Nancy Willard Quotes

#1. There are also some moving sections about World War II in Anthony Burgess's Any Old Iron, Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman, Kit Reed's At War As Children, Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life, Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard, and Nancy Willard's Things Invisible to See.

Nancy Pearl

#2. Answers are closed rooms; and questions are open doors that invite us in.

Nancy Willard

#3. Our house is quiet, small and plain,
and yet its rooms run far and wide.
A hundred pencils, swift as rain,
writing on sheets of beaten gold
would not be quick enough to hold
the strange adventures
shadows hide ...

Nancy Willard

#4. The skin of moss / holds the footprints of / star-footed birds.

Nancy Willard

#5. My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

Arthur Ashe

#6. I haven't a clue how my story will end, but that's all right. When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, that's when you discover the stars.

Nancy Willard

#7. It is time to turn on the moon.
It is time to live by a different light.

Nancy Willard

#8. Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

Nancy Willard

#9. Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.

Nancy Willard

#10. When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.

Nancy Willard

#11. In Jenny Offill's remarkable first novel, 'Last Things,' 7-year-old Grace Davitt watches her mother, Anna, descend into madness and tries to make sense of the claustrophobic world that Anna has created for her.

Nancy Willard

#12. Armenian folklore has it that three apples fell from Heaven: one for the teller of a story, one for the listener, and the third for the one who 'took it to heart.' What a pity Heaven awarded no apple to the one who wrote the story down.

Nancy Willard

#13. I have students whose fathers are voting for Sarah Palin. It's wild.

Anne Waldman

#14. If prayers worked, Hitler would have been stopped at the border of Poland by angels with swords of fire.

Nancy Willard

#15. What one heart finds hard to believe, a hundred find easy.

Nancy Willard

#16. Tom Browkaw said it best. He said NBC could survive without him or the rest of the news division, but not Nancy Fields.

Willard Scott

#17. Opened his door. "That's not what I - " "Is that my baby?" Carol Matthews stepped from the screen

Cate Beauman

#18. What you need will come back to you.

Nancy Willard

#19. I don't think God cares if I wear nail polish or not. I don't think that's a deal breaker for him.

Sofia Vergara

#20. The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

John Mortimer

#21. Live in your roots, not in your branches.

Nancy Willard

#22. What's the matter with you tonight?" he asked when we were out of earshot of Stirling and Co.
"I told you."
"No," he said, "it isn't just the murder tonight. Hell, I've seen you kill people and be less upset afterwards. What's wrong?

Laurell K. Hamilton

#23. The mighty have such simple weaknesses. I like to think it's God's way of keeping things fair.

Julie James

#24. My notion of art is very maximalist and souped-up: I love spectacle, overload, magic materials, magic words, incantation and litany, incarnation and possession, spilling and wounds. Art as a sacred event.

Joyelle McSweeney

#25. Faith takes root in the insignificant.

Nancy Willard

#26. Fuck up and I'll most likely kill you. Fuck up bad enough and I'll torture you first."
"-Thorn

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#27. We don't really understand something until we have forgotten it.

Nancy Willard

#28. I don't feel badly about that. There's a lot of energy on the golf course. The guys are playing great. I like the pairings in the afternoon. I'm going to take what we've got.

Hal Sutton