Wall Quotes
-
Wall Street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the people, for the people and by the people, but a government for Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street. The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master…Let the bloodhounds of money who have dogged us thus far beware.
Mary Elizabeth Lease
-
One of the biggest lessons I've learned recently is that when you don't know what to do, you should do nothing until you figure out what to do because a lot of times you feel like you are pressed against the wall, and you've got to make a decision. You never have to do anything. Don't know what to do? Do nothing.
Oprah Winfrey
-
If you can miss getting up in the morning and running into a wall, I miss playing football. I'll never be a frustrated athlete.
The Boz
-
I was so young when I got so famous, and then I kind of put up a wall around myself. I didn't really want to show people any fragilities or fears; I was trying to be this tough person that I felt was expected of me.
Dolores O'Riordan
The Cranberries
-
If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there.'
Anton Chekhov
-
Hannah leaned against the wall. "Mind if I call shotgun?" Since you're carrying one? Feel free.
Rachel Caine
-
The threat is desertification. My response is a sandstone wall made from solidified sand.
Magnus Larsson
-
What I've realized is that we're our own harshest critics. We give ourselves limitations. But I want to push through that wall, on a creative and personal level.
Carla Gugino
-
What's happened to the music industry, from my perspective, is a lot of great music is behind the wall that can't get through, and therefore, a lot of artists are getting discouraged.
Jimmy Iovine
-
We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.
Barack Obama
-
I like to walk into a house and go, 'Rip up the brown shag carpet and open up that wall with some French doors.'
Courteney Cox
-
Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial pools, and slow clouds sailed harmoniously above the willow. May came too soon, and suddenly unable to bear walls, he wandered the campus at all hours through starlight and rain.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
