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Walls Quotes

You know, I've been to some superstars' houses, and I've been really disgusted when I see their platinum discs hanging in the toilet. They're just there on the walls glaring at you when you're trying to be occupied with other things.

Walls Trying You Know Toilet See

The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis.

Walls Space City London Within Only

People talk about the Patriot Act that was passed immediately in the wake of September 11. What the Patriot Act did was break down the walls between the various agencies.

Walls People Down Patriot Talk Act

I challenge the homes of Israel to display on their walls great quotations and scenes from the Book of Mormon.

Ezra Taft Benson

Great Challenge Walls Book Israel

The cost is minimal, but one of the things that you want in a universal design is to make the plan as open as you can... and to still have walls around bedrooms and that sort of thing, and to keep the corridors wide enough so the wheelchair can do a 360 in the corridor.

Walls Design Enough Plan You Want

Calling China's online censorship system a 'Great Firewall' is increasingly trendy, but misleading. All walls, being the creation of engineers, can be breached with the right tools.

Great Walls Tools Engineers Creation

In truth, my Anglophilia is fundamentally bookish: I yearn for one of those country house libraries, lined on three walls with mahogany bookshelves, their serried splendor interrupted only by enough space to display, above the fireplace, a pair of crossed swords or sculling oars and perhaps a portrait of some great English worthy.

Truth Great Walls Space Portrait

Because actually it's really hard to get things made. It takes years. To fight the fights you inevitably have to fight, even when you've produced Harry Potter, you'd better have the commitment and the passion to knock down walls, not take no for an answer.

Passion Commitment Walls Fight You

Like the graduates of some notorious boot camp, my brothers and sisters and I look back with a sort of perverse glee at the rigors of our Catholicism. My oldest sister, Mary, was so convinced of the church's omnipotence that when she walked into a Protestant church with some high-school friends, she was sure its walls would crash down on her head.

Stephen J. Dubner

Walls Sister Church Friends Look

I'm trying to climb up both walls at once.

Walls Climb Trying Up Once Both

Nobody has Francis Bacon on their walls in their house - or very few people - but sometimes people listen to Beethoven as though it was background and a comfort, and I think that is very dangerous.

Walls People Think House Comfort

I have a ballet barre in my gym. I turn the music up so loud that the walls are pulsating, and I go for it for an hour.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

Music Walls Gym Go Go For It Turn

Golfers who play a lot of courses often encounter short ledges or retaining walls, and I always had fun hopping down from them. I could jump off something six feet high and land like a cat, no problem. Well, today I can't jump off anything higher than two feet without it just killing me.

Today Walls Fun Me Feet Problem

I grew up having all the Dolce & Gabbana campaigns on the walls of my teenage bedroom, and I was dreaming of one day being a model.

Day Walls One Day Bedroom Dreaming

I think I've been incredibly raw my whole career. A lot of people spend a lot of time trying to look cool and spend time being guarded and putting up walls. I just never had the time. It seems more honest to say, 'Hey, this is who I am.'

Time Walls I Am People Cool Think

Ask anybody who has ever remodeled their house. There's always problems. They open up walls, they find this, they find that. There is always something. I'm in a business where you have to control those variables.

Business Walls Control Problems You

My office has no walls. You can't be removed from your team to be successful. You have to be respectful of others.

Walls Team You Others Office Your

'The Matrix' is a movie that is all about glamour. I could do a whole talk on 'The Matrix' and glamour. It was criticized for glamorizing violence, because, look - sunglasses and those long coats, and, of course, they could walk up walls and do all these kinds of things that are impossible in the real world.

Virginia Postrel

Walk Walls World Impossible Look

If one limits to developing only the kitchen and bathroom as standardized rooms because of their installation, and then also decides to arrange the remaining living area with movable walls, I believe that any justified living requirements can be met.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Walls Kitchen Limits Believe Living

I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall away, you're left with a whole bunch of illusions.

Sarah McLachlan

Walls Reality You Fall Rules Build

My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing.

Live Walls House Sometimes Up Adult

I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere.

Walls Flowers You Wall Person More

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Men Walls Bridges Enough Build Many

Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls.

Margaret Heffernan

Walls More Noise Than Effective

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