“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.” IdeasWholeRealityLawFallLeftWallIllusionBunch Author:Sarah McLachlan
“I had always fantasized about going to the Pyramids, the Great Wall; I've always been sort of obsessed with the whole notion of Everest.” WholeWallNotionObsessedPyramidsEverestGreat Wall Author:Justin Zackham
“Did you ever have something to say and feel as if the whole side of the wall wouldn't be big enough to say it on, and then sit down on the floor and try to get it onto a sheet of charcoal paper?” IfsFeelsTryingEnoughWholeBigsSidesWallPaperSheetsCharcoal Book:Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life
“The whole financial structure of Wall Street seems to rise or fall on the mere fact that the Federal Reserve Bank raises or lowers the amount of interest. Any business that can't survive a one percent change must be skating on thin ice. Why even the poor farmer took a raise of another ten percent just to get a loan from the bank, and nobody from the government paid any attention. But you let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help to get them back into bed again.” CountryWholeFactsHelpingSeemsGovernmentFallInterestPoorAttentionStreetsWallAmountBedTenPercentEconomicsPaidRaisesStructureMereFinancialIceNightmareFarmersReservesLoanSkatingFederal ReserveSkating On Thin Ice Author:Will Rogers
“I am telling folks that the Country as a whole is "Sound," and that all those who's heads are solid are bound to get back into the market again. I tell 'em that this Country is bigger than Wall Street, and if they don't believe it, I show 'em the map.” IfsBelieveCountryWholeShowsSoundBusinessStreetsWallBiggerBoundsDon't BelieveFolksEmsMapsGet Back Author:Will Rogers
“Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow. Awareness of others is a healthy antidote to this self-focus.” WorldSelfWholeProblemSeemsGrowsFocusAwarenessWallHealthySizeWhole WorldPityShrinksAntidoteSelf PityAbsorptionSelf AbsorptionAwareness Of Others Author:Kevin Malarkey
“I wish the iPhone people would design one that's black and has two pieces, and it plugs into the wall and you can pick one piece up and talk into it. I tell you, the whole time I had one of those old-fashioned plug-in phones, not once did I misplace it.” PeopleTwoWholeWishBlackPiecesDesignWallPicksPhonesOld FashionedIphoneOne PiecePlugs Author:David Letterman
“Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls. Put him in a nice detached villa and he'd never have written a word.” WritingWholeHouseSoundVoiceBehindsNiceWrittenDoorsWallWhole LifeLiftsApartmentDetachedClosed DoorsBehind Closed DoorsVilla Book:Writing Home Source: Writing Home
“Snow pursued by the wind is not wholly unlike a retreating army. In the open field it ranges itself in ranks and battalions; where it can get a foothold it makes a stand; where it can take cover it does so. You may see whole platoons of snow cowering behind a bit of broken wall.” MayDoeWholeBitsBehindsFieldsWindBrokenWallArmySnowRangePursuedOpen Fields Book:Can Such Things Be? Source: Can Such Things Be?
“It is not just that it is profoundly offensive to the leaders and people of a democratic Germany to paint Hitler on the wall (or on the remnants of the Wall). It is also consummately counterproductive. Such sauce does not make the meat of substantive criticism more interesting. It means that the whole dish is pushed away. It does not mean that Britain's voice is listened to more attentively in the councils of Europe. It means that it is listened to even less.” PeopleMeanDoeWholeVoiceInterestingLeaderWallEuropeCriticismDemocraticPaintMeatGermanyBritainDishesOffensiveCouncilSauceRemnantsCounterproductivePushed Away Author:Timothy Garton Ash
“Make a small painting of what you want to do... and project it up on a white wall... The enlarged version is so changed that there is no way of just visualizing it in the brain... It's a whole new dimension in painting.” WayWantWholeWhiteBrainTechnologyChangedPaintingWallProjectsWhat You WantVersionsDimensionsVisualizingWhite Walls Author:Jim Rowe