Wall Quotes - Page 7

• I try to play squash but I keep running into the walls.

  Matthew Bellamy

  Running, Play, Squash

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Often there is a wall between the journalist and the star because there is usually not much time to get to know a person, and the star is always asked the same questions, and may be defensive.

  Ruud Gullit

  Stars, May, Journalist

  "The flower and the glory". February 8, 2004.

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• Say, care-worn man, Whom Duty chains within the city walls, Amid the toiling crowd, how grateful plays The fresh wind o’er thy sickly brow, when free To tread the springy turf,— to hear the trees Communing with the gales,—to catch the voice Of waters, gushing from their rocky womb, And singing as they wander... Spring-hours will come again, and feelings rise With dewy freshness o’er thy wither’d heart.

  Robert Montgomery

  Nature, Spring, Grateful

  Robert Montgomery (1828). “A Universal Prayer, Death, A Vision of Heaven and A Vision of Hell”, p.130

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• When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with a bloody head. And would like to go on.

  Karl Kraus

  Writing, Progress, Goes On

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• A closed plant is like a cemetery; it really is. The walls will talk to you; the machines will talk to you if you really talk to them.

  Hamdi Ulukaya

  Machines, Plant, Cemetery

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• It is only necessary that man should start a fence that Nature should carry it on and complete it. The farmer cannot plow quite up to the rails or wall which he himself has placed, and hence it often becomes a hedgerow and sometimes a coppice.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Hedgerows, Shrubs

  David R. Foster, Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Thoreau's Country: Journey through a Transformed Landscape”, p.67, Harvard University Press

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• He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of him. He had lived as an outsider, an idler and onlooker, well liked in his young manhood, alone in his illness and advancing years. Seized with weariness, he sat down on the wall, and the river murmured darkly in his thoughts.

  Hermann Hesse

  Fall, Rivers, Years

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• A prisoner lived in solitary confinement for years. He saw and spoke to no one and his meals were served through an opening in the wall. One day an ant came into his cell. The man contemplated it in fascination as it crawled around the room. He held it in the palm of his hand the better to observe it, gave it a grain or two, and kept it under his tin cup at night. One day it suddenly struck him that it had taken him ten long years of solitary confinement to open his eyes to the loveliness of an ant.

  Anthony de Mello

  Taken, Eye, Night

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• When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On all the hills I haven't hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, Blade-end up and five feet tall, And plod: I go up to the stone wall For a friendly visit.

  Robert Frost

  Horse, Character, Feet

  Robert Frost (2012). “Frost: Poems”, p.177, Everyman's Library

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• There were reprints of American editorials. Liberals saw it as a resurgence of social protest and decried the discrimination, poverty, and hunger that had provoked it. Conservative columnists acidly pointed out that hungry people don't steal stereo systems first and called for a crackdown in law enforcement. All of the reasoned editorials sounded hollow in light of the perverse randomness of the event. It was as if only a thin wall of electric lighting protected the great cities of the world from total barbarism.

  Dan Simmons

  Light, Law, Cities

  Dan Simmons (2014). “Song of Kali”, p.110, Open Road Media

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• She wondered how people would remember her. She had not made enough to spread her wealth around like Carnegie, to erase any sins that had attached to her name, she had failed, she had not reached the golden bough. The liberals would cheer her death. They would light marijuana cigarettes and drive to their sushi restaurants and eat fresh food that had traveled eight thousand miles. They would spend all of supper complaining about people like her, and when they got home their houses would be cold and they'd press a button on a wall to get warm. The whole time complaining about big oil.

  Philipp Meyer

  Cheer, Home, Marijuana

  "The Son". Book by Philipp Meyer, 2013.

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• Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls. Instead, we must migrate rapidly to becoming a global 'team of teams' that comes together in whatever combination necessary to add the greatest value to the changes underway.

  Bill Drayton

  Team, Organization, Together

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• I think we need to teach children the importance of others, and that they cannot grow in this world without taking in others. The more worlds they take in, these unique worlds, the more they can become. We need to teach them to trust others again, because we're all frightened to death of each other. We're building higher and higher walls, stronger and stronger locks. Tear down the walls! Every day I see how we're distrusting and it hurts.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Hurt, Children, Unique

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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• Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.

  Denis Diderot

  Views, Religion, Doe

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• The primary goal I set for myself on how I define what success looks like for me is am I working at a company that matters? Am I working with somebody who I think affects positive change? Am I providing a benefit to my family? Am I enjoying myself? Why would I put a limitation on my enjoyment? There is an old view on Wall Street that says, 'They love you until they don't.' I am going to stay happy until I am not.

  Dan Rosensweig

  Love You, Thinking, Views

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• Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Dog, Party

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• O God of earth and altar,
  Bow down and hear our cry,
  Our earthly rulers falter,
  Our people drift and die;
  The walls of gold entomb us,
  The swords of scorn divide,
  Take not thy thunder from us,
  But take away our pride.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Pride, People, Gold

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “A Hymn”

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• I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Art, Missing, Pieces

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• When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

  Elie Wiesel

  Knowledge, Rooms, Abyss

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Now on the hills I hear the thunder mutter... Nearer and nearer rolls the thunder-clap, - You can hear the quick heart of the tempest beat.... Look! look! that livid flash! And instantly follows the rattling thunder, As if some cloud-crag, split asunder, Fell, splintering with a ruinous crash, On the Earth, which crouches in silence under; And now a solid gray wall of rain Shuts off the landscape, mile by mile.

  James Russell Lowell

  Rain, Heart, Clouds

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• From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a box already built for us to fit inside. Our umbilical cord never seems to be severed; we only find new needs to fill. If we disconnected and severed our attachments, would we shatter our confinements and expand beyond our shell? Would the world look different? Would we recognize ourselves? Are we the box that we are inside, and to be authentically 'un-contained' would we still be able to exist? This is the irony of containment. As long as we don't push on the walls of our surroundings, we may never know how strong we really are.

  Paige Bradley

  Strong, Attachment, Long

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• 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, Dresses, Campaigns

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• A world without walls is the only sustainable world. . . . If the world is dominated by people who believe that their races, their religions, their ethnic differences are the most important factors, then a huge number of people will perish in this century.

  William J. Clinton

  Believe, Race, Differences

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• The natural alone is permanent. Fantastic idols may be worshipped for a while; but at length they are overturned by the continual and silent progress of Truth, as the grim statues of Copan have been pushed from their pedestals by the growth of forest-trees, whose seeds were sown by the wind in the ruined walls.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Nature, Idols, Wind

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855). “The Works: Kavanagh. Outre-Mer”, p.38

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• The window is the absence of the wall, and it gives air and light because it is empty. Be empty of all mental content, of all imagination and effort, and the very absence of obstacles will cause reality to rush in.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Reality, Light, Air

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