Walrus Quotes

• 'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'

  Lewis Carroll

  Time, Kings, Shoes

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 4 (1872)

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• A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear, We can begin to feed!

  Lewis Carroll

  Oysters, Needs, Bread

  Lewis Carroll (1896). “Through the Looking-glass: And what Alice Found There”, p.29, PDFreeBooks.org

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• I am the eggman They are the eggmen! I am the walrus!

  John Lennon

  Ron Manus, John Lennon, L. C. Harnsberger, Paul McCartney (1999). “From Liverpool to Abbey Road: A Beginning Guitar Method Featuring 33 Songs of Lennon & McCartney”, p.98, Alfred Music Publishing

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• We don't care what that bug-eyed fat walrus has to say.

  Brandon Prust

  Hockey, Nhl, Care

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• Happy endings must come at the end of something,' the Walrus pointed out. 'If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for awhile.

  Salman Rushdie

  Cheer, Adventure, Stories

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “Haroun and the Sea of Stories”, Penguin Books

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• Ole Golly: The time has come, the walrus said... Harriet M. Welsch: To talk of many things... Ole Golly: Of shoes and ships and ceiling wax... Harriet M. Welsch: Of cabbages and kings... Ole Golly: And why the sea is boiling hot... Harriet M. Welsch: And whether pigs have wings!

  Louise Fitzhugh

  Kings, Pigs, Sea

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• Is man, indeed, a walrus at heart?

  Kevin Smith

  Heart, Men

  "Tusk". www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• I was the walrus, but now I am John. And so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over.

  John Lennon

  Dream, My Friends

  "Song: 'God' ('John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band')". 1970.

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• I go to restaurants and the groups always play "Yesterday." I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us "Yesterday." He couldn't understand that I didn't write the song. But I guess he couldn't have gone from table to table playing "I Am The Walrus.

  John Lennon

  Song, Writing, Play

  John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson (1981). “The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono”, Putnam Pub Group

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• I am the Walrus, but not the one you're probably thinking of. I am the other Walrus, the one who is less the Walrus in the sense of legendary music and more the Walrus in the sense of his tendency to to lie around in places for too long.

  Demetri Martin

  Lying, Thinking, Long

  "Who Am I?" by Demetri Martin, www.newyorker.com. February 28, 2011.

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• The surprise is on the far side." "You're sure?" "Positive." "It better not be another fairy," Seth said. "What's the matter with fairies?" "I've already seen about a billion of them and also they turned me into a walrus.

  Brandon Mull

  Matter, Sides, Fairy

  Brandon Mull, Brandon Dorman (2007). “Fablehaven”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• The oldest continuously operated aquarium in the country features 630 species and more than 8,000 animals. The walruses are especially popular.

  John Grant

  Country, Animal, Aquariums

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• The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright-- And this was odd, because it was The middle of the night.

  Lewis Carroll

  Night, Sea, Shining

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 4 (1872)

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• A full-grown manatee, which can weigh more than 1,000 pounds, looks like the result of a genetic experiment involving a walrus and the Goodyear Blimp.

  Dave Barry

  Looks, Pounds, Results

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• She handed him a glass of water and two Aleve gelcaps. “They’re anti-inflammatories. They will dull the pain a little bit and keep down swelling and redness. Swallow the pills, don’t chew.” “Well, I thought I’d stick them into my nose and impersonate a walrus, but if you insist, I’ll swallow them.

  Ilona Andrews

  Pain, Glasses, Two

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• What's [the Beatles'] I Am the Walrus all about?

  Frank Sinatra

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• I once was the walrus, now I'm John.

  John Lennon

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• Yoko brought the walrus, there was magic in the air.

  Ricky Nelson

  Air, Magic

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• I like an otter. I like a sea lion. I like a walrus. That's my favorite version of a sea creature.

  Nick Kroll

  Sea, Otters, Lions

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm sorry for croaking at you this evening. This is PM, I'm Eddie Mair: the walrus of news.

  Eddie Mair

  Sorry, Pms, News

  "PM" with Eddie Mair, BBC4, November 06, 2009.

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• Busy yourselves with this, you damned walruses, while the rest of use proceed with the libretto.

  John Barrymore

  Funny, Humor, Use

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• They who boast of their tolerance merely give others leave to be as careless about religion as they are themselves. A walrus might as well pride itself on its endurance of cold.

  Augustus William Hare

  Pride, Giving, Tolerance

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.475

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• The first line (of I Am The Walrus) was written on one acid trip one weekend. The second line was written on the next acid trip the next weekend, and it was filled in after I met Yoko.

  John Lennon

  Weekend, Filled In, Lines

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• Methinks some creeds in vestries and churches do forget the hunter wrapped in furs by the Great Slave Lake, and that the Esquimauxsledges are drawn by dogs, and in the twilight of the northern night the hunter does not give over to follow the seal and walrus on the ice. They are of sick and diseased imaginations who would toll the world's knell so soon. Cannot these sedentary sects do better than prepare the shrouds and write the epitaphs of those other busy living men? The practical faith of all men belies the preacher's consolation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dog, Twilight, Writing

  Henry David Thoreau (1906). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal, ed. by B. Torrey, 1837-1846, 1850-Nov. 3, 1861”

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• O Oysters,' said the Carpenter, You've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?' But answer came there none - And this was scarcely odd, because They'd eaten every one.

  Lewis Carroll

  Running, Home, Oysters

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 4 (1872).

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