Wally Walrus Quotes

#1. So Lex was psyched. She made her way into the restaurant, Lights Out, and spotted Driggs toward the back. He was once again wearing Uncle Mort's ill-fitting old suit, and once again, he looked ridiculous.
But still hot. Driggs could wear a tap-dancing walrus costume and still look hot.
He did a spit-take as she approached. "Holy shitballs," he said, scanning her up and down. "You look gorgeous."
Lex laughed. "Thanks."
"You're wearing a dress," he informed her.
"And yet I haven't burst into flames. I'm just as surprised as you are."
"Well, warn me next time so my heart doesn't explode." He got up to pull out her chair.
She snickered. "Pretending to be a gentleman, are we?"
"Gotta try at least once a year, or I'll lose my license." He ran a hand up her leg and grinned. "Nice gams."
She leaned in to kiss him, sniffing at the tart scent of his aftershave. "Nice face. #Quote by Gina Damico

#2. Jeez, how stupid was I? What kind of job can a reservation Indian boy get? I was too young to deal blackjack at the casino, there were only about fifteen green grass lawns on the reservation (and none of their owners outsourced the mowing jobs), and the only paper route was owned by a tribal elder named Wally. And he had to deliver only fifty papers, so his job was more like a hobby. #Quote by Sherman Alexie

#3. 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. #Quote by Wally Lamb

#4. 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. #Quote by David Mitchell

#5. Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words. #Quote by Wally Lamb

#6. That was the big joke, wasn't it? The answer to the riddle: There was no one up there in Heaven, making sure the accounts came out right. I'd solved it, hadn't I? Cracked the code? It was all just a joke. The god inside my brother's head was just his disease. My mother had knelt every night and prayed to her own steepled hands. Your baby died because of ... because of no particular reason at all. Your wife left you because you sucked all the oxygen out of the room, so you pretended she was the one in bed with you while you screwed your girlfriend and her boyfriend hid in the closet, watching. #Quote by Wally Lamb

#7. It was a matter of perspective, I began to see.
The whole world was crazy; I'd flattered myself by assuming I was a semifinalist.
Dolores Price #Quote by Wally Lamb

#8. 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. #Quote by Wally Schirra

#9. Bless me, Father, for I have sinned," I repeated. "But never as much as I have been sinned against! #Quote by Wally Lamb

#10. What if I don't like adventure?
Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That's how you grow. #Quote by Wally Lamb

#11. Faith doesn't give warranties. #Quote by Wally Lamb

#12. Joy said she hadn't really understood the meaning of life until Tyffanie had come along, but now she understood it perfectly. Well, great, I felt like saying. Make sure you share the news with Plato and Kierkegaard and all those other philosophers who'd banged their heads against the wall, trying to figure things out. #Quote by Wally Lamb

#13. Wally gives gifts all the time, at the drop of a hat, little, odd ones. The gift not so much in the item itself as in the transaction, the act of passing something along. #Quote by Leah Hager Cohen

#14. That's the problem with survival of the fittest ... the corpse at your fett. That little inconvenience. #Quote by Wally Lamb

#15. This is where the pot is strongest now: at the place where it had been broken. #Quote by Wally Lamb

#16. We are so focused on the material aspects of life that we lose sight of everything else. #Quote by Wally Amos

#17. 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. #Quote by Jean Shepherd

#18. The greatest griefs are silent. #Quote by Wally Lamb

#19. It's like there's this wave coming toward me, but there's nothing I can do about it. And then it reaches me, crashes over me and ... and I'm done for another day. I just give up. Give in to it. Because how do you stop a wave?
You don't. And you're wise to recognize your powerlessness to do so. But what you can do is learn how to negotiate this wave. Work within the context of its inevitability. #Quote by Wally Lamb

#20. They who boast of their tolerance merely give others leave to be as careless about religion as they are themselves. A walrus might as well pride itself on its endurance of cold. #Quote by Augustus William Hare

#21. Wally Amos is the classic example of a man who gets up again and again. #Quote by Zig Ziglar

#22. Please God, please Knut Hamsun, don't desert me now. I started to write and I wrote:
The time has come, the Walrus said,
To talk of many things:
Of shoes - and ships - and sealing-wax
Of cabbages - and kings - #Quote by John Fante

#23. Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference. Viveca comes downstairs first and heads into the #Quote by Wally Lamb

#24. An oncology ward is a battlefield, and there are definite hierarchies of command. The patients, they're the ones doing the tour of duty. The doctors breeze in and out like conquering heroes, but they need to read your child's chart to remember where they've left off from the previous visit. It is the nurses who are the seasoned sergeants
the ones who are there when your baby is shaking with such a high fever she needs to be bathed in ice, the ones who can teach you how to flush a central venous catheter, or suggest which patient floor might still have Popsicles left to be stolen, or tell you which dry cleaners know how to remove the stains of blood and chemotherapies from clothing. The nurses know the name of your daughter's stuffed walrus and show her how to make tissue paper flowers to twine around her IV stand. The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable. #Quote by Jodi Picoult

#25. 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 #Quote by Scott Adams

#26. I've always thought space station is a great name. It should be like a gas station where we go for service and supplies before heading further out. #Quote by Wally Schirra

#27. 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. #Quote by Wally Lamb

#28. And would you three like peanuts, pretzels, or Biscoff cookies with those? #Quote by Wally Lamb

#29. Each year I become more mindful of being thankful for each life experience. #Quote by Wally Amos

#30. Lucy in the sky. Without her I am the walrus, likely to lose myself in dark gibberish and fade away." Lance Underphal, Cut-Throat Syndrome. #Quote by Michael Allan Scott

#31. I walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a crescent moon. Maybe this is what peace of mind was all about: having a poisonous snake on your head and smiling anyway. #Quote by Wally Lamb

#32. The "what-ifs": they'll do a number on you. #Quote by Wally Lamb

#33. There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! #Quote by Wally Cox

#34. I was the walrus, but now I am John ... and so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over. #Quote by John Lennon

#35. it might seem advisable to prove that the haunt of the walrus was known to the ancient chinese writers who have furnished accounts of america, but it is unnecessary to do this, seeing that the phenomenon of the ten suns, which is only visible at the arctic circle, is referred to in the ancient books. #Quote by Alexander McAllan

#36. Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe. #Quote by John Lennon

#37. Let's not make changes, let's make only improvements, #Quote by Wally Byam

#38. When he and Wally stopped laughing, Homer said, 'I've never seen the ocean, you know.'
'Candy, did you hear that?' Wally asked, but Candy had released herself with her brief laughter and she was sound asleep. 'You've never seen the ocean?' Wally asked Homer.
'That's right,' said Homer Wells.
'That's not funny,' said Wally seriously.
'Right,' Homer said.
A little later, Wally said, 'You want to drive for a while?'
'I don't know how to drive,' Homer said.
'Really?' Wally asked. And later still – it was almost midnight – Wally asked, 'Uh, have you ever been with a girl – made love to one, you know?' But Homer Wells had also felt released: he had laughed out loud with his new friends. The young but veteran insomniac had fallen asleep. Would Wally have been surprised to know that Homer hadn't laughed out loud with friends before, either? #Quote by John Irving

#39. I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web. #Quote by Wally Schirra

#40. So maybe that's what love means. Having the capacity to forgive the one who wronged you, no matter how deep the hurt was. #Quote by Wally Lamb

#41. You sit around feelin' sorry for yourself and you're dead. Sittin' on your ass can get to be a disease worse than what you got. #Quote by Wally Lamb

#42. …There is some firm place in me which knows that what happened to Wally, whatever it was, whatever it is that death is as it transliterates us, moving us out of this life into what we can't know, is kind.
I shock myself, writing that. I know that many deaths are anything but gentle. I know people suffer terribly…I know many die abandoned, unseen, their stories unheard, their dignity violated, their human worth ignored.
I suspect that the ease of Wally's death, the rightness of it, the loving recognition which surrounded him, all made it possible for me to see clearly, to witness what other circumstances might obscure. I know, as surely as I know anything, that he's all right now.

And yet.

And yet he's gone, an absence so forceful it is itself a daily hourly presence.
My experience of being with Wally… brought me to another sort of perception, but I can't stay in that place, can't sustain that way of seeing. The experience of knowing, somehow, that he's all right, lifted in some kind process that turns at the heart of the world, gives way, as it must, to the plain aching fact that he's gone.
And doubt. And the fact that we can't understand, that it's our condition to not know. Is that our work in the world, to learn to dwell in such not-knowing?
We need our doubt so as to not settle for easy answers. Not-knowing pushes us to struggle after meaning for ourselves…Doubt's lesson seems to be that whatever we conclude must be provisio #Quote by Mark Doty

#43. 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.) #Quote by Nikolas Schreck

#44. You can make your life whatever you want it to be #Quote by Wally Amos

#45. 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. #Quote by Huston Piner

#46. 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. #Quote by Wally Lamb

#47. Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths. #Quote by Wally Lamb

#48. 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. #Quote by Wally Lamb