The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family. Votes: 3
Sara ShepardThe Glass Castle' by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family. Votes: 3
Sara Shepard'The Glass Castle' by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family. Votes: 3
Sara ShepardMy book "Bamboo Walls" is forever because the Djojobojo Prophecy is timeless! Votes: 3
Yvonne B MurthaWalls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down. Votes: 3
Tennessee WilliamsWalls don't work. ... Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges. Votes: 3
James G. StavridisI'm actually even thinking of stealing the Walls of Jericho and turning in into the Walls of Miz. Votes: 3
The MizWalls aren't put in our life to stop us, they are there to test how much we really want somthing. Votes: 3
Randy PauschFollow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls. Votes: 2
Joseph CampbellThe walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people. Votes: 2
Huey NewtonYou can't go forward if you're looking backward. You run into walls that way. Votes: 1
Karen Marie MoningMay your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility. Votes: 1
Mary Anne RadmacherEvery sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls Votes: 0
Robert WalserBoundaries aren't all bad. That's why there are walls around mental institutions. Votes: 0
Peggy NoonanThe window-lights, myriads and myriads,Bloom from the walls like climbing flowers. Votes: 0
Sara TeasdaleUnlike flying or astral projection, walking through walls is an earthbound pursuit... Votes: 0
Chris RockWe amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe are all architects of faith, ever living in these walls of time. Votes: 0
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowSocial media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats. Votes: 0
George TakeiWhat is a well-chosen collection of pictures, but walls hung round with thoughts? Votes: 0
Joshua ReynoldsI can really recommend a beautifully but sparsely furnished room with empty walls! Votes: 0
Semir ZekiKindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations. Votes: 0
Paramahansa YoganandaHouses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's. Votes: 0
Jodi PicoultIn aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls. Votes: 0
Brad HollandNone of the threats to the global commons will be solved by building walls. Votes: 0
James G. StavridisSometimes our walls exist just to see who has the strength to knockthem down. Votes: 0
Darnell Lamont WalkerFollow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls. Votes: 0
Talli RolandAs actors, we're a little faster than other people, with breaking down the walls. Votes: 0
Paula MalcomsonHis achievements read like the graffiti on the walls of a hangman's changing room. Votes: 0
Jonathan LarsonGreater technological connectivity makes the world wider, and the walls of isolation - thinner. Votes: 0
Tsakhiagiin ElbegdorjThe most important job you'll ever have is in the walls of your own home. Votes: 0
Jane Clayson JohnsonWho needs one more chef in one more building with four walls and a kitchen? Votes: 0
Jose Andres PuertaI'm pretty drunk and bored with yelling at the stone walls that are your minds. Votes: 0
Doug StanhopeMany evil things there are that your strong walls and bright swords do not stay. Votes: 0
J. R. R. TolkienDon't take 'no' for an answer. Keep knocking down walls until someone says 'yes.' Votes: 0
Chelsea HandlerWe can't be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths. Votes: 0
Mark LawrenceForgiveness in the heart comes about when the walls of separation in the mind fall. Votes: 0
Deepak ChopraWith stones, you can build walls to separate people or build bridges to unite them. Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanIt's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers. Votes: 0
Neil GaimanBy faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days. Votes: 0
Hannah Whitall SmithAll the pictures on the walls, they all white as lilies and smiling like alligators. Votes: 0
Charlaine HarrisThey took your commandments off the schoolhouse walls, they say it's a crime to pray. Votes: 0
Randy TravisVeracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls. Votes: 0
George EliotCatholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe mounted knight is irresistible; he would bore his way through the walls of Babylon. Votes: 0
Anna KomneneSell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight. Votes: 0
Robert MapplethorpeThe thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing. Votes: 0
Georg Christoph LichtenbergAn expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket. Votes: 0
Anton ChekhovThe thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing. Votes: 0
Georg C. LichtenbergElectricity, water, gas, and steam course through the walls of my building, keeping it alive. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyDeep are the foundations of sincerity. Even stone walls have their foundation below the frost. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauHe protected his feelings in walls he imagined, but castles crumble exposing the frightened child. Votes: 0
Ozzy OsbourneA house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from one another Votes: 0
Barack ObamaFollow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls. Votes: 0
Joseph CampbellFences and walls can be effective and even soothing, at least for those who build them. Votes: 0
Richard EngelIndia is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiWith love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls, for stony limits cannot hold love out Votes: 0
William ShakespeareCertificates from top US universities adorned the walls like tiger head in a hunterâs home. Votes: 0
Chetan BhagatThere's four sides to every story... If these walls could talk, they'd probably still ignore me. Votes: 0
Daniel DumileShe said before i could touch her walls I'd have to touch her heart. so i did. Votes: 0
Darnell Lamont WalkerThe walls of the cell fell away, the sky came down, I saw the big yellow bird. Votes: 0
Truman CapoteEven behind prison walls I can see the heavy clouds and the blue sky over the horizon Votes: 0
Nelson MandelaI think I'll paint roads on my front room walls to convince myself that I'm going places Votes: 0
Lemn SissayComedy breaks down walls. It frees us for just a moment from the ugliness of this world. Votes: 0
Goldie HawnThe walls of that grand edifice called a good character have to be worked at during life. Votes: 0
Robert Green IngersollI felt like it needed some color down there, so I painted the walls with the motherfucker. Votes: 0
Joe HillKeep puffing on the bubble until it breaks its confining walls and becomes the sea of joy. Votes: 0
Paramahansa YoganandaI want to show you that you can leap tall buildings, walk through walls, and change reality. Votes: 0
Elan LeePut the walls up. Get the better walls. There's no reason the army website should be hacked. Votes: 0
Eric BollingIf you can give your walls history, it supports the action that's happening in front of them. Votes: 0
James Pearse ConnellyTalking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see. Votes: 0
John GardnerI can't leave her there all alone, surrounded by stone walls... She's too precious to give up. Votes: 0
Megan Whalen TurnerFaults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.] Votes: 0
HoracePrison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out. Votes: 0
Jessica MitfordVisual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls. Votes: 0
Frank DarabontI watch the ashes swim around like dandelion puffs, making swirls where bodies and walls once stood. Votes: 0
Lauren DeStefanoI find peace anywhere I go. It depends on what is within the walls of my own home. Votes: 0
Brooke BurkeBrick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want Votes: 0
Randy PauschIf you have white walls, human beings look better in a room than if you have red walls. Votes: 0
Minoru YamasakiWhen I think of sex symbols, I think of posters my two sisters had on their bedroom walls. Votes: 0
Jamie DornanBe clever and do not build walls, because in the future they will bring only shame to you! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanWe grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in darkness. Votes: 0
Mary E. DeMuthLove is a breach in the walls, a broken gate, Love sells the proud heart's citadel to fate. Votes: 0
Rupert BrookeThe purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible Votes: 0
Pierre-Auguste RenoirThere's thieves among us Painting the walls All kinds of lies , and lies I never told it all Votes: 0
Zooey DeschanelIn the house of lovers, the music never stops, the walls are made of songs & the floor dances Votes: 0
RumiWe are not going to build a pressure in Mexico. We're not building walls to retain our people. Votes: 0
Vicente FoxYou can see the walls roar See your brains on the floor Become God Become cripple Become funky Votes: 0
Laura NyroThe thickness of the walls should be sufficient for two armed men to pass each other with ease. Votes: 0
VitruviusLong before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls. Votes: 0
Charles BukowskiThe thickness of the walls should be sufficient for two armed men to pass each other with ease. Votes: 0
Marcus Vitruvius PollioWhen a church is faithless to its duties, the real church is outside its walls, in the community. Votes: 0
Henry Ward BeecherOur mothers put God first when they fill their highest mission within the walls of their own homes. Votes: 0
Ezra Taft BensonHere in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians. Votes: 0
Barbara AmielI testify to rainbow feathers, to the span of heaven and walls of colour, the colonnades of jasper. Votes: 0
Hilda DoolittleWe live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns. Votes: 0
Aaron SorkinSan Quentin, may you rot and burn in hell. May your walls fall and may I live to tell. Votes: 0
Johnny CashMy life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight. Votes: 0
Hugh HoweyGraffiti is usually a protest - ink on walls - or has a reason for being naughty or aggressive. Votes: 0
Cy TwomblyWild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high. Votes: 0
Abby SunderlandSeek the ones who never stop caring, who break down your walls, and help you come back to yourself Votes: 0
Yasmin MogahedThe walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp. Votes: 0
Elvis PresleyI went from staring at the same four walls for 21 years to seeing the whole world in just 12 months Votes: 0
The WeekndThe walls that a hateful mind builds around it, make it impossible for happiness to find its way in. Votes: 0
Edmond MbiakaYour fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it. Votes: 0
Dan MillmanYou can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. Votes: 0
Lauren OliverWhen we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. Votes: 0
John BergerDear Anna, we will live in a home with no walls, so that everywhere we go will be our home. Votes: 0
Jonathan Safran FoerIn and out of dimensions I walk through walls, just saying you can't put me in a box that's all. Votes: 0
Pharrell WilliamsI have always had plenty of friends, and now at age sixty, I face four walls as a common prisoner. Votes: 0
Albert KesselringI've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful. Votes: 0
Danielle SteelAbsence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air. Votes: 0
Pablo NerudaDream that you died It takes you out of your mind The black walls of space Take me all the way Votes: 0
John FruscianteI am sick of four walls and a ceiling I have need of the sky, I have business with the grass. Votes: 0
Richard HoveyIf you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down. Votes: 0
John CottonIt was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see. Votes: 0
Carson McCullersBaby bye Here's a fly, Let us watch him. you and I, How he crawls Up the walls Yet he never falls. Votes: 0
Theodore TiltonBrick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things. Votes: 4 Randy Pausch
Architects design buildings; that's what we do, so we have to go with the flow; and, even though I'm still an old Leftie, global capitalism does have its good side. It's broken down barriers - the Berlin Wall, the Soviet Union - it's raised a lot of people up economically, and for architects, it has meant that we can work around the world. Votes: 1 Richard Rogers
Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges. Votes: 7 Vicente Fox
Architects design buildings; that's what we do, so we have to go with the flow; and, even though I'm still an old Leftie, global capitalism does have its good side. It's broken down barriers - the Berlin Wall, the Soviet Union - it's raised a lot of people up economically, and for architects, it has meant that we can work around the world. Votes: 1 Richard Rogers
For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground, and tell sad stories of the death of kings... All murdered; for within the hollow crown that rounds the mortal temples of a king, keeps Death his court... and with a little pin bores through his castle wall, and farewell king! Votes: 3 William Shakespeare
A dozen great fires raged under the city walls, where casks of burning pitch had exploded, but the wildfire reduced them to no more than candles in a burning house, their orange and scarlet pennons fluttering insignificantly against the jade holocaust. Votes: 3 George R. R. Martin
I was part of that group of kids growing up in the '80s under the Reagan regime, what I used to call 'living in the shadow of Dr. Manhattan,' where we would have dreams all the time that New York City was being destroyed, and that that wall of light and destruction was rolling out and would just devour our neighborhood. Votes: 1 Junot Diaz
Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls. Votes: 1 Frank Darabont
Stories cannot demolish frontiers, but they can punch holes in our mental walls, and through those holes we can get a glimpse of the other and sometimes even like what we see. Votes: 3 Elif Safak
In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls. Votes: 2 Brad Holland
I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary. Votes: 1 Larry Wall
Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind. Votes: 4 Charles de Lint
George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising. Votes: 1 Al Gore
Last night your thin walls invited me to the party next door / reminded me I am a quiet person in a quiet life. Votes: 3 Drew Myron
The walls have ears, better think before you throw that shoe. Votes: 5 Elvis Presley
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. Votes: 1 Alan Greenspan