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“The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.”

Want Ideas Sometimes Four Wall Paper Spring Prison Connected Four Walls

Author:Ted Nelson

“Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily.”

Sometimes Lying Belief Cities Wall Difficulty City Walls

Author:Rachel Hartman

“I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even though one sometimes feels a kind of decay, though things go differently from the expected, it is necessary to take heart again and new courage. For the great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.”

“The hallmark of creative people is their mental flexibility... Sometimes they are open and probing, at others they're playful and off-the-wall. At still other times, they're critical and faultfinding. And finally they're doggedly persistent in striving to reach their goals.”

People Stills Sometimes Goal Creative Wall Strive Critical Flexibility Persistent Creative People And Off Hallmark Off The Wall Probing

Book:A Kick in the Seat of the Pants: Using Your Explorer, Artist, Judge, & Warrior to Be More Creative

Source: A Kick in the Seat of the Pants: Using Your Explorer, Artist, Judge, & Warrior to Be More Creative

“Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings? Ah, who is this lady fine? The Vine, boys, the Vine! The mother of the mighty Wine, A roamer is she O'er wall and tree And sometimes very good company.”

Sometimes Mother Company Boys Tree Wall Fine Hundred Wine Very Good Rings Vines Good Company

Author:Bryan Procter

“It is interesting sometimes to stop and think and wonder what the place you are currently at used to be like in times past, who walked there, who worked there and what the walls have seen.”

Thinking Sometimes Past Used Interesting Wonder Wall Used To Be Times Past

Author:Patrick Geddes

“Sometimes the longer you are inside a prison, the harder it is to fathom what is possible beyond its walls.”

Sometimes Wall Harder Prison Fathom

Book:Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite

Source: Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite

“Sometimes a god comes.... He brings a new way to do a thing, or a new thing to be done. A new kind of singing, or a new kind of death. He brings this across the bridge between the dream-time and the world-time. When he has done this, it is done. You cannot take things that exist in the world and try to drive them back into the dream, to hold them inside the dream with walls and pretenses. That is insanity. What is, is. There is no use pretending, now, that we do not know how to kill one another.”

Knows World Way Trying Kind Sometimes Done Use Dream Know How Wall Singing Bridges Insanity Pretending New Things New Ways Pretense

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“More than one branch of the avant-garde, claiming to break with the bourgeois vision and mode of production, remains tied to it in spite of its denials and ex-communications. We are far from having overcome bourgeois thought or practices, despite the socialist "intermission" between the Russian revolution and the collapse of the Berlin wall. The avant-garde has lost its radical nature. On the other hand, "bourgeois theatre" is sometimes subtle enough to flirt with the avant-garde or to make "intelligent boulevard theatre.”

“Wall Street sometimes gets confused between risk and uncertainty, and you can profit handsomely from that confusion. The low-risk, high-uncertainty [situation] gives us our most sought after coin-toss odds. Heads, I win; tails, I don't lose much.”

Giving Sometimes Winning Loses Situation Risk Streets Wall Lows Profit Confusion Uncertainty Confused Odds Tails Coins Toss

Book:The Dhandho Investor: The Low-Risk Value Method to High Returns

Source: The Dhandho Investor: The Low-Risk Value Method to High Returns

“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

“When I was in the gulag I would sometimes even write on stone walls. I used to write on scraps of paper, then I memorised the contents and destroyed the scraps.”

Writing Sometimes Used Wall Paper Stones Destroyed Scrap Stone Walls Gulags

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“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

“People call me a socialist sometimes. But, no, you gotta meet real socialists. You'll have a sense of what a socialist is.”

People Real Sometimes Reality Political Politics Money Party Democracy Comedy Wall Taxes Socialism Ideology Call Me Free Speech Socialist Political Parties Free Market

Author:Barack Obama

“In film, the possibilities are greater. You can go beyond the fourth wall. You can go to these incredible locations and you're put into circumstances that are physically sensuous. It sometimes requires much more of a physical talent.”

Sometimes Film Greater Talent Possibility Wall Circumstances Incredibles Fourth Location Sensuous

Author:Kim Cattrall

“Sometimes sense hides behind walls. You must find a window and stick your head right in before you can see it.”

Sometimes Behinds Wall Window Sticks Nursery Rhymes

Book:Summer and Bird

Source: Summer and Bird

“Sometimes you don't get the value of the art or the painting you buy. The value you get from it is on the wall and you're looking at it. It's the same with your car. You're using it, so it goes down in value but you've used it.”

Art Sometimes Used Values Car Painting Wall

Author:Lemar

“Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, sometimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them.”

Mind May Sometimes Force Liberty Enemy Clear Wall Argument Impression Firm Strongest Nevertheless Mud Batteries Stand Firm

Book:An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc

Source: An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc

“The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a magical place because it is not divided. The many divisions and polarizations that terrorize a disenchanted world find peaceful accord among mossy rock walls, rough stone paths, and trimmed bushes. Maybe a garden sometimes seems fragile, for all its earth and labor, because it achieves such an extraordinary delicate balance of nature and human life, naturalness and artificiality. It has its own liminality, its point of balance between great extremes.”

“Religion, mysticism and magic all spring from the same basic 'feeling' about the universe: a sudden feeling of meaning, which human beings sometimes 'pick up' accidentally, as your radio might pick up some unknown station. Poets feel that we are cut off from meaning by a thick, lead wall, and that sometimes for no reason we can understand the wall seems to vanish and we are suddenly overwhelmed with a sense of the infinite interestingness of things.”

Feels Humans Sometimes Reason Feelings Seems Might Universe Human Beings Cutting Magic Poet Wall Spring Picks Infinite Radio No Reason Mysticism Stations Thick Overwhelmed

Book:The Occult: A History

Source: The Occult: A History

“Writing is like bricklaying; you put down one word after another. Sometimes the wall goes up straight and true and sometimes it doesn't and you have to push it down and start again, but you don't stop; it's your trade.”

Writing Sometimes Wall Down And Trade One Word Bricklaying

Author:Geraldine Brooks

“I'm interested in how paintings can change or transform - sometimes through close examination or viewed from afar; or how they hold the space of a wall or interact in a room with each other.”

Sometimes Space Rooms Painting Wall Examination Afar

Author:Stephen Beal

“Sometimes it takes all my resolution and power of self-control to refrain from butting my head against the wall. I want to howl and foam at the mouth but I daren't.”

Want Self Sometimes Wall Mouths Resolution Self Control Refrain Howl Foam

Book:The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad: 20 Novels & 26 Short Stories (Including Memoirs, Essays & Letters in One Single Edition): Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists: Heart of Darkness, The Duel, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, The Shadow-Line & Under Western Eyes

Source: The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad: 20 Novels & 26 Short Stories (Including Memoirs, Essays & Letters in One Single Edition): Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists: Heart of Darkness, The Duel, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, The Shadow-Line & Under Western Eyes

“In an effort to create safety and self-reliance in your life and relationships, you may have built walls around your heart and accumulated tension in your body. Although sometimes these walls of protection are useful, they can, over time, act like shells of fear that block your true love. These shells can keep in the love you want to offer fully and keep out the love that your heart yearns to receive.”

Source: Dear Lover: A Woman's Guide to Men, Sex, and Love's Deepest Bliss: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

“I think a lot of funds get their ideas from Wall Street. I just like to find my own ideas. I read a lot. A lot of news. I just follow my nose. A lot of times it's a dead end, but sometimes there's value there.”

Thinking Ideas Ends Sometimes Values My Own Streets Wall News Noses Fund Dead Ends

Author:Michael Burry

“Sometimes I would go home from work and just stare at the wall for a couple of hours. But, I can't complain. Whatever knocks you out working is the kind of work that I want to be doing because it's always those challenges that are the most exciting, and the things I hope to get to keep doing in my work.”

Want Kind I Can Sometimes Home Hours Challenges Wall Couple Exciting Complaining Staring

Author:Lily Rabe

“I've had many students over the years, sometimes even very sophisticated students, who will be writing and will hit a wall. Often I find it's because they're working out of sequence. Maybe some people can do that, but I don't think that's how fiction works. It's a discovery.”

People Thinking Writing Years Sometimes Can Do Fiction Students Wall Discovery Work Out Working It Sophisticated Sequence

Author:T.C. Boyle

“I really like the interplay between thinking of text as ephemeral and thinking of it as a concrete, physical thing. With almost anything that I write, I'll stay completely immersed in the electronic text of it for a period of time and in another period, I'll stay immersed in it as a physical thing that can cut your skin. So with the apocalypses, I had them taped all over the wall and they had codes on them. Sometimes I would color code them in terms of thematic elements, sometimes in terms of voice, sometimes visual forms or images.”

Thinking Writing Sometimes Form Voice Term Cutting Color Wall Periods Elements Skins Code Visuals Concrete Apocalypse Ephemeral Physical Things Thematic

Author:Lucy Corin

“Here comes the pope saying, "Well, that may be true about Cruz, but you build walls, and we Christians don't do that. So you're not a Christian, either." Sometimes all you can do is chuckle. I mean, you need a break from it some. You just can't be intense and wadded up all the time here, folks.”

Needs Wells May Mean Sometimes Christian Can Do Break Wall Folks Intense Being True Pope Cruz Chuckles

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I completely understand why a businessman would fire me from 'Saturday Night Live'. Because he was seeing Jay Leno kill 10 minutes a night, doing his monologue with wall-to-wall laughs and applause, then I do 10 minutes a week to, sometimes, breathtaking silence. He's just listening for the laughs.”

Sometimes Night Silence Laughing Fire Seeing Week Minutes Wall Listening Businessman Saturday Applause Just Listen Saturday Night Monologues Breathtaking Saturday Night Live

Author:Norm MacDonald

“I am making art. It's not a job that you've gotta show up to and fill in your slot. This is a dream come true. You get the opportunity to say something, to make a piece of art and hang it on the wall forever. Sometimes you're gonna have to take your time.”

Art Sometimes Shows Dream Jobs Opportunity Forever Pieces Wall Dreams Come True True You Take Your Time

Author:El-P

“You find [reverberations from 9/11 ] in them most unexpected places, like graffiti on a wall. Sometimes it's a faded picture; sometimes it's a newspaper tacked to a wall. Sometimes it's weird paraphernalia related to it, home constructed paraphernalia. It resonates through society and continues to resonate today.”

Sometimes Home Today Wall Newspapers Related Unexpected Faded Graffiti Reverberation Unexpected Places

Author:Peter van Agtmael

“And if I'm ahead, I can sometimes tell. It might mean I'm having a good swim, but pretty much, I'm just focused on how fast I'm going, how fast I'm feeling, and pretty much block everything out, the sounds, the sights, just kind of listen to the rhythm of the water, and just maintaining the same stroke, the same rhythm, the same tempo, and thinking about how I want to get my hand to the wall.”

Thinking Kind Mean Sometimes Feelings Water Wall Focused Block Rhythm Swim

Author:Katie Ledecky

“I think writers always want to be taken seriously as writers, but it's not always possible. There's a difference between persistence and banging your head against the same wall a hundred times. Sometimes it's better to look away from the wall and see what else might be available that's easier.”

Thinking Sometimes Taken Wall Persistence

Author:Chris Kraus

“Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous.”

Knows Sometimes Wall Come Up Bricks Halfway Brick Wall

Author:John Bonham