Dr FB Willis Quotes

Somebody is always reflectively monkeying with some of the parts of an infinite universe - monkeying as distinct from aping.

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

You never find friends them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.

He doesn't love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.

In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation.

I'm not a big reggae dude. I have maybe two other reggae albums.

He wakes into music the green forest-bowers.

Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy.

I confess I could never see any good reason why dirt should always be a necessary concomitant of poverty.

Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.

After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground.

What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic.

I wake up laughing every day. I get a kick out of life.

I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power

Whoa, lady, I only speak two languages, English and bad English.

Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.

I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble.

Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins

One lamp — thy mother’s love — amid the stars Shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before The throne of God, burn through eternity - Holy — as it was lit and lent thee here.

Temptation hath a music for all ears.

I like having the dough to come and go as I please.

The Spring is here--the delicate footed May, With its slight fingers full of leaves and flowers, And with it comes a thirst to be away. In lovelier scenes to pass these sweeter hours.

They look right. And you move left.

Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume.

Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.

How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition.

A lamp is lit in woman's eye; that souls, else lost on earth, remember angels by.

You can't lose an old golf ball.

Wisdom, sits alone, topmost in heaven: she is its light, its God; and in the heart of man she sits as high, though groveling minds forget her oftentimes, seeing but this world's idols.

The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.

He who binds His soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.

T is the work of many a dark hour, many a prayer, to bring the heart back from an infant gone.

And mad ambition trumpeteth to all.

But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys.

If you catch him, just give me four seconds with Saddam Hussein.

Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms.

Some noble spirits mistake despair for content.

I mean, look, I wear makeup in films. I don't wear makeup in real life. It's just part of the gig, that's all.

I believe in justice, and I believe in people being held responsible for their actions.

Quotations calcify into clichés.

Ah me! the world is full of meetings such as this,--a thrill, a voiceless challenge and reply, and sudden partings after!

I liked quantum mechanics very much. The subject was hard to understand but easy to apply to a large number of interesting problems.

Society gives legitimacy and society can take it away.

All societies, ancient or modern, primitive or sophisticated, have guided themselves by values and goals rooted in the experience of 'deep intuition'.

I would never want the responsibility of being the prettiest girl on screen; it's too much.

They hear you own up, and they learn to own up.

Men tell us we are womanly when we love but once. Men! They have told us a lot of things to make life comfortable for themselves.

It's not about the money for me.