Willcocks Quotes & Sayings

People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within. — Banana Yoshimoto

Some artists see a gig as an audience worshipping them. I think it is about having a great time together. I have a part as the singer. An audience has a part. Playing a gig doesn't make me high on myself. — Jo Nesbo

It only belongs to me
when I let go
Petra Hermans — Petra Hermans

Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend. — Pierre Corneille

Many poets ... write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia. — Randall Jarrell

FDR once said he was like a cat, that he would pounce and then relax. That's much harder to do in the 24-hour cable world, because it's almost like the press demands of you to be saying something or doing something every day. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

You can separate the men from the boys and ballads. — Coleman Hawkins

There is no fix for this. She has to endure it, and somewhere along the line she has to learn to live again. Surviving isn't the goal. Living is. This is a battle between me and her grief, and I'm going to be the last man standing. — Anne Calhoun

Determination is like a muscle. If you do not use it regularly, it fades away. — Lynn Jennings

In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies. — Stephen King

Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience. — Moby

Growing and decaying vegetation in this land are responsible for 93 percent of the oxides of nitrogen. — Ronald Reagan

It is not creativity, however pastoral it may be, or meetings or planning that ensures our fruitfulness, even if these are greatly helpful. But what ensures our fruitfulness is our being faithful to Jesus, who says insistently: "Abide in me and I in you" (John 15:4). — Pope Francis