Top 100 Wally's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#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. Your mother mentioned she had a little girl. These are for you, sweetheart. Just a little something, heh heh."
He handed me a wrinkled paper bag with a grease spot on it. I hate it when you could hear a person's saliva right in their laugh.
Wally Lamb
#5. So maybe that's what love means. Having the capacity to forgive the one who wronged you, no matter how deep the hurt was.
Wally Lamb
#6. Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.
Wally Lamb
#7. 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
#8. That's often the case, of course - that creation and madness begin to dance with each other.
Wally Lamb
#9. First I laughed my way through Elinor Lipman's book of political tweets. Then I put my ear to the ground and listened to Molly Ivins guffawing from the grave. Lipman is a piquant poetic rock star!
Wally Lamb
#10. 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
#11. La lingua non ha ossa, ma rompe il dorsol... The tongue has no bones but can break a man's back!
Wally Lamb
#12. It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.
Wally Amos
#13. 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
#14. Just don't ever let it happen to you, Dolores. Let people just shit all over you. Don't you ever become some man's personal toilet that way I did.
Wally Lamb
#15. And yet she continues to skip rope in my mind and on my canvases, raising her dark, hopeful face to the sky, innocent of the depth of people's cruelty toward "the other" - those who, for whatever reason, must swim against the tide instead of letting it carry them. . .
Wally Lamb
#16. I'm glad you're seeing someone," she said. "You and Thomas had a pretty complex relationship. You've spent an enormous amount of emotional energy on Thomas. Your whole life. Now, you're going to have to take all of that energy and . . . reinvest it, I guess. It's bound to be a complicated process.
Wally Lamb
#17. He's splitting me open, I thought. He'll break me and then I'll die.
Wally Lamb
#18. That time we separated was my idea. I thought, well, I'm fifty years old and there might be someone else out there. People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
Wally Lamb
#19. I'd gone to her directly from Dr. Shaw's office - gone without an appointment to find out if happiness was a football you caught or something more complicated, something you had to invent.
Wally Lamb
#20. That's the problem with survival of the fittest ... the corpse at your fett. That little inconvenience.
Wally Lamb
#21. 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
#22. All I'm saying, Dad, is that I accept that I don't know. But I have faith that my Lord and Savior does, so I'm putting myself in His hands. Humbling myself to a wisdom that's above and beyond me and praying for His guidance.
Wally Lamb
#23. Cucinala come vuoi, ma sempre cocuzza el...Cook squash anyway you like, but it's still squash.
Wally Lamb
#25. 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
#26. That's the trouble with survival of the fittest, isn't it, Dominick? The corpse at your feet. That little inconvenience.
Wally Lamb
#27. I don't claim to know everything, Wally. I only claim that everything can eventually be known.
S.A. Tawks
#28. The irony," he said," ... is that now that I'm this blind man, it's clearer to me now than it's ever been before. What that line? 'Was blind but now I see ...
Wally Lamb
#29. But painting houses wasn't unsatisfying work. You had your good karma jobs, your decent clients. It felt pretty good when you drove away on that last day, paid in full, having restored a little color to someone's shit-brown life.
Wally Lamb
#30. It is all connected Dominick," she said. "Life is not a series of isolated ponds & puddles; life is this river you see below, before you. It flows from the past through the present on it's way to the future.
Wally Lamb
#31. Here is a girl who is pretty in a quiet way. I bet she's had a very sad life.
Wally Lamb
#32. It's as if the work on your canvas has a will of its own. When that happens, it can be quite exciting. But disturbing, too, when, as the painter, you are not in control of your painting.
Wally Lamb
#33. 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
#34. It just wasn't for me, and anyway, those people were a lot more far gone than I was. More in my father's league than mine. I just cut back a little. Less beer and liquor, more jogging. I was fine.
Wally Lamb
#35. If I could just write it down in a piece of paper, then maybe she could get a decent night's sleep, eat a little of her dinner. Maybe she could have a minute's worth of peace.
Wally Lamb
#36. It's quite extraordinary that a recourse (branding/identity) which is generally regarded as so significant, and is now so ubiquitous, is so little understood.
Wally Olins
#37. Because what good's confession without penance - right,
Wally Lamb
#38. I understand there was some controversy about the coroner's ruling concerning Josephus Jones's
Wally Lamb
#39. I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
Wally Lamb
#40. Let's not make changes, let's make only improvements,
Wally Byam
#41. High School is like a sickness, but trust me, soon the fever breaks and you get over it." ~She's Come Undone
Wally Lamb
#42. What had happened was going to be always on me, in me, as permanent as one of Roberta's tattoos. "Dolores," I said. I repeated my name over and over until it sounded warped and unreal. I was never going to be myself again.
Wally Lamb
#43. God, that's always the thing you have to decide with high school kids: what to make an issue of, what to let go.
Wally Lamb
#44. That's the funny thing about mazes: what's baffling on the ground begins to makes sense when you can begin to rise above it, the better to understand your history and fix yourself. (p. 717)
Wally Lamb
#45. Maybe that's what love is. Having someone who guides you through different experiences, coaxes you to try news things but still makes you feel safe.
Wally Lamb
#46. Life's a shit sandwich, my ass. Life's a polka and don't you forget it!
Wally Lamb
#47. You're just catching me during one of my fallow periods, that's all. One of my compost years. I'm expecting a creative leap pretty soon now.
Wally Lamb
#48. The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
Wally Lamb
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous!
Wally Schirra
#52. A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.
Wally Lamb
#53. 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
#54. Life truly is a journey, and the less baggage we carry the easier the ride.
Wally Amos
#55. That coincidence is God's way of staying invisible?
Wally Lamb
#56. I love the most the students with troubled lives.
Wally Lamb
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. We'd all be a bunch of geniuses if we had hindsight ahead of time.
Wally Lamb
#61. 4. Q: What did the oyster say to the crab when he took his pearl? A: Don't be so shellfish!
Wally Pleasant
#62. Anything that is conceivable in the human mind is possible.
Wally Hickel
#63. I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
Wally Lamb
#64. 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
#65. And would you three like peanuts, pretzels, or Biscoff cookies with those?
Wally Lamb
#66. Wally Amos is the classic example of a man who gets up again and again.
Zig Ziglar
#67. If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
Wally Lamb
#68. 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
#69. Vicarious traumatization. It can happen to those who bear secondary witness to the traumas of others.
Wally Lamb
#70. I took the two most expensive aspirins in history.
Wally Pipp
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
Wally Lamb
#74. The "what-ifs": they'll do a number on you.
Wally Lamb
#75. When the Kiwis ran onto the field we could see the poor bastards were shitting themselves.
Wally Lewis
#76. I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it.
Wally Amos
#77. 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
#78. Zinnia always wants to hug me and pat me because she has a boy my same age named Melvin. I said maybe some day Melvin could come play at our farm, and I could bring him to the maze and show him the shortcuts. Zinnia started crying. That's when I seen that she has freckles.
Wally Lamb
#79. Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while.
Wally Schirra
#80. You are limited, my friend, in what you can and cannot control, as are we all. If you are to become healthy, you must acknowledge the ineluctability of your brother's course. Acknowledge your limitations in directing it, Dominick. And that will free you. That will help to make you well.
Wally Lamb
#81. I do believe that there's life after love, and also that there is love, still, after a life is over.
Wally Lamb
#82. Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
Wally Lamb
#83. Whether philosophically you believe in a public subsidization of an arena or a stadium, that's the reality. We can't have professional basketball in this community by the end of our lease in 2010 without subsidization.
Wally Walker
#84. 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
#85. You know what 'Dolores' means? It's Latin, means sadness. Our Lady of Sorrow. Why are you so sad?
Wally Lamb
#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. 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
#88. Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
Wally Lamb
#89. There's no need to fear, Underdog is here!
Wally Cox
#90. I lost a company. So what? It's just stuff. Can't take it with you.
Wally Amos
#91. She's got a certain feisty charm for a racist. Not to mention all those great dead-animal stories.
Wally Lamb
#92. 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
#93. It is the firstborn's burden to unravel the knots that younger brothers make.
Wally Lamb
#94. Fuck you, I said."
Uh-oh. There's that angry word.
Wally Lamb
#95. What if I don't like adventure?
Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That's how you grow.
Wally Lamb
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. The world is made of stairs; some go up and some go down. . . .
Wally Lamb
#100. Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
Wally Amos
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