Top 100 Quotes About Waller
#1. singing the songs of the old masters. Fats Waller's 'Ain't That A Shame', Chuck Berry's
Chris Dolan
#2. Flag: What are you really up to?
Waller: You want the big picture?
Flag: No, I like being fed a steady stream of crap and kept in the dark like a mushroom.
Marv Wolfman
#3. A stone that looks satisfied with its position reflects the sense of ease the waller felt when placing it there.
Dan Snow
#4. When I get down, I don't waller around for long.
Dolly Parton
#5. Now don't laugh 'cause I just might be ... the soft curve in your hardline. (from the song "Hardliners" by Holcombe Waller)
Tammara Webber
#6. And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.
Paul McCartney
#7. The road is a strange place. Shuffling along, I looked up and you were there walking across the grass toward my truck on an August day. In retrospect, it seems inevitable - it could not have been any other way
a case of what I call the high probability of the improbable
Robert James Waller
#8. In a way, women were asking for men to be poets and driving, passionate lovers at the same time.
Robert James Waller
#9. So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
Edmund Waller
#12. To love is to believe, to hope, to know;
'Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!
Edmund Waller
#13. The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
Edmund Waller
#14. Soft words, with nothing in them, make a song.
Edmund Waller
#15. A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on.
Gordon Waller
#16. To man, that was in th' evening made,
Stars gave the first delight;
Admiring, in the gloomy shade,
Those little drops of light.
Edmund Waller
#17. What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?
Edmund Waller
#18. Francesca was feeling good feelings, old feelings, poetry and music feelings.
Robert James Waller
#19. It's kind of strange- in fiction you get to tell lies and are applauded for it.
Robert James Waller
#20. When religion doth with virtue join, it makes a hero like an angel shine.
Edmund Waller
#21. The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
Edmund Waller
#22. All things but one you can restore; the heart you get returns no more.
Edmund Waller
#23. Custom brings predictability, and predictability carries its own comforts.
Robert James Waller
#25. Neither of them spoke, they simply stood there, sending, receiving, imprinting the feel of each on the other, indelibly.
Robert James Waller
#26. He liked words and images. "Blue" was one of his favorite words. He liked the feeling it made on his lips and tongue when he said it.
Robert James Waller
#29. In many industries federal regulation is the outgrowth of inadequate self-regulation on the part of the industry.
Judith C. Waller
#30. Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences.
Gordon Waller
#32. In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live.
Robert James Waller
#33. Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
Edmund Waller
#34. Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find.
Edmund Waller
#35. The heart never forgets, never gives up, the territory marked off for those who came before.
Robert James Waller
#36. Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.
Edmund Waller
#37. Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires.
Edmund Waller
#38. If there's no need to climb, then there's no reason to learn how to climb.
Robert James Waller
#39. Fade, flowers, fade! Nature will have it so; 'tis but what we in our autumn do.
Edmund Waller
#40. Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
Edmund Waller
#41. For all we know Of what the blessed do above Is, that they sing, and that they love. While I listen to thy Voice.
Edmund Waller
#42. An inherent kindness exists in the process of aging ... we are allowed to move along gradually.
Robert James Waller
#43. Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.
Robert James Waller
#44. Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
Edmund Waller
#45. We're giving up free range, getting organized, feathering our emotions. Efficiency an effectiveness and all those other pieces of intellectual artifice. And with the loss of free range, the cowboy disappears, along with the mountain lion and gray wolf. There's not much room left for travelers.
Robert James Waller
#46. My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
Edmund Waller
#47. The reality is not exactly what the song started out to be, but it's not a bad song.
Robert James Waller
#48. While we converse with her, we mark
No want of day, nor think it dark.
Edmund Waller
#49. It is all about perspective. To healthy people, I seem very sick. But to dying people, I seem healthy.
Sean Waller
#50. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Edmund Waller
#51. If its length be not considered a merit, it hath no other.
Edmund Waller
#52. Once a person knows a kiss and a kind word, you can't blame him for never wanting to live without them again.
Robert James Waller
#54. You could be my son. You even look like me a little bit ... Say, who's your mother?
Fats Waller
#55. We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us.
Robert James Waller
#56. I felt accepted for who I was. I didn't have to sort the words in my head first, making sure they were socially acceptable before I said them. I groped around for a word that fit. Peace. I felt peaceful.
Sharon Biggs Waller
#57. it is impossible today to know how much the war colored the thinking and attitudes of the child of today.
Judith C. Waller
#59. The failure of the family court system in America is a national scandal. Sadly, the mainstream media, whether out of ignorance or fear, refuses to cover it. That media silence means that every day, these American human rights abuses continue to occur.
Garland Waller
#60. We don't need to reinvent manliness. We only need to will ourselves to wake up from the bad dream of the last few generations and reclaim it, in order to extend and enrich that tradition under the formidable demands of the present.
Waller R Newell
#62. Who are unwilling to fight for the vote are unworthy of it'? That applies to life, too,
Sharon Biggs Waller
#64. In other things the knowing artist may Judge better than the people; but a play, (Made for delight, and for no other use) If you approve it not, has no excuse.
Edmund Waller
#65. Thrice happy is that humble pair, Beneath the level of all care! Over whose heads those arrows fly, Of sad distrust and jealousy.
Edmund Waller
#66. The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
Edmund Waller
#67. The health of democracy, not its hate, is its best propaganda.
Judith C. Waller
#68. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired.
Edmund Waller
#69. It was a great time to be making music because everything else was changing.
Gordon Waller
#70. the Chicago Tribune said on February 8, 1937: . . . . there is entertainment in erudition.
Judith C. Waller
#71. Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.
Edmund Waller
#72. I've decided that I'm going to collect as many spiders in a jar as I can and then pour them all over you, William Flecter. Seeing as how it's good to face your fears.
Sharon Biggs Waller
#73. The curse of modern times is the propensity of male hormones in places where they can do the most damage
Robert James Waller
#74. Once the rudiments of loyalty are in place, the ambitious have been inclined to work with them to promote their own political advancement, and they have availed themselves of the symbols of loyalty to mobilize popular support for their own personal ends.
Michael Waller
#75. Grab your pig's feet, bread, and gin, there's plenty in the kitchen. I wonder what the poor people are eating tonight?
Fats Waller
#76. So here I am walking around with another person inside of me. Though I think I put it better the day we parted when I said there is a third person we have created from the two of us. And I am stalked now by that other entity.
Robert James Waller
#77. The curse of modern times is the preponderance of male hormones in places where they can do long-term damage. Even if were not talking about wars between nations or assaults on nature, there's still that aggressiveness that keeps us apart from each other and the problems we need to be working on.
Robert James Waller
#78. The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd,
Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made.
Edmund Waller
#79. The great Sage follows his own nature and not that of society, following the fruit not the flower, he stays with the truth while rejecting the false
Dennis Waller
#81. Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze; but time and thunder pay respect to bays.
Edmund Waller
#82. The marketing people are always talking about something called 'consumers'. I have this image of a fat little man in baggy Bermuda shorts, a Hawaiian shirt, and a straw hat with beer-can openers dangling from it, clutching fistfuls of dollars.
Robert James Waller
#83. No secrets, no mystery. no mystery, no life worth rememberin'. no life worth rememberin', no life worth goin' on.
Robert James Waller
#84. He was an animal. A graceful, hard, male animal who did nothing overtly to dominate her yet dominated her completely, in the exact way she wanted that to happen at this moment.
Robert James Waller
#85. A myopic focus on the proposed psychopathology of perpetrators, or on their alleged extraordinary personalities, tells us more about our own personal dreams of how we wish the world to work than it does about the reality of perpetrator behavior.
James Waller
#86. Because of the times, and because the child has been living in a world filled with every kind of thrill and adventure, it is safe to assume that he is not interested in the same type of radio that amused him before the war.
Judith C. Waller
#87. We think we're so important, that we are the keepers of the keys, but in reality, we're nothing more than children stumbling around in the dark, flicking switches and trampling on ants' nests just to see what might happen.
C.J. Waller
#88. If you don't know what it is, don't mess with it.
Fats Waller
#89. A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.
Sharon Biggs Waller
#90. And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from minstrels and gypsies ...
Robert James Waller
#91. How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
Edmund Waller
#92. Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.
Edmund Waller
#93. Men have discovered their distinctive virtues and vices through grappling with the perennial dilemmas and demands of love, courage, pride, family, and country-the five paths whose proper ordering gives us the key to the secret of happiness for a man.
Waller R Newell
#94. Since thou wouldst needs, bewitched with some ill charms, Be buried in those monumental arms: As we can wish, is, may that earth lie light Upon thy tender limbs, and so good night.
Edmund Waller
#95. The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.
Robert James Waller
#98. The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces.
Robert James Waller
#99. It is scarcely fair . . . to permit only those with sufficient funds to spend to appropriate that which, in reality, is the property of all people.
Judith C. Waller
#100. Can you wait until I'm gone to be her boyfriend? Cause right now, I like to think of you as my boyfriend.
Sean Waller
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