Wall Quotes

• You will notice that the Occupy Wall Street crowds - and the progressives who support them - focus on bringing the wealthy down to earth rather than lifting the 99 percent. They have a nearly religious belief that too much wealth is fundamentally immoral and unhealthy for society.

  

  David Harsanyi
  • Society
  • Earth
  • Support

• I think that, in addition of the intersection of media and technology, there has also been an intersection between technology and finance, which is something I find a little closer to home, seeing as I spend so much time covering Wall Street banks.

  

  Kayla Tausche
  • Time
  • Home
  • Technology

• By incentivizing Wall Street players to sniff out inefficient or corrupt companies and bet against them, short-selling acts as a sort of policing system; legal short-sellers have been instrumental in helping expose firms like Enron and WorldCom.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Wall

• If you're a publisher and you forbid deep linking into your site, or have a paid wall or registration requirement, then you're making it hard to 'point to' your content. When no one points to your content, your content is harder to find because search uses links as a proxy for popularity.

  

  John Battelle
  • Deep
  • Wall
  • Search

• I looked up at several pockmarks in the nearest wall; if they weren’t bullet holes, the place had damned big hailstones.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Up
  • Wall

• You have to be young to be able to do things like that. Now I'm more cautious. I'm proud that I was able to do what I did - psychologically it was a great wall to climb - but sometimes I regret it.

  

  Mathias Rust
  • Great
  • Proud
  • Regret

• All my tattoos, they've been thought out, thought over, been a work in progress for at least a year before I've got them. So I'm not walking into a tattoo shop, picking tattoos off a wall. It's something that means something to me. It's something that I believe in.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Progress

• Washington is broken. Bailing out Wall Street with no strings attached while leaving middle class Arkansas taxpayers with the bill. Protecting insurance company profits instead of patients and lowering health costs.

  

  Bill Halter
  • Health
  • Broken
  • Leaving

• Once Wall Street starts putting money into Bitcoin - we're talking about hundreds of millions, billions of dollars moving in - it's going to have a pretty dramatic effect on the price.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • Money
  • Pretty
  • Moving

• Wall Street never changes, the pockets change, the suckers change, the stocks change, but Wall Street never changes, because human nature never changes.

  

  Jesse Livermore
  • Money
  • Wall
  • Greed

• I always design a landscape with fixed horizons whether it be mountains or a stone wall around a 20-foot-square plot.

  

  Rachel Lambert Mellon
  • Design
  • Mountains
  • Landscape

• There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Wall
  • Dying
  • Glasses

• I come from Wall Street, and you'll never see me do a PowerPoint because I'm all about Excel spreadsheets. If it's not in the numbers, I don't care how strategic it is; it doesn't play out.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Me
  • Care
  • Numbers

• I locate a great deal of the power of Occupy Wall Street in the name itself, 'Occupy Wall Street,' or '#OccupyWallStreet.' It works because the name contains everything you need to know: the tactic and the target. The name is also modular. You can create your own offshoot in your own city.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Great
  • Power
  • City

• What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening-all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn't one big joke.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Life
  • Future
  • Wall

• It was a June day when I began my career as a national journalist. I stepped into the Detroit Bureau of the 'Wall Street Journal' and started on what would be a long, varied, rewarding career. I was 23 years old, and the year was 1970.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Long
  • Career
  • Day

• A woman drew her long black hair out tight, And fiddled whisper music on those strings, And bats with baby faces in the violet light Whistled, and beat their wings, And crawled head downward down a blackened wall.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Music
  • Long
  • Black

• Don't think about anything for too long. Even if it's off-the-wall, go for it. You'll have a lot more fun in life.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Life
  • Long
  • Fun

• I'm very friendly or whatever, but I would hardly say that I'm that cookie-cutter. I don't live in L.A. or New York. I live in Texas, and I go to hole-in-the-wall bars, so there's no paparazzi there.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Live
  • New York
  • Texas

• Now, Spitzer was an anti-crime crusader cracking down on prostitution and Wall Street corruption. So some people were looking to take him down.

  

  Jane Velez-Mitchell
  • People
  • Wall

• Here is what is needed for Occupy Wall Street to become a force for change: a clear, and clearly expressed, objective. Or two.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Change
  • Force
  • Wall Street

• The Knesset is in Israel, and the Western Wall is in Israel, and the sooner the Obama administration realizes this, the closer it will be to a Middle East policy worthy of our country and its long alliance with our ally in Jerusalem - which is, actually, the capital of the state of Israel.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Long
  • Country
  • Wall

• When I was 14, I used to have a calendar on my wall, crossing the days off until I was 15, because the school leaving age was 15. Then three months before I turned 15 they changed the leaving age to 16.

  

  Mark E. Smith
  • School
  • Age
  • Leaving

• The people of Kentucky have had enough. They have had enough of bailouts for Wall Street banks.

  

  Matt Bevin
  • People
  • Wall

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