#walls

I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#baghdad #commit #encourage #i #i am

Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping malls coming out of the walls, as we walk out among the manure. That's why I pay no mind. ↗

— Beck

#city #coming #full #i #malls

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

#book #covers #everything #four #happen

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#always #animal #ask #attractive #beautiful

Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere. ↗

— Harry Belafonte

#always #american #american policy #everywhere #foreign

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

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

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#education #house #human #men #molds

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls. ↗

— Epicurus

#against #as far as #city #concerned #far

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#anything #attracted #because #condition #examining