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“there is a tendency in part of Wall Street people to pay excessive attention to the most recent figures and the present financial picture.”

People Pay Attention Streets Figures Wall Financial Tendencies

Author:Benjamin Graham

“The iPad - is that a phone or a computer? If I put it on my wall is it a TV?”

Ifs Tvs Wall Computer Phones Ipads

Author:Chad Hurley

“Anybody who travels knows that you're not really doing so in order to move around - you're traveling in order to be moved. And really what you're seeing is not just the Grand Canyon or the Great Wall but some moods or intimations or places inside yourself that you never ordinarily see when you're sleepwalking through your daily life.”

Knows Moving Order Seeing Wall Moved Mood Daily Life Finding Yourself Routine Exploring Canyons Grand Canyon Treat Yourself Sleepwalking Great Wall

Author:Pico Iyer

“You heard Eric 'Kiddie' Cantor say that he was afraid of mob rule down on Wall Street. Oh, you're afraid, little cutie baby? How about going down there yourself and walking through the crowds?”

Littles Heard Streets Wall Baby Walking Crowds Eric Mob Rule

Author:Gerald Celente

“I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light.”

Want Light Morning Painting Wall Window Morning Light Skylights

Author:Ellsworth Kelly

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

Problem Remember Wall Remember When Berlin Berlin Wall

Author:Lucy Walker

“That wall is your mind playing tricks on you. You just need to say, 'One more step, I can do this. I have more in me.' You'll be so proud of yourself once you push yourself past your threshold.”

Needs Mind I Can Past Can Do Steps Wall Proud Tricks Threshold Push Yourself Proud Of You I Can Do This Proud Of Yourself Mind Playing

Author:Kerri Walsh

“Mirror, mirror on the wall, whos the dumbest of you all?”

Wall Mirrors Mirror Mirror On The Wall

Author:Anne Robinson

“Stand us against a wall and shoot us, well and good, you are victors. But why should I be brought before a Tribunal like a c-c-c-... I can't even get the word [criminal] out!”

Should Wells I Can Wall Should I Tribunals

Author:Robert Ley

“Otherwise I got out of bed on two strong legs. It might have been otherwise. I ate cereal, sweet milk, ripe, flawless peach. It might have been otherwise. I took the dog uphill to the birch wood. All morning I did the work I love. At noon I lay down with my mate. It might have been otherwise. We ate dinner together at a table with silver candlesticks. It might have been otherwise. I slept in a bed in a room with paintings on the walls, and planned another day just like this day. But one day, I know, it will be otherwise.”

Source: Otherwise: new and selected poems

“The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family.”

Wall Glasses Castles Dysfunctional Family Quintessential

Author:Sara Shepard

“When I was 15 years old I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, "This is what I want to do". So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.”

Want Years Wells Light Known Successful Streets Information Wall Well Known Traders Flamboyant Takeovers

Author:Karen Finerman

“Rooms are a fixed size, which can't be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones. They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who's in them.”

Should Sometimes Rooms Building Wall Shapes Size Fixed Proportion Pulling Altered Unchanging

Book:Dying to Know You

Source: Dying to Know You

“In general, great companies prefer to grow organically, as Wall Street likes to say. That is, from the inside out, by finding new markets or by taking market share from their competitors.”

Grows Company Share Streets Wall Findings Likes Competitors Great Company

Author:Alex Berenson

“My life is flashing lights and pointing fingers and uninvited visitors. Inches away, humans flatten their little hands against the wall of glass that separates us.The glass says you are this and we are that and that is how it will always be.”

Humans Littles Hands Light Life Is Wall Fingers Glasses Inches Pointing Visitors Pointing Fingers Uninvited Little Hands Flashing Lights

Book:The One and Only Ivan

Source: The One and Only Ivan

“Seize the opportunities life has to offer you. Embrace the changes, and have the courage to travel on roads less travelled, even though what is in front of you could be tough, make it successful. Have determination and courage to kick down the brick walls in front of you, and to go on and achieve bigger success than you ever thought possible.”

Opportunity Successful Achieve Fronts Wall Goes On Offers Tough Determination Bigger Embrace Kicks Bricks Brick Wall Road Less Travelled

Author:Li Cunxin

“If Wall Street paid a tax on every “game” they run, we would get enough revenue to run the government on.”

Ifs Enough Government Running Games Streets Wall Taxes Paid Revenue

Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933

Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933

“All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour , so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology .”

Humans Art Technology Wall Art Is Dependent Endeavour Arches Charcoal

Author:George Lucas

“Your tattoos are supposed to be some connection to your personality. That's a lot more important than going in and just picking one off a wall. I've never understood why people get butterflies tattooed on their bottoms or whatever. That's really weird.”

People Important Wall Personality Understood Connections Bottom Supposed To Be Butterfly Tattoo Really Weird Tattooed

Author:Ville Valo

“The great thing about having money is that you can actually just get on with your life and not have to think about paying the bills or crouch over The Wall Street Journal or the Financial Times and look at the stock figures and things like that. That bores me rigid.”

Thinking Looks Streets Figures Wall Bills Financial Great Things Bores Journal Wall Street Journal

Author:Peter Mayle

“And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.”

Men Looks Feelings Behinds He Man Wall Stones Misery Raised Leaving Stone Walls

Book:Memoirs Of A Geisha

Source: Memoirs Of A Geisha

“I was inspired by the Hole in the Wall project, where a computer with an internet connection was put in a Delhi slum. When the slum was revisited after a month, the children of that slum had learned how to use the worldwide web.”

Children Use Wall Months Internet Computer Projects Connections Inspired Holes Slums Delhi Internet Connection

Author:Sugata Mitra

“Inspiration,' the false artist says,'it just comes to me.' And it shows.His pictures are as like as the four walls of his room -- morning, evening, midnight, noon. For myself, I have to search for it. The whole world is your palate, but only if you reach, take hold of what you need and pocket it.”

Ifs World Needs Whole Shows Inspiration Artist Rooms Morning Four Wall Whole World Evening Pockets Midnight Noon Palate Four Walls

Author:Kurt Schwitters

“Being connected to the Internet means being vulnerable to coordinated actions that can knock down walls of secrecy and shatter mechanisms of control.”

Mean Action Wall Internet Connected Vulnerable Mechanism Secrecy

Author:Jamais Cascio

“When you attack the enemy, your spirit must go to the extent of pulling the stakes out of a wall and using them as spears and halberds.”

Spirit Enemy Wall Stakes Pulling Spears

Book:The Book of Five Rings: A Text on Kenjutsu and the Martial Arts in General, Written by the Swordsman Miyamoto Musashi

Source: The Book of Five Rings: A Text on Kenjutsu and the Martial Arts in General, Written by the Swordsman Miyamoto Musashi

“The walls are white, the track is grey, the grass is green, and the sky is blue...your job is to keep them all where they belong.”

Jobs White Sky Wall Blue Green Track Grass Grey

Author:Johnny Rutherford

“When I was a kid my primary goal in life was to find a book that was alive. Not alive in the human sense, but like a thing that would send me to a place not otherwise accessible on Earth. This book should have hidden words encrypted beneath the printed ones, so that if I worked hard enough and discovered the code I would somehow end up inside the book, or the book would take on a body and consume me, revealing a secret set of rooms behind the wall in my bedroom, for instance, inside which anything could be.”

Ifs Should Humans Book Ends Hard Enough Body Kids Earth Goal Rooms Secret Behinds Alive Wall Should Have Instance Primaries Code Bedroom Revealing Printed Life Goal

Author:Blake Butler

“Think as big as you possibly can and base what you do, how you do it, and who you do it with on succeeding at that level. It just might take you more than your lifetime to run into the walls of a box this big.”

Thinking Bigs Might Running Levels Wall Succeed Lifetime Boxes

Author:Gary W. Keller

“I like to come into my workspace and feel its a living environment and not frozen, which is why I often change or add to the pictures on the wall.”

Feels Environment Wall Add Frozen Workspace

Author:Sadie Jones

“Herman Cain told a group of Occupy Wall Street protesters to go home, get a job, and get a life. That's the Republican version of hope and change, ladies and gentlemen.”

Home Jobs Groups Streets Wall Republican Versions Gentleman Cain Ladies And Gentlemen Occupy Wall Street Hope And Change

Author:Jay Leno

“Herman Cain answered the Wall Street protesters, and he had a message for these protesters. He said, 'If you don't have a job, if you're not rich, don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the banks, blame yourself.' And a nation of out of work teabaggers said, 'Yeah! Hey, wait a minute.'”

Ifs Said Jobs Nations Waiting Rich Streets Minutes Wall Messages Yeah Blame Hey Cain

Author:Bill Maher

“Steve McClellan has drawn on an insider's lifetime view of how Wall Street really works to produce a practical and entertaining book of advice for investors. Whether you are a new or experienced investor you'll get something valuable out of it, including more than a few chuckles.”

Book Views Streets Advice Produce Wall Lifetime Including Valuable Practicals Investors Entertaining Insiders Chuckles Mcclellan

Author:Charles O. Rossotti

“All deductions having been made, democracy has done less harm, and more good, than any other form of government. It gave to human existence a zest and camaraderie that outweighed its pitfalls and defects. It gave to thought and science and enterprise the freedom essential to their operation and growth. It broke down the walls of privilege and class, and in each generation it raised up ability from every rank and place.”

Source: The Lessons of History

“Our minds hurtled outward in all directions. We became absurdly creative, Homo artifactus, intolerant of bare cave walls and naked clay pots.”

Mind Creative Wall Naked Pot Caves Clay Clay Pots

Author:Natalie

“When people - everyday people who watch the coverage on CNN of Anita Sarkeesian having to cancel a speaking engagement due to death threats - think of “gamers,” they are going to think of you, and that irritates me. It enrages me. I want to punch down a wall, and I like my walls. They're nicely painted.”

People Thinking Want Watches Wall Threat Everyday Dues Engagement Think Of You Coverage Gamer Cnn

Author:Chris Kluwe

“...as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God. Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures no man ever got above, but they tower over us, and most in the moment when our interests tempt us to wound them.”

Source: Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Sending grown-ups up the wall is one of the things adolescence is all about. A few years ago it was done with rock 'n' roll music. Now at least they can do it quietly with a home computer.”

Years Done Home Can Do Modern Rocks Wall Computer Years Ago Rock N Roll Adolescence Modern Life Rock N Roll Music

Author:Russell Baker

“Huge knots of sea-weed hung upon the jagged and pointed stones, trembling in every breath of wind; and the green ivy clung mournfully round the dark and ruined battlements. Behind it rose the ancient castle, its towers roofless, and its massive walls crumbling away, but telling us proudly of its own might and strength, as when, seven hundred years ago, it rang with the clash of arms, or resounded with the noise of feasting and revelry.”

Source: Charles Dickens: The Complete Christmas Novels & Tales (Illustrated): 30 Classics in One Volume: A Christmas Carol, The Battle of Life, The Chimes, Oliver Twist, Tom Tiddler's Ground, The Holly-Tree, Doctor Marigold, The Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations and more

“Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and the Virginia creeper on the Cathedral wall has showered half its deep-red leaves down on the pavement. There has been rain this afternoon, and a wintry shudder goes among the little pools on the cracked, uneven flag-stones, and through the giant elm-trees as they shed a gust of tears.”

Source: The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Edwin Drood and Miscellaneous

“A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement; the light was all withdrawn; the shining church turned cold and dark; the stream forgot to smile; the birds were silent; and the gloom of winter dwelt on everything.”

Long Moments Light Nature Church Lines Dark Cities Sun Wall Cold Glory Bird Shining Silent West Winter Clouds Hills Streams Gloom Airy City Walls

Book:Martin Chuzzlewit

Source: Martin Chuzzlewit

“We came to the house, and it is an old house, full of great chimneys where wood is burnt on ancient dogs upon the hearth, and grim portraits (some of them with grim legends, too) lower distrustfully from the oaken panels of the walls.”

Heart House Dog Wall Ancient Woods Legends Portraits Grim Spooky Chimneys Old Houses

Book:A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories

Source: A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories

“It was a very aged, ghostly place; the church had been built many hundreds of years ago, and had once had a convent or monastery attached; for arches in ruins, remains of oriel windows, and fragments of blackened walls, were yet standing-, while other portions of the old building, which had crumbled away and fallen down, were mingled with the churchyard earth and overgrown with grass, as if they too claimed a burying-place and sought to mix their ashes with the dust of men.”

Source: The Old Curiosity Shop: And Reprinted Pieces

“As he glided stealthily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old man seemed like some loathsome reptile, engendered in the slime and darkness through which he moved: crawling forth, by night, in search of some rich offal for a meal.”

Men Night Darkness Rich Wall Moved Meals Old Man Shelter Hideous Doorways Spooky Crawling Reptiles Slime Offal

Book:Oliver Twist

Source: Oliver Twist

“Like a small animal burrowing into its hole, I shift furniture around, and back myself into a cozy corner, with my back to the wall...and then I can write.”

Writing I Can Animal Wall Corners Holes Furniture Cozy Small Animals Burrowing

Author:Danielle Steel

“If I had unlimited funds, wall space and storage, I would collect a lot more things, like 'Planet of the Apes,' 'Star Wars,' science fiction stuff, autographs, and prop guns and weapons. I have to draw the line somewhere.”

Ifs War Stars Stuff Lines Space Fiction Planets Wall Weapons Draws Gun Science Fiction Fund Unlimited Apes Autographs Props Storage

Author:Kirk Hammett

“Women are so strong and knowledgeable. You know, instead of competing with each other, I would love to complete each other. Take away that wall of competition and say, 'Hey, let's just all get together and help each other be brilliant.'”

Knows Helping Together Strong Wall Competition Brilliant Hey Competing Get Together Knowledgeable Helping Each Other

Author:Marie Osmond

“Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion.”

Art Emotion Wall Ego Art Is Macho

Author:Miguel

“The walls of people hardly affected me. You closed your mind to such things.”

People Mind Wall Affected

Author:Walter Rohrl

“If you stay half-alert, you can pick the spectacular performers right from your place of business or out of the neighborhood shopping mall, and long before Wall Street discovers them.”

Ifs Long Half Streets Wall Picks Neighborhood Performers Shopping Spectacular Malls

Author:Thomas Rowe Price, Jr.

“Brick walls are there for reason. And once you get over them-- even if someone has practically had to throw you over-- it can be helpful to others to tell them how you did it.”

Ifs Reason Wall Helpful Over It Get Over Bricks Brick Wall

Book:The last lecture

Source: The last lecture