Famous Quotes & Sayings

Le Corbusier

The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods: the gods are there, behind the wall, at play with numbers.

Alan Cohen

All of your errors have not built a wall against your success. They have paved your way to it.

Walter Benjamin

I was sentenced to life plus 30 years by an all-White jury. What I saw in prison was wall-to-wall Black flesh in chains. Women caged in cells. But we're the terrorists. It just doesn't make sense.

Walter Benjamin

And if I know anything at all, it's that a wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down.

Banksy

Imagine a city where graffiti wasn't illegal, a city where everybody could draw whatever they liked. Where every street was awash with a million colours and little phrases. Where standing at a bus stop was never boring. A city that felt like a party where everyone was invited, not just the estate agents and barons of big business. Imagine a city like that and stop leaning against the wall - it's wet.

James Keller

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.'

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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.

Minna Antrim

Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.

Dogen

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

David Suzuki

We can no longer tolerate what's going on in Ottawa and Edmonton. What I would challenge you to do is to put a lot of effort into trying to see whether there's a legal way of throwing our so-called leaders into jail because what they're doing is a criminal act.

Bernhard Goetz

Jail is much easier on people who have nothing.

Eartha Kitt

Dallas is where Kennedy was shot, and that's where I was put in jail.

Ed Koch

Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.

Ed Koch

If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.

Eliza Dushku

The letters from jail are always disconcerting.

Barry White

I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.

Arundhati Roy

Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Pity the nation that needs to jail those who ask for justice, while communal killers, mass murderers, corporate scamsters, looters, rapists, and those who prey on the poorest of the poor, roam free.

Chelsea Handler

Kiefer Sutherland has agreed to serve 48 days in jail for his DUI convictions. That's 245 months in Jack Bauer years.

Criss Angel

Picking locks or handcuffs for me is not really a big deal, I can do it pretty much in seconds, I've been doing since I was 14 years old. I used to sit on my bed as a kid with a pick set and you know just picking locks and stuff, so I'm used to it.

Bill Gates

See the clock only when you have No work.... Don't see the clock when you are working.... Clock is a lock for success

David Ginola

I have shaved my head. My flowing locks are now quite a bit shorter.

Bruce Schneier

Hardware is easy to protect: lock it in a room, chain it to a desk, or buy a spare. Information poses more of a problem. It can exist in more than one place; be transported halfway across the planet in seconds; and be stolen without your knowledge.

George Carlin

Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them?

Jeff Beck

I do hear snippets on the radio. I do hear a little bit of me, sometimes great chunks of me. But I have to take that as a compliment; there's no way you can get sour grapes about that. But if somebody starts taking your whole new thing lock, stock, and barrel, and do their own version of it before you do it, that's not on.

Ozzy Osbourne

I would lock myself in my room and drink a case of Corona and smoke a load of pot.

Oscar Wilde

George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.

Margaret Atwood

A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.