Dean Walker Quotes

Dean Walker, my brother. The man that's well on his way to earning the proud title of town drunk. ~ Melyssa Winchester

I tell my students, if you're interested in marine biology or llama farming, follow that string. Yes, it will probably take you a longer time to write that book, but it's not a race. That's another great thing about being a writer: you don't age out. ~ Debra Dean

So the best thing is to really work on yourself and opening your own heart and just letting all that stuff [worrying] go. And it is possible. It's sometimes takes a lot of time; it's not easy. And a lot of sitting with yourself and trying to work with your own heart. ~ Alice Walker

You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up. ~ William Dean Howells

They excrete in the same water where they eat, and they eat in the semen-clouded water where they fornicate. Fish are disgusting. ~ Dean Koontz

I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is. ~ Murray Walker

The peculiar predicament of the present-day self surely came to pass as a consequence of the disappointment of the high expectations of the self as it entered the age of science and technology. Dazzled by the overwhelming credentials of science, the beauty and elegance of the scientific method, the triumph of modern medicine over physical ailments, and the technological transformation of the very world itself, the self finds itself in the end disappointed by the failure of science and technique in those very sectors of life which had been its main source of ordinary satisfaction in past ages.

As John Cheever said, the main emotion of the adult Northeastern American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment.

Work is disappointing. In spite of all the talk about making work more creative and self-fulfilling, most people hate their jobs, and with good reason. Most work in modern technological societies is intolerably dull and repetitive.

Marriage and family life are disappointing. Even among defenders of traditional family values, e.g., Christians and Jews, a certain dreariness must be inferred, if only from the average time of TV viewing. Dreary as TV is, it is evidently not as dreary as Mom talking to Dad or the kids talking to either.

School is disappointing. If science is exciting and art is exhilarating, the schools and universities have achieved the not inconsiderable feat of rendering bot ~ Walker Percy

Its immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands nothing of you. ~ Dean Koontz

Growing up in Harlem, I had the chance to practice with a Negro League team. At fifteen, I was over six feet tall and a fair athlete, but my skills didn't come close to some of the players I saw. ~ Walter Dean Myers

Stay with me, God. The night is dark, The night is cold: My little spark Of courage dies. The night is long; Be with me, God, and make me strong. ~ Dean Koontz

Let's get you to your wedding, princess."
"I'll make sure Rowen tosses the bouquet your way, sweetie," Jesse said, adjusting his tie before buttoning his jacket.
"Bite me, Walker."
He grinned at me. "Love you too, Black. ~ Nicole Williams

The fact to be remembered in considering... contact with [the] thought currents of others, is that we may decide the character of the thoughts that we shall receive by carefully observing the rule to think only along such lines as may be worthy of us, and which may tend to our betterment, strength, and advancement. In other words, we have the power to select our mental company. ~ Edward Walker

Heck, if anybody told me I was setting a record (strikeouts in a game on July 30, 1933) I'd of got me some more strikeouts. ~ Dizzy Dean

The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional, or intellectual perfection. The species was doomed to imperfection; it thrashed forever in despair or denial of that fact. ~ Dean Koontz

I love you more than life. ~ Dean Koontz

Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance. ~ Alan Dean Foster

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings. ~ Dean Inge

I'd always had an ear for beauty, and maybe I'd had an eye for it as well, but until that day, I'd not recognized that the truth in great music could be found also in great art, that the heart could be lifted and the mind sharpened equally by both. ~ Dean Koontz

I've got evil in me as much as anyone, some desires that scare me. Even if I don't give in to them, just having them scares the living bejesus out of me sometimes. I'm no saint, the way you kid about. But I've always walked the line, walked that goddamned line. It's a mean mother of a line, straight and narrow, sharp as a razor, cuts right into you when you walk it long enough. You're always bleeding on that line, and sometimes you wonder why you don't just step off and walk in the cool grass. ~ Dean Koontz

You know, Eric, I could have sworn I heard a goat bleating while I was working in the slype yesterday evening.
I expect the Dean had separated it from the sheep, Eric said solemnly. Isn't that what clergy are for? ~ Catherine Aird

New York may be splendidly gay or squalidly gay but prince or pauper, it's gay always ... Yes, gay is the word ... but frantic. I can't get used to it. They forget death, Basil; they forget death in New York. ~ William Dean Howells

Did you folks see President Bush's State of the Union Address? How about that surprise announcement? Howard Dean has been captured and he's in the hands of interrogators. ~ David Letterman

Bad thing about fighters, though, too often they were forged in fire. ~ Shiloh Walker

(The enigma of trade is that it can make a whole country richer and yet most of its people poorer.) ~ Dean Baker

I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check. ~ Walter Dean Myers

Schumacher wouldn't have let him past voluntarily. Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it. ~ Murray Walker

In a universe in which past, present, and future came into existence all at once, complete from beginning to end, with all possible outcomes of every life woven through the tapestry, there is no chance, only choice, no luck, but only consequences. ~ Dean Koontz

I was wearing bright colors, refusing to apologize for my size. The dress made me feel defiant. For the first time, I didn't mind taking up space. ~ Sarai Walker

Evolution is like walking on a rolling barrel. The walker isn't so much interested in where the barrel is going as he is in keeping on top of it. ~ Robert Frost

I don't pretend to understand him, but I can enjoy him as a poet and comedian. I liked the idea of the eternal return. Sometimes I think that being on tour year after year is an eternal return; you play a certain club in Copenhagen and then ten years later you are back again, traveling the same roads year after year. ~ Dean Wareham

Dogs know we need to give affection as much as they need to receive it. They were the first therapists; they've been in practice for thousands of years. ~ Dean Koontz

We were, on that day, no different from the ancients, terrified of our own big sky. ~ Karen Thompson Walker

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart. ~ William Dean Howells

Amelia hides a soft heart behind a shrew's tongue. ~ Rysa Walker

Who told these people with dreams, goals and ambitions they could take time off? ~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Can anyone ever see the world in any other way but through their own personal lens? ~ Melissa C. Walker

Her lips were the texture of a dream, & her body against his felt like destiny. ~ Dean Koontz

I'm a very emotional writer. I always need to have a boyfriend. I always need to have some food. I always need to have a heater at my feet, and I drink this thing called Cool Brew, which I found in Louisiana. It's like condensed coffee. ~ Ester Dean