Timmy's Quotes

#1. I'm skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and when I take a high leap into the dark and come down thirty years later, I realize it is as Tim trying to save Timmy's life with a story.

Tim O'Brien

#2. Guess we're going north," Dev said slowly.
"Everyone, follow Lassie.Timmy's in the well.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#3. The dogs came racing up the stairs. They danced at Rima's feet, frantic with the need to communicate something to her. Little Timmy's down the well! Feed us ice cream and potato chips! Sometimes there's a benefit to not sharing a language.

Karen Joy Fowler

#4. It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#5. Timmy, he's the beginning of it. He doesn't have to be the end all the time now.

Gregg Popovich

#6. All the world's a stage, Timmy Quinn, but it's not the only one ...
The Turtle Boy (The Timmy Quinn Series (Book One)

Kealan Patrick Burke

#7. Silence leads us back to our purpose, and it ignites creativity and vision.

Angela Lynne Craig

#8. Timmy, who made a daring escape, also made a mistake of paying the taxi driver with a check made out of toilet paper.

Janet Frame

#9. We all float down here Timmy

Stephen King

#10. Though they know in their adult hearts,
even as they threaten to banish Timmy to bed
for his appalling behavior,
that their bosses are Big Fatty Stupids,
their wives are Dopey Dopeheads
and that they themselves are Mr. Sillypants.

Billy Collins

#11. One place suits on person, another place suits another person. For my part, I prefer to live in the country, like Timmy Willie.

Beatrix Potter

#12. We can buy you one of those books they have for little kids 'Timmy Has Two Dads'. Except I don't think they have one called 'Timmy Has Two Dads and One of Them Was Evil'. That part you're just going to have to work through on your own.

Cassandra Clare

#13. The matter had to be settled immediately, without delaying another day, for at times he too felt an imperious need for instant solutions, which is all the weak are capable of, given their inability to sustain an effort of will.

Guy De Maupassant

#14. How the hell did I get myself involved with this broad? It's like I'm Lassie, she's Timmy, and every day is a new well.

Sandra Balzo

#15. It is all about perspective. To healthy people, I seem very sick. But to dying people, I seem healthy.

Sean Waller

#16. That's right, Justina!' he said more than
once. 'We're going to knock those demons out and slay them with the power of Jesus. Hallelujah, can I get an amen?

Jeaniene Frost

#17. You can't have two fathers." "Sure you can," Simon said. "Who says you can't? We can buy you one of those books they have for little kids. Timmy Has Two Dads. Except I don't think they have one called Timmy Has Two Dads and One of Them Was Evil.

Cassandra Clare

#18. How can justice fall victim, ever, to what is right?

Philip K. Dick

#19. Does your mother make you wear a straightjacket at home?"
"Only when we've got company."
Jason questioning Timmy

John Inman

#20. Accentuaute the positives - medicate the negatives.

Amy Sedaris

#21. Why did you tell her I'm your boyfriend? Why doesn't she know about your real one? - Timmy
He's English! And Mom ... Mom hates foreigners!
- Cat

Jeaniene Frost

#22. A nine-year-old girl, just a kid, and yet there was something ageless in her eyes - not a child, not an adult - just an ongoing everness, that same pinprick of absolute lasting light that I see today in my own eyes as Timmy smiles at Tim from the graying photographs of that time.

Tim O'Brien

#23. Whatever would give you the idea that I'm her damn brother?

Jeaniene Frost

#24. Timmy put his head to the floor, nose to nose with Thumper. Thumper opened her eyes and gave the kid a lick. Timmy licked her back.
"Don't lick the dog," I said.
"She did it first."
"Yeah, but she cleans her butt with that tongue. Presumably, you don't."
-Jason & 4yoa nephew Timmy

John Inman

#25. I saw this college team bowling championship. Each team had their own coach. What kind of strategy advice is a bowling coach giving? "You know what? This time Timmy, I want you to knock down all the pins." "You sure?" "Trust me. Just do it son!"

Jim Gaffigan

#26. Timmy has no intention of going on the trip. He has never been on a sightseeing tour before and according to him, he is never going on one, end of discussion. Who wants to see a stupid planet called Earth, anyway?

Amanda Dubin

#27. Timmy Horan was a childhood hero. He was a great distributor, elusive, good stepper, very physical, defensively very sound. What a rounded player.

Brian O'Driscoll

#28. Mariella felt as if there were signs all around her that losing what you loved was worse than never having it to begin with.

Erika Robuck