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“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.”

Years Made Hard Fighting Passion Answers Wall Commitment Made It Harry Potter Potters

Author:David Heyman

“But no temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...as if into this one mountain mansion Nature had gathered her choicest treasures.”

Ifs Made Hands Seems Rocks Wall Mountain Treasure Compare Temples Mansions Yosemite

Author:John Muir

“No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...Awful in stern, immovable majesty, how softly these rocks are adorned, and how fine and reassuring the company they keep: Their feet among beautiful groves and meadows, their brows in the sky, a thousand flowers leaning confidingly against their feet, bathed in floods of water, floods of light.”

Made Hands Light Seems Beautiful Water Company Feet Sky Rocks Flower Wall Fine Thousand Awful Compare Temples Flood Majesty Brows Meadows Reassuring Grove Yosemite

Author:John Muir

“No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life. Some lean back in majestic repose; others, absolutely sheer or nearly so for thousands of feet, advance beyond their companions in thoughtful attitudes, giving welcome to storms and calms alike, seemingly aware, yet heedless, of everything going on about them.”

Giving Made Hands Seems Attitude Feet Rocks Wall Calm Storm Welcome Compare Thoughtful Temples Companion Sheer Repose Majestic Yosemite

Book:The Yosemite: John Muir's quest to preserve the wilderness

Source: The Yosemite: John Muir's quest to preserve the wilderness

“The groves and thickets of smaller trees are full of blooming evergreen vines. These vines are not arranged in separate groups, or in delicate wreaths, but in bossy walls and heavy, mound-like heaps and banks. Am made to feel that I am now in a strange land. I know hardly any of the plants, but few of the birds, and I am unable to see the country for the solemn, dark, mysterious cypress woods which cover everything.”

Source: John Muir’s Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs & Wilderness Studies from the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite and Picturesque California

“People's responses made me laugh out loud and they made me tear up. They consoled me during my toughest times. I understood my neighbors in new and enlightening ways, and the wall reminded me that I'm not alone as I try to make sense of my life.”

People Way Trying Made Laughing Tears Wall Understood Response Neighbor Make Sense Loud Not Alone Enlightening Laugh Out Loud

Book:Before I Die

Source: Before I Die

“I suddenly dreamt that I picked up the revolver and aimed it straight at my heart my heart, and not my head; and I had determined beforehand to fire at my head, at my right temple. After aiming at my chest I waited a second or two, and suddenly my candle , my table, and the wall in front of me began moving and heaving. I made haste to pull the trigger.”

Heart Made Two Moving Fire Fronts Wall My Heart Tables Determined Temples Chests Candle Triggers Haste Revolver

Book:Short stories

Source: Short stories

“Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.”

Made Said Bigs Opportunity Sides Wall Property Private Property Back Side

Author:Woody Guthrie

“Human beings today are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate: the City, the banking system, political and advertising conglomerates, vast entertainment enterprises. They've made themselves user friendly, but they define the tastes to which we conform. They're rather subtle, subservient tyrants, but no less sinister for that.”

“Where are these rational practices to be taught and acquired? Not within the four walls of a bare building, in which formality predominates... But in the nursery, play-ground, fields, gardens, workshops, manufactures, museums and class-rooms. ...The facts collected from all these sources will be concentrated, explained, discussed, made obvious to all, and shown in their direct application to practice in all the business of life.”

Made Play Facts Rooms Class Practice Four Fields Building Taught Source Wall Garden Direct Obvious Rational Museums Application Workshops Nursery Formality Four Walls

Author:Robert Owen

“The purest evil that human efforts could attain, in other words, was probably achieved by those men who made their wills the same and who made their eyes see the world in the same way, men who went against the pattern of life's diversity, men whose spirits shattered the natural wall of the individual body, making nothing of this barrier, set up to guard against mutual corrosion, men whose spirit accomplished what flesh could never accomplish.”

Men World Way Humans Made Body Eye Spirit Evil Individual Natural Effort Wall Diversity Patterns Accomplish Flesh Accomplished Barriers Mutual Shattered

Author:Yukio Mishima

“Within those confining walls, teachers - a bunch of men all armed with the same information - gave the same lectures every year from the same notebooks and every year at the same point in the textbooks made the same jokes.”

Men Years Made Teacher Information Wall Jokes Bunch Lectures Notebook Textbooks

Author:Yukio Mishima

“Looking into it a bit, Jamie found that the model used by Wall Street to price LEAPs, the Black-Scholes option pricing model, made some strange assumptions.”

Made Used Found Bits Black Streets Strange Wall Models Assumption Leap Jamie Scholes Pricing

Book:The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)

Source: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)

“There isn't any wall, however high, however wide or however big, whatever it is made from, that can bar you from achieving a better life. There isn't any wall or pit that is in front of you to stop you from achieving a future of wellbeing.”

Made Bigs Achieve Fronts Wall Wide Bars Better Life Pits Wellbeing

Author:Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

“The dirty little secret about comics is that the wall to getting published is actually not that high. You can publish your own comic. You can have your comic printed by the same people that print Marvel and DC and Image's comics for, I think, it's about $2,000 for a print run. So you can Kickstart it and get your own comic made. It depends on what is considered success to you. So if you need to be published by the Big Two to feel that you've made it, well, you should start working very hard.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Feels Should Wells Littles Made Two Book Hard Bigs Running Secret Wall Depends Made It Comic Dirty Print Comic Book Publish Printed Working Very Hard

Author:Kelly Sue DeConnick

“I basically made the movie from the crew's suggestions. For one scene, I wanted some kids' toys against the wall in Mikey's room, to give the scene texture, and we tried a field hockey stick. It looked really good to me, until someone had to say that in America, field hockey is more of a girl's game. Gradually I got tuned into the world - that happens on every movie.”

World Giving Made Happens Kids Wanted America Girl Games Rooms Fields Wall Scene Sticks Hockey Toys Crew Suggestions Texture Mikey Hockey Sticks Field Hockey

Author:Ang Lee

“When they have opened a gap in the ... wall of separation between the Garden of the Church and the wildernes of the world, God hath ever ... made his Garden a Wildernesse.”

World Made Church Atheism Wall Garden Positive Atheism Separation Gaps

Author:Roger Williams

“The only thing I collect is art. I collect it because I like looking at it. A lot of it is really personal stuff that my friends have made, paintings that my husband's mother made, and things that I bought. I buy abstract art on eBay, and I buy some outsider art on eBay, or what is called folk art, I buy a lot of. I have a lot of professional art work as well as more stuff my friends' kids make. To have a wall of art to look at, I feel really surrounded by love, because so much of the work is related to my friendships.”

“I began to see motorcyclists who had attached computer discs to their back mudflaps, because they made good reflectors. In a place called Xingwuying, locals climbed the Great Wall whenever they wanted to receive a cell phone signal.”

Made Wanted Wall Computer Phones Locals Cells Signals Cell Phone Discs Great Wall

Book:Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip

Source: Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip

“The problem I've always discovered in my own work when this kind of thing happens when you hit the wall is there's almost always a reason. You've almost always made a mistake in the initial conception of the project. You misapprehended something or you thought something would work and now you're three quarters on the way through and you see that it doesn't work.”

Way Kind Made Reason Problem Happens Three My Own Mistake Wall Projects Things Happen Conception Quarters Initials Made A Mistake

Author:Steven Pressfield

“Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it's sensory overload.”

Want Made Shows Felt Sound Imagination Wall Internet Albums Active Video Engaged Tickets Posters Sensory Overload

Author:Q-Tip

“This seclusion of the artist with his work, sometimes misconceived as a selfish thing, is in truth as needful a tool as any, if a vision is to be made clear to others. And all the men I have known do creative work obtained it; either mechanically, by the walls of a workroom, or by that withdrawal into themselves which is part of their power.”

Ifs Men Made Sometimes Artist Known Vision Creative Clear He Man Wall Tools Selfish Creative Work Withdrawal Seclusion

Author:Georgiana Burne-Jones

“I like having my back pressed against a wall and being made to work harder so I don't embarrass myself.”

Made Wall Harder Work Harder

Author:Mark Haddon

“I think furniture is art. I don't think art is just for your walls - I think everything that someone has made is a piece of art.”

Thinking Art Made Pieces Wall Art Is Furniture Your Wall

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“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

“Music is my life. The last job I had, I was a bricklayer's apprentice. And I was happy with that job, too, because it was something that made me feel good. To build a wall for the side of a building felt really good to me.”

Feels Made Jobs Lasts Felt Sides Building Wall Music Is Feel Good Apprentice Music Is My Life Bricklayers

Author:Mark Wahlberg

“There is an endorphin rush that comes when you puke. It's kind of like a runners wall. Once you cross that wall, once you cross that party wall and you puke, you do get a rush. There are good chemicals there. And also, you've made more room in your gut, in your stomach, in your gullet for more content, whether it be fluids or foods.”

Kind Made Rooms Party Wall Crosses Guts Stomach Chemicals Runners Fluid Puke Endorphins

Author:Andrew W.K.

“Bricks will be most serviceable if made two years before using; for they cannot dry thoroughly in less time. When fresh undried bricks are used in a wall, the stucco covering stiffens and hardens into a permanent mass, but the bricks settle and the motion caused by their shrinking prevents them from adhering to it, and they are separated from their union with it. At Utica in constructing walls they use brick only if it is dry and made five years previously, and approved as such by the authority of a magistrate.”

Ifs Years Made Two Use Used Five Wall Authority Mass Unions Permanent Settling Dry Five Years Two Years Bricks Covering Approved Shrinking Magistrates

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Leave a cavity behind the [wall] facings, and on the inside build walls two feet thick, made of red dimension stone or burnt brick or lava in courses, and then bind them to the fronts by means of iron clamps and lead. The beds and builds, all settling equally and bonded at the joints, will not let the work bulge out, nor allow the fall of the face walls which have been tightly fastened together.”

Mean Has Beens Made Two Together Faces Fall Courses Behinds Feet Fronts Wall Bed Red Stones Settling Dimensions Iron Thick Bricks Joints Lava

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Walls are made of fear; bridges are made of love!”

Love Made Wall Bridges

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I made a body of work, which was like trying to make movies on a wall and was made up of all different images and materials. I had the aspiration to make movies because I thought that was the cycle. I had this insane egomaniac idea that I could make movies because I made these gigantic art projects.”

Trying Art Made Ideas Different Body Materials Wall Projects Insane Aspiration Cycles Egomaniacs Art Projects

Author:Robert Longo

“I always wanted to make an abstract photograph. I would photograph walls, sports interiors, marks on the walls people made. Even looking back it makes so much sense. It's like it was a fight against the photograph.”

People Made Wanted Fighting Sports Wall Mark Photograph Abstract Looking Back Interiors

Author:Idris Khan

“I'm asked, what about criminal prosecution of those on wall street? You know what, it's probably because none of them committed any crimes. They just made some incredibly bad decisions.”

Knows Made Decision Streets Crime Wall Committed Criminals Prosecution Bad Decision

Author:Gary Johnson

“The true church is not made of creeds and forms, nor is it contained in walls of wood and stone; the heart of man is its temple and the Spirit of truth is the one guide into all Truth. When men learn to turn within to the Spirit of truth, who is in each one for his light and inspiration, the differences between the churches of man will be eliminated, and the one church will be recognized.”

Men Heart Made Light Inspiration Form Spirit Turns Differences Church Wall Truth Is Stones Woods Guides Temples Creeds

Author:Charles Fillmore

“I'm just not made for that kind of live audience where you don't create a fourth wall.”

Kind Made Audience Wall Fourth

Author:Kristen Stewart

“I have a fear of nuclear annihilation. I'm a child of the cold war: I didn't live more than 10 miles from a major WarPac nuclear target until the Berlin Wall came down and the CW ended. Knowing you can die horribly at any moment because of decisions made by alien intelligences thousands of miles away who don't even know you exist - there's something Lovecraftian about that, isn't there?”

Knows Children Made War Moments Dies Decision Knowing Wall Cold Majors Down And Nuclear Miles Aliens Target Cold War Berlin Annihilation Miles Away Decisions Made Berlin Wall

Author:Charles Stross

“It's a stage with four lights clamped to it with walls made out of plywood. And then my name's in the center. It's the type of thing that can be made over and over again. It's not like a Michelangelo sculpture.”

Made Light Names Four Stage Wall Type Sculpture

Author:Josh Smith

“... it is a lonely programme. The very virtues you cultivate become walls that inevitably separate you from your kind.... A new danger comes to your soul, and intolerance and impatience with those who are as you have been all but destroy that which you have taken such pains to build up. Not alone are there spiritual barriers between you and the friends that you have, but your business training has made your mind incisive. In the swift rush of business you have no time for small debates and petty dilemmas.”

“Wall Street is not being made a scapegoat for this crisis: they really did this.”

Made Streets Wall Crisis Scapegoat

Author:Michael Lewis

“Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art.”

Art Made Age Hate Literature Wall I Hate Guilty Versailles Literature And Art

Book:THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN

Source: THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN

“I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.”

“Critics say the OWS protesters hate the rich. Come on! Success is the national religion, and almost everyone is a believer. Americans love winners. But that's just the problem. These guys on Wall Street are not winning - they're cheating. And as much as we love the self-made success story, we hate the cheater that much more.”

Made Self Stories Problem Guy Hate Winning Rich Streets Wall Critics Believer Winner Cheating Self Made Cheater Success Stories

Author:Matt Taibbi

“We're not ignored by The Guinness Book Of Records, but we've been largely ignored by the media during our lifetime. If you read any article, no mention is ever made of Pink Floyd. We're never included in the same sentences as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Who. I wrote 'The Wall' as an attack on stadium rock - and there's Pink Floyd making money out of it by playing it in stadiums! Pathetic. They spoiled my creations.”

Ifs Made Book Records Rocks Media Creation Wall Stones Lifetime Sentences Making Money Articles Rolling Ignored Pathetic Spoiled Stadiums Rolling Stones Guinness

Author:Roger Waters

“Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very simple... compared with the artistic and skillful portraits made in later days... Here was a photograph that at one time had been the last word, a very modern portrait... Today it is just a part of cultural history. The small yellowed surface has acquired depth, an admonishing perspective. We hold in our hand a symbol of the structure and ideology of an epoch.”

“Between the poor and any appreciation for modern science stands a wall made of failed schools, defunded libraries, denied opportunities, and the systematic use of science and technology to benefit other people at their [the poor's] expense.”

People Made Use School Opportunity Poor Technology Modern Wall Benefits Library Appreciation Expenses Denied Systematic Science And Technology Modern Science Uses Of Science

Author:John Michael Greer

“Generating exciting new ideas burns 325 calories per hour and has no carbs. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. Rambling aimlessly about a point that someone has already made burns only 3 calories per hour.”

Made Ideas Use Hours Wall Exciting New Ideas Calories Banging Carbs Rambling Banging Your Head

Author:Mike Brown

“The event of falling in love... in one high bound it has overleaped the massive wall of our selfhood; it has made appetite itself altruistic, tossed personal happiness aside as a triviality and planted the interests of another in the centre of our being.”

Made Fall Interest Events Wall Falling In Love Bounds Massive Appetite Centre Triviality Personal Happiness

Book:The Four Loves

Source: The Four Loves

“One time I covered a wall with 8.5×11 pages of drawings, which made things feel a little bit different in the room.”

Feels Littles Made Different Bits Rooms Wall Little Bit Pages Drawing Covered One Time

Author:Jason Polan

“The Affordable Care Act has clearly, as Secretary Clinton made the point, done a lot of good things, but, what it has not done is dealt with the fact we have 29 million people today who have zero health insurance, we have even more who are underinsured with large deductibles and copayments and prescription drug prices are off the wall.”

People Made Done Facts Care Today Millions Wall Drug Good Things Clinton Zero Secretary Affordable Prescriptions Prescription Drugs Off The Wall Affordable Care Act

Author:Bernie Sanders

“I didn't have to see this big clock on the wall and worry. Most of the record I made was experimental. If you have a lot of time to do that you don't have to worry about the money, plus, I had no money. It was more out of necessity than choice.”

Ifs Made Bigs Choices Worry Records Wall Clock Plus No Money

Author:Daniel Powter