Famous quotes containing the words wall street, occupy, wall and/or street:
“On Wall Street he and a few othershow many?three hundred, four hundred, five hundred?had become precisely that ... Masters of the Universe.”
—Tom Wolfe (b. 1931)
“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)
“Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.”
—Simone Weil (19091943)
“Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and thats what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw. Its just extraordinary that we should have been given these peculiarities.... Something is ironic in the world and it has to do with the fact that what you intend never comes out like you intend it.”
—Diane Arbus (19231971)