#walls

When you think about it, we're strapping strange planks of wood to our feet and launching off of giant snow walls. It's pretty intense. ↗

— Shaun White

#feet #giant #intense #launching #off

Look at the walls of Pompeii. That's what got the internet started. ↗

— Robin Williams

#internet #look #started #walls

I tend to wear outfits that match the walls. ↗

— Debra Winger

#match #outfits #tend #walls #wear

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#decorate #more #often #pictures #than

If you have white walls, human beings look better in a room than if you have red walls. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#better #human #human beings #look #red

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

#allow #audience #form #four #happen

Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#clerk #faculty #favourite #frustration #get

Building walls isn't going to work in the long run. Some people are happy with the wall in Israel, but somebody will get a weapon someday and knock it over or something. Walls aren't the answer between countries, though. ↗

— Arlo Guthrie

#between #building #countries #get #going

I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me. ↗

— Ian Hart

#calming #crawl #i #i tried #just

The doctors realized in retrospect that even though most of these dead had also suffered from burns and blast effects, they had absorbed enough radiation to kill them. The rays simply destroyed body cells - caused their nuclei to degenerate and broke their walls. ↗

— John Hersey

#blast #body #broke #burns #caused