Top 100 Wakefield Quotes
#1. I think Tim Wakefield would even say tonight that Tim Wakefield got to Tim Wakefield tonight,
Tim McCarver
#2. I grew up in Wakefield, Mass., and there were only a couple of Jewish families in the town.
Israel Horovitz
#3. Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world , individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever. (Wakefield)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#4. Recall the cold
Of Towton on Palm Sunday before dawn,
Wakefield, Tewkesbury : fastidious trumpets
Shrilling into the ruck ; some trampled
Acres, parched, sodden or blanched by sleet,
Stuck with strange-postured dead. Recall the wind's
Flurrying, darkness over the human mire.
Geoffrey Hill
#5. In that case, maybe we shouldn't be disturbing you," said a soft American voice. "Oh, I forgot," said Claire, half-turning to the girl who had stood out of sight in the corner of the porch. "Roger Wakefield - my daughter, Brianna.
Diana Gabaldon
#6. After Wakefield Poole's films, mine are unnecessary and a bit naive, don't you think?
Andy Warhol
#7. It would be the height of idiocy for the Duke of Wakefield to pursue the cousin of the woman he wanted as wife. And yet, for the first time in his life, Maximus wanted to let the man rule him instead of the title.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#8. What is with those Wakefield women that makes them think they're better than everybody?' Ken asked.
Francine Pascal
#9. No, the Duke of Wakefield would never be a darling of the feminine members of society. Something about him was so opposite to female that he almost repelled the softer sex.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#10. Where does a young lady in Wakefield, Connecticut, purchase combat boots?" "Goodwill," she said. "You're wearing Goodwill combat boots?" "Yes." "Congratulations, Eleanor. Your footwear has achieved irony." Before
Tiffany Reisz
#11. His eyes were dark, dangerous, and not at all cold. He burned with an internal inferno she wanted to touch. She stared into the gaze of a tiger and knew, even as she watched the cat retreat into the camouflage of a gentleman: The Duke of Wakefield was the Ghost of St. Giles.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#12. Good Lord, His Grace the Ass hiding in the bushes," Apollo muttered. "Whatever are you doing here?" "Ah, Kilbourne, you've regained your voice," Wakefield drawled. "Pity, but I presume my wife is thrilled. And you are?" He looked pointedly at Montgomery.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#13. Your cousin might be a pretty face, but you, my darling, courageous, maddening, seductive, mysterious, wonderful Diana, you are the Duchess of Wakefield. My duchess.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#14. Then the room relaxed in cheers and babbling, and she turned in his arms to kiss him hard and cling to him, and he thought perhaps it didn't matter that they faced in opposite directions - so long as they faced each other.'
Roger Wakefield {Drums Of Autumn}
Diana Gabaldon
#15. Then might I exemplify how an influence beyond our control lays its strong hand on every deed which we do, and weaves its consequences into an iron tissue of necessity. (Wakefield)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#16. What really got me thinking about illustrating children's books was I discovered Hugh Thompson's illustrations for The Vicar of Wakefield in my mother's library and I looked at it and said, 'That's what I'm going to do.
Tasha Tudor
#17. When I was growing up in Wakefield in the 90s I would get in fights for carrying a guitar around.
Gary Jarman
#19. Knuckleball pitching is a very small fraternity.
Tim Wakefield
#20. I feel as much of a stud as ... I can't come up with a metaphor. That's how lacking in studliness I am.
Dan Wakefield
#21. Make love to me
like you know I am better than the worst thing I ever did.
Go slow.
I'm new to this.
Buddy Wakefield
#23. Recollection hurt so much; I could barely remember my unbroken self
Vikki Wakefield
#24. Religion is rarely mentioned in current prime-time dramas or sitcoms that supposedly reflect the way we live now.
Dan Wakefield
#25. They will never stop talking about you! No one can tell your story like you can!
Latasha Wakefield
#26. The best songs are the ones about Georgia, even though I've never been there. It's the only place I still believe in Jesus.
Buddy Wakefield
#27. We can stick anything into the fog and make it look like a ghost.
Buddy Wakefield
#28. It's nice to have a catcher who knows my mechanics, too. That way if I get into trouble he can stop it before I get out of control.
Tim Wakefield
#29. If I didn't have so much of this life all wrong I would have gotten it right by now.
Buddy Wakefield
#31. Being a soldier [in the wars of modern power politics] was like being on a team in a sport that drew no crowds, except for the players' own parents and friends.
Dan Wakefield
#32. Well this is me without my prozac, and this is me just shy of nicotine, and mother fuckers, it's my second time to fail anger management class.
Buddy Wakefield
#33. I'm honored. Really honored that the Red Sox have asked me to possible be on the board of the Red Sox Foundation and do some stuff on their charitable works that they are so passionate about.
Tim Wakefield
#34. There's been times where I've come out of the bullpen thinking I was going to throw a no hitter, and I've lasted two or three innings. So I try not to use my pre-game warm ups as a barometer of how I'm going to pitch.
Tim Wakefield
#35. Courage isn't something you can conjure, it's either in you or it's not.
Vikki Wakefield
#36. What paper planes and empty seats most have in common
is that they are best made by children still learning how to ride things out.
Buddy Wakefield
#39. You can call me an angry ghost when I'm gone, or laugh into my disposition. But my mom will still see me as her wide-eyed wanderer out behind the garage inventing ways to fend off dog attacks that will probably never happen.
Buddy Wakefield
#40. I have realized that the moon
did not have to be full for us to love it.
That we are not tragedies
stranded here beneath it.
Buddy Wakefield
#41. In the back of my mind I know that this is wrong and I have somewhere I need to be. Like laughing at a joke, then remembering that somebody died. Guilty pleasure.
Vikki Wakefield
#42. Watching someone you love die is like driving through a fog. You know you're headed somewhere but you can't see your hand in front of your face; you're so focused on steering without crashing that you never say the things you want to say.
Vikki Wakefield
#43. I've seen fish hooked who keep more patience in their worst gill than some of you have in your best moods. If you were a sandwich at McDonalds, they'd call you the McGrump.
Buddy Wakefield
#44. I am standing like shoe polish on an overstocked shelf hoping that one day someone will pick me to make things better.
Buddy Wakefield
#45. Clarity of mind, body and spirit is the key to creativity.
Dan Wakefield
#46. Jordan Mullen is looking at me like I'm something he wants to scrape off his shoe and right then my heart breaks, but somehow beats on.
Vikki Wakefield
#47. How nature made its most deadly creatures alluring precisely so they could lure their victims close.
Vikki Wakefield
#48. But if I put the logistics aside and focused on what I knew - how I felt - it was hopeless. There was only resignation, and fear. Put the two together and you had a recipe for self-destruction.
Vikki Wakefield
#49. She's pretty in a familiar kind of way that I forget to notice, until someone else notices and I'm reminded.
Vikki Wakefield
#50. They all count, even the wrong turns; they all add more to who you become. Nobody wants to be a one-way street. There are signposts if you cared to look.
Vikki Wakefield
#51. I know that this is as close as I'll ever get. He's broken in ways I'm not.
Vikki Wakefield
#52. This is an apology letter to the both of us for how long it took me to let things go.
Buddy Wakefield
#53. And I wanted Jordan, because if he wanted me back it would mean I wasn't ordinary. A guy like him wouldn't settle for that.
Vikki Wakefield
#54. Some things aren't meant for this world. They're too fragile, and life breaks them.
Vikki Wakefield
#56. Tell me my heart beats a war drum
that my eyes are not just armies
but my spine
is a harpoon.
Buddy Wakefield
#57. Simply being with other people who are also seekers and who are involved in the same quest you are is very meaningful.
Dan Wakefield
#58. Life was short, and if it wasn't sweet you were in the wrong place with the wrong people
Vikki Wakefield
#59. I got to learn what does and doesn't work on screen. Because the turnaround is so fast, there's no messing around. You have to be on the ball.
Rhys Wakefield
#60. And if we really do get what we give,
then I give up,
so I can get up
Buddy Wakefield
#61. We both spend our money on things that break too easily like ... people.
Buddy Wakefield
#62. Everybody knows that smiling is for little girls, the gays and certain kinds of fish who are smiling by accident.
Buddy Wakefield
#63. It's hard to get guys out when you have nothing to get them out with.
Tim Wakefield
#64. You're a free-standing landing pad held together by choir claps.
Buddy Wakefield
#65. I wrote a great deal about the Civil Rights Movement when I was writing for 'The Nation' in the '60s, and also for Esquire magazine. Reading the biography of Coffin, it just reminded me that in those days, when you saw the term 'Christian,' it usually meant people for civil rights and for justice.
Dan Wakefield
#66. I am afraid. I'm afraid of everything. I'm afraid of the dark, of closed-in spaces, of being alone and of getting too close. I'm afraid that I'll never again have the life I've always known, my feet in the dust and my heart full. I'm afraid of being alive; I'm afraid to die.
Vikki Wakefield
#67. Wrong turns just added more to who you are. I didn't know that they also add to the toll you must pay to go back.
Vikki Wakefield
#70. I'm no longer interested in watching you rise from the falls you keep taking in vain just for a reason to stand.
Buddy Wakefield
#71. The way I see it, you have two options. Run, run like hell, or dive in
Vikki Wakefield
#72. I would fall in love with you if you would beat these people out of me.
Buddy Wakefield
#73. And I know I'm not perfect. But I believe I was meant to be.
Buddy Wakefield
#74. I'm gonna roll outta here one day, I just might not get to drive
Buddy Wakefield
#75. I'd like to do interesting indie films mixed with big, high-paying commercial blockbusters. 'One for you, one for me,' is what they say.
Rhys Wakefield
#76. Maybe family were the people who came looking for you when you were lost.
Vikki Wakefield
#77. I no longer need you to fuck me as hard as I hated myself.
Buddy Wakefield
#78. I'd missed it - the way the outback lit up in dying light. The stillness, the color. Out there, a quiet moment to yourself could feel like forever, but at the same time you were reminded that your entire life so far was barely a blink.
Vikki Wakefield
#79. Growing up is made up of a million small moments in time, and one of the most painful is the moment you're severed from the whole, when you realize that your parent is complicated and fallible and human.
Vikki Wakefield
#80. Let your head climb back down through your throat and into your body so it can see just how good you look when you're not compared to anything.
Buddy Wakefield
#81. Joe might have called that place godforsaken but I could see a whole lot of proof that if there was a God, He'd been there.
Vikki Wakefield
#82. You're not the only piece of patchwork birds can pull worms from.
Buddy Wakefield
#83. Hearts don't break, y'all. They bruise and get better.
Buddy Wakefield
#84. Knowing me is easy. You can still twist your hair and feel silly. Look up the word tacky and have a salad. But when we're together you pull bread apart with your fingers into bites sometimes so small I gotta remind you, Peach, it is okay to be hungry.
Buddy Wakefield
#86. I should have told You
before talking in terms of Forever
that any given day wears me out and works me sour,
that there are nights when the sky is so clear
I stand obnoxious underneath it
begging for the stars to shoot at me
just so I can feel at Home.
Buddy Wakefield
#87. Throw stones, make waves. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Vikki Wakefield
#88. Sometimes the best you can do is try not to be one of the bastards
Vikki Wakefield
#89. In the dream I was onstage and there were thousands of you goin' bananas for me, all laughing and clapping, celebrating your brains out, not because I was somethin' else up there, but because you were just so happy I was finally starting to get it.
Buddy Wakefield
#90. The truth is that this universe is gassy and unpredictable.
It still has not said excuse me for The Big Bang.
Sometimes we expect too much instead of practicing enough
or receiving in us just the right answer.
You, the Staggering Answer
Buddy Wakefield
#92. I'd heard or read somewhere that the ability to feel pain is the first thing to go. That's not true. The ability to care goes first.
Vikki Wakefield
#93. A water birth was all she could think about apart from getting away from her husband, Mackay, the knight in shining armour who had proved to be a metal-plated misogynist.
Stuart Wakefield
#94. I choose to politely ask myself to step aside if I am in my own way. If I do not get out of my way, I choose to call a friend who will have me removed.
Buddy Wakefield
#96. Moments like that, I thought maybe there was a God, a fickle puppet-master who decided it was time to remind us that life isn't just an echo of the Big Bang - that we're here, with beating hearts.
Vikki Wakefield
#97. If you've never been rocked back by the presence of purpose this poem is too soon for you. Return to your mediocrity, plug it into an amplifier and rethink yourself.
Buddy Wakefield
#98. Everything is out there. That's why they call it everything.
Buddy Wakefield
#99. If we were created in God's image, then when God was a child he smushed fire ants with his fingertips and avoided tough questions.
Buddy Wakefield
#100. Whatever we'd had together, however brief and wrong, it had made me believe that it was possible to connect with another human being.
Vikki Wakefield
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