Top 1200 Great Wall Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

If you think Wall Street firms have it good, you haven't looked closely at Big Oil.

The BBC called me 'defiant' in a caption. I plan to frame and put it on my wall.

If you look around my room, you see lots of lists. I'm inspired by what's up on the wall.

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

Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall with a joint, drinking some eight-ball.

I think that the S.E.C. has been pretty feckless when it comes to reigning in reckless behavior on Wall Street.

You know, it's nice on a sitcom to have an audience there, but there's still a wall of cameras between you and them.

The founding fathers of the U.S. were right when they erected that wall between church and state.

He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads and the wall on which he leans.

I just kick the ball against the cement wall and work on my touches and juggling.

The more we preach hatred, division and putting up a wall, the less we progress.

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.

I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken that by the written word, and that every great movement on this globe owes its rise to the great speakers and not to the great writers.

[Occupy Wall Street] had an impact on consciousness. It was not effective in realizing change.

Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it.

I'm open to anything. I would love to play someone completely off the wall.

You can teach to a wall, but when you help someone learn, you have to get involved with the whole person.

The human brain is a product of natural selection. In the face of scarcity, our hominid great-great-uncles were unable to compete against our sapient great-great-grandparents' abilities to build more elaborate mental models and orchestrate their bodies' movements in more sophisticated ways.

I thought we’d turned a corner. Maybe we did, but we hit a brick wall anyway.

I love breaking the fourth wall, and being given permission to play with the audience!

Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.

Wall Street's graveyards are filled with men who were right too soon.

Both Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich supported the Wall Street bailout.

If you're afraid of being grabbed by God, don't look at a wall. Definitely don't sit still.

The Wall will be standing in 50 and even in 100 years, if the reasons for it are not removed.

Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.

I always play every game like my back is against the wall, that this could be it.

I've had time off, and it drove me nuts. I was crawling up the wall.

Ann Taylor - great name, great real estate, shitty business. Gap -great name, great real estate, declining business. J.Crew - Hellooo? Great name, better fashion image than the Gap.

Today, basically, on Wall Street, the big money is made by taking risks.

Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.

The Bad English thing, everybody was playing at once and it was a big wall of sound.

You can create the perfect triceps by just pushing yourself off your wall.

A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.

Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer is a small matter: in that line, weak women and even slaves often attain masterliness. But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of it that is great, that belongs to greatness.

I did my thing with Jive. I was a national recording artist, but I had run into a wall.

Remain cheerful, For nothing destructive can pierce through The solid wall of cheerfulness.

Vanish. Pass into nothingness: the Keats line that frightened her. Fade as the blue nights fade, go as the brightness goes. Go back into the blue. I myself placed her ashes in the wall. I myself saw the cathedral doors locked at six. I know what it is I am now experiencing. I know what the frailty is, I know what the fear is. The fear is not for what is lost. What is lost is already in the wall. What is lost is already behind the locked doors. The fear is for what is still to be lost. You may see nothing still to be lost. Yet there is no day in her life on which I do not see her.

There are important questions about protecting and securing the border, but we don't need to build a wall.

I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.

The energy necessary to create a wormhole or to wrap time into nuts is incredible. It's not for us. It's maybe for our descendants who have mastered the energy of this technology. So if one day, somebody knocks on your door and claims to be your great great great great granddaughter, don't slam the door.

Coming from art school, I had a great sense of style - as did The Beatles and the Stones - and I enjoyed projecting that. Image, attitude, great music and great lyrics - that was the '60s.

I started my career at the Wall Street Journal, before moving on to CNBC and NBC.

I don't believe so much in the value of a single picture anymore. I don't really photograph for the wall.

I made a killing on Wall Street a few years ago...I shot my broker.

It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God's finger crushes against the wall.

I remember when the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly intractable problems get solved.

Phil Neville could be on the road to one day, maybe, becoming the England manager. I know him closely. He was a great captain, a great leader. He's had great experience.

Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street.

The three elements of creativity are thus: loving, knowing, and doing - or heart, mind, and hands - or, as Zen Buddhist teaching has it; great faith, great question, and great courage.

Wall Street sharks will go where they smell the blood, and you cannot change that.

Challenging the truth is like playing tennis against the wall! The defeat is inevitable!

When I heard, Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, I thought, Did he fall or was he pushed?

I had a great job and I lost it, but I'm doing great now, I have a great family, my daughters all live with me. Did I have a setback? Absolutely, but I don't look at it like a ruined my life.

The biggest surprise to people is that I sang background on Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' album.

I think Republicans, to their credit, are not interested, as a majority vote bloc, in funding a wall.

That's Tommy, this great producer who comes in contact with people and must have a mental library of personnel who are great for this and great for that, and he brought this whole group of musicians to the project that I'd never worked with before.

It's kind of a little fly-on-the-wall look at these people trying to stay sane.

Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.