The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
Ted Nelson

The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.
Al Lopez

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
Italo Calvino

The most important job you'll ever have is in the walls of your own home.
Jane Clayson

The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.
Bernard De Voto

The thickness of the walls should be sufficient for two armed men to pass each other with ease.
Marcus V. Pollio

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

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
Lyndon B. Johnson

The walls are raised against honest men in civic life.
William H. O'Connell

The walls are the publishers of the poor.
Eduardo Galeano

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
Jim Rohn

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.
Huey Newton

The wooden walls are the best walls of this kingdom.
Thomas Coventry

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
Paul Simon

There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.
Pat Brown

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.
Ronald Reagan

There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.
Barbara Amiel

There was a strange atmosphere on the set because we were filming in this large house, which was used for troubled children. You'd go in and find walls had been burnt down. The building was charged with this history and it stayed with us throughout the filming.
Beatrice Dalle

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

To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
Jim Bakker