Willson Quotes

#1. The past will only catch you, if you ran from it to begin with.

Nikki Rowe

#2. This was what Ravka did. It made orphans. It made misery. No land, no life, just a uniform and a gun.

Leigh Bardugo

#3. Most playwrights go wrong on the fifth word. When you start a play and you type 'Act one, scene one,' your writing is every bit as good as Arthur Miller or Eugene O'Neill or anyone. It's that fifth word where amateurs start to go wrong.

Meredith Willson

#4. Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.

Meredith Willson

#5. 'Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On' was my anthem as a child. It was about me. I was Baby.

Carrie Underwood

#6. So if ketosis is so desirable, then why has there been such deafening silence or even fierce negativity on the subject from health authorities?

Eric C. Westman

#7. Where is the good in goodbye?

Meredith Willson

#8. FEAR IS JUST EXCITEMENT IN NEED OF AN ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT

Dee Willson

#9. It's quite simple, they poisoned it with smoke, chemicals and pollution from factories and cars, and power stations. Silly humans knew what they were doing, but carried on poisoning the planet anyway.

Richard J. Ward

#10. You pile up enough tomorrows and you'll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering.

Meredith Willson

#11. Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Henry Ford

#12. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere you go; Take a look in the five-and-ten, glistening once again. With candy canes and silver lanes aglow.

Meredith Willson

#13. What the United States call democracy is actually a vertical model of remote governance by oligarchs - economic barons and their political representatives. The result is that citizens in the United States have little control over what the U.S. government does.

S. Brian Willson

#14. The impact of a music minister is to the degree that he/she is able to stay with God.

Daniel Willson Jiya

#15. You can always buy something in English, you can't always sell something in English.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#16. Sometimes we need to examine who we are,
what we stand for and the people we allow in our lives.

Christine Willson

#17. The Learner must be led always from familiar objects toward the unfamiliar, guided along, as it were, a chain of flowers into the mysteries of life.

Charles Willson Peale

#18. Speaking of River City in The Music Man & his home town, Mason City, Iowa: I didn't have to make up anything. I simply remembered Mason City as closely as I could.

Meredith Willson

#19. I couldn't prevent my own child from becoming a casualty of war, but I may be able to help prevent another child from becoming one. I'd rather fail at the attempt than not try at all.

Dawn Willson

#20. Luke Willson ... I believe will have as many catches and more yards than Rob Gronkowski.

Sterling Sharpe

#21. It seems to me that the Swedish Academy of Science may be qualifying for the Nobel Peace Prize. It recognises no nationality; it discourages unworthy national feeling and prejudice.

Charles Glover Barkla

#22. There were birds in the sky, but I never saw them winging, No I never saw them at all, Until there was you.

Meredith Willson

#23. Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing up beyond the lofty bend of the coast, sent across the bay a shaft of brightness which paled to ashes in the red glitter of the illuminated boats.

Edith Wharton

#24. A man can't turn tail and run just because a little personal risk is involved. What did Shakespeare say? 'Cowards die a thousand deaths, the brave man ... only 500?'

Meredith Willson

#25. . . . when a woman has a husband
And you've got none,
Why should she take advice from you?
Even if you can quote Balzac and Shakespeare
And all them other highfalutin' Greeks.

Meredith Willson

#26. Regarding the current Broadway revival of The Music Man, Jay Nordlinger wrote: There will always be those who sniff that the show is "feel good"-but, oh, it feels good to feel good. And the main reason The Music Man feels so good is that it is good-a great American musical.

Meredith Willson

#27. Me, shooting smut in the back of a speeding van with two white girls--bald cunts, panties around their ankles--is a game of "Pin the Felony on the Negro" waiting to happen.

Tyler Knight

#28. The best time to leave a party is when the party's just beginning. There's no drink that kills except the drink that you didn't want to take, as the saying goes, and there's no hour that kills except the hour you stayed after you wanted to go home.

Diana Vreeland

#29. I don't have the time is not an excuse, it's a cop-out- make the time!

J.P. Willson

#30. Vulnerability is not a weakness, it strengthens
one and allows one to be okay with ones emotions. Be in touch with yourself.
Be yourself!

Christine Willson

#31. What you wear in your heart you wear in your face.

Hazel Felleman