1,078 Quotes About Wall

  • Author Kurt Vonnegut
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    bergeron's epitaph for the planet, i remember, which he said should be carved in big letters in a wall of the grand canyon for the flying-saucer people to find was this: WE COULD HAVE SAVED IT, BUT WE WERE TOO DOGGONE CHEAP. only he didn't say "doggone.

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  • Author Kurt Vonnegut
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    Billy had a framed prayer on his office wall which expressed his method for keeping going, even though he was unenthusiastic about living. A lot of patients who saw the prayer on Billy’s wall told him that it helped them to keep going, too. It went like this: “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference.” Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.

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  • Author Leonardo da Vinci
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    It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places, in which...you may find really marvellous ideas.

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  • Author Leonardo da Vinci
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    In an atmosphere of uniform density the most distant things seen through it, such as the mountains, in consequence of the great quantity of atmosphere which is between your eye and them, will appear blue. Therefore you should make the building... wall which is more distant less defined and bluer... five times as far away, make five times as blue.

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  • Author Tim Vine
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    My house is a bit like a teenager's bedroom. The kind of pictures you have hanging up on your wall say a lot about you. I've got ones of Evel Knievel, Elvis and Starsky and Hutch, signed by David Soul.

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  • Author Andrew Wyeth
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    To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible.

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  • Author Andy Warhol
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    You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes.

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  • Author Cornel West
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    It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands.

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