Wall Sayings And Quotes

by allinspiration.com

Here is a collection of wall sayings and quotes from various authors, celebrities, famous persons, and other sources compiled by allinspiration.com for you to read and enjoy.

“Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.”
– Adlai E. Stevenson

“George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising.”
– Al Gore

“I think people need housing. And there’s empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!”
– Al Lewis

“I’ve been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I’ve never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I’m not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it’s got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.”
– Alan Greenspan

“A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.”
– Alice Duer Miller

“I believe Wall Street needs serious ongoing regulation.”
– Andrew Cuomo

“I don’t think anyone would argue with the notion that there have been serious abuses on Wall Street.”
– Andrew Cuomo

“People are rightfully upset about Wall Street abuses and excess.”
– Andrew Cuomo

“Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don’t have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there’s poetry written right on the bathroom wall.”
– Ani DiFranco

“I don’t think there is anything wrong with white space. I don’t think it’s a problem to have a blank wall.”
– Annie Leibovitz

“The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother’s wall in her house.”
– Annie Leibovitz

“When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.”
– Anthony Trollope

“My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall – that is my strength, my only strength.”
– Antonio Gramsci

“We didn’t become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn’t come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn’t do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.”
– Barack Obama

“We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it – not by turning it over to Wall Street.”
– Barack Obama

“I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you’re quoted in the ‘Wall Street Journal,’ the ‘New York Times,’ constantly as the expert in the business people assume you’re a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.”
– Barbara Corcoran

“I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for ‘Barron’s’ magazine and I found a lot to write about.”
– Ben Stein

“In my office in Jerusalem, there’s an ancient seal. It’s a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible. The seal was found right next to the Western Wall, and it dates back 2,700 years, to the time of King Hezekiah. Now, there’s a name of the Jewish official inscribed on the ring in Hebrew. His name was Netanyahu.”
– Benjamin Netanyahu

“I didn’t always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the ‘L’ out of me.”
– Bil Keane

“In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.”
– Bob Dylan

“From when I was a really small girl on, I would pick every fabric, every color on the walls, and I was always redecorating. Like once every couple of months I would redecorate my room. I had a full wall that was all collage – the entire wall – when I was in junior high. And then it would kind of morph with me as I was growing.”
– Chloe Sevigny

“I remember an article, I can’t recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing.”
– Claude Chabrol

“Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”
– Coco Chanel

“It isn’t enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, ‘How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?’”
– Colin Powell

“What you’re seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they’re directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.”
– Colin Powell

“I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student‘s wall, then you’re in a very enviable position. I’d like to do a Damien Hirst for £500 at some point.”
– Damien Hirst

“From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan, social media was not only sharing the news but driving it.”
– Dan Rather

“People don’t know what it’s like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you.”
– Dave Chappelle

“If I were president of the United States, I’d build a great wall along the Mexican border and not let anybody in.”
– Dave Mustaine

“After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.”
– David Cameron

“Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there’s humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.”
– David Lynch

“I supported myself by delivering the ‘Wall Street Journal’ and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.”
– David Lynch

“We’re in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone’s arguing over where they’re going to sit.”
– David Suzuki

“The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.”
– Denis Healey

“I’m a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.”
– Diane Abbott

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