Dr FB Willis Quotes

Win or lose, I've been fortunate to be able to pitch deep enough into games to get decisions.

Whatever I can do to win, I'll do it, even if I have to get hit by a pitch, whatever it takes.

I was nervous batting eighth, and I was nervous batting seventh.

I want to be a traveling circus in that big-league uniform, like everybody else.

I just want to say I owe the whole reds organization a great deal. Great staff top to bottom and I wish those guys all the best.

As far as the anxiety, I have no idea about it. I don't feel like I have any nervousness out there. I'm just a guy who really cares about being competitive and that's the bottom line.

Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me want to be a better writer.

I'm amazed how the tiniest moments grow into books.

A dog pours a pitcher of love into the lonesome spots of your life.

I define ministry as what you've went through. I believe it takes somebody to go through something to be able to minister to something.

I used to stand in front of the mirror and listen to Hezekiah Walker all day. I thought I was a member of his choir and direct people that weren't there.

Your testimony doesn't mean anything if it is not your testimony. So every song that I write it happened at one point in my life or another.

The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.

It is godlike to unloose the spirit, and forget yourself in thought.

The night is made for tenderness,--so still that the low whisper, scarcely audible, is heard like music,--and so deeply pure that the fond thought is chastened as it springs and on the lip made holy.

The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel.

Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss-roses.

The soul of man createth its own destiny.

The soul of man createth its own destiny of power; and as the trial is intenser here, his being hath a nobler strength in heaven.

The position you hold and the work you are now doing.

The Italians say that a beautiful woman by her smiles draws tears from our purse.

The expressive word "quiet" defines the dress, manners, bow, and even physiognomy of every true denizen of St. James and Bond street.

But he who never sins can little boast Compared to him who goes and sins no more!

The sin forgiven by Christ in HeavenBy man is cursed alway.

The ear in man and beast is an evidence of blood and high breeding.

There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty.

We may believe that we shall know each other's forms hereafter; and in the bright fields of the better land call the lost dead to us.

Youth is beautiful; its friendship is precious; the intercourse with it is a purifying release from the worn and stained harness of older life.

There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, and drink its living waters, till his heart is pure; and this is human happiness.

Just in general, no matter what you're doing, be true to yourself. Never let anyone else dictate how you live your life.

Look, nobody is ever exactly the same as anybody else. You're handed the cards you are for a particular reason, so you follow that path and see where it takes you.

You have to be the nice one!

Every man worthy of loving you won't make you change yourself.

I hate my jaw. I don't know if it's my dad's - I think I'm more like my mother, my littlest sister looks exactly like my dad and my middle sister is a mixture of the two.

I've borrowed tons of jewelry. Most people [in Hollywood] do. But it's your responsibility to keep track of it.

It's amazing as women how many excuses we make when a guy doesn't call or text. It's unbelievable.

I'm obsessed with smells even more than makeup.

I feel like I have an inner drag queen. Or rather, I feel like I was a drag queen in a past life.

I'm human here, people. I'm not the Dalai Lama. But I'm trying.

Love doesn't care who your parents are.

Love doesn't care how much money you have.

I've never wanted to just ride on coat tails. I don't know, if you don't earn something then it doesn't feel as good.

Education is very important to my parents and to me.

As you get older you realise your parents aren't these superheroes. They're actually people.

Actually, my ideal life would be to have an evergreen tree farm and, every December, I'd load them up and just stand out on the street and sell Christmas trees.

I love Lana Del Rey! It's weird because I read something that said, "Oh, Willis Earl Beal and Lana Del Rey are the antithesis of each other." When in fact, she was what I wanted to sound like.

I want to help people to not feel alone, like I feel and have felt for so long. Everybody's just trying their best. I guess I'm like an anti-star.

The only way for me to give a good performance is to make myself extremely uncomfortable - and it just so happens that being on stage makes me extremely uncomfortable.

I first saw Dead Man in high school, and it changed everything. That movie was like a memory to me - I would get things that occurred in that movie confused with my actual life.

People tend to believe that I want to make soul music, which is not entirely untrue but, really, I want to be like the black Tom Waits - I don't want to make one kind of sound.