The space within becomes the reality of the building. — Frank Lloyd Wright
The outside of any building may now come inside and the inside go outside, each seems as part of the other. Continuity, plasticity, and all the new simplicity the imply have at last come home. — Frank Lloyd Wright
A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone’s chest is a living room wall with awkwardly placed photographs hiding fist-shaped holes. — Andrea Gibson
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out. — Robert Frost
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace — Gaston Bachelard
The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in. — A. E. Housman
Children cannot bounce off the walls if we take away the walls. — Erin Kenny
We are all living in cages with the door wide open. — George Lucas
Short Four Walls Quotes
The darker the walls,the brighter the sky outside. — Alex Gaskarth
My whole life is a dark room. One big dark room. — Beetlejuice
All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade. — Robert Grudin
Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage. — Richard Lovelace
A house is a machine for living in. — Le Corbusier
Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see. — John Gardner
An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open. — Walter Darby Bannard
The sky's the limit if you have a roof over your head. — Sol Hurok
I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way. — Gustav Mahler
We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without. — Kahlil Gibran
Four Walls Image Quotes
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Off The Wall Quotes
You can create the perfect triceps by just pushing yourself off your wall. — Jean-Claude Van Damme
The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do. — Andy Warhol
I think that certain players are going to approach the game differently. I am more of a quiet person. I like to have more of a focused energy and internal energy whereas some people need to be bouncing off the walls to be ready for the game. — Caitlin Lowe
Don't spend time beating on a wall hoping to transform it into a door.
To be great, one does not have to be mad, but definitely it helps. — Percy Cerutty
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. — James Wolcott
The more we retreat from the culture at large the more room we will have to carve out lives of meaning, the more we will be able to wall off the flood of illusions disseminated by mass culture and the more we will retain sanity in an insane world. — Chris Hedges
We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses walls, so sensuality traverses the body and reaches up to ecstasy. — Anais Nin
Perhaps this is why lunatics have a harder time dating, not because they are off the wall but because it is hard to find soemone who is willing to date so many people in one person. — Elif Safak
Smile. it's the second best thing you can do with your lips. — Jill Shalvis
The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
Your Wall Quotes
To control a people you must first control what they think about themselves and how they regard their history and culture. And when your conqueror makes you ashamed of your culture and your history, he needs no prison walls and no chains to hold you. — John Henrik Clarke
Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. — Banksy
When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight. — John Major
When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in. — Sam Shepard
That wall is your mind playing tricks on you. You just need to say, 'One more step, I can do this. I have more in me.' You'll be so proud of yourself once you push yourself past your threshold. — Kerri Walsh
Did your parents build knows you a swing facing a wall when you were a kid? — Roddy Piper
When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.
Prayer is the window that God has placed in the walls of our world. Leave it shut and the world is a cold, dark house. But throw back the curtains and see His light. Open the window and hear His voice. Open the window of prayer and invoke the presence of God in your world. — Max Lucado
There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge. — Banksy
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls. — Joseph Campbell
If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall. — Antonio Gramsci
Walls Up Quotes
Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. — Banana Yoshimoto
We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it. — Michael Jordan
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
If you want to destroy something in this life, be it an acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to surround it with thick walls. It will dry up inside. — Elif Safak
Don't be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you've been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what? — Marcus Aurelius
I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Follow your dreams and the universe will open doors where there we only walls.
I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall. — Frank Stella
I never really had a celebrity crush when I was little. I know some of my friends have posters up on their bedroom wall; I was never really about that. — Sadie Sink
Have you ever played ping pong up against a wall? You get exhausted a lot quicker than playing against someone. It's the same with getting angry. If you keep getting angry on your own, all that anger will just come back to you. — Taeyang
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
Wall Quotes
When we stand, the Azad Hind Fauz has to be like a wall of granite; when we march, the Azad Hind Fauz has to be like a steamroller. — Subhas Chandra Bose
Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall.
The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall. — Louis Kahn
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out, also keeps out joy.
Can we talk of integration until there is integration of hearts and minds? Unless you have this, you only have a physical presence, and the walls between us are as high as the mountain range. — Chief Dan George
There is no difficulty that enough LOVE will not conquer, no disease that enough LOVE will not heal, no door that enough LOVE will not open, no gulf that enough LOVE will not bridge, no wall that enough LOVE will not throw down, no sin that enough LOVE will not redeem. — Emmet Fox
Instead of bailing out Wall Street for the fourth time.. let's bail out the students. — Jill Stein
Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise. — Grace Hopper
All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sun’s light looks a little different on this wall than it does on that wall, and a lot different on this other one, but it’s still one light. — Rumi
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall with a joint, drinking some eight-ball. — Ice Cube
Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries. — Arthur Ashe
You are confined only by the walls you build yourself
A very young painter is seldom alone. If he is an art student, he is in an art school with other students. He does not yet know that one day he will have to face himself as a solitary creature enclosed in a space of four walls... and that he will have to be a self-propelled being, with no one at is side. — Pierre Alechinsky
John and I weren't capable of getting back to Kenwood from there, so the four of us sat up for the rest of the night as the walls moved, the plants talked, other people looked like ghouls and time stood still. It was horrific: I hated the lack of control and not knowing what was going on or what would happen next. — Cynthia Lennon
I am sick of four walls and a ceiling
I have need of the sky, I have business with the grass. — Richard Hovey
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. — John Berger
Inspiration,' the false artist says,'it just comes to me.' And it shows.His pictures are as like as the four walls of his room -- morning, evening, midnight, noon. For myself, I have to search for it. The whole world is your palate, but only if you reach, take hold of what you need and pocket it. — Kurt Schwitters
I went from staring at the same four walls for 21 years to seeing the whole world in just 12 months. — The Weeknd
To prove that Wall Street is an early omen of movements still to come in GNP, commentators quote economic studies alleging that market downturns predicted four out of the last five recessions. That is an understatement. Wall Street indexes predicted nine out of the last five recessions! And its mistakes were beauties. — Paul Samuelson
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own. — John Berger
The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There's four sides to every story...
If these walls could talk, they'd probably still ignore me. — Daniel Dumile
When less than four years old I was standing with my nurse, Mary Ward, watching the shadows on the wall from branches of an elm behind which the moon had risen. I have never forgot those shadows and am often trying to paint them. — Samuel Palmer
One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family. — Robert Byrd
I have never found, in anything outside of the four walls of my study, an enjoyment equal to sitting at my writing desk with a clean page, a new theme, and a mind awake. — Washington Irving
A sudden cloud formation of birds was swallowed up by the moon, and he was just as suddenly penned in by four walls-the demons' pen. — Mo Yan
Wherever there are four walls, consciousness of direction is far keener. — Curt Sachs
The current version of... separation of church and state says you can be salt, and you can be light, but only inside the four walls of the church. — David Barton
An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket. — Anton Chekhov
No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls. — Horatio Alger
During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history. — Stephen Ambrose
An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell. — Pearl S. Buck
I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our home. — Stephen Covey
I have always had plenty of friends, and now at age sixty, I face four walls as a common prisoner. — Albert Kesselring
Willows whiten, aspens quiver, little breezes dusk and shiver, thro' the wave that runs forever by the island in the river, flowing down to Camelot. Four gray walls and four gray towers, overlook a space of flowers, and the silent isle imbowers, the Lady of Shalott. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
The woman who does her job for society inside the four walls of her home must not be considered by her husband or anyone else an economic "dependent," reaching out her hands in mendicant fashion for financial help. — Mary Barnett Gilson
On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe. — Tom Wolfe
I bounce off four walls, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, because I only sleep those four hours a day. — Casper Van Dien
And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way. — Malala Yousafzai
Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research. — Friedrich Engels
My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls. — Thomas Carlyle
As soon as a man and woman of almost any age are alone together within four walls it is assumed that anything may happen. Spontaneous combustion, instant fornication, triumph of the senses. What possibilities men and women must see in each other to infer such dangers. Or, believing in the dangers, how often they must think about the possibilities. — Alice Munro
The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you. — Al Lopez
The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others. — Ted Nelson
Color is a very personal thing. You need to make sure to choose a color that makes you happy. But I don't recommend accent walls - choose a color you can live with on all four walls. — Nate Berkus
All one needs to write a story is one feeling and four walls. — Doris Betts
You have won the Cold War. ... [Your] underappreciated valor [helped] topple the Berlin Wall, and bring down dictators the world over. ... For the past four decades the world behind the Iron Curtain ... looked to Americans for hope, and America looked to you to get the job done. Today, the free world says thank you. — Bob Dole
The schools, the courts, the media - all seem determined to erase Christian influence from public life and confine religion to the four walls of the church or home. — Bruce L. Shelley
External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise for the thinking faculty! — Jules Verne
Most people will not stand up to injustice unless their comfort of living is severely threatened. This is because today's man does not care for the outside world so long as he has a roof over his head and four walls to contain his own. — Suzy Kassem
Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about. — Wislawa Szymborska
The audience plays a huge part in how a piece will actually form. They really allow the performers to walk a tightrope in a way that never seems to happen in the privacy of your own four walls. I'm listening to the audience, and they're listening to me. — Evelyn Glennie
We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything. — Carey Mulligan
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