William John Wills Quotes

What you say about this world I do not quite agree with; I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others.

William John Wills

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• I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Been
  • Little
  • Little Bit

• For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• I would love to be a role model.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Love
  • Model
  • Role Model

• A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Never
  • Own
  • Errors

• I'm not a babysitter.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Babysitter

• It wasn't really until the 10th or 11th grade when I started to play well, and football took the place of baseball, which was my love when I was five years old. I don't know what happened; baseball just got boring to me, I guess.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Love
  • Football
  • Baseball

• Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • World
  • Trying
  • Understanding

• It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Know
  • Nice
  • Beginning

• The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Science
  • Courage
  • Go

• Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Pretty

• I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Support

• I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Perfect
  • Husband
  • Blessed

• I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Think
  • Political
  • Rest

• My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Band
  • Approach

• You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.

  

  Beanie Sigel
  • Time
  • You
  • Be Prepared

• I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Home
  • Like
  • Build

• People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • People
  • See
  • Privacy

• And if you want a commander in chief who will fulfill the most solemn obligation of the president to keep this nation safe, then support a candidate who has demonstrated the commitment, the judgment, the experience, the clarity of vision, to identify our enemy, to call it by its name, radical islamic terrorism.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Experience
  • Support
  • Vision

• Estoy en el ayer, en el hoy. ¿Y en mañana? En el mañana estuve.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact.

  

  Jane Haddam
  • True

• Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but it's like, yeah, you are for now, but you've gotta work so that you're remembered further, and that's what I'm trying to do.

  

  Sam Smith
  • World
  • Work
  • Trying

• Earth, Wind & Fire was something new. I wanted to bring something innovative to the music. It was out of a desire to create excitement with music that was pleasurable to play and listen to.

  

  Maurice White Earth, Wind & Fire
  • Music
  • Earth
  • Desire

• What you say about this world I do not quite agree with; I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others.

  

  William John Wills
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Trust