#wall

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. ↗

— Gordon R. Dickson

#frame #instead #like #much #people

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#bitter #find #flatters #greedily #lie

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

#bounce #day #days #four #hours

Yes, I don't think I shall ever become Prime Minister. Hard as that is to swallow, I tell you one person who is very happy always to see me say that, and that's my wife. ↗

— Alexander Downer

#become #ever #happy #hard #i

No, I was an unknown when I walked in that room. He didn't know who I was from a fly on the wall. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#i #know #room #unknown #walked

The country is not a democratic state. Therefore we fear that they might carry a recorder in their pocket or there may be bugs in the walls, and you cannot be absolutely sure that you get a straight testimony. ↗

— Hans Blix

#bugs #cannot #carry #country #democratic

Acting is ephemeral. You can't hang it on a wall. You can't throw it off. And you can't bring it out of a closet. It's there one night and it's gone the next, at least with stage acting anyhow. ↗

— Charles Durning

#anyhow #bring #closet #ephemeral #gone

I studied for my degree in London and consequently ended up spending five years away from Cornwall. I deliberately moved away from the coast to experience a different way of life. ↗

— John Dyer

#coast #consequently #cornwall #degree #deliberately

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#bus #conclusions #dime #draw #people

This idea was also brought out very clearly by Wallace, who emphasized that apparently reasonable activities of man might very well have developed without an actual application of reasoning. ↗

— Franz Boas

#actual #also #apparently #application #brought