The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
The walls are raised against honest men in civic life.
I've never been a guy who was anal about housework. A typical Wellington flat when I was flatting was a warehouse with, basically, sheets hung up for walls.
I started out with projected-light works and working indoors, but I'd prepare the walls - by sanding, etcetera - the way you'd prepare a canvas for painting.
Look at the walls of Pompeii. That's what got the internet started.
Western governments have generally tried to contain genocide by appeasing its architects. But the sad record of the last century shows that the walls the United States tries to build around genocidal societies almost inevitably shatter.
In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli.
Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.
We are very proud of the diverse talents within the Franklin Mint's own walls.
I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.
People talk about the Patriot Act that was passed immediately in the wake of September 11. What the Patriot Act did was break down the walls between the various agencies.
I always drew dresses. I remember loving Richard Avedon's early Versace campaigns. I used to plaster my whole walls with them when I was a kid.
I don't live in a prism, and I'm not afraid of anything. I haven't built any walls around myself.
As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads rather than resounding off the walls. The protracted labor of amassing a personal music library has lost its detective zeal.
I have a ballet barre in my gym. I turn the music up so loud that the walls are pulsating, and I go for it for an hour.
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
Back in the 1950s, there was a top-secret program code-named SUNTAN being conducted at a top-secret facility called Skunk Works. Its objective? To develop a liquid-hydrogen-powered spy plane. Because liquid hydrogen is incredibly volatile, early experiments were conducted inside a bomb shelter with eight-foot-thick walls.
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
If slaughterhouses had glass walls the whole world would be vegetarian.