Gene Wilder Willy Wonka Quotes

#1. He knows how it is to leave Ireland, did it himself and never got over it. You live in Los Angeles with sun and palm trees day in day out and you ask God if there's any chance He could give you one soft rainy Limerick day

Frank McCourt

#2. Philip looked incredulously at the tiny bundle in Johnny's arms. He reached out a hand tentatively, and lifted a corner of the blanket. He saw a wrinkled pink face, an open toothless mouth and a little bald head - a miniature of an aging monk.

Ken Follett

#3. Losers are winners who quit, ... even if you lose ... you still win ... if you don't quit.

Cus D'Amato

#4. Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose.

Rumi

#5. The group with it's impurities is better than sectarianism with it's purity.

Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#6. This was our ambition: to be small and clear and free.
Alas, the summer's energy wanes quickly,
A moment and it is gone. And no longer
May we make the necessary arrangements, simple as they are.
Our star was brighter perhaps when it had water in it.

John Ashbery

#7. The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.

Robert Plant