Margery Williams Bianco quote: "Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."

Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child l...
MARGERY WILLIAMS BIANCO

Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a...
MARGERY WILLIAMS BIANCO

You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily,...
MARGERY WILLIAMS BIANCO

Real isn't how you are made. It's a thing that happens to you," said the Skin Horse. " When you are ...
MARGERY WILLIAMS BIANCO

What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender...
MARGERY WILLIAMS BIANCO

It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It takes a long time. That�...
MARGERY WILLIAMS BIANCO

He longed to become Real, to know what it felt like; and yet the idea of growing shabby and losing h...
MARGERY WILLIAMS BIANCO

Does it hurt?' asked the Rabbit.

'Sometimes,' said the Skin Horse, for he was always tru...
MARGERY WILLIAMS BIANCO

...because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.
MARGERY WILLIAMS BIANCO

Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child l...
MARGERY WILLIAMS BIANCO

Of what use was it to be loved and lose one's beauty and become Real if it all ended like this? And ...
MARGERY WILLIAMS BIANCO

Real isn't how you are made. It's a thing that happens to you. Sometimes it hurts, but when you are ...
MARGERY WILLIAMS BIANCO

Weeks passed, and the little Rabbit grew very old and shabby, but the Boy loved him just as much. He...
MARGERY WILLIAMS BIANCO

When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.
MARGERY WILLIAMS BIANCO

The Skin Horse had lived longer in the nursery than any of the others. He was so old that his brown ...
MARGERY WILLIAMS BIANCO

Once you are real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always.
MARGERY WILLIAMS BIANCO

He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when ...
MARGERY WILLIAMS BIANCO

You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily,...
MARGERY WILLIAMS BIANCO

When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you ...
MARGERY WILLIAMS BIANCO

When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.
MARGERY WILLIAMS

He said, " You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break ...
MARGERY WILLIAMS

Once you are "real" you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always.
MARGERY WILLIAMS

'It doesn't happen all at once,' said the Skin Horse. 'You become. It takes a long time. That's why ...
MARGERY WILLIAMS

'What is REAL?' asked the Rabbit one day, 'Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a sti...
MARGERY WILLIAMS

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impr...
MARGERY ALLINGHAM

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.
MARGERY ALLINGHAM

Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something perm...
MARGERY ALLINGHAM

He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by t...
MARGERY ALLINGHAM

I think wholeness comes from living your life consciously during the day and then exploring your inn...
MARGERY CUYLER

Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something perm...
MARGERY ALLINGHAM

I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see ...
MARGERY ALLINGHAM

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more im...
MARGERY ALLINGHAM

once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take out anything that...
MARGERY ALLINGHAM

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more im...
MARGERY ALLINGHAM

When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that...
MARGERY ALLINGHAM

Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can find it in shreds of c...
MARGERY ALLINGHAM

Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope t...
MARGERY ALLINGHAM

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance
MARGERY ALLINGHAM

In common with many Christians of the classic type he felt sincerely safer and more at ease when he ...
MARGERY ALLINGHAM

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more im...
MARGERY ALLINGHAM

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.
MARGERY ALLINGHAM

When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivi...
MARGERY ALLINGHAM

We demanded that he be reinstated immediately.
MARGERY BRONSTER

We believe that's precisely what's happening here.
MARGERY BRONSTER

There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.
MARGERY ALLINGHAM

You can't get anywhere in life without taking risks.
ESME BIANCO

Objectivity is almost a choice you make. As a burlesque performer, I didn't choose to be objecti...
ESME BIANCO

We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now w...
ROBERT BIANCO

It was really a big momentum shift. Even though it just ties it up, it's a game-winner.
MIKE BIANCO

If Kenny doesn't knock down the shots when he does, we could have been blown out of the building.
KEVIN BIANCO

Cisco was terrific tonight. His command was brilliant.
MIKE BIANCO

Cisco was terrific tonight. Craig almost matched him pitch-for-pitch. But Crisp hits the homer. Not ...
MIKE BIANCO

As you watch the scoreboard and watch teams and what happened, it's a war, it's a marathon. The only...
MIKE BIANCO

I think if we could have kept the game close, we'd have had a shot because we were having good at-ba...
MIKE BIANCO

I'm not a gambler. But it gets to a point where you got to draw the line.
JAY BIANCO

These grocery products, which are unique to Canada for Kraft, are not strategically aligned with our...
DINO BIANCO

We continue to transform our portfolio as part of our Sustainable Growth Plan by focusing on core gl...
DINO BIANCO

Berlusconi will lose because of this. Everyone knows things aren't going well.
ENZO BIANCO

At this point there are no signs of possible terrorist actions, so we're on alert but there is absol...
ENZO BIANCO

The anarchists see in the Olympics an important media sound-box and could carry out initiatives that...
ENZO BIANCO

Vigilance is justifiably high. We know there is a certain exposure from information acquired in Ital...
ENZO BIANCO

We are convinced that we have defeated a mastermind of Islamic terrorism.
ENZO BIANCO

We will concentrate all of our energy, attention and resources on beginning to rebuild what has been...
ENZO BIANCO

ever had a role in the dossier that was supposed to have demonstrated that Iraq was in an advanced p...
ENZO BIANCO

Islamic terrorism chooses moments of particular exposure of a country, and it is clear that the most...
ENZO BIANCO

It was a little upsetting. I'm not so sure the treatment was all that bad, but you've got to be lice...
FRANK BIANCO

If you begin to live life looking for the God that is all around you, every moment becomes a prayer.
FRANK BIANCO

I don't think it's a good buy at all.
JAY BIANCO

If anything should happen, I would sell the property and start over.
JAY BIANCO

In the Greenspan days, if he said that we're done, we'd be at 5% odds of fed funds hike in June by n...
JAMES BIANCO

The Fed will raise rates at least two more times and probably more than that.
JAMES BIANCO

An interesting fact about the bond market is that it displays a strong seasonality. Seasonality is a...
JAMES BIANCO

There really isn't anything in this report that suggests that inflation numbers are going to turn fo...
JAMES BIANCO

That was the type of reaction that we were looking for from the Asia crisis...to have weakness in st...
JAMES BIANCO

The domestic economy is very strong and these numbers are yet another indication of it.
JAMES BIANCO

Reality is the place we need to live, but our imaginations harbor the greatest places to visit!
GIUSEPPE BIANCO

We joke around with our students that ballroom is the most inexpensive form of marriage counseling. ...
LISA BIANCO

All of the instructors who saw it said they loved it. We've been waiting for ballroom to become what...
LISA BIANCO

We see a lot of gory deaths on 'Game of Thrones.'
ESME BIANCO

That happens sometimes, and there's no real reason for it. This was more like us.
MIKE BIANCO

We're excited about having everyone back on campus. There were no surprises for us. Everyone reporte...
MIKE BIANCO

Even if the ratings were disappointing, some 22 (million) to 25 million people a night were watching...
ROBERT BIANCO

There's dignity in suffering Nobility in pain But failure is a salted wound That burns and burns aga...
MARGERY ELDREDGE HOWELL

There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical.
IAN WILLIAMS

My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.
VENUS WILLIAMS

But I like to be thought of as a good father and a good husband.
TREAT WILLIAMS

After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
VENUS WILLIAMS

The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke,...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

The day my son was born my life changed completely.
TREAT WILLIAMS

We have a responsibility to help those around us and help others in need.
VIRGINIA WILLIAMS

Sometimes I light incense and a candle. It's so peaceful and quiet. The steadiness of the energy...
CINDY WILLIAMS

If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a...
TAD WILLIAMS

People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that ...
TAD WILLIAMS

One of the fascinating things about researching Heaven and Hell is, of course, the fact that there a...
TAD WILLIAMS

For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things t...
TAD WILLIAMS

My parents were perfectly open-minded about everything. They never tried to convince us of what was ...
TAD WILLIAMS

I am a sandwich man. Somewhere early in life, my epigenetic switches got flicked to 'likes sandw...
TAD WILLIAMS

Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know...
TAD WILLIAMS

Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell...
TAD WILLIAMS

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will thin...
TAD WILLIAMS

I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their pligh...
TAD WILLIAMS

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what...
TAD WILLIAMS

In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll fi...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Peace is not wimpy. It's about sitting down and negotiating with people you hate. Ultimately, al...
BETTY WILLIAMS

Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
VENUS WILLIAMS

You have to let fear go. Another lesson is you just have to believe in yourself; you just have to. T...
VENUS WILLIAMS

Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to belie...
VENUS WILLIAMS

Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going fo...
VENUS WILLIAMS

Sports are a great place to show that equality can happen.
VENUS WILLIAMS

The day I'm not improving will be the day I hang up the racket.
VENUS WILLIAMS

A lot of times, I don't just do juice; I do the whole thing blended to keep the fiber.
VENUS WILLIAMS

Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can ne...
VENUS WILLIAMS

Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
VENUS WILLIAMS

I always like to win. But I'm the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything, even if I ...
VENUS WILLIAMS

I like to be busy. It's not always easy because the schedule gets busy; especially, the more suc...
VENUS WILLIAMS

I'm always in search for perfection. If it's not perfect, I'm back to the drawing board.
VENUS WILLIAMS

You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.
VENUS WILLIAMS

I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.
VENUS WILLIAMS

No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.
VENUS WILLIAMS

I've always found the rain very calming.
VENUS WILLIAMS

Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the stat...
TED WILLIAMS

Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the grea...
TED WILLIAMS

I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the la...
TED WILLIAMS

I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
TED WILLIAMS

If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.
TED WILLIAMS

If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
TED WILLIAMS

All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
TED WILLIAMS

Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.
TED WILLIAMS

There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and...
TED WILLIAMS

By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
TED WILLIAMS

If you don't think too good, don't think too much.
TED WILLIAMS

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to b...
TED WILLIAMS

There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can imp...
TED WILLIAMS

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'Th...
TED WILLIAMS

God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
TED WILLIAMS

According to my grandmother, I started singing as soon as I began talking. I always wanted to be an ...
VESTA WILLIAMS

A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment.
VESTA WILLIAMS

I've always felt that to deliver a song successfully, you have to be an actress. A good actress ...
VESTA WILLIAMS

When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who V...
VESTA WILLIAMS

Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.
VESTA WILLIAMS

I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impress...
VESTA WILLIAMS

And at 19, you think you rule the world, and you can control things. And a lot of times, you don'...
VANESSA WILLIAMS

And when people give me their word, I listen to them.
VANESSA WILLIAMS

Broadway is really my life.
VANESSA WILLIAMS

My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.
VANESSA WILLIAMS

There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you...
VANESSA WILLIAMS

Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very m...
VANESSA WILLIAMS

I love the French horn.
VANESSA WILLIAMS

I am lucky to have three daughters who are completely different. I look at my daughters and I have d...
VANESSA WILLIAMS

New York is my home.
VANESSA WILLIAMS

You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, th...
VANESSA WILLIAMS

The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as hum...
VANESSA WILLIAMS

I think there's a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there's a time ...
VANESSA WILLIAMS

I don't laugh so much at jokes and premises as I do at a guy who goes onstage and starts twitchi...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

Without sounding negative, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of stand-up. I'm more interested in a...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking a...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

I hate when you go into a nice restaurant - someplace where you're going to spend good money - a...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

I'd done a ton of movies here in Hollywood, and I realized that every movie I'd done was som...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really ...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
HARLAND WILLIAMS

I don't go on tour tours - I just go randomly to cities to do shows if I have an opening in my s...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

The thing is, you never know with any movie how it's going to turn out. It's always a myster...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just tu...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal la...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

It was such a pleasure to work with Eugene Levy. What a treat. That's a guy I grew up watching a...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

If you were to come out and hang out with me, just having fun at a nightclub or a party, that's ...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

In 'There's Something About Mary' and 'Dumb & Dumber,' I ended up improvisin...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for '...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

I always improvise with the crowd. Sometimes it will be a 50 percent show, sometimes 70 percent, som...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all the...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

Canada has been a breeding ground for great comedic actors, sketch artists and stand-up comedians. W...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
HARLAND WILLIAMS

I love seafood. Whenever I'm in Las Vegas, I love going to the Bellagio buffet because they have...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting h...
HARLAND WILLIAMS

Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than peop...
IAN WILLIAMS

It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'...
IAN WILLIAMS

I'm too tasteful for my pants.
IAN WILLIAMS

I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.
IAN WILLIAMS

I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I p...
IAN WILLIAMS

I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know.
IAN WILLIAMS

We made happy sounds because we were upset... just trying to make a positive situation out of a nega...
IAN WILLIAMS

I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably...
IAN WILLIAMS

This is fun; consuming our music shouldn't be a responsibility like eating your spinach or somet...
IAN WILLIAMS

Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.
IAN WILLIAMS

Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in your...
VENUS WILLIAMS

So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying ...
JOHN WILLIAMS

Growing up with two sisters, you either play by yourself or play Barbie with them. I played by mysel...
RICKY WILLIAMS

The moment I started treating my social anxiety disorder, I started feeling better.
RICKY WILLIAMS

As human beings we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there ...
RICKY WILLIAMS

As an athlete, you figure you work your whole life to have what you have, and to be able to show the...
RICKY WILLIAMS

A team takes on the personality of the head coach.
RICKY WILLIAMS

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the streng...
RICKY WILLIAMS

When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore ...
RICKY WILLIAMS

I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be p...
RICKY WILLIAMS

I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to...
RICKY WILLIAMS

There's nothing I miss about anything in the whole wide world. The idea of missing something mea...
RICKY WILLIAMS

One thing I've learned about life is that if you really let go, it's just a joy ride.
RICKY WILLIAMS

Anytime you play a team sport, the success of the team really makes everything better. It's nice...
RICKY WILLIAMS

I've always been attracted to things that are taboo. I've never been afraid to go to that da...
RICKY WILLIAMS

Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.

Margery Williams Bianco

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