Kendal Waller Quotes

I am not light nor the absence of it. I am the broad spectrum. Everything that makes you think, want to touch, or taste. Don't box me into that life that you so desperately need to be black and white because that's not me; I won't fit. I am bold, brilliant, and beautiful, I will sparkle and shimmer every hue. Ever changing. Undefinable. So do not give me limits or make me try to fit. There is no containing subtle softness careening into the harsh and dominant, every faucet creating a reaction which will cause you to feel and know you are alive. - Kendal Waller ~ Kendal Waller

I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you. ~ Felicity Kendal

The major break in the understanding of manliness is not between, say, the nineteenth century and any particular preceding era but between my generation of Baby Boomers and the entire proceeding complex of teachings. In some ways, TR and Churchill have more in common with Homer and Shakespeare than they do with us. ~ Waller R Newell

It is scarcely fair . . . to permit only those with sufficient funds to spend to appropriate that which, in reality, is the property of all people. ~ Judith C. Waller

I don't like feeling sorry for myself. That's not who I am. And most of the time I don't feel that way. Instead, I am grateful for having at least found you. We could have flashed by one another like two pieces of cosmic dust.
God or the universe or whatever one chooses to label the great systems of balance and order does not recognize Earth-time. To the universe, four days is no different than four billion light years. I try to keep that in mind.
But, I am, after all, a man. And all the philosophic rationalizations I can conjure up do not keep me from wanting you, every day, every moment, the merciless wail of time, of time I can never spend with you, deep within my head.
I love you, profoundly and completely. And I always will.
The last cowboy,
Robert ~ Robert James Waller

I think you have to relax about aging. What else can you do? ~ Felicity Kendal

beast. But first I detour toward the lanai and plop myself on a chaise. The sun is high up in the afternoon sky, not a cloud in sight. People have crowded the beach, just little colorful dots against the white sand. The ocean stretches as far the horizon without any islands visible ahead, ~ Kendal Taylor

Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults. ~ Edmund Waller

A lot of my close friends are nothing to do with show business. But the people I've had relationships with, invariably, I've worked with. I think that's probably because I grew up in a family where we all worked together, so it's something I feel comfortable with. ~ Felicity Kendal

And, man he cried when he talked. He cried big tears, the kind it takes an old man to cry, the kind it takes a saxophone to play. ~ Robert James Waller

I was playing organ at a silent movie house at Harlem and they'd be showing some death scene on the screen. Likely as not, I'd grab a bottle and start swingin' out on 'Squeeze Me' or 'Royal Garden Blues'. The managers complained but, heck, they couldn't stop me! ~ Fats Waller

Sainthood is not a prerequisite for acceptance to medical school. Perhaps it should be. ~ Rosamund Kendal

When your bright future, becomes a dull regret of the past, take a deep breath and move on. ~ Kendal Rob

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

I don't just take things as given, I try to make them into something that reflects my personal consciousness, my spirit. ~ Robert James Waller

Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. ~ Edmund Waller

Talisman, Talisman, show me your secrets,
Helmsman, Helmsman, turn me for home. ~ Robert James Waller

I've decided that I'm going to collect as many spiders in a jar as I can and then pour them all over you, William Flecter. Seeing as how it's good to face your fears. ~ Sharon Biggs 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

When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation. ~ Felicity Kendal

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

Dance light, for my heart it lies under your feet, love. ~ John Francis Waller

She was more of a business partner to him than anything else. Some of her appreciated that. But rustling yet within her was another person who wanted to bathe and perfume herself ... and be taken, carried away, and peeled back by a force she could sense, but never articulate, even dimly within her mind. ~ Robert James Waller

I didn't want to be anyone else. ~ Gordon Waller

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot. ~ Edmund Waller

Francesca was feeling good feelings, old feelings, poetry and music feelings. ~ Robert James Waller

Time moves on for us, for you it stands still. You will be forever ageless as we grow old, your smile will never wrinkle, nor will that shine in your eyes fade.. ~ Kendal Rob

Once a person knows a kiss and a kind word, you can't blame him for never wanting to live without them again. ~ Robert James 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

Only a foolish soul would love the stars. As beautiful as they are, they will burn you. Regardless of your best intentions. ~ Kendal Rob

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

For the second Monday in February, Sara had this joke: I was in the pub yesterday when I suddenly realized I desperately needed to fart. The music was really, really loud, so I timed my farts with the beat. After a couple of songs, I started to feel better. I finished my beer and noticed everyone was staring at me. Then I suddenly remembered that I was listening to my iPod. ~ Dale Waller

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

The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more! ~ Edmund Waller

Mrs. [Sidonie Matsner] Gruenberg [in Radio and Children]. . . says:
Probably the 'good' effects upon children's characters are as unpremeditated as the 'bad.' We have not yet found any sure way through our didactic teaching or other devices to make our children 'good.' We may at least suspect that some of the objectionable lessons are equally ineffective in making them 'bad. ~ Judith C. Waller

I hope to start enjoying flirting again when I'm 70, like my mother did. ~ Felicity Kendal

Don't be afraid to be who you are, we were created to perfect in our own imperfect way. ~ Kendal Rob

The nice word for you is methodical. Obsessive-compulsive is the meaner phrase, and one you've truly earned. ~ Claire Kendal

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

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

For a while parents seemed to forget that their responsibility as parents did not cease when the child turned on the radio; rather it increases. In the August, 1938, issue of Your Life, Mary Linton has this to say to the parent who is blaming everyone but himself for his child's actions:
It isn't up to the teachers in the schools, nor the Federal Radio Commissioners, nor anyone else on earth. It's up to us - it's our job! Our job to teach them right from wrong, honesty from dishonesty, a clean and intelligent attitude toward sex, a healthful fastidiousness about their own bodies. We can teach these things because we have the daily opportunity of knowing our children and their reactions. ~ Judith C. Waller

One great love in a single lifetime was enough for anyone. ~ Robert James Waller

In a way, women were asking for men to be poets and driving, passionate lovers at the same time. ~ Robert James Waller