Writing On The Wall Quotes:

It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.98, Courier Corporation

topic: Wall, Writing, Men, Writing On The Wall

He who commits a wrong will himself inevitably see the writing on the wall, though the world may not count him guilty.

- Martin Farquhar Tupper

topic: Wall, Writing, World, Writing On The Wall

Graffiti is linear and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls. But in my paintings it's more lyrical.

- Cy Twombly

source: "'I work in waves'". Interview With Nicholas Serota, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2008.

topic: Wall, Writing, Done, Writing On The Wall

Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?

- Charles Stross

topic: Running, Wall, Real, Writing On The Wall

No no there wasn't any planned 14th season, we all saw the writing on the wall. The ratings had been going down and so fourth, that curve goes on every show and in everybody's life.

- Larry Hagman

topic: Wall, Writing, Curves, Writing On The Wall

Mene mene tekel upsharin,' Jace said with a faint smile. 'You don't recognize it? It's from the Bible, vampire. The old one. That's your book, isn't it?' Just because I'm Jewish doesn't mean I've memorized the Old Testament.' It's the Writing on the Wall. "God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end; thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting." It's a portent of doom--it means the end of an empire.

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Art, Wall, Book, Writing On The Wall, Portents

If you look at Iraq and Afghanistan's situations, they are quickly becoming much like our reservations. They will have puppet governments funded and controlled by a U.S. Government that siphoned off their resources. You don't have to be an English major to read the writing on the wall; I am in here as a warning to others, just like those men who are in Guantanamo are a warning to others - if you stand up to us you face these same consequences.

- Leonard Peltier

source: Source: montanapioneer.com

topic: Wall, Writing, Men, Writing On The Wall, English Major

Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.

- Edward Abbey

topic: Wall, Writing, Two, Writing On The Wall

The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.

- Ernest Hemingway

source: Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

topic: Wall, Writing, Editors, Writing On The Wall

Too often do reviewers remind us of the mob of Astrologers, Chaldeans, and Soothsayers gathered before 'the writing on the wall' and unable to read the characters or make known the interpretation.

- Charlotte Bronte

topic: Wall, Character, Writing, Writing On The Wall