Top 100 Wally Quotes
#1. Wally Amos is the classic example of a man who gets up again and again.
Zig Ziglar
#2. I did have a friend,' I said.
'And your friend trespassed upon you,' the Wally replied.
Alexandra Kleeman
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. I'm alergic to dying, I break out in a bad case of death every time it happenes.
-Wally McDoogle
Bill Myers
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. I am deeply saddened and shocked at the loss of umpire Wally Bell.
Joe Torre
#9. Flattery will get you nowhere. (In response to Wally George calling his band vile and evil.)
Nikolas Schreck
#11. Have you ever noticed that things that don't kill you make you weaker? And great minds don't think alike. If they did, the patent office would only have about fifty inventions. I started getting suspicious when I cried over spilt milk and the cashier took it off my bill. - Wally
Scott Adams
#12. I think you're being selfish." "What do you mean, selfish?" Wally asked. "A war is for your country, it's serving your country!" "To you, it's an adventure," Candy said. "That's what's selfish about it.
John Irving
#13. I really hate those Internet freaks who take each thirty minute bundle of joy and turn it into a cult game of Where's Wally.
Danny Baker
#14. Summer sky swallowed colour, but the sky of late August made colour ricochet back to earth, and there were sharp edges on all the buildings and curbs and even on the leaves of the trees and on the impatiens in the flowerbeds of all the towns through which Wayne travelled to reach Wally Michelin.
Kathleen Winter
#15. -our father used to tell us stories about a bookworm named Wally. Wally, a squiggly little vermicule with a red baseball cap, didn't merely like books. He ate them.
Anne Fadiman
#16. Being a White Sox fan meant measuring victory in terms of defeat. A 6-5 defeat was a good day. A big rally was Wally Moses doubling down the right- field line.
Jean Shepherd
#17. I have a rescue dog named Walter, and Walter and I are such fans of the 'Jersey Shore' that we changed his name to DJ Wally D.
Steve-O
#18. And then there's my brother Wally; he's four years younger than me, and he's the classic younger brother
a turd. The Turd is kind of like that old nursery rhyme about snails and puppy dog tails; he's got the intelligence of a slug and he's about as well house-trained as a Chihuahua.
Huston Piner
#19. Wally was worse than any fairy-tale witch, and his trailer wasn't made of candy.
Lauren Myracle
#20. Wally, stop playing with your beans."
Mom is participating in a nightly ritual that never changes. Tonight, The Turd's picking up lima beans, sniffing each one, and burying it in his mashed potatoes.
"I'm not playing with them," he says, matter-of-factly. "I'm checking them for fleas.
Huston Piner
#21. In the '60s, my father, Wally Amos, had been a talent agent and a personal manager before taking a major career detour in 1975, when he opened a store selling chocolate chip cookies.
Shawn Amos
#22. These inbred pinheads are the only people you could find in the world to agree with your philosophies. (In reference to Wally George's largely redneck audience.)
Nikolas Schreck
#24. She sees me approaching and ushers me over, apparently with the belief I can help her cause. "What's going on, Gran?" I ask. "These young men here seem to think I'm not cut out for a keg stand," she huffs indignantly. "Wally, what do you think? Do you think it's my age?
Ali Dean
#25. He hadn't known many British, but some of them seemed crazy to him, and so it seemed a small thing to agree to - and Wally thought it was wise to agree with whoever it was who held the catheter.
John Irving
#26. We have this idea for a 'Where's Wally' type thing, except in ours, you'd have to find the one living person hiding in among all the dismembered corpses while the chainsaw-wielding killer hunts him down. You know, for kids. - Donegan
Derek Landy
#27. She smiled as sweetly as a show poster for the glorified, all-American Ziegfeld girl just before dumping her second cigarette into Wally's fresh cup of coffee.
Libba Bray
#28. Why, Wally," he said. "Except for leaving out the part where Tom continues to be a homicidal maniac, it's all the truth.
Donald E. Westlake
#29. I don't claim to know everything, Wally. I only claim that everything can eventually be known.
S.A. Tawks
#30. Cats don't think they're owned by anybody.
Even behind doors and windows, like amiable Wally, they're free. Always.
That may, in fact, be the most important thing about them.
Michael Korda
#31. Walt: Do you miss the good old days?
Gracie: How old?
Walt: When we were old enough to be good.
Gracie: We were never that old, Wally. Or that young.
Sean Condon
#32. I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it.
Wally Amos
#33. When the Kiwis ran onto the field we could see the poor bastards were shitting themselves.
Wally Lewis
#34. The "what-ifs": they'll do a number on you.
Wally Lamb
#35. I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
Wally Lamb
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. I took the two most expensive aspirins in history.
Wally Pipp
#39. Vicarious traumatization. It can happen to those who bear secondary witness to the traumas of others.
Wally Lamb
#40. 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
#41. If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
Wally Lamb
#42. A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.
Wally Lamb
#43. 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
#44. I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
Wally Lamb
#45. Anything that is conceivable in the human mind is possible.
Wally Hickel
#46. 4. Q: What did the oyster say to the crab when he took his pearl? A: Don't be so shellfish!
Wally Pleasant
#47. We'd all be a bunch of geniuses if we had hindsight ahead of time.
Wally Lamb
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. I love the most the students with troubled lives.
Wally Lamb
#52. That coincidence is God's way of staying invisible?
Wally Lamb
#53. Life truly is a journey, and the less baggage we carry the easier the ride.
Wally Amos
#54. 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
#55. And would you three like peanuts, pretzels, or Biscoff cookies with those?
Wally Lamb
#56. Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
Wally Amos
#57. The world is made of stairs; some go up and some go down. . . .
Wally Lamb
#58. "I love you" was just three meaningless words without the actions that went with them
Wally Lamb
#59. If your twin was dead, were you still a twin?
Wally Lamb
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. Sometimes when you go looking for what you want, you run right into what you need.
Wally Lamb
#65. What if I don't like adventure?
Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That's how you grow.
Wally Lamb
#67. What fools men are, and what an evil thing is war.
Wally Lamb
#68. The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
Wally Lamb
#69. Fuck you, I said."
Uh-oh. There's that angry word.
Wally Lamb
#70. Renovate your life, the old myths say, and the universe is yours.
Wally Lamb
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. A purple African violet so lush and fleshy it looked edible ... his fingers as cool and smooth as beach stones.
Wally Lamb
#74. Do they believe their cause so just that they are above and beyond the truth?
Wally Hickel
#75. You can make your life whatever you want it to be
Wally Amos
#76. You orchestrate happiness, Dolores - you work at it. You don't catch it as it hurls toward you like a football
Wally Lamb
#78. It is the firstborn's burden to unravel the knots that younger brothers make.
Wally Lamb
#79. Your museum of pain. Your sanctuary of justifiable indignation.
Wally Lamb
#80. This was a career, not an emotional disorder.
Wally Lamb
#81. 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
#82. Our ancestors move along with us, in underground rivers and springs too deep for chaos to reach.
Wally Lamb
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. Why should you ask blood be spilled for a cause that is not in the interest of the American people?
Wally Herger
#86. People are not like Tupperware, with their lids on securely.
Wally Lamb
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. We lived, lulled, on the fault line of chaos. Change could come explosively, and out of nowhere.
Wally Lamb
#92. 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
#93. She's got a certain feisty charm for a racist. Not to mention all those great dead-animal stories.
Wally Lamb
#94. She preferred to get high on life.
Wally Lamb
#95. 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
#96. Sometimes the closer we got to a situation, the less clear it looked.
Wally Lamb
#97. I lost a company. So what? It's just stuff. Can't take it with you.
Wally Amos
#98. Motherless children have a hard time when the mother is gone. That
Wally Lamb
#99. 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
#100. Life seemed nearest to acceptable at four A.M.
Wally Lamb
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