#walls

Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#oranges-are-not-the-only-fruit #walls #nature

Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid? ↗

— Lynda Barry

#bed #breathing #feel #how #kid

A nation without borders is like a house without walls - it collapses. And that is what is going to happen to our wonderful America. ↗

— Jan Brewer

#borders #collapses #going #happen #house

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. ↗

— Richard Burton

#decays #embraces #false #friendship #gives

One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#around #days #four #his way #hospital

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#doors #follow #only #open #open doors

A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens. ↗

— John Updike

#author #because #been #choices #door

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#cause #dreams #dust #eyes #his

So I saw that there was only me. There was only me who could worry about what was happening here, inside these walls of my life. Other people had their own worlds to worry about, and in the end, they had to fend for themselves, just like us. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#only-me #people #walls #worlds #worry

Coming back to the topic of computer security, the TCP Wrapper is an example of such a safety net. I wrote it when my systems were under attack by someone who appeared to walk through walls. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#attack #back #coming #computer #example