Wall Quotes

• Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style.

  

  James Wolcott
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Movie

• When you think of technological revolution, you probably think of geeks in cool coastal spaces like the Google campus, or perhaps of math wizards on Wall Street. But one source of rural prosperity is the adoption of radical new technologies - and a consequent surge in productivity.

  

  Chrystia Freeland
  • Cool
  • Revolution
  • Math

• My practicality consists in this: in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall … that is my strength, my only strength.

  

  Antonio Gramsci
  • Knowledge
  • Wall

• An honest cop still can't find a place to go and complain without fear of recrimination. The blue wall will always be there because the system supports it.

  

  Frank Serpico
  • Fear
  • Wall
  • Blue

• Ultimately there is no dividing line between Main Street and Wall Street. We will rise or we will fall together as one nation.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Together
  • Fall
  • Wall

• Even our own cadaver-bones shall not hinder us from standing our ground until the very last, proud and tired in the face of the black wall that surrounds us.

  

  Max Beckmann
  • Black
  • Proud
  • Tired

• I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • People
  • Children
  • Pretty

• 'There is a steep and lofty wall,Where my warders trembling stand,He who at speed shall ride round its height,For him shall be my hand.'

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Hand
  • Wall

• I always drew dresses. I remember loving Richard Avedon's early Versace campaigns. I used to plaster my whole walls with them when I was a kid.

  

  Sarah Burton
  • Kids
  • Remember
  • Dresses

• I just want to shed light, illuminate and turn the spotlight over to all of the black people who have been being futuristic and innovative since instruments were plugged into a wall. With computers, machines, and music, black people have been contributing to that a great deal for a long time.

  

  Kelela Mizanekristos
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• All mental hygiene is based on the core practice of doing nothing. Most of us are good at wasting time, staring at the wall while telling ourselves we should be working. We call this doing nothing, but our brains are furiously active. We think constantly, and our thinking is often rife with distress.

  

  Martha Beck
  • Time
  • Good
  • Thinking

• I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

  

  George H. W. Bush
  • Job
  • Wall
  • Uncle

• The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history.

  

  William Rehnquist
  • Church
  • Metaphor
  • Separation

• We are obviously all hurt by inflation. Everybody is hurt by inflation. If you really wanted to examine who percentage-wise is hurt the most in their incomes, it is the Wall Street brokers. I mean their incomes have gone down the most.

  

  Alan Greenspan
  • Hurt
  • Wise
  • Wall

• Everybody keeps saying what a lucky coincidence that 'Newsies' is happening when it is, with things like Occupy Wall Street.

  

  Andrew Keenan-Bolger
  • Wall

• In the most important areas, as individuals and countries, we don't change our behavior until we have our backs to the wall.

  

  Marilyn Ferguson
  • Important
  • Wall

• For Noah, preaching 120 years without results meant choosing the hard road year after year. Nehemiah, building the wall of Jerusalem, faced constant harassment by enemies from within and without. We cannot honestly, authentically, reasonably and deliberately serve our Lord without our willingness to accept difficulties and inconveniences.

  

  K. P. Yohannan
  • Road
  • Years
  • Enemy

• When you walk around, your vision system is processing a whole bunch of signals in milliseconds and judging that a visual object is a wall, or an imminent cliff, or a car heading towards you. This might be disturbing to a lot of people, but some of those guesses are errors.

  

  Usama Fayyad
  • People
  • Car
  • Vision

• My husband worked on Wall Street and was an Ivy League graduate as well. In our world, we were the last couple you'd imagine enmeshed in domestic violence.

  

  Leslie Morgan Steiner
  • World
  • Violence
  • Couple

• Now and then I'll get a student who asks a question that puts me up against the wall and maybe by the end of the semester I can begin to deal with the question.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Up
  • Question
  • Students

• 'Nobody goes to jail.' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street embroiled in obscene criminal scandals that impoverished millions and collectively destroyed hundreds of billions, in fact, trillions of dollars of the world's wealth - and nobody went to jail.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • World
  • Financial
  • Wall

• Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Friends
  • Wall

• I'd love to be a mole on the wall in the Liverpool dressing room at half-time.

  

  Kevin Keegan
  • Time
  • Half
  • Rooms

• Against the wall, near the head of the bunk, was a rack filled with books. I glanced over them, noting with astonishment such names as Shakespeare, Tennyson, Poe, and De Quincey. There were scientific works too, among which were represented men such as Tyndall, Proctor, and Darwin.

  

  Jack London
  • Men
  • Wall

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