S.L. Wallace Quotes

At evening casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink Downward to darkness, on extended wings.

Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.

It was autumn and falling stars Covered the shrivelled forms Crouched in the moonlight.

Who is this before whose presence idols tumble to the sod? While he cries out — Allah Akbar! and there is no god but God!

...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.

Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus.

Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever.

Mediocrity is contextual.

Stay conscious and alive, day in and day out.

I'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm singing Ethel Merman covers.

No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence.

...loneliness is not a function of solitude.

The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages.

life's endless war against the self you cannot live without.

The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists, the ‘Oh how banal.’

If you worship power, you will feel weak and afraid, needing ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay.

All I'm saying is that it's shortsighted to blame TV. It's simply another symptom. TV didn't invent our aesthetic childishness here any more than the Manhattan Project invented aggression.

The way I think about things and experience things is not particularly linear, and it's not orderly, and it's not pyramidical, and there are a lot of loops.

A child can identify with adult characters- but only if they are sympathetically drawn and simple enough.

What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.

Speed, quality, price. Pick any two.

What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart.

It is never wise to slip the bands of discipline.

I did game shows, I did interview shows, I did talk shows, I did commercials, I did acting. But all of that was a million years ago.

Softball is what old men play to try to feel young again.

I soared above the song birds And never heard them sing I lived my life in winter And then you brought the spring

Learn something today in order to make tomorrow a better today.

Everyone should write a book, if only to see how much work goes into even the slight volume I send you.

There is a genius in every man and woman, waiting to be brought forth.

The purpose of nature is the advancement and development of life.

It is within the power of every man to become great.

If it is a new thought to you that gratitude brings your whole mind into closer harmony with the creative energies of the universe, consider it well, and you will see that it is true.

I am recognized a lot for Clueless, but I am recognized a great deal for The Princess Bride. I dont know... maybe everybody who has seen that movie just goes out on the street.

Escape before it’s too late.

The paleoclimate record shouts to us that, far from being self-stabilizing, the Earth's climate system is an ornery beast which overreacts even to small nudges.

You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me.

A political animal can be defined as a body that will go on circulating a petition even with its heart cut out.

Make the visible a little hard to see.

Anything is beautiful if you say it is.

All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.

Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.

The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully.

The wind had seized the tree and ha, and ha, It held the shivering, the shaken limbs, Then bathed its body in the leaping lake.

The death of Satan was a tragedy For the imagination.

I am one of you and being one of you is being and knowing what I am and know. Yet I am the necessary Angel of earth, since, in my sight, you see the earth again.

It is the belief and not the god that counts.

We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in the cold.

I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office.

There may be always a time of innocence. There is never a place.