| "You know...that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum -- a canvas -- a piece of film -- or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something -- that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you." »Edward Steichen |
| "During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history." »Stephen Ambrose |
| "Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go." »William Feather |
| "hanging is too good for a man who makes puns he should be drawn and quoted." »Fred Allen |
| "If you're hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You'll get the same kind of feeling and you won't have to pay." »Robert Joseph Bob Dole |
| "In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet." »Erma Bombeck |
| "I won't have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in Parliament you run over here with your shirttail hanging out. (To Prime Minister Harold Wilson)" »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "Sadness is but a wall between two gardens." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "A white wall is the fool's paper." »French Proverb |
| "Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind." »Alfred Victor Vigny |
| "Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it." »Gordon R. Dickson |
| "The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the wall of our own homes." »Harold B. Lee |
| "You never saw a fish on the wall with its mouth shut." »Sally Berger |
| "Indeed, we do not really live unless we have friends surrounding us like a firm wall against the winds of the world." »Charles Hanson Towne |
| "Religion is not a bridge between God and Man; it is a Great wall of China between them!" »Mehmet Murat ildan |
| "Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door." »Dr. Laura Schlessinger |
| "Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church it is a goodly Christian weapon." »Martin Luther |
| "Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." »Michael Jordon |
| "Carter My daddy'll kick your daddy's ass all the way from here to China, Japan, wherever the hell you from and all up that Great wall too." »Rush Hour |
| "Adventure isn't hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply To the day to day obstacles of life - Facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, Testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, Discovering our own unique potentional." »John Amatt |
| "There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall." »Sidonie Gabrielle Colette |
| "He was a cowboy, mister, and he loved the land. He loved it so much he made a woman out of dirt and married her. But when he kissed her, she disintegrated. Later, at the funeral, when the preacher said, 'Dust to dust,' some people laughed, and the cowboy shot them. At his hanging, he told the others, 'I'll be waiting for you in heaven---with a gun.'" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall." »Colette |
| "My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people." »Mohammed Reza Pahlavi |
| "If you were a gladiator in olden days, I bet the inefficiency of how the gladiator fights were organized and scheduled would just drive you up a wall." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "There's a deep fly ball... Winfield goes back, back... his head hits the wall ... it's rolling towards second base." »Jerry Coleman |
| "I am sailing out along parallel 32.5 to stress that this is the Libyan border. This is the line of death where we shall stand and fight with our backs to the wall. (On planning confrontation with US Sixth Fleet in Mediterranean)" »Muammar Qaddafi |
| "Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood." »William Shakespeare |
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