Willis Whitney Quotes

[In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators as much freedom as possible, you may define 'serendipity' as] the art of profiting from unexpected occurrences. When you do things in that way you get unexpected results. Then you do something else and you get unexpected results in another line, and you do that on a third line and then all of a sudden you see that one of these lines has something to do with the other. Then you make a discovery that you never could have made by going on a direct road. ~ Irving Langmuir

When there is no feeling of accomplishment, children fail to develop properly and old people rapidly decline. ~ Joe Whitney

Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still. ~ Whitney Otto

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

Whitney misread my silent horror. "I'm excited, too! And don't worry, I snagged your friend Ella Francis as well. We can all hang together." Emphasized in that clueless way adults speak when trying to sound hip. ~ Kathy Reichs

Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be. ~ Whitney Houston

My heart and my cock seemed to like the idea, and Whitney made me a slave to both, so my wits were outnumbered. ~ Rachael Wade

Because this is what I believe - that second chances are stronger than secrets. You can let secrets go. But a second chance? You don't let that pass you by. ~ Daisy Whitney

I'm really not into the possessive caveman shit. ~ Whitney Gracia Williams

I'm a long way from being evicted [at the age of 14], but I'll never forget it. I'll never forget the feeling. I'll never forget my mom crying and I'll never forget the thought I had: 'Well the only thing I can do is just go build my body,' because the men who were successful that I knew of - Stallone, Arnold, Bruce Willis - they were men of action. ~ Dwayne Johnson

Successful couples love each other with complete devotion ~ L. Whitney Clayton

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

Sword rang on sword, the metallic sounds echoing throughout the wide market place and filling the crannies of every dark alley. Strength waged against strength, as, indeed, rivals of evil have ever-battled the adversaries of truth. The face of one combatant appeared cool and certain, the other passionate in his resolve, intent upon seeing the battle through and winning the day with valor... ~ Alicia A. Willis

Where there are people, there is injustice, and that is not God's design. It may not be our fault, but it is our fight. Let us do our part by holding up our corners. ~ F. Willis Johnson

I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston. ~ Robert Smith

Never live life in your own shadow. Instead, break free and allow your soul to soar! ~ A.C. Willis

I once started out
to walk around the world
but ended up with you.
Thank God. ~ Whitney Otto

Abstract and conceptual painters face different demons than representational painters, but neither group has a monopoly on either authenticity or originality. ~ Steven Whitney

Discipline without direction is drudgery. ~ Donald S. Whitney

I would be a freak with you anytime, anywhere. ~ Daisy Whitney

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed. ~ Nathaniel Parker Willis

I hate when somebody says, "This may not work." You'll never get anywhere with that. I've pushed a lot of people out of my way - I don't mean physically - over them being afraid something isn't going to work. ~ Gordon Willis

When I told the fans I was an alcoholic, they all applauded. When I told them I had given myself to a higher power, they cheered again. ~ Grace Lee Whitney

When you think about where are you going to find that big love of your life, you seldom think it's someone you already know. You think it's someone you're yet to meet. ~ Bruce Willis

I was nervous batting eighth, and I was nervous batting seventh. ~ Dontrelle Willis

I wanted to be Whitney Houston at first, and when I started taking voice lessons, my voice teacher kind of geared me more towards opera. ~ Megan Hilty

while the ludic impulse may be strong in some, it is not, and cannot be, strong in everyone, for the simple reason that not all people have access to the technologies in question, the time to devote to learning the ins and outs of specific systems, or the energy to play with the tools they've been given. ~ Whitney Phillips

I was naked under his gaze. Skin was just that: skin. But to see your soul stripped, laid bare for the eyes of someone you barely knew-that was terrifying. ~ Whitney Barbetti

She kissed him with all the aching longing that being this close to him evoked; she kissed him in all the ways he had ever kissed her, feeling faint with joy when he began to kiss her back, his mouth moving with fierce tenderness, then opening with fiery demand over hers, until their breaths were mingled gasps, and they were straining to one another. ~ Judith McNaught

I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor. ~ Bruce Willis

My name is Towner Whitney. No, that's not exactly true. My real first name is Sophya. Never believe me. I lie all the time.

I am a crazy woman... That last part is true. ~ Brunonia Barry

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

GET THAT CRAZY-ASS MULLET OFF YA SKULL ~ Wesley Willis

Die Hard 2 was okay. It was a little outside the template but it was okay, a hard movie to make technically. Did well at the box office. Successful. ~ Bruce Willis

If you ain't got a fat woman, you're making a big mistake, because a big fat woman tastes as good as a T-bone steak. ~ Chick Willis

We live in hope that the good we do here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. We also hope to win the war. We hope that right and goodness will triumph, and that when the war is won, we shall have a better world. And we work toward that end. We buy war bonds and put out incendiaries and knit stockings---"

And pumpkin-colored scarves, Polly thought.

"---and volunteer to take in evacuated children and work in hospitals and drive ambulances" - here Alf grinned and nudged Eileen sharply in the ribs - "and man anti-aircraft guns. We join the Home Guard and the ATS and the Civil Defence, but we cannot know whether the scrap metal we collect, the letter we write to a solider, the vegetables we grow, will turn out in the end to have helped win the war or not. We act in faith.

"But the vital thing is that we act. We do not rely on hope alone, thought hope is our bulwark, our light through dark days and darker nights. We also work, and fight, and endure, and it does not matter whether the part we play is large or small. The reason that God marks the fall of the sparrow is that he knows that it is as important to the world as the bulldog or the wolf. We all, all must do 'our bit'. For it is through our deeds that the war will be won, through our kindness and devotion and courage that we make that better world for which we long. ~ Connie Willis

The reason we come away so cold from reading the word is because we do not warm ourselves at the fire of meditation. ~ Donald S. Whitney

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

There is music blasting from Ayoola's room, she's listening to Whitney Housten's I Wanna Dance With Somebody. It would be more appropriate to play Brymo or Lorde, something solemn or yearning, rather than the musical equivalent of a pack of M&Ms ~ Oyinkan Braithwaite

... if you have someone who wants to heal, sometime they will respond to the unconventional. Their minds are more open to healing, so their bodies become more willing too. I believe that medication, while a wonderful thing, has its limits. That there are answers to be found in the unconventional. ~ Daisy Whitney

I'm the one who's dating the craft-service guy instead of the producer. Plus, if a producer is going to date a hot young thing, I'm probably not the first person on their list - the weird, quirky, funny girl. ~ Whitney Cummings

...then in a conversational tone said, "I slapped my Aunt Martha. When my fiancé died. She told me God needed him in heaven, and I hauled off and slapped her, a sixty year old woman....People say unbelievable things to you. They deserve slapping. ~ Connie Willis

There will always be a spiritual light that beckons to us, giving us the hope of rescue and relief. ~ L. Whitney Clayton

My message is believe in yourself. Have courage in your capacity. Listen to your inner voice. And then the critical component of all this is, do the work. ~ Brad Willis

If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who would have guns would be the bad guys. Even a pacifist would get violent if someone were trying to kill him or her. You would fight for your life, whatever your beliefs. ~ Bruce Willis

I stopped typing and started having a conversation about the blog post with my boyfriend. He said he'd liked the part where the narrator had explained that, while she was disturbed by the revelation that the Internet writer had a girlfriend – because that meant he wasn't the pure ethical person she'd perceived him to be via reading his literary criticism (which, !) –she was flattered and aroused that he was overcoming his principles in order to be with her.

Keith said, "It's like he can do no wrong. I thought that was nice."

I surprised myself by turning to him and shouting. "It's a SLAVE MENTALITY. IT'S A SLAVE MENTALITY!!!"

I tried to explain what I meant.

I talked about how Ellen Willis had a theory that women didn't know what their true sexuality was like, because they'd been conditioned to develop fantasies that enable them to act in a way that conforms to what men want from them, or what they think men want from them. And I thought about how Eileen Myles described the difference between having sex with men and having sex with women, how having sex with men was more about forcing yourself into what their idea of what sex was supposed to be. I told him that in my experience men do not often become suddenly charmed or intrigued by aspects of women that they have also perceived as off-putting or scary. Men, heterosexual men, don't tend to make excuses for women and find reasons to admire them despite and even slightly because of t ~ Emily Gould