| "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 |
| "Sadness is but a wall between two gardens." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "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 |
| "Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it." »Gordon R. Dickson |
| "Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind." »Alfred Victor Vigny |
| "A white wall is the fool's paper." »French Proverb |
| "Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door." »Dr. Laura Schlessinger |
| "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 |
| "Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church it is a goodly Christian weapon." »Martin Luther |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "There's a deep fly ball... Winfield goes back, back... his head hits the wall ... it's rolling towards second base." »Jerry Coleman |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "In all the work we do, our most valuable asset can be the attitude of self-examination. It is forgivable to make mistakes, but to stand fast behind a wall of self-righteousness and make the same mistake twice is not forgivable." »Dr. Dale E. Turner |
| "Today I accidentally stepped on a snail on the sidewalk in front of our house. And I thought, I too am like that snail. I build a defensive wall around myself, a 'shell' if you will. But my shell isn't made out of a hard, protective substance. Mine is made out of tinfoil and paper bags." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,-- This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England." »William Shakespeare |
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