Top 100 Willis Quotes

#1. All girls are beautiful, and when they say they're ugly they only lie to themselves, for it's impossible for them to be ugly.

Damon Willis

Willis Quotes #805
#2. The voices didn't join in this time, as she hadn't spoken, but to her surprise, they all thought in chorus." - LEWIS CARROLL, Through the Looking-Glass

Connie Willis

Willis Quotes #1469
#3. Everyone has a right to bear arms. If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who have guns are the bad guys.

Bruce Willis

Willis Quotes #1706
#4. Bruce Willis. Pain in my ass, no problem about that. We just didn't get along. We got along off camera, but shooting we just didn't get along.

Antoine Fuqua

Willis Quotes #4929
#5. It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir.

Connie Willis

Willis Quotes #6957
#6. If I had a choice, I would do comedy all the time. It's just the most challenging thing. To make someone laugh is the most challenging thing, and the most rewarding thing, in entertainment.

Bruce Willis

Willis Quotes #12924
#7. Fifty is the new forty. I always thought my best work would come in the years forty to sixty, if I was fortunate enough to hang around - and it is hard to stick around.

Bruce Willis

Willis Quotes #24408
#8. Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding.

Thomas Willis

Willis Quotes #25295
#9. I just have more fun when I get to try new things - and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a corner, copied itself so many times and it has basically run out of bad buys.

Bruce Willis

Willis Quotes #35633
#10. The mind is a storehouse with great capacity, but is often filled with dubious knowledge and meaningless trivialities. In truth, much of this - though at times interesting and entertaining - is of insignificant value.

Stevenson Willis

Willis Quotes #37087
#11. It is not an easy thing to put on a wet sock.

Connie Willis

Willis Quotes #39152
#12. Like it or not, I am part of the pop culture of films in Hollywood.

Bruce Willis

Willis Quotes #44272
#13. I hooked up everybody in Sidney, including one guy who was blind.

Dave Willis

Willis Quotes #51989
#14. Two persons have been elected to the offices of President and Vice-President exclusively by the people of ONE SECTION of the country ... A clearer case of foreign domination could not well be presented.

John Willis Ellis

Willis Quotes #53518
#15. I watch 2001: A Space Odyssey every time it's on. I made the kids watch it every time, too and now they just love watching it. Stanley Kubrick's great. And Blade Runner is one of my top three science fiction films. A lot of it has come true.

Bruce Willis

Willis Quotes #53783
#16. Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements.

Bruce Willis

Willis Quotes #55165
#17. I'm a happy-go-lucky guy.

Dontrelle Willis

Willis Quotes #59117
#18. Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Willis Quotes #61015
#19. I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing.

Kimberly Willis Holt

Willis Quotes #61668
#20. Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be applied at that moment in a film, but your craft isn't structured around such things, except in beer commercials.

Gordon Willis

Willis Quotes #62392
#21. I got frustrated with films like "Armageddon" and "Deep Impact," where the only answer to deal with a Near-Earth Object is basically Bruce Willis with a big drill.

Nelly Ben Hayoun

Willis Quotes #62693
#22. I suddenly had a vision of my sperm swimming around and talking in Bruce Willis's voice like in Look Who's Talking. Come on! Swim faster! This little shit has no idea we escaped from the condom! Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker!

Tara Sivec

Willis Quotes #63865
#23. Your testimony doesn't mean anything if it is not your testimony. So every song that I write it happened at one point in my life or another.

Mike Willis

Willis Quotes #64811
#24. There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Willis Quotes #71261
#25. Yeah, like this one carny up in Fargo. It had a big sign saying 'See the Siamese twins,' and everybody pays a buck, thinking they're gonna see two people hooked together. And when they get there it's a cage with two Siamese kittens in it. Like that.

Connie Willis

Willis Quotes #77018
#26. A strong marriage requires two people who choose to love each other even on those days when they struggle to like each other.

Dave Willis

Willis Quotes #77532
#27. The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Willis Quotes #78909
#28. Bruce Willis is Bruce Willis in every single movie I've seen him in, except 'Death Becomes Her' and 'Mortal Thoughts,' which is another movie he was in that was very different from what he normally does.

Guillermo Diaz

Willis Quotes #88299
#29. I got to work with Dustin Hoffman on a film called 'Billy Bathgate.' I got to work with Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn and Bob Zemeckis on 'Death Becomes Her.' There are still a few actors out there that I would like to work with.

Bruce Willis

Willis Quotes #88809
#30. I'd rather be somewhere building a house, if I knew how. The whole idea of being a professional artist is like a demeaning kind of thing.

Willis Earl Beal

Willis Quotes #89580
#31. I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways ... It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not.

Gordon Willis

Willis Quotes #90022
#32. Every day is beautiful when you're holding hands with your best friend.

Dave Willis

Willis Quotes #90043
#33. Do it on the radio." - Educating Rita Saved

Connie Willis

Willis Quotes #90119
#34. I wrote you, you are mine," it continued, its voice as hard as its diamond eyes. "But I do not write everything you do and think. I do not write every decision you make. Not because I cannot-but because I will not.

Ashlee Willis

Willis Quotes #91234
#35. I always tend to write about outsiders. And what's been fun for me is, as I travel around and visit schools, is that other kids that feel the same way relate to some of my characters, and so I hope in some way that's helping them when they want to read about somebody that they can relate to.

Kimberly Willis Holt

Willis Quotes #92969
#36. I think that there are a lot of law enforcement officers out there who work according to their own set of what is right and what is wrong. And that doesn't always include respect for administration cops, you know, people that are higher up the food chain.

Bruce Willis

Willis Quotes #94768
#37. Most of my story ideas come from my childhood. Sometimes they hatch from stories my parents told me, sometimes they come from experiences in my own life, and sometimes they are inspired by mere moments.

Kimberly Willis Holt

Willis Quotes #95646
#38. Sometimes it's the demons you can't see, the ones on the inside, that are the most frightening.

R.M. Willis

Willis Quotes #96520
#39. One thing you try not to do as a father, as a coach, is pressure your son to do something that you've done. You don't just keep saying, "this is what I've done, this is what I've done." You have to take a little piece at a time.

Patrick Willis

Willis Quotes #96589
#40. In his 1930 book, Dirac took for granted that measurements could be made, but was very vague about what was actually involved.

Willis Lamb

Willis Quotes #104674
#41. TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years. And sure, everyone wants to be Bruce Willis or George Clooney - they want to be in film for the range of characters you get to play.

Christopher Meloni

Willis Quotes #109554
#42. Cinema has no boundaries ... we all belong to the same artistic community.

Bruce Willis

Willis Quotes #112400
#43. I was nervous batting eighth, and I was nervous batting seventh.

Dontrelle Willis

Willis Quotes #112501
#44. Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Willis Quotes #113922
#45. Youth is beautiful; its friendship is precious; the intercourse with it is a purifying release from the worn and stained harness of older life.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Willis Quotes #122294
#46. Pray when you feel like worrying. Give thanks when you feel like complaining. Keep going when you feel like quitting.

Dave Willis

Willis Quotes #125253
#47. I don't really like directing. I've had a good relationship with actors, but I can do what I do and back off. I don't want that much romancing. I don't want them to call me up at two in the morning saying, 'I don't know who I am.

Gordon Willis

Willis Quotes #128413
#48. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, they make bad movie after bad movie.

Peter Stormare

Willis Quotes #128684
#49. Frankly, reviews aremostly for peoplewho still read.Like most of the written word, it isgoing the way of the dinosaur.

Bruce Willis

Willis Quotes #134740
#50. I was born in a hurricane in Pensacola, Florida ... my dad was in the military, so we moved all over the place. But I consider myself a southerner from Louisiana. I've lived in Texas for most of my adult life.

Kimberly Willis Holt

Willis Quotes #134968
#51. On July 13, Louise felt a wave of urgency. She penned a letter to Major General Willis Hale, commander of the Seventh Air Force. In it, she begged Hale not to give up searching; Louie, she wrote, was alive. Unbeknownst to Louise, on that same day, Louie was captured.

Laura Hillenbrand

Willis Quotes #137345
#52. We call our selves followers but we refuse to follow him to the Unreached. We call ourselves Christians but refuse to lay down our life as he did that they might have life. We sing songs for him with our lips but deny him with our lives

John Willis Zumwalt

Willis Quotes #139871
#53. I grew up idolizing these men, like Arnold Schwarzenegger. I loved Sly (Stallone). I loved Bruce Willis. These guys embodied everything that action was in the 80s and 90s.

Katee Sackhoff

Willis Quotes #148365
#54. In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation.

Willis Gaylord Clark

Willis Quotes #152838
#55. I want to be a traveling circus in that big-league uniform, like everybody else.

Dontrelle Willis

Willis Quotes #153656
#56. Marriage is not 50-50. Divorce is 50-50. Marriage has to be 100-100. It isn't dividing everything in half, but giving everything you've got!

Dave Willis

Willis Quotes #157643
#57. Remember that a noble logical diagram, once recorded, will never die; long after we are gone, it will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.

Willis Polk

Willis Quotes #158773
#58. Well for me, courage means having the courage to walk off the edge of what is known, with complete faith that you're not going to go crashing to the bottom. Stepping outside of your own self-perceived boundaries and limitations.

Brad Willis

Willis Quotes #159759
#59. A persistent and age-old instinct makes us want to wander
Into regions yet untrod
And read what is still unread
In the manuscripts of God.

Willis R. Whitney

Willis Quotes #166964
#60. Each day, I would feel new wisdom and new intuition and I would follow that. Most everything I was doing was coming from that voice in my heart, which was affirmed by the ancient texts.

Brad Willis

Willis Quotes #167172
#61. Nothing in all those "O swan" poems had ever mentioned that they hissed. Or resented being mistaken for felines. Or bit.

Connie Willis

Willis Quotes #169303
#62. Whether your life is destined to be short or to be long, along the way on that journey, if you access that inner power, not only will you change your life in a positive way, you'll ultimately help change other peoples lives. You will be carrying something forward.

Brad Willis

Willis Quotes #169338
#63. I could never write my memoirs, just because too many people are still alive and would be hurt.

Bruce Willis

Willis Quotes #172001
#64. Who I am as a father is far more important to me than the public perception.

Bruce Willis

Willis Quotes #173669
#65. I think that the "what if" game is what you guys get to do. I don't have to do that. I hate the "what if" game. I'm such a believer in everything happening the way it's supposed to happen.

Bruce Willis

Willis Quotes #177961
#66. This gave me an early taste for humorous authors, of which there were - and are - far too few (though there are lots who labor under the misapprehension that they're funny.)

Connie Willis

Willis Quotes #188002
#67. Complexity is not good. People don't understand the elegance of simplicity.

Gordon Willis

Willis Quotes #192712
#68. Life is full of permutations and combinations. Sometimes the order you do things matter sometimes it doesn't, but in order to find the solution in life you must work through each possibility presented to find your opportunity.

Gregory Willis

Willis Quotes #193751
#69. And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.

Connie Willis

Willis Quotes #193880
#70. Society gives legitimacy and society can take it away.

Willis Harman

Willis Quotes #194734
#71. I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.

Vic Willis

Willis Quotes #197924
#72. Everybody, no matter how old you are, is around 24, 25 in their heart.

Bruce Willis

Willis Quotes #201658
#73. I think literature totally fails when it has an agenda. - From an interview on the podcast Starship Sofa, December 2010.

Connie Willis

Willis Quotes #204997
#74. By deliberately changing the internal image of reality, people can change the world.

Willis Harman

Willis Quotes #205947
#75. I'm weary of my lonely but
And of its blasted tree,
The very lake is like my lot,
So silent constantly
I've liv'd amid the forest gloom
Until I almost fear
When will the thrilling voices come
My spirit thirsts to hear?

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Willis Quotes #220186
#76. Win or lose, I've been fortunate to be able to pitch deep enough into games to get decisions.

Dontrelle Willis

Willis Quotes #226889
#77. I told you I would not forget the gift you bestowed upon me." My heart raced as he leaned in closer. "I am vampire, the walking dead, and yet you saved my life. For this, I will do many things until I feel my debt has been repaid.

K.R. Willis

Willis Quotes #227752
#78. I don't think Bruce Willis can compete with me. I have a much better voice.

Paul Reubens

Willis Quotes #229651
#79. You can't undo the past ... but you can certainly not repeat it.

Bruce Willis

Willis Quotes #229721
#80. My favorite country blues player was Big Bill Broonzy. City blues was Freddie King, but I liked them all - Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Ralph Willis, Lonnie Johnson, Brownie McGhee and the three Kings, B.B., Albert and Freddie. Jazz-wise, I listened to Django, Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery.

Alvin Lee

Willis Quotes #230693
#81. It all started with one of those days--one of those muggy, first-of-the-summer-vacation days when everyone older and everyone younger knew what to do, but everyone in between was lost.

Kate Willis

Willis Quotes #235874
#82. That's the beauty of this great sport (track), though-it's such a fine line between success or not, which makes the sweet moments that much more worth savoring.

Nick Willis

Willis Quotes #238924
#83. Time is the fire in which we burn. - Delmore Schwartz

Connie Willis

Willis Quotes #239917
#84. I want to make guys put the ball in play. If I give up ten hits, then I give up ten hits. But I want to work on making them earn it.

Dontrelle Willis

Willis Quotes #240719
#85. Someone was waving a large pink-and-white sign that read, "Don't Worry, Be Happy." I was trying, and so were at least thirty thousand other bodies, with varying degrees of post-Aquarian patience, to see the Who for the first time in a year.

Ellen Willis

Willis Quotes #242434
#86. How the press, for example, loves to brag to its victims - its readers - about its freedom. Yes, the press may be free to lie and distort and suppress and deceive and malign, but is it free to tell the truth?

Willis Carto

Willis Quotes #243082
#87. All societies, ancient or modern, primitive or sophisticated, have guided themselves by values and goals rooted in the experience of 'deep intuition'.

Willis Harman

Willis Quotes #245745
#88. It is the end of the world. Surely you could be allowed a few carnal thoughts.

Connie Willis

Willis Quotes #247398
#89. Insecure, ill-dressed chaos theorist desires intelligent, insightful, incandescent trends researcher. Must be SC.

Connie Willis

Willis Quotes #248009
#90. Look, nobody is ever exactly the same as anybody else. You're handed the cards you are for a particular reason, so you follow that path and see where it takes you.

Rumer Willis

Willis Quotes #249883
#91. For a long time, I tried to make my ilfe work, to make our family work. I got tired, though. Five children wears you out until the only thing left inside you, the only thing you've got to give, is a memory of what you thought you'd be.

Amy Franklin-Willis

Willis Quotes #251907
#92. I confess I could never see any good reason why dirt should always be a necessary concomitant of poverty.

Willis Gaylord Clark

Willis Quotes #254991
#93. I know about having days off. They can be helpful sometimes, especially late in the year. It's just key to go out there and establish early, especially in this park where they can put up some crooked numbers early.

Dontrelle Willis

Willis Quotes #263727
#94. The gambling industry actually generates more income than the music, sports, and movie industries combined.

William D. Willis

Willis Quotes #270198
#95. A gifted experimentalist, and theoretician, in the best Newtonian tradition ... His contributions to quantum measurements, and elucidative teachings on quantum mechanics, have not yet received the attention they deserve.

Willis Lamb

Willis Quotes #272413
#96. On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.

Ellen Willis

Willis Quotes #273249
#97. I'm a great believer in relativity when making movies. Relativity, in my mind, meaning "Light to dark, big to small, good to bad." You visually embrace these things to enhance transitions and instantly paint environments and moods.

Gordon Willis

Willis Quotes #273977
#98. Power isn't just about going forward. It's about not letting anything hold you back.

Patrick Willis

Willis Quotes #274383
#99. They hear you own up, and they learn to own up.

Bruce Willis

Willis Quotes #281476
#100. And kissed her for a hundred and sixty-nine years.

Connie Willis

Willis Quotes #287039

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