Top 100 Willy Quotes
#1. A good picture knows how to communicate the emotion that created it.
Willy Ronis
#2. I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we've seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka ... and welcome to my chocolate factory.
Kanye West
#3. The younger generation of rocket engineers is just beginning. They are of the new generation to which space travel is not going to be a dream of the future but an everyday job with everyday worries in which they will be engaged.
Willy Ley
#4. I adjust my priorities according to the most important project I'm involved in at the time.
Willy Bogner Jr.
#5. Thus the skilful general conducts his army just as though he were leading a single man, willy-nilly, by the hand.
Sun Tzu
#6. I've always felt a kinship with Willy Wonka. Even at that age, I could tell that he was a flawed hero, an icon for the forbidden. The forbidden in this case was chocolate, a metaphor for indulgence and anything you're not supposed to have, be it sex, drugs, alcohol or pornography.
Marilyn Manson
#7. There is always that dream of escape, but there is no place to escape to, you just run into yourself.
Willy Vlautin
#8. That pistol I gave you is a piece of crap. You can't hit anything with it, not at that distance."
Staring at her with tears in his blinking eyes, he says, "I did."
Conversation between Alis K and Willy
The Informer
Steen Langstrup
#9. I believe that Willy Nelson is the hillbilly Dalai Lama.
Kinky Friedman
#11. Willy Loman: I don't want change, I want Swiss cheese!
Arthur Miller
#12. If she's a lady, I'm a vernicious knid. (Eddie Albert in Willy Wanka and the Chocolate Factory)
Roald Dahl
#13. Political means so many things. We are political willy-nilly. Political poetry is an easy invitation to disaster. But then so is love poetry. But we are a little more patient with bad love poetry.
Gerald Stern
#14. Willy, one of the guys at the distillery, comes up with what Oliver and I agree is the best definition of what a 'dram' actually is: 'A measure of whisky that is pleasing to both guest and host.
Iain Banks
#15. Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed!
David Mitchell
#16. You may buy from me in your own language, but sell to me in mine.
Willy Brandt
#17. Michael Jackson plays the wounded puppy very well. 'I must be the loneliest man in the world'. Well, you're not a man. And the loneliness is self inflicted, so sod off you pathetic puerile pimp. I wonder what color his willy is.
John Lydon
#18. The worst thing you want is a willy-nilly judge who is swayed by the political whims of the era or the time. What you want is a judge who is thinking about what he or she is doing and is thinking about it in a principled way.
Sonia Sotomayor
#19. Shut up, Willy. Mister, you gonna buy anything? Pa says we can't shut down for the day until we get thirty dollars' worth of custom." "I'll buy a pumpkin. If you can give me some decent directions." She gave a theatrical sigh. "One pumpkin. A buck-fifty. Big whoop.
Stephen King
#20. I'm very opinionated and I have a lot of things to say. Sometimes I sound a bit like a willy.
Cher Lloyd
#21. Life lesson 3, If someone of the same gender says something like, "Silly Willy", or "ohhohyou stop that big boy/little lady", all you need to do is BOOK IT MAN, RUN AS FAST AS YO FACE'LL TAKE YA!
John Hankins
#22. The point to remember is that a giant leap into space can be a giant leap toward peace down below.
Willy Ley
#23. People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
Carson McCullers
#25. They [some countries] borrowed money to go acquire things, Indian power plants and Danish newspapers and British soccer teams. And they did it willy-nilly, and they themselves a story, that Icelandic history and culture and DNA leaves us very well-suited to being investment bankers.
Michael Lewis
#26. Is she dead, Mr. Stone Fox? Is she dead?" little Willy asked, looking up at Stone Fox with his one good eye.
John Reynolds Gardiner
#27. We live in a crowded and stifling world, my dear sir; just to be able to walk, we have to push and shove others willy nilly!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#28. Willy DeVille knows the truth of a city street and the courage in a ghetto love song. And the harsh reality in his voice and phrasing is yesterday, today, and tomorrow - timeless in the same way that loneliness, no money, and troubles find each other and never quit for a minute.
Doc Pomus
#29. Why should we try for space travel? It cannot be a substance of any kind that can be expected to pay. It can only be something intangible, not involving haulage, which is at the same time more valuable. There is something like that: Knowledge.
Willy Ley
#30. To go, Pop. Every muscle is ready. WILLY [at the edge of the apron]: You realize what
Arthur Miller
#31. Yeah I'm in that Tonka color of Willy Wonka
Nicki Minaj
#32. Children recognize me from Free Willy, and their parents recognize me from Reservoir Dogs. The kids are like, 'There's Glen,' and the parents are like, 'Don't go near that guy.'
Michael Madsen
#33. I never, ever went out without my camera, even to buy bread.
Willy Ronis
#34. They [left-wingers] willy-nilly throw around the accusation of Nazism and comparisons to Hitler whenever confronted by any opposition, yet they are today's Nazis in their determination to shut down by threats or violence free speech and assembly.
Steve McCann
#35. We have been around in the States in the ski wear market since the 1950s, but now we feel we can compete in the sportswear field.
Willy Bogner Jr.
#36. Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let's get on with it.
Germaine Greer
#37. We do not see what is "real," we see what we are.
Willy Ronis
#38. Meat and two veg is your knob," I tell him.
He frowns again, looking confused. "Knob?"
"Dick," I say, "penis, cock, nob, chopper, dong, cream stick, one-eyed trouser snake, prick, tadger, willy, bell-end, or dobber. Take your pick.
Beckie Stevenson
#39. 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
#40. A marriage, willy-nilly, requires you to trust that your spouse will tell your story truthfully and lovingly when you are no longer around to tell it yourself.
Kate Braestrup
#41. The study of an idea is, of necessity, the story of many things.
Willy Ley
#42. Peace is something more than the absence of war, although some nations would be thankful for that alone today. A durable and equitable peace system requires equal development opportunities for all nations.
Willy Brandt
#43. Good begets good; evil begets evil; and even if the good you give is met by evil, you have no choice but to go on giving better than you get. Otherwise-and these were Willy's exact words-why bother to go on living?
Paul Auster
#44. He'd expected her to feel like heaven, plus nirvana, plus that scene in Willy Wonka where Charlie starts to fly.
Rainbow Rowell
#45. Wo Hunger herrscht, ist auf die Dauer kein Friede."
("Where there is hunger, there cannot be lasting peace.)
Speech before the United Nations General Assembly, September 26, 1973
Willy Brandt
#46. Alas! What are all these lives driven willy-nilly? Where are they going? Why are they like this? He who knows the answer to that, sees the darkness as a whole. He is alone. His name is God.
Victor Hugo
#47. I'm not sayin' she's a bragger, but if you've been to Paradise, she's got a season ticket.
Willy Russell
#48. Shira turned and blew kisses toward her clients who had pressed their faces against the salon window like children in a candy store and she their Willy Wonka of beauty.
Terri Gillespie
#49. Fifty stranded whales are a tangible crisis with a visible solution. There's camaraderie in the process, a Free Willy fantasy, an image of Flipper in everyone's mind. There's nothing romantic about waking up a man on a park bench and making him walk to a shelter.
Marina Keegan
#50. It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.
Willy Brandt
#51. I've allowed myself to lead this little life, when inside me there was so much more.
Willy Russell
#52. The injured captain, lying in the bow, was at this time buried in that profound dejection and indifference which comes, temporarily at least, to
even the bravest and most enduring when, willy nilly, the firm fails, the army loses, the ship goes down.
Stephen Crane
#53. We shouldn't be willy-nilly creating potential human life just to satisfy the urges of the scientific community.
Tony Abbott
#54. Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source.
Willy Ley
#55. I respect your right to differ, but that doesn't change reality. I cannot have people thrown through windows willy-nilly in my county.
Ilona Andrews
#57. Welcome, let's all prepare to be whisked to the magical land of candy. Be warned, candy is very addicting and at Jubilee's the candy is the tastiest in the world,
Derek Ailes
#58. Practically the first action of the Neanderthal - on the happy day he evolved out of the monkey egg - was to draw a picture on a cave wall of a man with an enormous willy. Or, indeed, perhaps it was the first action of a woman. After all, we're more interested in (a) cocks and (b) decorating.
Caitlin Moran
#59. There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.
Adrian Edmondson
#60. My mind was no longer functioning on a rational level. For fuck's sake, who needed rational when they boarded a train to insanity? All that was missing were the Oompa Loompas and Willy-fucking-Wonka.
J.A. Saare
#61. If we admit it or not, skiing is a little bit of show biz.
Willy Bogner Jr.
#62. The Written Word is a Fairy, as mocking and elusive as Willy Wisp, speaking lying words to us in a feigned voice. So let all readers of books take warning!
Hope Mirrlees
#63. 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
#64. Susan adored her and worshiped her style, / Loved her pronouncements of "perfect" and "vile," / Loved the sheer whim, the madcap willy-nillyness / And how deeply seriously Nonnie took her own silliness
David Rakoff
#66. Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.
Willy Brandt
#67. My work more than didn't fit in. It crossed willy-nilly the boundaries that people had spent their lives building up. It hits some 30 subfields of biology, even geology.
Lynn Margulis
#68. We can be richer than industry as long as we know that there's things that we don't really need
Willy Mason
#69. So we're going to SeaWorld," she told me. "Part Eleven." "What, are we going to Free Willy or something?" "No," she said. "We're just going to go to SeaWorld, that's all. It's the only theme park I haven't broken into yet.
John Green
#70. Morally it makes no difference whether a person is killed in war or condemned to starve by the indifference of others.
Willy Brandt
#71. Mother said we had reached the Age of Reason and had to be good now. We must have because we wanted Willy Starr instead.
Marie Clair
#72. Into this Universe, and why not knowing,
Nor whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing;
And out of it, as Wind along the Waste,
I know not whither, willy-nilly blowing.
Omar Khayyam
#73. Charley: He won't starve. None a them starve. Forget about him.
Willy: Then what have I got to remember?
Arthur Miller
#74. Waylon said it best when he sang to Willy; 'If you see me gettin' smaller, I'm leavin' don't be grievin', just gotta get away from here. If you see me gettin' smaller, don't worry, I'm in no hurry I've got the right to disappear.
Waylon Jennings
#75. Most of my photographs were taken on the spur of the moment, very quickly, just as they occurred. All attention focuses on the specific instant, almost too good to be true, which can only vanish in the following one.
Willy Ronis
#76. No one gave a crap that I was the kid from 'Free Willy'. You're not in some wispy fantasyland where everyone's telling you 'yes' all the time, which happens a lot to actors.
Jason James Richter
#77. You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating.
Bill Keller
#78. immersed in a seemingly never-ending stream of thoughts, coming willy-nilly one after another in rapid succession.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#79. The more I was treated as a woman, the more woman I became. A adapted willy-nilly. If I was assumed to be incompetent at reversing cars, or opening bottles, oddly incompetent I found myself becoming. If a case was thought too heavy for me, inexplicably I found it so myself.
Jan Morris
#80. Well, one thing for sure, I won't be remembered for 'Free Willy.' Or maybe I will.
Michael Madsen
#81. Willy Lazeer is an acquaintance. His teeth and his feet hurt. He hates the climate, the Power Squadron, the government and his wife. The vast load of hate has left him numbed rather than bitter. In appearance, it is as though somebody bleached Sinatra, skinned him, and made Willy wear him.
John D. MacDonald
#82. Wiggly Charlie lived in a big house with his friends Audrey and Big Charlie. He liked mozzarella cheese sticks, chasing his tennis ball, and putting his purple wizard hat on his willy and pretending they were friends.
Christopher Moore
#83. I have never sought the unexpected, the novelty, the extraordinary, but rather what is most typical of our daily life ... I go out to find people who resemble me, and the mirror which these images offer them is the same as that in which I see myself.
Willy Ronis
#84. CHORUS: And so, while the fool slept the sleep of the dead, the beautiful Jewess snipped off the tip of his willy.
Christopher Moore
#85. We strive all the time to give our life its form, but we do so by copying willy-nilly, like a drawing, the features of the person that we are and not of the person we should like to be.
Marcel Proust
#86. I want to be Willy Wonka. He has a really fun spirited side but also a dark, justice-giver side.
Drew Daywalt
#87. I live on a train. I know - what a sad thing to admit. I am the New-Age Willy Loman. But there it is.
Christopher Buckley
#88. Willy: I am building something with this firm, Ben, and if a man is building something he must be on the right track, mustn't he?
Ben: What are you building? Lay your hand on it. where is it?
Willy [hesitantly]: That's true, Linda, there's nothing.
Arthur Miller
#89. The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.
Arthur Miller
#90. I am not a dime a dozen! I am Willy Loman, and you are Biff Loman!
Arthur Miller
#91. Nicky, the van's on fire!'
'Fuck the van, Willy! We got ourselves a prodigy child!
Jonathan Dunne
#92. A memory flashed back at me, of his willy bobbing about while he wrestled with his briefcase - well dignity and nudity aren't often seen together.
Kate Saunders
#94. Just as the water of a river near its mouth, in its final form, is composed largely of many tributaries, so an idea, in its final form, is composed largely of later additions.
Willy Ley
#95. I have never separated form and content. The photo should have a meaning. But my photos are also more or less well constructed. If they had false notes, they stayed on the contact sheet.
Willy Ronis
#96. One of the few certainties in life is that persons of certainty should certainly be avoided.
Willy Russell
#97. As it turns out, if you freeze improperly packed human remains (i.e. balling them up willy-nilly and jamming them under a couple frozen turkeys and a max pack of Hot Pockets,) just like with animal remains...
E.V. Iverson
#98. Walls in people's heads are sometimes more durable than walls made of concrete blocks.
Willy Brandt
#99. Willy: Remember those two beautiful elm trees out there? When I and Biff hung the swings between them?
Linda: Yeah, like being a million miles from the city.
Arthur Miller
#100. A fine image is geometry, modulated by the heart
Willy Ronis
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