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Walls Quotes

I'm interested in pursuing roles that allow me to push against my own walls, my own constraints as a human being, and to find out where I'm capable of going. In real life, I'm not very good at feeling emotions, so I like to do it through my work.

Life Work Good Walls Me Push

Yosemite has the most impressive and accessible granite big walls in the world. The rock is amazing. And because of that, it's been the mecca for climbing in the U.S. - and the world to a large degree - for all of climbing history. It's the place to test yourself against the historic routes of the past.

History Past Walls Yourself Amazing

Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls.

Eyes Light Walls Rock Become Bear

Based on German prototypes, green walls and roofs are a natural idea in Singapore's tropical environment, where mosses, ferns, philodendrons, orchids and other epiphytes literally grow on trees.

Walls Green Trees Grow Environment

Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration.

Walk Walls Revenge Frustration Story

The thickness of the walls should be sufficient for two armed men to pass each other with ease.

Men Walls Two Pass Ease Should

When one looks at Nature through the glass walls of the Farnsworth House, it takes on a deeper significance than when one stands outside. More of Nature is thus expressed - it becomes part of a greater whole.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Nature Walls House Looks Glass More

When you're an insecure teenager, you build walls and defenses and masks, and those are incredibly satisfying to perform and chip away at. I mean, when I was an insecure teenager, you'd have had no idea what I was insecure about because I hid it so well. Only confident people are comfortable wearing their vulnerabilities on their sleeve.

Walls People Confident You Build

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

Joseph Campbell

Inspirational Walls Universe Doors

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

Walls Glass Everyone Vegetarian Had

If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world.

Walls Gold World Look I Can Never

I feel like, genre-wise, the walls are coming down in Nashville. There are so many writers who have moved to town from all walks of life. There's this immense respect for country, but there are pop songwriters, R&B. Nashville has become sort of this go-to writing city for every genre.

Life Respect Walls City Writing

We had all these smiley family pictures all over the walls of my house, but I always found those pictures to be odd because we weren't smiling all the time. I don't want to paint the picture of a total dysfunctional house, but there were a lot of arguments in that house. A lot of pain.

Derek Cianfrance

Family Time Walls Pain Picture Want

If you look at the paintings that I love in art history, these are the paintings where great, powerful men are being celebrated on the big walls of museums throughout the world. What feels really strange is not to be able to see a reflection of myself in that world.

Love History Great Art Myself Walls

Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days.

Donald O'Connor

Walls Doing Up Days Going Trick

I'm of Arab background.

Walls People Color Doors Information

Our calling is not just within the walls of the congregation, but we are part of the life and community in which our condition resides.

Clementa C. Pinckney

Life Community Walls Within Just

I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.

Kindness Forgiveness Music Walls Up

I don't hang my championship trophies on the walls, because they don't pay the bills.

Walls Pay Hang Trophies Bills

The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.

Heart Day Walls Sun Bad Wood

I don't have many walls that I put up.

Walls Up Many Put

We are not going to build a pressure in Mexico. We're not building walls to retain our people.

Walls People Building Pressure Build

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.

Wislawa Szymborska

Walls Poetry Writing Born Ring Will

This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.

Freedom Time Walls Doing Doubt Know

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