Wally Byam Quotes

#1. I was nostalgic even as a young man. Preferred listening to Opera not Bing Crossby.

Ruskin Bond

#2. I've already killed you and kissed you more times in my head than you deserve.

Soman Chainani

#3. Adventure is where you find it, any place, every place, except at home in the rocking chair.

Wally Byam

#4. There was something unbearable in the things, in the people, in the buildings, in the streets that, only if you reinvented it all, as in a game, became acceptable. The essential, however, was to know how to play, and she and I, only she and I, knew how to do it.

Elena Ferrante

#5. I can't love you as much as I love you. I can't feel as happy as I am." ... "Were you as sad as you were sad? As lonely as you were lonely? I wasn't." "Me neither. I would have died of it.

Marilynne Robinson

#6. To strive endlessly to stir the venturesome spirit that moves you to follow a rainbow to its end ... and thus make your travel dreams come true.

Wally Byam

#7. If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?

Oscar Hammerstein

#8. Let's not make changes, let's make only improvements,

Wally Byam

#9. Marvelous wonders don't have to happen of a sudden, the way they do in the Arabian Nights. They can also take a long time, like crystals growing, or minds changing, or leaves turning. The trick is to keep an eye peeled, so they don't slip by unappreciated.

Ken Kesey

#10. You were the living image of the entire Platonic shadow show, an illusion that could fill my emptiness with marvellous, imaginary things as long as, just as long as, the movie lasted, and then all would all vanish.

Angela Carter

#11. You can raise welts like nobody else, as we dance to the Masochism Tango.

Tom Lehrer

#12. If you don't know what else to do, drink beer.

Wally Byam

#13. Remember that although they may speak a different language, they are still the same kind of people as the folks you know at home, have the same mental processes, are just as kindly and just as friendly. Remember that, quit talking and start over again - in pantomime.

Wally Byam

#14. Silence is the fruit of occupation.

Anthony Doerr

#15. God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

Karen Blixen

#16. When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.

Victoria Woodhull

#17. God was in control. She had nothing to fear. No matter what happened next or how the outcome played in their lives, whatever triumph or tragedy might take place, God loved them. Nothing could ever change that.

Karen Kingsbury

#18. Just as all the world loves a lover, it has been my experience that all the world loves a trailerite.

Wally Byam

#19. a fistful of crayons or a few pots of

Mercedes Lackey

#20. Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.

Leo Rosten