Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus? Being there was not so fun.
I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere.
Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall. The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall.
If you have white walls, human beings look better in a room than if you have red walls.
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling,...
After the Berlin Wall came down and Communism was on the run, I looked around and wondered what the next threat to the United States would be.
A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall; that is, side to floor, for instance.
Ronald Reagan will be remembered for leading the United States during a time of tremendous international transition - the demise of the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall coming down, and the end of the Cold War.
EVE: Name? WALL.E: WALL-E. EVE: WALL-E? [giggles] EVE: EVE. WALL.E: [attempting to pronounce it] Eeee... EVE: EVE. WALL.E: Eeeee... aah. EVE: "EVE"! "EVE"! WALL.E: Eeeee... va? [EVE giggles]
Writing-wise, I like to have a lot of things on the burners at once, because when I hit a wall, I like to move on to the thing I haven't hit a wall on.
May the economic discrimination you impose on your own people bloat your mind. That polluted rubbish occupying your mind-set needs to be swept clean. May the disgusted look you impose on those you judge poor burn your eyes. That evil look occupying y...
Man in street - greets Todd after competition: Congratulations, Mr. Todd. May I ask you, sir, do you have your own establishment? Mrs. Lovett: He certainly does. Sweeney Todd's Tonsorial Parlor, above my Meat Pie Emporium in Fleet Street.
Prince Achmed: You are a worthless street rat. You were born a street rat, you'll die a street rat, and only your fleas will mourn you! [the palace gates slam shut in front of Aladdin] Aladdin: I'm not worthless. And I don't have fleas! [he scratches...
Though I did not have the statistics, just observing the number of women on the streets during peak hours dressed for work, it was obvious that a greater percentage of women in Vanni went to work outside the home. There were also more women in civili...
Communication is not a one-way street.
Fighting in the ring or cage is very much different from fighting in the street. Fighting in the street is very much fueled by anger, pride, and male dominance and ego.
We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
A street full of shadows will teach you what life is much better than the street full of lights!
A street without trees is a street only for the sick-minded people whose god is nothing but money!
When he's late for dinner, I know he's either having an affair or is lying dead in the street. I always hope it's the street.
