Famous quotes containing the words wall street, occupy, wall and/or street:
“I think we will live through his term, Archie, and Ill tell you something, old man, if they dont stop hammering me, first Bryan for not enforcing the Anti-Trust Law and Wall Street for enforcing it, they may succeed in electing me to another term whether I want it or not.”
—William Howard Taft (18571930)
“What youre trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a good cause. Youre trying to take over his sensibility and deliver an experience that moves from mere information.”
—Robert Stone (b. 1937)
“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artists way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.”
—William Faulkner (18971962)
“And in these dark cells,
packed street after street,
souls live, hideous yet
O disfigured, defaced,
with no trace of the beauty
men once held so light.”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)