#walls

My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#dad #each #eccentricity #felt #grew

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#darkness #diminish #glory #god #him

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#cold #cold iron #confine #fettered #first

The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#appointed #beating #been #come #heads

I consider myself a D.I.Y. home improvement guy. In a prior life, I completely gutted a house - redid the plumbing, wiring, moved sewage pipes, knocked down walls, everything. ↗

— Gary Locke

#consider #down #everything #guy #home

An art book is a museum without walls. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#book #museum #walls #without

Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

#flowers #hang #public #sell #their

If slaughterhouses had glass walls the whole world would be vegetarian. ↗

— Linda McCartney

#had #slaughterhouses #vegetarian #walls #whole

I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall away, you're left with a whole bunch of illusions. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#build #bunch #fall #i #idea

This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#climbing #doing #doubt #enjoying #first