Calder Willingham Quotes

#1. It took 17 years to get 'Rambling Rose' made from the time Calder Willingham wrote the script adapted from his novel. Ed Scherick, the producer, was interested in it. Martha Coolidge was interested in directing it.

Diane Ladd

#2. Jumping genes are fundamental because they're agents of change. Everybody knows that organisms evolve. What makes them evolve is that their genes are dynamic and in motion. A familiar example is the stripe-y corn - called Indian corn - that you buy in the fall.

Nina Fedoroff

#3. I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.

Chaim Potok

#4. A little oil makes machinery work easy ...

Fanny Fern

#5. The box had done what Sweet Home had not, what working like an ass and living like a dog had not: drove him crazy so he would not lose his mind.

Toni Morrison

#6. If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.

Xenophanes

#7. It's like he has these moments where he just captures me in his snare and I can't see around me. Tunnel vision. I'll call it the Ian tunnel effect since it hinders me at the greatest of moments when I should be focused elsewhere.

Cyndi Goodgame