Top 61 Willingham's Quotes
#1. I very much use Bill Willingham's approach on 'Fables,' which is that rather than having an end point to a series, I have an end point for the various story lines.
Chris Roberson
#2. Isn't there a statute of limitation on playing the poor abused victim?
Bill Willingham
#4. We have to harden our hearts and think of the greater good."
"The plan is, our exposure to her is supposed to purify us. But it seems more like her exposure to us is diminishing her.
Bill Willingham
#5. 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
#6. Just having walked into a prison environment, sat there for two hours, the effect that it had on me ... I couldn't imagine the effect it would have on a person 24 hours a day. So then I became more intrigued, and we began a correspondence, and I began visiting [Todd Willingham].
Elizabeth Gilbert
#7. As a matter of fact, there is still a lot of light at the end of the tunnel. We just have to find a way to get to it.
Tyrone Willingham
#8. Who can gauge all the ways in which the Gods who've created you craft your life?
Bill Willingham
#9. It's certainly a loss for us here at the University of Washington, because Jeff Compher has been a wonderful friend and administrator. Jeff is a football man first, but he has the compassion and desire to make all of Northern Illinois' programs successful. He's one heck of a guy.
Tyrone Willingham
#10. I'm here because all fairy tales take place in the woods, King Cole, even those that don't.
Bill Willingham
#11. We must understand how we responded to formative trauma and how that response is perpetuated today. Otherwise, we will remain stuck in self-defeating attitudes and behaviors, all the while blaming them on someone else.
Russell Willingham
#12. You might be a wallflower," he agreed, "but there's more to you, isn't there?"
"Why would you say that?"
"In my experience, the quietest women tend to be the most adventurous. There's a wildness that they let no one see.
Michelle Willingham
#14. If they've managed to bring more firepower than us, we deserve to lose. But we aren't going to lose, because we're the Page sisters and we're librarians.
Bill Willingham
#15. Writers never really like each other anyway. Our insecurities get in the way.
Bill Willingham
#16. Hope without direction can all too easily turn into despair.
Bill Willingham
#18. You get paid consistent with your ability to solve problems.
Ron Willingham
#19. We tell stories to live, to love, to prosper and to fail.
Bill Willingham
#20. It's a tough thing having to step aside for a friend, when your heart's breaking and your nether parts are still tangled up in their base desires.
Bill Willingham
#21. Our fictions move us to do great things, things worth doing for no better reason than there's poetry in us. We dream before we do.
Bill Willingham
#22. I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once?
Bill Willingham
#23. I can see how the authorities could not like Todd [ Willingham], because he's not a person who is going to give you respect if you don't deserve it just because you say something.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#24. While he lived, entire worlds weren't enough to contain him. Now six good feet of earth are sufficient.
Bill Willingham
#25. As you understand the game of football, you understand that it is about wins and losses.
Tyrone Willingham
#26. The fact that I let you back into my bed is the proof that I've hit rock bottom.
Bill Willingham
#27. Sometimes impossible things are entirely possible, if there's magic enough in the world.
Bill Willingham
#28. Reluctantly he realized some forces could not be conquered and some vengeances can never be sated.
Bill Willingham
#29. People are naturally curious, but we are not naturally good thinkers; unless the cognitive conditions are right, we will avoid thinking.
Daniel T. Willingham
#30. We live through the belief of children ... Regicide is suicide, citizens. Inscribe that in your hearts. The Great Pretend is a fragile construct.
Bill Willingham
#31. My goals have always been to inspire people to be the best they could be, on and off the field.
Tyrone Willingham
#32. Murderers don't get forgiven just because we promise to be good from now on. We have to earn our way back. One hundred is the price. One hundred lives for each we took. That seems fair. That's how we get whole again and that's our work, from now until as long as it takes.
Bill Willingham
#33. Nothing like a good war to forget a night of exquisite soul-killing humiliation.
Bill Willingham
#34. Only silly Dorothys arrive in a magical land and want to go home. You don't want to be a silly stinking Dorothy, do you? They're reviled throughout every wondrous land. Did you know the name Dorothy translates as "squandered opportunity"?
Bill Willingham
#36. Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do.
Bill Willingham
#37. One of the advantages of
of this
is that dying men are allowed complete and brutal candor.
Bill Willingham
#38. I love you, Snow, and have since the hour we first met. Hell, I wanted you even before then. Since before we existed. As if every movement of every star and planet, every tick of creation's clock occurred only so that we could someday find each other.
Bill Willingham
#39. Every road and every step along it begins with a story.
Bill Willingham
#40. Those who can really do what they promise don't first pause to promise what they can do.
Bill Willingham
#41. Acquiring true wisdom is always a greater burden than transient pain.
Bill Willingham
#42. No thanks. This is a lovely dream, but it's a child's dream. I know some who'd argue the point, but I grew up long ago. - Rose Red (Fables: Vol.21, Happily Ever After)
Bill Willingham
#43. What can I say your honor? Life is neither fair nor easy.
Bill Willingham
#44. Mr Cricket: So what are you going to do?
Rose Red: Fight like a motherfucker, of course. Fight like I've got a chance. Hell if I'm just going to roll over and show throat.
Bill Willingham
#45. Everything seems impossible until you see success.
Ron Willingham
#46. I give you real world-changers like Homer, Jack Kirby, and the aforementioned Shakespeare as the archangels of pure story.
Bill Willingham
#47. Stories create stories, create stories, create stories, or nothing gets done.
Bill Willingham
#48. Hope isn't destiny. Left passive its nothing more than disappointment deferred
Bill Willingham
#49. Oh, don't mind Humpty. He's inhaled a hell of a lot of super-glue.
Bill Willingham
#50. The turtle stands on a turtle, which stands on a turtle. That's the universe in whole, boy. It's turtles all the way down.
Bill Willingham
#51. I will not rule out anything. I don't speculate on my own future. I'll wait and see what happens.
Tyrone Willingham
#52. Perhaps only that revenge is ultimately unsatisfying. It cant make up for the evil done to you, but it can destroy the remaining good in your life.
Bill Willingham
#53. A salesperson's ethics and values contribute more to sales success than do techniques or strategies.
Ron Willingham
#54. Baba Yaga: I've never heard of such a creature. What are his powers?
Magic Mirror: He reads. He reads everything.
Bill Willingham
#55. Baba Yaga: " ... What are his powers"
Mirror on the wall: "He reads
Bill Willingham
#56. It is my fondest desire to bust a host of caps into multitudes of fleshy personages.
Bill Willingham
#57. You have the power to change your thoughts and your thoughts have the power to change your life.
Ron Willingham
#59. Yes, and our kid brother Superhero has died so many times that the readers barely even notice anymore.
Bill Willingham
#60. If Todd [Willingham] was guilty of anything, it was just his self-preservation. He got up and ran out of the house and then thought about the children after the fact.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#61. One thing I have finally gotten through my thick skull: Anyone looking for love is also looking for trouble.
Bill Willingham
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