Wall Quotes - Page 5

• It is not too fantastic to say that he desired them with some of the absolute passion that characterised the exposed and flaming heart of Jesus which hung on Emilie's wall. Since this narrative has tried to avoid the canonisation of the Herr Direktor, the idea of the sensual Oskar as the desirer of souls has to be proved.

  Thomas Keneally

  Jesus, Passion, Heart

  Thomas Keneally (1982). “Schindler's list”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• And the sun on the wall of her room, the block of sun with all the tiny flying things in it. When she was little she thought they were the souls of dead insects, still buzzing in the light.

  Tim Winton

  Block, Light, Flying

  Tim Winton (2014). “The Riders”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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• The grounds of the place were dominated by several large, old willow trees that towered over the surrounding stone wall and swayed soundlessly in the wind like lost souls.

  Haruki Murakami

  Wind, Tree, Soul

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• Memories do not change, and change is the law of existence. If our dead, the closest, the most beloved, were to return to us after a long absence and instead of the old, familiar trees were to find in our souls English gardens and stone walls - that is to say, other loves, other tastes, other interests, they would gaze upon us sadly and tenderly for a moment, wiping away their tears, and then return to their tombs to rest.

  Teresa de la Parra

  Memories, Garden, Law

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• The Stormlight rising from his exposed skin was enough to illuminate the chasm, and it cast shadows on the walls as he ran. Those seemed to become figures, crafted by the bones and branches stretching from the heaps on the ground. Bodies and souls. His movement made the shadows twist, as if turning to regard him.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Soul, Shadow, Skins

  Brandon Sanderson (2014). “Words of Radiance: Book Two of the Stormlight Archive”, p.496, Tor Books

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• A sudden cloud formation of birds was swallowed up by the moon, and he was just as suddenly penned in by four walls-the demons' pen.

  Mo Yan

  Moon, Clouds, Bird

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• 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

  Mean, Men, Animal

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• Between the kitchen and the destroyed chapel a door led into an oval-shaped library. The space inside seemed safe except for a large hole at portrait level in the far wall, caused by mortar-shell attack on the villa two months earlier. The rest of the room had adapted itself to this wound, accepting the habits of weather, evening stars, the sound of birds.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Stars, Doors, Weather

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.12, A&C Black

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• The firelight magnified our shadows, glinted off the silver, flickered high upon the walls; its reflection roared orange in the windowpanes as if a city were burning outside. The whoosh of the flames was like a flock of birds, trapped and beating in a whirlwind near the ceiling. And I wouldn't have been at all surprised if the long mahogany banquet table, draped in linen, laden with china and candles and fruit and flowers, had simply vanished into thin air, like a magic casket in a fairy story.

  Donna Tartt

  Flower, Reflection, Cities

  Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.85, Vintage

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• A moose is an animal with horns on the front of its head and a hunting lodge wall on the back of it

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Animal, Hunting

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• The Walls enriched with Fruit-trees and faced with a covering of their leafy extensions; I should rather have said hung with different Pieces of Nature's noblest Tapestry.

  James Hervey

  Tree, Fruit, Covering

  James Hervey (1856). “Meditations and contemplations: to which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.143

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• Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.

  Alan Bennett

  Inspirational, Funny, Writing

  Alan Bennett (2008). “Alan Bennett Plays 1: Forty Years On, Getting On, Habeas Corpus and Enjoy”, p.53, Faber & Faber

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• .... Anon from the castle walls The crescent banner falls, And the crowd beholds instead, Like a portent in the sky, Iskander's banner fly, The Black Eagle with double head. And shouts ascend on high .....'' Long live Scanderbeg.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fall, Eagles, Sky

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Horace Elisha Scudder (1922). “The Complete Poetical Works of Longfellow”

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• 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

  Father, Night, College

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• Facebook is like jail, you sit around and waste time, you write on walls and you get poked by people you don't know

  Will Ferrell

  Writing, Jail, People

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• The impossible becomes possible when your back is against the wall

  Robert Evans

  Impossible Becomes Possible, Impossible

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• I have ... spoken to the heads of various Wall Street equity derivatives trading desks and every single one of the senior managers I spoke with told me that Bernie Madoff was a fraud. Of course no one wants to take an undue career risk by sticking their head up ... The fewer people who know who wrote this report the better. I am worried about the personal safety of myself and my family.

  Harry Markopolos

  Senior, Careers, People

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• And Sandy Martindale ... dated Elvis before the rhinestone jumpsuits and the drugs, when he was sharp and cool and jagged, like porcelain that has been hurled against a wall.

  Rick Bragg

  Drug, Porcelain, Jumpsuits

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• I have a picture of the Pont Neuf on a wall in my apartment, but i know that Paris is really on the closet shelf, in the box next to the sleeping bag, with the rest of my diaries.

  Thomas Mallon

  Sleep, Paris, Bags

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• I think films are perishable, because they depend too much on technology, which advances too quickly and the films become old-fashioned, antiques. What I hope for is that technology advances to the point that films in the future will depend on a little pill which you take; then you sit in the dark, and from your eyes you project the film you want to see on a blank wall.

  Luis Bunuel

  Eye, Dark, Technology

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• Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It's my job to do the work for them because they have no one.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Jobs, Voice, People

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• How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell and a still one? If man is so generally less happy in the cities than in the country, it is because all these variations and nuances of sight and smell and sound are less clearly marked and lost in the general monotony of gray walls and cement pavements.

  Lin Yutang

  Summer, Country, Winter

  Lin Yutang (2013). “Lin Yutang - The Importance Of Living”, p.74, Read Books Ltd

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• The crumbling castle, looming among the mists, exhaled the season, and every cold stone breathed it out. The tortured trees by the dark lake burned and dripped, their leaves snatched by the wind were whirled in wild circles through the towers. The clouds mouldered as they lay coiled, or shifted themselves uneasily upon the stone skyfield, sending up wreathes that drifted through the turrets and swarmed up hidden walls.

  Mervyn Peake

  Dark, Lakes, Clouds

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.161, The Overlook Press

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• Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U.S.

  Larry Wall

  Different, Larry

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• I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers.

  Mickey Kaus

  Experts, Paper, Streets

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