Wombat Quotes & Sayings

There are characters in [punk] that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas. — Richard Hell

I would not engage the wombat
In any form of mortal combat. — Ogden Nash

Because what is the face, what finally, is the skin over the flesh, a cover, a disguise, rouge for the insupportable horror of our living nature. — Elena Ferrante

If the direction of a horse can be changed by a bit in his mouth, and the direction of a ship can be changed by its small rudder, then I believe the direction of our lives can be changed by the words we let roll over our tongue. You — Joyce Meyer

Creativity is rich with unexpected possibility. Know-how is mere fragmented mechanics which lacks tradition. — John O'Donohue

Everybody looks for a chance of attention. Nobody looks for a chance to be ignored. Why? Because being ignored really sucks. — The Wombat

If wishes were fishes, the world would be an ocean — Jim Ross

Cutting a tree down doesn't kill it; it erases it from history. — The Wombat

I liked the koala, wallaby, and I chilled with a kangaroo a bit. There was a wombat that I quite enjoyed also. — Todd Barry

Oh how the family affections combat
Within this heart, and each hour flings a bomb at
My burning soul! Neither from owl nor from bat
Can peace be gained until I clasp my wombat. — Dante Gabriel Rossetti

I'm always looking for that place, you know, where there's no rednecks, that place where people get along, and I never find it. I went to Australia, right, and I thought Australia was gonna be a groovy, surfnoid, smoke-a-joint wombat, you know? 'G'day mate!' 'No worries!' And it's like Arkansas with a beach. It's a whole country with a 'No Fat Chicks' sticker on it. — Greg Proops

Some women have become far too proscriptive of other women's pleasures and private arrangements, and the definition of feminism has become ideologically overloaded. — Naomi Wolf

Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance. — Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

Tereza burst out laughing
Thomas laughed with her — Milan Kundera

She reached down to help him stand. "Where did you learn that move?" he asked.
"From an old movie on TV," said Buffy proudly. "I think it starred somebody - Flynn, or maybe what's-his-name - Lancaster, I forget which. Are we done?"
"No, we must complete the session." He rubbed his back and groaned. "As difficult as that might prove to be."
"Okay! But don't say I didn't warn you - I've been watching a lot of old movies lately."
"I was afraid of that." Stiffly, Giles assumed a fighting position. "This is called a wombat stance-"
"Looks more like a drunken squirrel to me," Buffy giggled. — Arthur Byron Cover

What prompted me to make these pictures [of bomb-cratered roads] was the impression that the ground was ripped by the shock, that it was swallowing itself. — Sophie Ristelhueber

Looking angrily at the wombat: and a moment later, 'Come now, Stephen, this is coming it pretty high: your brute is eating my hat.'
'So he is, too,' said Dr. Maturin. 'But do not be perturbed, Jack; it will do him no harm, at all. His digestive processes
— Patrick O'Brian

I figured if I was tired enough, I wouldn't miss Travis.
Which kind of worked, until after the three o'clock fussing-wombat feed and I got back into bed and his side of the bed was cold.
Or until I tripped over his laundry that he'd left on the bathroom floor. That he always left on the bathroom floor.
Or until I sat at the table at breakfast time and his chair was too damn empty. There was no smartarse comments, no bursts of laughter. His blue eyes didn't spark with humour and his sandy-blond hair didn't spike out just so.
There was no foot-holding under the table. — N.R. Walker

When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all. — Roger Zelazny

Lastly, it may be observed that the lack of synthesis, a characteristic of abulia, does not bear equally on all psychological images. Marcelle, a great abulic patient who remains to be studied, unites be-ter and understands better the auditive images than the visual images, and the latter better than the images of the muscular sense. — Anonymous

AMOS CONTI'S PRECEPT
Don't try too hard to be cool. It always shows, and that's uncool. — R.J. Palacio

wombat" is a Waste Of Money, Brains And Time. — Roger Evernden

Morning: Slept.
Afternoon: Slept.
Evening: Ate grass.
Night: Ate grass. Decided grass is boring.
Scratched. Hard to reach the itchy bits.
Slept. — Jackie French

There are only three colors, ten digits, and seven notes, it's what we do with them that's important — Jim Rohn

The sad fact of life: Winners love the game. Losers don't. — The Wombat

(A WOMBAT is a Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time: the non-IT equivalent of a PEBCAK. (A PEBCAK is a Problem that Exists Between Chair And Keyboard. (You get the picture: it's parenthesized despair all the way down.))) — Charles Stross

An accepted lover, who deserves to have been accepted, should devote every hour at his command to his mistress. — Anthony Trollope

When wombats do inspire/I strike my disused lyre — Christina Rossetti

The Wombat is a Joy, a Triumph, a Delight, a Madness! — Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Like a wombat in a cornfield." Jo
"Beg pardon?" Cadegan
"You're not the only one who can throw together random words that make no sense and use them in a sentence like they do." Jo — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I think freestyling is very important. That's the key to the game, if you wanna be in the MC crowd, freestyling is important. — Kurupt

Just chill with life. — The Wombat

I'm not afraid of you!' The wombat yelled. 'I saw you get stuck in the washing machine once. Round and round you went! Who's afraid of something that can't defeat a rinse cycle? — Catherynne M Valente

I've got to get my body back. While I like wearing you, I'd rather wear you as a blanket on top of me and not the skin I'm walking around in. It has this whole Hannibal Lecter aspect that's really creeping me out."Jo
"Hannibal Lecter?" Cadegan
"It's a TV show and book character. Not really important. Like a wombat in a blender." Jo
"I'm not sure what this blender is, but I think I should be feeling bad for that poor wombat." Cadegan — Sherrilyn Kenyon