Dr FB Willis Quotes

On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.

And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.

Schizophrenia demons live in my head.

It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir.

I'm always excited to be around other actors. I sometimes only get to work with myself, and it's so tedious. I was so excited to go to work every day, and we ran into work every day.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry.

There is nothing better than strolling down the beach the way God made you.

I'm doing what I want to do, and I don't care what you think you need!

Grips and electricians have done more to help me shoot good movies than any other craft.

Negative, I am a meat popsicle.

I think I'm long past the days where I would go to the store and drop a couple hundred bucks on CDs, so my playlist is gonna be pretty long in the tooth.

I hooked up everybody in Sidney, including one guy who was blind.

Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence.

The lack of perfection, that's the hardest quality of all, because you're fighting your instincts. You're trained to want to do things perfectly.

The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.

The taste forever refines in the study of women.

Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?

If you think anyone goes out and commits crimes because of some daffy film they've seen, then I question your judgment.

The sun shines on everybody. Youve got to keep believing.

Now I know what a TV dinner feels like.

By deliberately changing the internal image of reality, people can change the world.

Because of the interconnectedness of all minds, affirming a positive vision may be about the most sophisticated action any one of us can take.

Trust that you can get back up and not give in. Ever.

The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change.

We are not here in this world to drift like seaweed. Whatever intelligence we have, it is our duty to drive to the utmost.

Like pollen on a honeybee, flattery clings to the things you tell yourself.

I feel I let my team down today. My heart is bleeding for everybody else. I felt like I should have gotten it done today. That's how it is. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't.

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.

A huge problem in movies or with people who work on movies is that two people can look at the same thing but they don't necessarily see the same thing.

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.

I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty.

I would say, 'I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.' But I was just kidding myself.

Take back the night? How can women take back the night when they've never had it?

Quit shouting those rerun songs at me.

Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.

Some people are just afraid of what's different. It doesn't mean different is bad. It just means different is different.

Everyone has a right to bear arms. If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who have guns are the bad guys.

No one else can tell you what your life's work is, but it's important that you find it. There is a part of you that knows - affirm that part.

Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms.

Everybody, no matter how old you are, is around 24, 25 in their heart.

If you ain't got a fat woman, you're making a big mistake, because a big fat woman tastes as good as a T-bone steak.

Diabetes is caused by melancholy.

How beautiful it is for a man to die Upon the walls of Zion! to be called Like a watch-worn and weary sentinel, To put his armour off, and rest in heaven!

I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.

Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star.

No economic, political or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind

I always question whether it's the right time for anything I do.

That's the beauty of this great sport (track), though-it's such a fine line between success or not, which makes the sweet moments that much more worth savoring.

To do something for someone or something you loved-England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins or history-wasn't a sacrifice at all. Even if it cost you your freedom, your life, your youth.

To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that it understands all things but itself.