Top 100 Jo Walton Quotes
#1. What made him imagine he could have a dialogue with them?" "He's Sokrates," I said. "He's like a two-year-old sticking pencils in his ear," she said.
Jo Walton
#2. What you can't pay back you pay forward.
Jo Walton
#3. There's something nice about out-and-out children's books with no sex and a happy ending - Ransome, Streatfeild, that kind of thing.
Jo Walton
#4. The knowledge that change can be frightening, that responsibility can, but that the answer to that is not refusing to change or to accept responsibility.
Jo Walton
#5. That's the concept of superposition," Jean said. "Being in more than one place, or more than one state, at the same time.
David Walton
#6. Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old.
Bill Walton
#7. I acknowledged Gabe and his attempts at flight the way a legless child might view a hopeful but misguided parent buying a house full of stairs. After a while, when Gabe offered me a morning greeting, it didn't feel like he was greeting me but rather a giant pair of wings; no girl, just feathers.
Leslye Walton
#8. I wanted you, precious reader, to feel the pain of the bullied, the neglected, the heartbroken, and the humiliated.
K.M. Walton
#10. Public perception is obviously important to an actor's career.
David Walton
#11. Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
Sam Walton
#12. Books as objects are not what books are, it's not what's important about them
Jo Walton
#13. It's always the most fun to play that guy who, like, doesn't have a filter - that really speaks exactly what they're feeling.
David Walton
#14. Mesopotamian literature is concerned about the jurisdiction of the various gods in the cosmos with humankind at the bottom of the heap, the Genesis account is interested in the jurisdiction of humankind over the rest of creation as a result of the image of God in which people were created.
John H. Walton
#15. I think, just the exhilaration of flying. The freedom of the air. The freedom of flight. And you completely remove yourself from the world. And you can voluntarily remove yourself from all those ... everything that's near and dear to you. And you voluntarily return.
Nancy Bird Walton
#16. I believe our editorial decisions reflected our constant desire to make sure that we fully cover and analyze any issue and give our viewers all the information they need.
Jim Walton
#17. One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.
Jo Walton
#18. What I want is much more complicated. I want somebody I can talk to about books, who would be my friend, and why couldn't we have sex as well if we wanted to? (And used contraception.)
Jo Walton
#19. I wonder why I haven't seen that before."
"Maybe you just needed someone to help you see the parts that aren't so obvious.
Leslye Walton
#20. It is not what you gather but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.
Helen Walton
#21. She is the glorious reincarnation of every woman ever loved.
Leslye Walton
#22. Yet I felt he was innocent in a way I was not, that I knew more about evil than he ever could, because he had parents who loved him and wanted the best for him, while I had grown up with Mummy.
Jo Walton
#23. His heart line was long and curved, and she traced it with her eyes over and over again. A person with a curved heart line was a person capable of great warmth and kindness, a person willing to give their whole selves to love, no matter the cost.
Leslye Walton
#24. Faith is the womb in which all worthwhile and spectacular things have ever been born.
Eric Vance Walton
#25. Job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living.
Sam Walton
#27. You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies.
Jo Walton
#28. The worst of anything she could do to me would be to make me like her. That's why I ran away.
Jo Walton
#30. Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.
Izaak Walton
#31. I was a skinny, scrawny guy. I stuttered horrendously, couldn't speak at all. I was a very shy, reserved player and a very shy, reserved person. I found a safe place in life in basketball.
Bill Walton
#32. I like to think everyone is pretty weird but they don't show it.
David Walton
#33. But he had a niggling horror Lily might expire if he wasn't there watching over her. He knew it was irrational. But the feeling was overwhelming.
Grace Walton
#36. The weather has changed completely in the last week. Last Saturday was mild and sunny, autumn looking reluctantly back over its shoulder towards summer. Today it was wet and blustery, autumn barrelling forward impatiently into winter.
Jo Walton
#37. Perhaps the hardest lesson of all is that there is no such thing as 'getting it right'-least of all with the promulgation of quality.
Mary Walton
#38. From the age of 4 or 5, I loved to make people laugh.
David Walton
#39. My wife is wonderful. She's one of the people who has changed my life around ... or has allowed ME to change my life around.
Rob Walton
#40. We want to see ourselves reflected in our heroes. Unfortunately most of us don't look like Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Walton Goggins
#41. My first series, I wouldn't even know where to get a clip of it. It was called 'Cracking Up.' It was on 'FOX' in 2004.
David Walton
#42. Health is the most critical thing in our life. With your health anything is possible, without it you can't do anything.
Bill Walton
#44. You couldn't get worse food, or food more detached from nature, if you tried. If you have an apple, you're connected to an apple tree. If you have a dish of set custard and half a glace cherry you're not connected to anything.
Jo Walton
#45. Just because you get a show and it gets on the air doesn't mean jack. It certainly means that you'll be considered for stuff, but you've got to fight and claw to get every job.
David Walton
#46. This school is enough to make anyone a communist.
Jo Walton
#47. Why is Scottie Pippen taking a charge? Taking a charge is for people with no game!
Bill Walton
#48. There will always be some who see excellence and envy it instead of striving to emulate it.
Jo Walton
#49. Sam Walton said, 'It takes 20 years to be an overnight success.
Allan Branch
#50. Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.
Bill Walton
#51. Language itself is a cultural convention, and since the Bible and other ancient documents use language to communicate, they are bound to a culture.
John H. Walton
#52. Why would you be given wings if you weren't meant to fly?
Leslye Walton
#53. Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.
Sam Walton
#54. If you like a story that's totally different and won't know which way it's going ... where it's go ing to end up and which way it's going to take you, then I think my work fits the bill.
Rob Walton
#55. I still don't know if you understand!" "That everyone is of equal significance and that the differences between individuals are more important than the differences between broad classes? Oh yes, I'm coming to understand that really well." I
Jo Walton
#56. It's wherever business rules, business is going to get the politicians they want because they control the money and money controls the power.
Rob Walton
#57. Other women who flew were women of independent means. But I had to do something with it.
Nancy Bird Walton
#58. And as we leave Donne and Walton on the shores of Metahemeralism, we wave a fond farewell to those famous chums of yore.
Donna Tartt
#59. Gabe pulled her closer. You just lean on me, Vivi. I'll keep us both upright for a while.
Leslye Walton
#61. It's funny how when your kids get sick, they get even cuter when they have a stuffed nose and they mouth breathe.
David Walton
#62. I'm trying to think how I impressed my wife. We had an on-stage kiss, and I really went for it. Because I liked her. Usually you can get away with it being just technical, but it was a problem when I ended up kissing my wife on the set. I'd say I stopped acting and kissed her on set.
David Walton
#64. There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.
Jo Walton
#65. The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings, is that it's perfect. It's this whole world, this whole process of immersion, this journey. It's not, I'm pretty sure, actually true, but that makes it more amazing, that someone could make it all up. Reading it changes everything.
Jo Walton
#66. It was almost as if I had a right to win. Thinking like that often seems to turn into sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Sam Walton
#67. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.
Sam Walton
#68. Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don't know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning.
Sam Walton
#69. Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.
Izaak Walton
#70. Information is power, and the gain you get from empowering your associates more than offsets the risk of informing your competitor.
Sam Walton
#72. I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that.
Walton Goggins
#73. Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.
Sam Walton
#74. A well crafted life is like a good poem. What is left out tells others every bit as much about you as what is added in.
Eric Vance Walton
#75. I nearly fell asleep over Dickens in English. Mind you, he's snoozeworthy at the best of times.
Jo Walton
#76. You can go to a history class with one teacher and want to stick a pencil in your throat, and then go to another teacher who is able to contextualize it or deliver the message in a way that you're riveted.
Walton Goggins
#77. There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers.
John T. Walton
#78. There isn't an end point to excellence where you have it and you can stop. Being your best self means keeping on trying.
Jo Walton
#79. Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop.
Jo Walton
#80. Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
Sam Walton
#81. I really enjoy what I do, and I'm very grateful to be given an opportunity to do it. That's one thing that people can say about me.
Walton Goggins
#82. I still live my life the way that I want to live it, and people are very respectful of my space, but they also want to chat, and I quite like chatting.
Walton Goggins
#83. Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.
Walton Goggins
#84. I'm not jaded yet. I'm still at the point where, if someone comes up to me with great energy, I'm happy to meet them.
David Walton
#85. There are only four things in life that matter. The first is happiness and I'll sell you the other three for a dollar.
Sam Walton
#86. A rose, with the motto Dum spiro spero, which actually I rather like - while I breathe I shall hope.
Jo Walton
#87. That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.
Izaak Walton
#88. Fate. As a child, that word was often my only companion. It whispered to me from dark corners during lonely nights. It was the song of the birds in spring and the call of the wind through bare branches on a cold winter afternoon. Fate. Both my anguish and my solace. My escort and my cage.
Leslye Walton
#89. At one point, I was seriously considering playing Huck Finn in a production in Northern Maine in the dead of winter.
David Walton
#91. I lived in Koreatown for five years, and I lived blocks away from about seven karaoke bars.
David Walton
#92. Everything I've done is an old Marvel comic in its' own way.
Rob Walton
#93. We're all working together; that's the secret.
Sam Walton
#94. To try something longer, I entered a half-hour radio drama contest with the national public broadcaster, CBC. To my surprise, I won. And that opened doors in film and television, because that broadcaster was looking to cultivate new Canadian talent, especially women who could write.
Karen Walton
#95. In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.
Bill Walton
#96. if there are books perhaps it won't be all that bad.
Jo Walton
#97. Welsh mutates initial consonants. Actually all languages do, but most of them take centuries, while Welsh does it while your mouth is still open.
Jo Walton
#99. Communicate everything you can to your associates. The more they know, the more they care. Once they care, there is no stopping them.
Sam Walton
#100. There's only one force that's strong enough to conquer those in Witch House, and you know how to manipulate it; you turned one current off and the other on. It was the very best kind of distraction."
He said, "Love always is.
Evangeline Walton
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