- Interesting
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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Talk
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we went to Iraq, we stayed in one of Saddam's palaces. It was kind of creepy. If those walls could talk, there's no telling what stories they'd tell.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon the rocky walls of caves.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.
- Drafting
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father worked in Chrysler's drafting department and used to bring home tracing paper, No. 2 pencils, and masking tape from the office. With these, I used to trace off drawings from the 'Superman' and 'Batman' comics and put them up on my bedroom walls.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I think of sex symbols, I think of posters my two sisters had on their bedroom walls.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads rather than resounding off the walls. The protracted labor of amassing a personal music library has lost its detective zeal.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad teaches film and has done for 40 years, so I've really grown up in a movie household. All the walls are covered in movie posters, and many of the evening meals at 7:30 revolved around film discussions.
- Lines
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been into older homes, even if I have to refurbish or remodel or raise roof lines or knock out walls.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020