Nonnie Waller Quotes

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

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 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

In other things the knowing artist may Judge better than the people; but a play, (Made for delight, and for no other use) If you approve it not, has no excuse. ~ Edmund Waller

So easy, when you know how. ~ Fats 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

The heart never forgets, never gives up, the territory marked off for those who came before. ~ Robert James Waller

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

This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime! ~ 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

Such physical matters were nice, yet, to him, intelligence and passion born of living, the ability to move and be moved by subtleties of the mind and spirit, were what really counted. ~ Robert James Waller

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

Gypsies make difficult friends for ordinary people, and he was seething of a gypsy. ~ Robert James Waller

Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired. ~ Edmund Waller

And keeps the palace of the soul. ~ Edmund Waller

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

Susan adored her and worshiped her style, / Loved her pronouncements of "perfect" and "vile," / Loved the sheer whim, the madcap willy-nillyness / And how deeply seriously Nonnie took her own silliness ~ David Rakoff

The marketing people are always talking about something called 'consumers'. I have this image of a fat little man in baggy Bermuda shorts, a Hawaiian shirt, and a straw hat with beer-can openers dangling from it, clutching fistfuls of dollars. ~ Robert James Waller

Maudlin makes it difficult to enter the realm of gentleness ~ Robert James Waller

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. ~ Robert James 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

Thirty minutes feels like forever when you're standing in a hot alley with abortion pills under your tongue. ~ Sharon Biggs Waller

Maybe now and then if it's absolutely necessary to cushion someone from a world gone too harsh and bitter. ~ Robert James Waller

A step backward is a step forward in history ~ Johnathon 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

Not at all. You look as though magic has taken hold of you. It must be magic because I don't know how you can draw like that. I can barely manage a stick figure. ~ Sharon Biggs Waller

Thrice happy is that humble pair, Beneath the level of all care! Over whose heads those arrows fly, Of sad distrust and jealousy. ~ Edmund 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

Who are unwilling to fight for the vote are unworthy of it'? That applies to life, too, ~ Sharon Biggs 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

Then came the era of 'box-tops' and 'thrillers.' It is not strange that the advertiser, in his search for the right kind of program to catch the attention of the largest number of youngsters, turned to the comic strips. ~ Judith C. Waller

A tiny spark ignites a flame, just as a helping hand can do the same ~ Nonnie Jules

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

For opportunity is nothing if you don't grab it by both hands. ~ Sharon Biggs Waller

In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live. ~ Robert James Waller

And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor. ~ Paul McCartney

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

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

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

His kingdom come! For this we pray in vain,
Unless He does in our affections reign.
How fond it were to wish for such a King,
And no obedience to his sceptre bring,
Whose yoke is easy, and His burthen light;
His service freedom, and His judgments right. ~ Edmund Waller

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