Alyn Waller Quotes

It's clear to me now that I have been moving toward you and you toward me for a long time. Though neither of us was aware of the other before we met, there was a kind of mindless certainty bumming blithely along beneath our ignorance that ensured we would come together. Like two solitary birds flying the great prairies by celestial reckoning, all of these years and lifetimes we have been moving toward one another. ~ Robert James Waller

This is why I'm here on this planet, at this time, Francesca. Not to travel or make pictures, but to love you. I know that now. I have been falling from the rim of a great, high place, somewhere back in time, for many more years than I have lived in this life. And through all of those years, I have been falling toward you. ~ Robert James Waller

The old dreams were good dreams; the didn't work out, but I'm glad I had them. ~ Robert James Waller

I made that horn sound like it never had before; I made it cry for all the miles and years that separated them. ~ Robert James Waller

A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on. ~ Gordon Waller

As Mary Grannon, the beloved Mary of The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's 'Just Mary' hour says:
So many parents are clinging to some favorite story in their own youth and measuring all children's material by it - forgetting what the last minstrel found out in his travels, that 'old times are changed, old manners gone, a stranger fills the Stuart's throne.' Let's not be like the bigots of the iron time; let's be rooters for the modern. ~ Judith C. Waller

There's no way to win. You're a monster if you get an abortion, a slut if you had sex, a moron if you decide to keep the baby. ~ Sharon Biggs Waller

But virtue too, as well as vice, is clad in flesh and blood. ~ Edmund Waller

Amanda Waller: And for all that fierce exterior, I've never met anyone who cared as deeply about his fellow man as Bruce Wayne... ~ Bruce Timm

The overriding problem with our country, and our world in general, is that we are, in large part, managed by incompetents. Most of these are men who have spent their lives seeking power rather than themselves. ~ Robert James Waller

While we converse with her, we mark
No want of day, nor think it dark. ~ Edmund Waller

You make pictures, not take them?
Yes. At least that's how I think of it. That's the difference between Sunday snapshooters and someone who does it for a living ... I don't just take things as given, I try to make them into something that reflects my personal consciousness, my spirit. I try to find the poetry in the image. ~ Robert James Waller

If there's no need to climb, then there's no reason to learn how to climb. ~ Robert James Waller

Doctor James Rowland Angell has said that 'any program may be regarded as educational (and here we may substitute the words 'a public service') in purpose which attempts to increase knowledge, to stimulate thinking, to teach techniques and methods, to cultivate discernment, appreciation, and taste, or to enrich character by sensitizing emotion and by inspiring socialized ideals that may issue on constructive conduct. ~ Judith C. Waller

Can you wait until I'm gone to be her boyfriend? Cause right now, I like to think of you as my boyfriend. ~ Sean Waller

you don't read the news" "yes, I do" "what happened yesterday?" "Sting wore white jeans and a puppy got stuck in a fan ~ Phoebe Waller-Bridge

As much as I want you and want to be with you and part of you, I can't tear myself away from the realness of my responsibilities. If you force me, physically or mentally, to go with you, as I said earlier, I cannot fight that. I don't have the strength, given my feelings for you. In spite of what I said about not taking the road away from you, I'd go because of my own selfish wanting of you. But please don't make me. Don't make me give this up, my responsibilities. I cannot do that and live with the thought of it. If I did leave now, those thoughts would turn me into something other than the woman you have come to love ~ Robert James Waller

Life is never easy for those who dream. ~ Robert James Waller

Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their living in the arts. The market kills more artistic people than anything else. It's a world of safety out there, for most people. They want safety, the magazines and manufacturers give them safety, give them homogeneity, give them the familiar and comfortable, don't challenge them. ~ Robert James Waller

To love is to believe, to hope, to know;
'Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below! ~ Edmund Waller

... on being somewhat antisocial-
"You have less people at your funeral but you get more reading time. ~ Robert James Waller

Something I've never been able to adapt to, to understand is how they can lavish such love and care on the animals and then see them sold for slaughter. I don't dare say anything about it, though. Richard and his friends would be down on me in a flash. But there's some kind of cold, unfeeling contradiction in that business. ~ Robert James Waller

So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould. ~ Edmund Waller

To man, that was in th' evening made,
Stars gave the first delight;
Admiring, in the gloomy shade,
Those little drops of light. ~ Edmund Waller

The majority of the people in the United States have had only an elementary education and have a speaking vocabulary of about two thousand words. (Even a well-educated person has a speaking vocabulary of approximately nine thousand words.) ~ Judith C. Waller

His eyes looked directly at her, and she felt something jump inside. The eyes, the voice, the face, the silver hair, the easy way he moved his body, old ways, disturbing ways, ways that draw you in. Ways that whisper to you in the final moment before sleep comes, when the barriers have fallen. ~ Robert James Waller

Describe your ideal reading experience (when, where, what, how).
Wine. Armchair. Raining. Or reading in the same room as someone else who's reading. It's rare, but there's a particular sort of peace to it. ~ Phoebe Waller-Bridge

I sometimes have the feeling you've been here a long time, more than one lifetime, and that you've dwelt in private places none of the rest of us has even dreamed about. ~ Robert James Waller

All things but one you can restore; the heart you get returns no more. ~ Edmund Waller

My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move! ~ Edmund Waller