83 Quotes by Robert James Waller

if only we lost our minds and arrived at our hearts

First you must have the images, then come the words.

Once a person knows a kiss and a kind word, you can't blame him for never wanting to live without them again. - "The Bridges of Madison County"

The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.

And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from minstrels and gypsies ...

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.

There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them.

For we have come by different ways to this place... I can tell by the natural ease with which you wear fine clothes and the way your mouth moves when you speak with waiters in good restaurants. You have come the way of castles and cathedrals, of elegance and empire.

Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.