Our Day Out Willy Russell Quotes

#1. FRANK: Do you know Yeats?
RITA: The wine lodge?
FRANK: No, WB Yeats, the poet.
RITA: No.
FRANK: Well, in his poem 'The Wild Swans At Coole',Yeats rhymes the word "swan" with the word "stone". You see? That's an example of assonance.
RITA: Yeah, means getting the rhyme wrong.

Willy Russell

#2. Study, therefore, to withdraw the love of your soul from all things that are visible, and turn it to things that are invisible.

Thomas A Kempis

#3. Marriage is like the Middle East, isn't it? There's no solution.

Willy Russell

#4. I pray that no child of mine would ever descend into such a place as a library. They are indeed most dangerous places and unfortunate is she or he who is lured into such a hellhole of enjoyment, stimulus, facts, passion and fun.

Willy Russell

#5. Be careful of men who are bald and rich; the arrogance of "rich" usually cancels out the nice of "bald".

Rita Rudner

#6. One of the few certainties in life is that persons of certainty should certainly be avoided.

Willy Russell

#7. A fan once asked if he could have a piece of my hair for voodoo. I said no, so he hugged me and plucked out a couple of hairs and ran off.

Amy Lee

#8. Oh, he's a sweet thing and I love him so--and I love life--and everything's beautiful!

Cornelia Spelman

#9. Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion.

Allen West

#10. Live now. Procrastinate later.

Karen Salmansohn

#11. When you erode the fear of death with the knowledge that you already died [in Christ], you will find yourself moving toward a simple, bold obedience.

Edward T. Welch

#12. You've got flies in your eyes. That's why you can't see them.

Joseph Heller

#13. The dreamers always seem to think their dream is worth the price that other people will pay. They also delude themselves that they will control whatever evil they use to try to bring about their dream.

Orson Scott Card

#14. I've allowed myself to lead this little life, when inside me there was so much more.

Willy Russell

#15. I'm not sayin' she's a bragger, but if you've been to Paradise, she's got a season ticket.

Willy Russell

#16. I'm buying things for people I don't even know. I'm like Willy Wonka, but more manipulative. Imagine if Willy Wonka had a devious goal.

Russell Brand

#17. A horse leaves footprints, even on this ground. If we find them, we'll know for a fact he was there. If not ... well, these are days to make a man think he's seeing things.

Robert Jordan

#18. I don't want my kids going through what I went through - police stopping you, searching you and all that malarkey.

John O'Neill

#19. The first year, I didn't have much capital so I did everything myself. I had to keep my overhead low by learning everything about running a business, from accounting to fixing the gears of my equipment. I really started from scratch.

Li Ka-shing