Wally Cox Quotes

#1. I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it.

Wally Amos

#2. When the Kiwis ran onto the field we could see the poor bastards were shitting themselves.

Wally Lewis

#3. The "what-ifs": they'll do a number on you.

Wally Lamb

#4. I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

Wally Lamb

#5. It's so important to believe in yourself. Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Because if you believe you can, then you really will. That belief just keeps you searching for the answers, and then pretty soon you get it.

Wally Amos

#6. I had always wanted to go to the Navy. As a young kid, I was intrigued by a Naval Officer with the beautiful brown shoes and sharp gold wings.

Wally Schirra

#7. I took the two most expensive aspirins in history.

Wally Pipp

#8. Vicarious traumatization. It can happen to those who bear secondary witness to the traumas of others.

Wally Lamb

#9. I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him.

Wally Schirra

#10. If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

Wally Lamb

#11. Wally Amos is the classic example of a man who gets up again and again.

Zig Ziglar

#12. A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.

Wally Lamb

#13. We are like water, aren't we? We can be fluid, flexible when we have to be. But strong and destructive, too. And something else, I think to myself. Like water, we mostly follow the path of least resistance.

Wally Lamb

#14. I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

Wally Lamb

#15. Anything that is conceivable in the human mind is possible.

Wally Hickel

#16. 4. Q: What did the oyster say to the crab when he took his pearl? A: Don't be so shellfish!

Wally Pleasant

#17. We'd all be a bunch of geniuses if we had hindsight ahead of time.

Wally Lamb

#18. Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!

Wally Schirra

#19. As a child I went to a circus. They had a man shot out of a cannon into a net. I became intrigued with what was going on.

Wally Schirra

#20. The hair on your head affects people and is a testament to the world about who you are.
- Bonnie Foreshaw (Tabatha Rowley's story)

Wally Lamb

#21. I love the most the students with troubled lives.

Wally Lamb

#22. That coincidence is God's way of staying invisible?

Wally Lamb

#23. Life truly is a journey, and the less baggage we carry the easier the ride.

Wally Amos

#24. What are you asking God for?" I joked. "A million dollars? Two million?" "I'm not asking Him for anything," he said. "I'm thanking Him for good food and wine, good health and famiglia.

Wally Lamb

#25. And would you three like peanuts, pretzels, or Biscoff cookies with those?

Wally Lamb

#26. Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.

Wally Amos

#27. The world is made of stairs; some go up and some go down. . . .

Wally Lamb

#28. "I love you" was just three meaningless words without the actions that went with them

Wally Lamb

#29. If your twin was dead, were you still a twin?

Wally Lamb

#30. I didn't respond to him. Couldn't speak at all. Couldn't look at his self-mutilation
not even the clean, bandaged version of it. Instead, I looked at my own rough, stained house painter's hand. They seemed more like puppets than hands. I had no feelings in it either.

Wally Lamb

#31. I know it's a crock of shit. I ain't offering you happily-ever-after. I'm offering you ... happily-maybe-sometimes-ever-after. Sort of. You know, with warts and shit. -Thayer

Wally Lamb

#32. There's no need to fear, Underdog is here!

Wally Cox