well be a magical land far, far away.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Hospital
  • Bricks
  • Plaster

• During college, when I was working full time for my father [the decorator Mark Hampton], I rented an apartment and I just couldn't take time off to paint it. So I went there one evening and stayed up all night painting the place what I thought was a lovely pale yellow. When the sun came up, I realized I'd painted the walls the color of insanity. I had to immediately mix in all my trim color to tone it down. Yellow is an electric color and wholly misleading. It becomes more yellow with the sun's yellow light on it. The moral is, even if you think your yellow is the one, go paler.

  

  Alexa Hampton
  • Painting
  • Walls
  • Yellow

• Ever since mankind stopped wandering around aimlessly and started cultivating its own food, society has been growing more complex. As soon as we stopped sleeping with our cousins and built walls, temples and a few decent nightclubs, society became too complex for any one person to grasp all at once, and thus bureaucracy was born.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Society
  • Mankind
  • Bureaucracy

• Stop inviting walls into wide open spaces.

  

  Buddy Wakefield
  • Walls
  • Spaces

• There are no walls, no bolts, no locks that anyone can put on your mind.

  

  Otto Frank
  • Mind
  • Walls
  • Bolts

• They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?

  

  Rumi
  • Heart
  • Walls
  • Doorway

• 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
  • Wisdom
  • Boundaries
  • Walls

• I'm hoping to knock down the walls and broaden the lane a little bit more for music that's pop music at the heart of it.

  

  Santi White
  • Music
  • Walls
  • Knock Down

• I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Job
  • Prophet
  • Walls

• Let's build bridges, not walls.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Build
  • Bridges
  • Walls

• My Brother starv'd between two Walls, His Children's Cry my Soul appalls.

  

  William Blake
  • Soul
  • Walls
  • My Brother

• I'd have liked to have leant against walls in thrillers.

  

  Celia Johnson
  • Walls
  • Thrillers
  • Leant

• We should be breaking down barriers not building walls. We're not going to succeed by dividing this country between us and them. You know, to be great, we can't be small. We can't lose what made America great in the first place.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • America
  • Barriers
  • First Place

• Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Ears
  • Walls
  • Tongues

• Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Way
  • Walls
  • Humpty

• Walls and stones may fall in the wind when it blows like a Thracian torrent, but a god stands forever

  

  Callimachus
  • God
  • Fall
  • Forever

• Most people think I do street art, so I do everything for nothing. I'm an urchin who paints walls and does work for nothing. That's the first misconception about street artists, that we just paint for nothing.

  

  Ben Eine
  • Artists
  • Paints
  • Street Art

• You renounce your friendship even in the hour of our need ' he said. 'Yet you were glad indeed to receive our aid when you came at last to these shores fainthearted loiterers and well-nigh emptyhanded. In huts on the beaches would you be dwelling still had not the Noldor carved out your haven and toiled upon your walls.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Friendship
  • Beach
  • Empatyhanded

• If a man has gold, he lives with the terror that someone will take it away from him, so he builds walls around it. Then everyone knows where the gold is, so they come and take it. That’s the way it always goes, brother. Fools and gold, together.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Man
  • Gold
  • Terror

• A nursery rhyme shapes your bones and nerves, and it shapes your mind. They are powerful, nursery rhymes, and immensely old, and not toys, even though they are for children." "But they make no sense!" Summer protested "Ah, well," said Ben. "Sometimes sense hides behind walls. You must find a window and stick your head right in before you can see it.

  

  Katherine Catmull
  • Children
  • Powerful
  • Summer

• Words will build no walls.

  

  Plutarch
  • Words
  • Build
  • Walls

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