The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls. That is the reality of Haiti.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
WallsSocietyRealityYouSeeHaiti
I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.
Ellen DeGeneres
MotherBeautifulWallsAnimalMom
A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.
John Updike
WallsDoorChoicesDoorsKnowRight
Graffiti is usually a protest - ink on walls - or has a reason for being naughty or aggressive.
Cy Twombly
WallsAggressiveNaughtyReasonInk
I actually grew up in a house in which bees lived in one of the walls, and they lived there 18 years, in fact, so it wasn't a fleeting thing.
Sue Monk Kidd
WallsHouseFleetingYearsUpLived
Why is it that, when we want to think outside the proverbial box, we often put ourselves in one? We gather our team in a conference room, plaster the walls with sticky paper, and wait for the ideas to flow in a stream of marker scribbles. How often has your quest for innovation peaked at renovation - new dressing on old ideas?
Charles Best
InnovationWallsIdeasTeamWait
I grew up a clumsy kid with bad hand-eye coordination. Yet here on El Cap, I felt as though I had stumbled into a world where I thrived. Being up on those steep walls demanded the right amount of climbing skill, pain tolerance, and sheer bull-headedness that came naturally to me.
Tommy Caldwell
WallsPainMeWorldToleranceBad
Ali forced us to take a look at ourselves. This brash young man who thrilled us, angered us, confused and challenged us, ultimately became a silent messenger of peace who taught us that life is best when you build bridges between people, not walls.
Billy Crystal
LifeBestPeaceWallsManPeople
The fears you do not face become your walls. Most people in business, and in their personal lives, design everything so they can avoid doing what makes them feel uncomfortable. Yet any good business person knows we are not only paid to work, but also we are paid to be scared.
Robin S. Sharma
WorkGoodBusinessWallsPeopleYou
A particular piece of music attaches itself to the piece I'm writing, and there is nothing else I can listen to. Every day I return to the same space to write, the music providing both the walls and the pictures on the walls.
Aleksandar Hemon
MusicDayWallsSpaceWritingI Can
I am a bit of a head-in-the-sand person as concerns things happening beyond the walls of my study. And I don't feel particularly guilty about that. I figure that my primary job is producing the very best stories I am capable of writing, and that is what I concentrate upon doing. That is within my control.
Mary Balogh
BestJobWallsI AmWritingControl
The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.
Al Lopez
AloneTimeWallsHotelYouManager
I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
WallsI AmSayingSuicideI CanSay
I don't like white walls.
Wendy Williams
WallsWhiteLike
It must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words.
Jules Verne
WordsWallsManIdeasLoseUp
'The Glass Castle' by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family.
Sara Shepard
FamilyWallsGlassCastle
When we used to walk to school, I used to read off the walls, graffiti and stuff, everything. I used to write stories, but I'd never finish them. I wrote poems.
Jorja Smith
WalkWallsSchoolNeverWriteUsed
I want to go get trade agreements because if America walls itself up, if we address sort of an economic fortress America, we will lose.
Paul Ryan
WallsAmericaLoseGoWantWill
I just love to collaborate with people who take my ideas real serious, and they don't put up walls around them.
Diplo
LoveWallsPeopleIdeasSeriousUp
All of a sudden, I don't have a leg. I'm in a wheelchair. I have half a foot; I can't even walk to the bathroom. I'm in a bed, I can't move, and I felt like those four walls were my prison.
Lauren Wasser
WalkWallsPrisonBedBathroomLeg
There's big granite walls up toward the Argentine border, but the weather's serious, and a lot of the rock is mossy and wet.
Douglas Tompkins
WallsWeatherBorderSeriousRock
I like to knock down walls and allow others to enter.
George C. Wolfe
WallsDownOthersKnockLikeAllow
One day I'm lugging walls back and forth in Louisville, and the next day I'm at Cannes giving interviews next to Ben Kingsley. I'm nowhere near cynical or jaded enough not to be incredibly thrilled by that.
Chris Eigeman
DayWallsGivingEnoughBackNext
Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.
Frank Darabont
WallsDrawingKindStorytellingBeen
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