Virginia Woolf Quotes, Wall Quotes, Years Quotes

Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.

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In the long, sleepless watches of the night, A gentle face the face of one long dead Looks at me from the wall, where round its head The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Wall Quotes , Night Quotes

Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break.

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Writing is still like heaving bricks over a wall.

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Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Nature Quotes , Wall Quotes

Belshazzar had a letter,-- He never had but one; Belshazzar's correspondence Concluded and begun In that immortal copy The conscience of us all Can read without its glasses On revelation's wall.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Wall Quotes , Glasses Quotes

Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale.

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If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Art Quotes , Wall Quotes

One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill.

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Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Art Quotes , Wall Quotes

He's arm'd without that's innocent within; Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Wall Quotes , Literature Quotes

Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial pools, and slow clouds sailed harmoniously above the willow. May came too soon, and suddenly unable to bear walls, he wandered the campus at all hours through starlight and rain.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Wall Quotes , Spring Quotes

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!

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Tags : Al Lewis Quotes , Wall Quotes , Thinking Quotes

A pin lies in wait for every bubble. And when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons: First, many in Wall Street (a community in which quality control is not prized) will sell investors anything they will buy. Second, speculation is most dangerous when it looks easiest.

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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Wall Quotes , Fabulous Quotes

Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower-but if I could understand What you are, root and all, all in all, I should know what God and man is.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Nature Quotes , Wall Quotes

India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Wall Quotes , Mind Quotes

Money doesn't have anything have anything to do with the magnificence of a person. It doesn't. What matters is what you make. Whether it's a cake for bingo night or a costume for a saint or a wall of water-whatever you pour into this life is what makes you rich.

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Tags : Adriana Trigiani Quotes , Wall Quotes , Night Quotes

To revolt within society in order to make it a little better, to bring about certain reforms, is like the revolt of prisoners to improve their life within the prison walls; and such revolt is no revolt at all, it is just mutiny. Do you see the difference? Revolt within society is like the mutiny of prisoners who want better food, better treatment within the prison; but revolt born of understanding is an individual breaking away from society, and that is creative revolution.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Wall Quotes , Order Quotes

My prophecy is but half his journey yet, For yonder walls, that pertly front your town, Yon towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds, Must kiss their own feet.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Wall Quotes , Kissing Quotes

The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. If his wife does not go with the wall-paper, he gets a divorce.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Wall Quotes , Sunset Quotes