Nancy Willard Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
-
Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.
-
I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
-
It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
-
I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
-
There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.
-
The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
-
None of our family businesses were focused on technology. It was '93 when I came out of law school, and the Internet was taking hold. So I started New World Ventures.
-
I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
-
I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
-
I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
-
In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
-
I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.
-
Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
-
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
-
I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.
-
I have friends who are science journalists, and I'm seeing stories of theirs or talking with them about ideas that they're pitching. Certain kinds of science are around me all the time, like climate change and biology.
-
Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.
-
Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
-
My dear, dear Lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation; that away Men are but gilded loan or painted clay... Mine honor is my life; both grow in one; Take honor from me, and my life is done.
-
There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.
-
When you have to play a character that seems to be a relatively decent person and seems to be like yourself, I think the trick in that kind of character, so that you don't become a cliche, is to find where their weaknesses are.
-
My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith.
-
Faith takes root in the insignificant.