Quotes About Barrier

I honestly felt like there was a ceiling for me that I was not able to break.

At a certain point, when there's a barrier between you and what's right, eventually you have to decide you're not going to allow yourself to be subjugated.

I always wanted to be the first true Latino to break the American barrier, to be on the American charts.

It was as if words were now a wall between people rather than a bridge, and if you could just build the wall high enough no one would see the growing desert of the vanished on the other side. It was as though everyone was using words to avoid using words for what words were used for.

I don't know you. That's the problem.

Poetry was a barrier against raw emotions. It distilled them into bearable music, allowed one to accommodate them a little at a time. Alexander Moncrieffe

Dac? ÅŸi gazeta era o fereastr? deschis? spre lumea din afar?, atunci geamul ei era îngheÅ£at.

The icy lump of silence that lay between us was apparently too deeply frozen to melt under just any pretext. The questions I had prepared as I walked along—possible opportunities for conversation—were so many matches held against an iceberg.

The expression is something like an equation by which we show our relationship with others. It's a roadway between oneself and others. If it's blocked by a landslide, even those who have been at pains to travel it will think you are now some uninhabited, dilapidated house and perhaps pass by.

Although the mask had frantically tried to break down the barrier, you had slipped through it without touching. Like the wind … or a spirit. I do not understand you. Putting you to any further tests would be nothing more than my own destruction.

I did not want to appear before the world as pathetic, deprssed, and psychologically ill. So I erected a barrier of words and wit around myself, so that nobody could see how needy I really was.

And thoughts of no other man but you could possibly get through the picket lines to enter into my mind.

You know it's hard to hear what a bearded man is saying. He can't speak above a whisker.

An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal Few great men could pass personnel

I thought, When a man is properly drunk it is as though he is an a room by himself--there is a physical, impenetrable separation between him and his fellows.

It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless; he doesn't talk at all.

I have yet to encounter that common myth of weak men, an insurmountable barrier.

Music knows no barrier of age or culture. It isn't about being politically correct or even making a statement. Music is what appeals to the ears and touches your soul.

God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.

If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience.

Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.

The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man's thoughts and another's.

All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course.

Words tend to bounce off nature as they try to deliver nature's language into the hands of another language foreign to it.