With the Berlin I was able to set up a fortress that he could come near but not breach.
Do not tear down the east wall to repair the west.
Beware a rickety wall, a savage dog, and a quarrelsome person.
Walls have ears, and little pots too.
From when I was a really small girl on, I would pick every fabric, every color on the walls, and I was always redecorating. Like once every couple of months I would redecorate my room. I had a full wall that was all collage - the entire wall - when I...
Pink: [singing] Daddy's flown across the ocean. Leaving just a memory. A snapshot in the family album. Daddy, what else did you leave for me? Daddy, what'd ya leave behind for me? All in all, it was just a brick in the wall. All in all, it was all ju...
Mark Hanna: OK, first rule of Wall Street - Nobody - and I don't care if you're Warren Buffet or Jimmy Buffet - nobody knows if a stock is going up, down or f-ing sideways, least of all stockbrokers. But we have to pretend we know.
Jordan Belfort: You wanna know what money sounds like? Go to a trading floor on wall street. Fuck this, shit that. Cunt, cock, asshole. I couldn't believe how these guys talked to each other! I was hooked in seconds. It was like mainlining adrenelin.
I forgot to get you a present . . . On purpose.
It's a very enclosed world on Wall Street.
I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers.
In truth, government has been good to Wall Street and big business.
I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.
Jordan Belfort: [gets a wire] It wasn't even a choice.
People are rightfully upset about Wall Street abuses and excess.
You know what would help?" I asked, not meeting his eyes. "Hmm?" "If you turned off this crap music and put on something that came out after the Berlin Wall went down." Dimitri laughted. "Your worst class is history, yet somehow, you know everything ...
I'm talking to the door, but I want the walls to hear me.
Walls have ears, paper sliding doors have eyes.
Fortune is like a wall that falls on those who lean on it.
If we lose sight of pleasures and luxuries that intoxicate the senses in the most sensuous and beautiful and simplest of ways, then we`ve lost a lot.
As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.