Wall Quotes

• There was a period in my life where most of my musical career was spent in a band that was very aggressive, and there was sort of a wall of volume all the time.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Life
  • Time
  • Career

• I have been fully involved in designing my stage shows; it's important to me to do something really unique and almost off-the-wall to bring the music and the visuals together. I love design and actually went to school for a bit for graphic design, so it isn't so much 'pressure' for me; it's a way to be creative, and I really enjoy it.

  

  Nick van de Wall
  • Music
  • Important
  • School

• The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen. We can see it.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • People
  • Wall
  • Berlin

• I write only for my shadow which is cast on the wall in front of the light. I must introduce myself to it.

  

  Sadegh Hedayat
  • Writing
  • Light
  • Shadow

• I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.

  

  Frank Stella
  • Up
  • Painting
  • Wall

• I have run with the bulls in Pamplona. I have raced with Mario Andretti in Indianapolis. I have climbed the Great Wall of China. I have jumped out of airplanes over Kansas.

  

  Craig Sager
  • Great
  • Wall

• When I came out of Stanford, I looked at my brilliant classmates, who were going into Wall Street high finance, Silicon Valley, advanced engineering, and I said to myself, 'Jeff, go into an industry where nobody can add.'

  

  Jeff Bewkes
  • High
  • Wall
  • Engineering

• The key to liberation from the power of materialism is not an exodus from culture - abandoning Wall Street or leaving the wealth of the nation to others - but the grace of giving... Givers for God disarm the power of money. They invite God's grace to flow through them.

  

  R. Kent Hughes
  • God
  • Money
  • Power

• Better to be the cat gazing coolly down from a high wall, its expression inscrutable. The cat that shunned petting, that needed no one. Why couldn't she be that cat?

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Why
  • She
  • High

• No matter who you are, and no matter what you've accomplished, I have yet to meet someone who doesn't still feel like they're banging their head against some wall over something in their way.

  

  Donna Lynne Champlin
  • Wall

• Somewhere "out there," beyond the walls of the courthouse, run currents and tides of public opinion which lap at the courtroom door.

  

  William Rehnquist
  • Running
  • Opinion
  • Courtroom

• Herman Cain is out there, he says a lot of provocative things. He said America should build its own Great Wall of China. Cain says it's a great idea because if there's one thing you don't see in China, it's Mexicans.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Great
  • America
  • Herman Cain

• I started out in journalism in the mid '90s working for the sister wire service of the 'Wall Street Journal,' which is called Dow Jones Newswires. Then I joined the 'Journal' in its Brussels bureau back in 1999.

  

  John Carreyrou
  • Service
  • Wall
  • Sister

• O’Hara was in his most non-stop way of talking, saying that the pictures put him in mind of Tiepolo Spanish wall-painter, c. 1750. Certain cupola frescoes. Suddenly I was working in an ancient building, a warehouse facing the Giudecca. The loft over the firehouse was transformed. It was filled with light reflected from the canal. quote in 1955

  

  Philip Guston
  • Mind
  • Light
  • Stop

• But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Broken
  • Promise
  • Empty

• You must make some decisions Wall Street dislikes.

  

  Nelson Peltz
  • Wall

• All that we know who lie in gaol - Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Long
  • Strong
  • Like

• In the 1990s, the Democratic Party began to cozy up to their long-time enemies: Wall Street Bankers. They took their money and relaxed their regulations until the Great Recession forced the Democrats via Dodd-Frank to re-regulate the banks.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

  

  Denis Healey
  • Wall

• My mom worked at [American] Vogue before I was born. She has always been fashion-minded. I grew up with original Yves Saint Laurent sketches on the wall in our house. A lot of that rubbed off on me.

  

  Zachary Cole Smith
  • Up
  • She
  • American

• If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall.

  

  John Kruk
  • City
  • Wall

• Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

  

  Claude McKay
  • Men
  • Fighting
  • Dying

• We are all born artists. If you have kids, you know what I mean. Almost everything kids do is art. They draw with crayons on the wall.

  

  Kim Young-ha
  • Art
  • Kids
  • Wall

• Notionally a left-wing movement, the Anti-Germans were born after the collapse of the Berlin wall. While most Germans rejoiced at the end of the Cold War, the Anti-Germans feared that a united Germany might lead to a fourth Reich - and a return of anti-Semitism.

  

  Luke Harding
  • War
  • Cold
  • Wall

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