There was so much handwriting on the wall that even the wall fell down


Christopher Morley

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He saw the handwriting on the wall.
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The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.
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The handwriting was on the wall. She was not going to be effective in placing a burden on teachers.
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The handwriting was on the wall. I think they would have gone regardless of what we did.
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Is There Anybody Out There?
PINK FLOYD
It got so hot, the wall just fell.
BRYAN THOMPSON
Next time I expect you to act a little friendlier and remember that we would like to get out of here...
TRACEY WARD
Merry Christmas.” he says quietly, pulling something from his back pocket.
I frown in confusi...
TRACEY WARD
A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery.
MORRIS BENDER
The second floor was pretty much gutted and wall-to-wall rebuilt.
TRAVIS DAVIS
Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up a...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
The Berlin Wall go down, that was the most wonderful thing that could happen, absolutely. I celebrat...
NANA MOUSKOURI
If our state sees the handwriting on the wall, then maybe we can work together and come up with some...
JOE MARTIN
There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who ha...
JACK VANCE
Wall Street fell Friday and prompted some investors to take profits. Sentiment was also weighed down...
PETER LAI
When the wall came down in Berlin, the British had the BBC, and the American station was basically i...
GARY SMITH
Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of...
RUMI
That part that was in the wall, that was the bomb. I wanted a lot of wall time and Wally gave me the...
QUENTIN TARANTINO
When he got to the door on the far end, he walked in the door and hit the wall and fell on the groun...
DARIEN MICKENS
They walk down that wall down there that has all the Super Bowl memorabilia on it and they have no i...
BRAD HOPKINS
It all began with a shoe on the wall. A shoe on the wall shouldn't be there at all.
DR. SEUSS
My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
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Something there is that doesn't love a wall, and wants it down.
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Preliminary information that we have is that there was a failure of the sea wall, and that caused a ...
ED MCLAUGHLIN
And now it is said of me
That my love is nothing because I have borne no children,
Or bec...
JAMES WRIGHT
It's reflective of the sense of urgency both sides felt. The U.A.W. saw the handwriting on the wall....
DAVID COLE
I remember when the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly intractable problems get solved.
LUCY WALKER
Hines' picture is out there on the wall,
ROBERT HANSON
That's up there. ... That one gets framed and hung on the wall.
MATT DAVIES
I remember an article, I can't recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which sa...
CLAUDE CHABROL
I wore so much rubber when I was at MGM, I bumped into the wall once, and I ricocheted.
RITA MORENO
Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! (Speech near the Berlin Wall, 198...
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There are so many ingredients that are contained in 'The Wall' that were not necessarily con...
NICK MASON
There was a red button on the wall labeled EMERGENCY, but no button labeled BEWILDERMENT.
MICHEL FABER
There was a red button on the wall labelled EMERGENCY, but no button labelled BEWILDERMENT.
MICHEL FABER
Occupy Wall Street-The writing on the wall for the American establishment?
MUHAMMED HAIDER
It was just wall-to-wall people, I can tell you that.
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NATO was constructed on the - with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to ...
NOAM CHOMSKY
The mark of a talent is that if he is pushed to the wall, then he will either scale up or break down...
ANUJ SOMANY
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
GORDON R. DICKSON
Even the weakest is thrust to the wall.
JOHN SCOGIN
I saw them in a shop in Pimlico, in the window, and fell in love with them immediately and knew that...
ALAN CLEAVOR
Walking with Daisy from the dining hall, Matthew murmured, “Will I have to scale the outside wall ...
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On Wall Street, every story becomes known so quickly. They are all so connected that everything diss...
DOUGLAS BRUNT
There are always ears on the other side of the wall
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Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn't have any competition.
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He always made me a little nervous, to know that there was this fly on the wall that we knew nothing...
MARLIN FITZWATER
Even in China. Children there, next to the Great Wall, who had never seen Mickey Mouse responded. So...
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Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
RONALD REAGAN
Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
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So we built the wall and the whole wall was joined together to half its height; for the people had a...
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People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
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To be down that whole game, to fight back with our backs against the wall on the road, and Benny hit...
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I think after we collided with the wall Mr. Biko fell forward and hit his head against the table.
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Cycling is the only way to free ourselves from the misery of the Tube, the wall-to-wall buses that l...
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We will work through the visuals, even laying out a wall design on the floor so the customer can see...
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The first thing that I thought about was that wall. I was like, 'Man, I don't know how I'm going to ...
DEMETRIS BENDROSS
There are those on Wall Street and in the plutocracy who feel that Geithner is a hero who deftly ste...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN
Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that alrea...
BRUCE JACKSON
It isn’t much use writing slogans on a wall if you plan to total the building.
ANDREW VACHSS
It was like a classic thing with Emma. So I walked in and I slammed the door and everything fell off...
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Christopher Reeve so completely inhabited the character Superman when he was in that costume, and th...
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It's a party wall. Neither party owns a party wall. It's owned by both sides. He (McCutcheon) claime...
RICHARD HAYHURST
The trouble is that the average trader on Wall Street, he or she is so young, he doesn't even re...
NOURIEL ROUBINI
She's like a wall. She sits right there in the paint, so when you get a jump shot, you've got to hav...
YOLANDA GRIFFITH
I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I think Wall Street is very important, especially to tech companies. Wall Street will get in their r...
DAYMOND JOHN
It was a light ding into the wall and it broke the suspension arm and that was pretty much it so we ...
JAMES CLAY
Maybe we should shut Wall Street down for 24 hours, see how everybody who blames Wall Street for eve...
RICK SANTELLI
From our camp at the pocket the wall of the Grand Canon was visible some 15 miles down the valley.
THOMAS MORAN
The Republican Party is doubling down on this trickle-down theory that says, 'Thou shalt concent...
MARTIN O'MALLEY
If we make a fly-on-the-wall review of our history and connect the significant scenarios from our me...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
On Tuesday, our job was to move furniture out of this one house. There was mold on the carpet, mold ...
HEIDI FIESELMANN
After the Berlin Wall came down and Communism was on the run, I looked around and wondered what the ...
BRAD THOR
I like money on the wall. Say you were going to buy a $200,000 painting. I think you should take tha...
ANDY WARHOL
That's the deal we made. A verbal deal. If you shoot the puck, you'll stay there. If you don't, we'l...
JOHN TORTORELLA
Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
LALU PRASAD YADAV
Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
LALOO PRASAD YADAV
The show is all about wall-to-wall music.
CHRISTINA NORMAN
I had an apartment and I had a neighbor, and whenever he would knock on my wall I knew he wanted me ...
MITCH HEDBERG
They're a little bit discouraged by the fact that they conceded that goal so early in the second hal...
ERNEST PASCOE
Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's only a poster on a wall.
SHORT QUOTES
All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using...
GEORGE LUCAS
Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so;
And, being done, thus Wall away doth go.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Bethlehem is especially hard hit by the wall. The wall cuts through a lot of people's properties. An...
PHILIP FARAH
All I wanted was you. I tore down my wall for you. Now it's been rebuilt.
ERIC JEROME DICKEY
We are keen to get our photograph on the wall. It will be there forever.
JAMES ALLAN
This event came on us so fast, so having the permanent wall almost done made this a lot more managea...
AL GRASSER
At least I thought it was a wall. It sure felt like one. It was hard. It was flat. It stretched out ...
D.J. MACHALE
The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.
RON CHERNOW
It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be red...
MAHATMA GANDHI
If you acknowledge that filming is an occasion where people express things they might not otherwise ...
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER
Cutting down a wall, the wall sawyer could feel the tension in a home ease and something windy rush ...
MEIA GEDDES
What was heard on the dispatch tape was the phone initially hitting the wall and then a gunshot, ......
BOB DOYLE
"ACCESSIBILITY FOR ALL" - In the words of Ronald Reagan, "Tear down this wall".
ROBERT M. HENSEL
He was hurt so many times that he stopped trusting everyone even himself
JIYAMEHTA
Wall Street has too much wealth and political power.
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And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin: but he slipped away out of Saul's ...
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JOHN MORLEY
Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in m...
MORLEY SAFER
Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.
MORLEY SAFER
I really feel stateless, which is not bad, because I always felt a man without a country was not enc...
MORLEY SAFER
When I did that interview with Hepburn, the only ground rule was, you did not discuss Spencer Tracy....
MORLEY SAFER
I'm just wondering whether going back to the mundane bread-and-butter stuff of legal work must be ki...
MORLEY SAFER
Has it changed the way you look at the rest of your life?
MORLEY SAFER
In those long months of listening to those horrible stories, dreadful stories, how did you get throu...
MORLEY SAFER
Yes, it will. It absolutely will.
MORLEY SAFER
Pilgrims who are looking for a cure are soon looking for a curio.
MORLEY SAFER
The BBC is a perfect example of uncontrolled growth, [occupying] old churches and manor houses, the ...
MORLEY SAFER
BBC Radio is a never-never land of broadcasting, a safe haven from commercial considerations, a hone...
MORLEY SAFER
Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.
MORLEY SAFER
Labels are devices for saving talkative persons the trouble of thinking
JOHN MORLEY
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart
JOHN MORLEY
All religions die of one disease - that of being found out
JOHN MORLEY
It is a great help for a man to be in love with himself. For an actor, however, it is absolutely ess...
ROBERT MORLEY
I have little patience with anyone who is not self-satisfied. I am always pleased to see my friends,...
ROBERT MORLEY
Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautifu...
MORLEY SAFER
As the kind of movie star that you were, certainly you could be a dictator, ... You could say, 'I wa...
MORLEY SAFER
The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.
ROBERT MORLEY
The French are a logical people, which is one reason the English dislike them so intensely. The othe...
ROBERT MORLEY
When I grow up, I want to have an exhibit called 'American Motel.'
MORLEY SAFER
Everything they said she has to be she's contradicted. She's small and has a tough look, her face is...
PAUL MORLEY
It was just a bang and then I heard sirens.
JOHN MORLEY
You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that.
MORLEY SAFER
McNamara's plea was that he had no idea that Vietnam had a history of longing for self-determina...
MORLEY SAFER
The market appeared at first sight to take some heed from the Reserve Bank's recent warnings, with a...
HOWARD MORLEY
People coming from Lakeview Drive have trouble getting out at that intersection. I just came from th...
DENNIS MORLEY
It should help slow things down through the rest of town.
DENNIS MORLEY