- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Walls Quotes
Lines that treat walls as both shelter and obstacle.
Some entries here read almost like old military manuals, weighing how thick a fortification needs to be or how a road should wind toward a gate. Others turn walls into metaphor, arguing for connection over separation. For the counterpoint theme, see Bridges.
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- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
An easy approach to the walls must be provided against: indeed they should be surrounded by uneven ground, and the roads leading to the gates should be winding and turn to the left from the gates.
- Nov 07, 2020
The thickness of the walls should be sufficient for two armed men to pass each other with ease.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are not going to build a pressure in Mexico. We're not building walls to retain our people.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't live in a prism, and I'm not afraid of anything. I haven't built any walls around myself.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need walls around our schools, we need to protect our schools. Ten-foot rule. You can't get within ten feet unless you're supposed to be there.
- Makes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Greater technological connectivity makes the world wider, and the walls of isolation - thinner.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peter Parker can't dance. He can flip and climb up walls and do backflips, but he definitely can't dance.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honestly, the essence of publishing hasn't changed. Since the days of the cave man carving stuff on the cave walls, people have wanted stories, and storytellers have wanted an audience. That is still the case. The changes are really a matter of format.
- Loving
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always drew dresses. I remember loving Richard Avedon's early Versace campaigns. I used to plaster my whole walls with them when I was a kid.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Glass Castle' by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls.
- Barbed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020