Top 100 Wally 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. Computers are everywhere and you can't even begin to function with a computer unless you have comprehension and an understanding of the English language.
Wally Amos
#33. Jack Speight undid me, then I almost undid myself. But I've undone some of the bad, too, some of the damage. With help. With luck and love.
Wally Lamb
#34. I did have a friend,' I said.
'And your friend trespassed upon you,' the Wally replied.
Alexandra Kleeman
#35. Sometimes when you go looking for what you want, you run right into what you need.
Wally Lamb
#36. What if I don't like adventure?
Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That's how you grow.
Wally Lamb
#38. What fools men are, and what an evil thing is war.
Wally Lamb
#39. The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
Wally Lamb
#40. Fuck you, I said."
Uh-oh. There's that angry word.
Wally Lamb
#41. Renovate your life, the old myths say, and the universe is yours.
Wally Lamb
#42. I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.
Wally Schirra
#43. Overall, because branding is about creating and sustaining trust it means delivering on promises. The best and most successful brands are completely coherent. Every aspect of what they do and what they are reinforces everything else.
Wally Olins
#44. A purple African violet so lush and fleshy it looked edible ... his fingers as cool and smooth as beach stones.
Wally Lamb
#45. Do they believe their cause so just that they are above and beyond the truth?
Wally Hickel
#46. You can make your life whatever you want it to be
Wally Amos
#47. You orchestrate happiness, Dolores - you work at it. You don't catch it as it hurls toward you like a football
Wally Lamb
#49. It is the firstborn's burden to unravel the knots that younger brothers make.
Wally Lamb
#50. Your museum of pain. Your sanctuary of justifiable indignation.
Wally Lamb
#51. This was a career, not an emotional disorder.
Wally Lamb
#52. It's vital to be growing through your life rather than going through your life. The object is not to change other people or situations; it's to do the inner work they stimulate.
Wally Amos
#53. Our ancestors move along with us, in underground rivers and springs too deep for chaos to reach.
Wally Lamb
#54. Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced already. They just don't believe in it.
Wally Schirra
#55. It reminded me that they [the students] were more than just their scholarly shortcomings and gripes about the workload. Each had a history, a set of problems. Each, for better or worse, was anchored to a family.
Wally Lamb
#56. The source of all unhappiness is other people. As soon as you learn to
think of other people as noisy furniture, the sooner you will be happy.
- Wally's Keynote Speech
Scott Adams
#57. Why should you ask blood be spilled for a cause that is not in the interest of the American people?
Wally Herger
#58. Finally, slowly, like a newly lighted oil lamp gathering kerosene up into its wick, Wally's face began to glow. He turned to Mack Fulton. "Mack, you know what's on my mind?
Clive Cussler
#59. People are not like Tupperware, with their lids on securely.
Wally Lamb
#61. When I asked my parents how the baby got inside Ma, they both laughed, and then Daddy told me they had made it with their bodies. I pictured them fully clothed, rubbing furiously against each other, like two sticks making fire.
Wally Lamb
#62. Blood banged inside my head. I loved my brother. I hated him. There was no solution to who he was. No getting back who he had been.
Wally Lamb
#63. Making mistakes doesn't mean that what you did was a failure, or the wrong take. It was just a 'mis-take.' You need to go back and do another take. In each take there is a lesson.
Wally Amos
#64. We lived, lulled, on the fault line of chaos. Change could come explosively, and out of nowhere.
Wally Lamb
#65. I covered his thumbprint with my thumb and considered for the first time that Papa might have been more than just old pictures - old, repeated stories.
Wally Lamb
#66. She's got a certain feisty charm for a racist. Not to mention all those great dead-animal stories.
Wally Lamb
#67. She preferred to get high on life.
Wally Lamb
#68. Of course, all of the coolest icons overdosed and died years ago, which is just as well. How depressing would it be to see a gray-haired Jimi Hendrix wearing a cardigan sweater and reminiscing about the soundtrack of the Summer of Love?
Wally Lamb
#69. Sometimes the closer we got to a situation, the less clear it looked.
Wally Lamb
#70. I lost a company. So what? It's just stuff. Can't take it with you.
Wally Amos
#71. Motherless children have a hard time when the mother is gone. That
Wally Lamb
#72. When a test pilot comes off a flight, there is typically another pilot who is going to take it up, and he believes in the debriefing. You don't keep something to yourself.
Wally Schirra
#73. I'm alergic to dying, I break out in a bad case of death every time it happenes.
-Wally McDoogle
Bill Myers
#74. Life seemed nearest to acceptable at four A.M.
Wally Lamb
#75. I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.
Wally Lamb
#76. I'd hate to be the woman who gets to marry Wally. I mean, imagine having to be nice to a maggot white dick every night.
No thank you.
- Simon Sixsmith in "Jimmy, Mrs Fisher and Me".
Eric Bishop-Potter
#77. Of course, three classes is full time, so they'd have to give me the benefits package which would kill them. Screw the adjuncts, right? We're the monks of higher education. How much do you make?
Wally Lamb
#78. We spent a lot of time in simulators. We were going to do it right.
Wally Schirra
#79. You think it's worth it? That we're over there for the right reasons?"
He shrugged. "Politics is a luxury you can't necessarily afford when you're over there. You just get up, do your job, and embrace the suck.
Wally Lamb
#81. You see, everyone thinks they're too good for day-old pastry, like one-third off is charity or something. The world is full of snobs. Snobs and slobs. I ought to write a book.
Wally Lamb
#82. Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
Wally Lamb
#83. Just as all the world loves a lover, it has been my experience that all the world loves a trailerite.
Wally Byam
#84. Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
Wally Schirra
#85. Disco's are tricky. You look a total wally if you dance too early but after one crucial song tips the disco over, you look a sad saddo if you don't.
David Mitchell
#86. America's been living on borrowed time all these years ... Playing the world's whore, wallowing in our greed. Now we're going to pay the price.
Wally Lamb
#87. I am deeply saddened and shocked at the loss of umpire Wally Bell.
Joe Torre
#88. Somebody has to be prepared to be the good guy from time to time in order for the human race to prosper, though most people don't want it to be them.
Wally George
#89.
that books were mirrors, reflective in sometimes unpredictable ways.
Wally Lamb
#90. You know what 'Dolores' means? It's Latin, means sadness. Our Lady of Sorrow. Why are you so sad?
Wally Lamb
#91. I pulled my hand away. It felt numb and oversized, a paw.
Wally Lamb
#92. I am always the 'good guy', and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.
Wally George
#93. Bless me, Father, for I have sinned," I repeated. "But never as much as I have been sinned against!
Wally Lamb
#94. Who gets the change?" the clerk asked. "You or ... your fella?"
Oh, he's not my boyfriend," I said. "He's my mother.
Wally Lamb
#95. I needed her to stop. Needed not to hear the pain in her voice
to see the way she was twisting the pocketbook strap. If she kept talking, she might break down and tell me everything.
Wally Lamb
#96. When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it, except for landing, which I'd love to do. I wouldn't go unless I could command it.
Wally Schirra
#97. Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.
Wally Amos
#99. The thing is not to leave unfinished business; make every day count.
Wally Amos
#100. Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.
Wally Lamb
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