Garry Wills quote: "I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life."

I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
GARRY WILLS

There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much mor...
GARRY WILLS

I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.
GARRY WILLS

I'm hardly macho. I present myself as very unnoticeable.
GARRY WILLS

Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.
GARRY WILLS

The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers... Leaders, fol...
GARRY WILLS

The advantage of a permanent emergency for the executive is that even trivial things can routinely b...
GARRY WILLS

Like Nixon, he made large sums of money in the long games at military bases. Unlike Nixon, he was so...
GARRY WILLS

Inefficiency is to be our safeguard against despotism.
GARRY WILLS

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
GARY WILLS

We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
HEIDI WILLS

Win, lose or draw, you're all my cousins and I love you.
CHILL WILLS

I want every man on the force to try his best, his level best, to try to avoid arresting anyone. I k...
CHILL WILLS

You shoulda shot that fella a long time ago. Now he's too rich to kill.
CHILL WILLS

I don't have an infinite number of agents to address the unlawful population. So the ones that would...
WAYNE WILLS

We want the message to get out to the immigrant community -- specifically the unlawful immigrant com...
WAYNE WILLS

It takes courage to do something new because we fear rejection.
DEON WILLS

What our paper shows quite clearly is that this process is happening in small parts of the forest. W...
CHRISTOPHER WILLS

If you damage a forest a little bit, the forest can recover. Even damaged ecosystems can be restored...
CHRISTOPHER WILLS

Hopefully, it clears up and everyone can be outside and have a good time.
BOB WILLS

I think I was singing when I was born,
BOB WILLS

Ecologists have debated for decades whether there is ecological value to species diversity. We found...
CHRISTOPHER WILLS

The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers... Leaders, fol...
GARY WILLS

Ecologists have debated for decades over whether there is something of ecological value to species d...
CHRISTOPHER WILLS

They really are a very forgiving system, but if you come in and chop everything down and turn it int...
CHRISTOPHER WILLS

We are factoring in research and also talking about it in the language of the brand.
CRAIG WILLS

When push comes to shove and there's controversy on a subject [readers] really look for what reputab...
FRAN WILLS

It really enforces your leadership in the community as the voice of the community.
FRAN WILLS

Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.
GARY WILLS

We are always in the game, we always play hard, but we don't finish. We've got a lot of people injur...
JASON WILLS

We're a running team, and we're not very big, so we've got to get up and down the court. And then we...
JASON WILLS

She'd been drinking, then lethargic, then unresponsive.
JOE WILLS

They kind of had her attention for a while, and then she felt it sounded kind of fishy.
JOE WILLS

You got a small-town charming feel, plus you got a little sophistication with the college. And that ...
JOE WILLS

You got a small-town charming feel, plus you got a little sophistication with the college, ... And t...
JOE WILLS

They're used to the Valley atmosphere and they have an interest in recreation. It's something that's...
JOE WILLS

I think we're perfectly happy not to be mentioned by Princeton Review.
JOE WILLS

Anytime we avoid that association, it's good news for Chico State.
JOE WILLS

We'd run up to people at Warped Tour and throw headphones on people and say, 'Hey, do you like our C...
JOSH WILLS

Most things that people give us we're never really happy with, so most of the time we do everything ...
JOSH WILLS

Everybody was really into it and moving. It was not just sitting there in chairs, playing the songs....
JOSH WILLS

I heard all the black people buzzing about this man in Brooklyn named Jackie Robinson. I asked who h...
MAURY WILLS

It's disappointing, but I broke the record just by taking the lineup out there,
MAURY WILLS

The pigeon here is a beautiful bird, of a delicate bronze colour, tinged with pink about the neck, a...
WILLIAM JOHN WILLS

Both camels are dead and our provisions are done.
WILLIAM JOHN WILLS

I have been agreeably disappointed in my idea of the camels. They are far from unpleasant to ride; i...
WILLIAM JOHN WILLS

Melbourne is wonderfully altered since I last saw it. There are some very fair buildings in it now, ...
WILLIAM JOHN WILLS

I can remember when, as a beginner, I was delighted with any ball as long as it would bounce.
HELEN WILLS MOODY

You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, an...
WILLIAM JOHN WILLS

Dream no small dream; it lacks magic. Dream large. Then make the dream real.
DONALD WILLS DOUGLAS

At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their educ...
WILLIAM JOHN WILLS

The 1927 Wimbledon finals were almost put off because of the rain, which threatened every moment.
HELEN WILLS MOODY

The seeded draw came into being. This means that the two best players of the tournament are placed i...
HELEN WILLS MOODY

Unless a player goes in for intensive play and tournament competition, two racquets are sufficient.
HELEN WILLS MOODY

The angle from which the line and ball are seen makes a tremendous difference in the call, and the p...
HELEN WILLS MOODY

I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the ...
WILLIAM JOHN WILLS

Instead of communicating "I love you, so let me make life easy for you," I decided that my message n...
KAY WILLS WYMA

I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tenn...
HELEN WILLS MOODY

Balls should be good for at least six sets, and for more for the average player. But if the rallies ...
HELEN WILLS MOODY

Spectators often express disfavor of fair decisions.
HELEN WILLS MOODY

They have just succeeded in raising the two thousand pounds here, by subscription, that was wanted t...
WILLIAM JOHN WILLS

My feelings, as the last ball travelled over the net, and as I realized that the final match was min...
HELEN WILLS MOODY

When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first!
DONALD WILLS DOUGLAS

When the weight of the paper equals the weight of the airplane, only then you can go flying.
DONALD WILLS DOUGLAS

You know it's funny that none of the regular late-night shows now use guest hosts the way Johnny...
GARRY SHANDLING

Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.
GARRY SHANDLING

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will ...
GARRY WINOGRAND

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some f...
GARRY WINOGRAND

The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when...
GARRY TRUDEAU

I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wou...
GARRY TRUDEAU

In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are.
GARRY TRUDEAU

Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you...
GARRY TRUDEAU

I think it's very dangerous for people who do anything that's public to venture on the Web a...
GARRY TRUDEAU

I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the sati...
GARRY TRUDEAU

In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.
GARRY TRUDEAU

I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at persp...
GARRY TRUDEAU

Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... ...
GARRY TRUDEAU

In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.
GARRY TRUDEAU

I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.
GARRY TRUDEAU

Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia...
GARRY TRUDEAU

Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.
GARRY TRUDEAU

There is nothing worse than annotated humour.
GARRY TRUDEAU

I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monito...
GARRY TRUDEAU

As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table.
GARRY TRUDEAU

Bitcoin will make a dent in society when more normal transactions occur that would have occurred wit...
GARRY TAN

Being right is important. Too many great teams march off saying, 'If we build it, they will come...
GARRY TAN

Bitcoin has the potential to destroy credit cards and banks as we know it. Maybe that is a good thin...
GARRY TAN

I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right.
GARRY SHANDLING

'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at ...
GARRY SHANDLING

I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.
GARRY SHANDLING

I actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at...
GARRY SHANDLING

But I really like hosting, I think it's a strength of mine. It allows me to improvise, and I lov...
GARRY SHANDLING

I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.
GARRY SHANDLING

There's a good chance that if you're talking to me when I'm snoring, it means I'm bo...
GARRY SHANDLING

I've never had anyone put on a puppet show to convince me of anything. And I've done a lot o...
GARRY SHANDLING

I feel that everything I do in my life I can do in a shorter time than most men can. It's the qu...
GARRY SHANDLING

I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I re...
GARRY SHANDLING

I may discuss love, and I don't mind if two men fall in love, fine. Two women, fine. But I flinc...
GARRY SHANDLING

Humor is a wonderful way to deal with our suffering because if we can laugh at our troubles, we can ...
GARRY SHANDLING

I don't think I'm severely politically active. I care deeply, and I have my strong personal ...
GARRY SHANDLING

Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is...
GARRY SHANDLING

My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
GARRY SHANDLING

I never got beaten up, because I was a wisecracking jokester. I could make a bully laugh before he d...
GARRY MARSHALL

My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My par...
GARRY MARSHALL

A lot of people come work with me because I keep an open set, and people can visit. Julia Roberts us...
GARRY MARSHALL

I was a journalist. I was a drummer. I was everything. I didn't know what the heck I was. But wi...
GARRY MARSHALL

You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover the...
GARRY MARSHALL

I don't sit well. I like to move around as I talk.
GARRY MARSHALL

When I was five years old, my parents gave me a drum set for Christmas. My mom played the piano, and...
GARRY MARSHALL

My mother was funnier than anybody I ever worked for. My father was as funny as this coat. Not a lau...
GARRY MARSHALL

I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and thi...
GARRY MARSHALL

We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.
GARRY MARSHALL

Religion has a good place and it has its good people.
GARRY MARSHALL

My happiest moments of growing up in the Bronx were when my mom would bring home a new sports magazi...
GARRY MARSHALL

I must confess that the original 'Pretty Woman' was terrific and a hit, but I always felt th...
GARRY MARSHALL

There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else...
GARRY MARSHALL

I try to find scripts of stories that kinda celebrate the human condition... let's talk about th...
GARRY MARSHALL

There is more to life than show business.
GARRY MARSHALL

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I sp...
GARRY MARSHALL

I always wanted to be known as the Norman Rockwell of television, and 'Happy Days' represent...
GARRY MARSHALL

It's a hard job. It means giving up some things, but on the other hand they keep saying you can ...
GARRY MARSHALL

When in doubt, you bring in relatives. Nepotism is a part of my work.
GARRY MARSHALL

In the education of the American people, I am Recess.
GARRY MARSHALL

I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to s...
GARRY MARSHALL

We've been saying Putin is a dictator for years who doesn't care about the law.
GARRY KASPAROV

I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just de...
GARRY KASPAROV

There are many facts showing that Putin's people enriched themselves by using power mechanisms s...
GARRY KASPAROV

I have great energy and I have great tasks ahead of me.
GARRY KASPAROV

I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that ...
GARRY KASPAROV

I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end...
GARRY KASPAROV

More and more people in my country recognise the dangers of having their governors appointed by Puti...
GARRY KASPAROV

It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to th...
GARRY KASPAROV

Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.
GARRY KASPAROV

At the end of the day, it's all about money.
GARRY KASPAROV

Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many Russians. They could see that ordinary people in Ukrain...
GARRY KASPAROV

I organize a chess festival in Hungary. I support chess in schools, and I have my own chess foundati...
GARRY KASPAROV

If you make a decision to fight for future of your own country you have to consider all the conseque...
GARRY KASPAROV

I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked w...
GARRY KASPAROV

Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
GARRY KASPAROV

I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the...
GARRY KASPAROV

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.
GARRY KASPAROV

As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland ...
GARRY HYNES

There wasn't anyone in my family who was involved in the theatre. I saw a few amateur plays when...
GARRY HYNES

The odd thing about 'Cripple of Inishmaan' is it's never actually been performed on the ...
GARRY HYNES

I still get called 'a stick of dynamite' or 'pint-sized dynamo,' stuff like that. Ac...
GARRY HYNES

I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly...
GARRY HYNES

The English playwrights of the '50s and '60s didn't really keep writing or getting produ...
GARRY HYNES

I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little ro...
GARRY HYNES

I wouldn't call myself religious. I'm spiritual. Everybody's a bit more so as you get ol...
GARRY HYNES

I was the first woman to win a Tony for directing, but the second woman came along five minutes late...
GARRY HYNES

I think I'm attracted to writers who tell us something about ourselves.
GARRY HYNES

I was born in Ballaghadreen, but I grew up in Galway, and when I went to the University College of G...
GARRY HYNES

Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're...
GARRY HYNES

I remember thinking, 'I can't act.' Pretending to be someone else is a terrifying though...
GARRY HYNES

My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but the...
GARRY HYNES

All women are inferior to men.
GARRY KASPAROV

I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.
GARRY SHANDLING

It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.
GARRY MARSHALL

I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.
GARRY SHANDLING

I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially...
GARRY TRUDEAU

Putin is like Al Capone.
GARRY KASPAROV

I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it.
GARRY SHANDLING

Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
GARRY MOORE

You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and...
GARRY KASPAROV

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should neve...
GARRY TRUDEAU

Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take res...
GARRY KASPAROV

Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understan...
GARRY TRUDEAU

Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?
GARRY TRUDEAU

The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, ...
GARRY TRUDEAU

Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the ...
GARRY TRUDEAU

For the most part, editors no longer view 'Doonesbury' as a rolling provocation, which is fi...
GARRY TRUDEAU

Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.
GARRY SHANDLING

Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bat...
GARRY TRUDEAU

As I remember it, the bases were loaded. (asked his reaction to hitting a grand slam)
GARRY MADDOX

It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside.
GARRY SHANDLING

I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.
GARRY TRUDEAU

America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arroga...
GARRY TRUDEAU

I have such poor vision I can date anybody.
GARRY SHANDLING

And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perha...
GARRY TRUDEAU

I believe all state fairs are subsidized to some extent. How far do you go, I guess, is the question...
GARRY MOORE

They had two really good teams those two years, but they've got a really good team this year. I'm ho...
GARRY MOORE

It was almost like doing homework last time. We ought to do better this time. The only thing we had ...
GARRY MOORE

Hopefully, by the experience from playing the Speidel Course, they will have a better time and play ...
GARRY MOORE

Swinging a club is not a problem, but the greatest thing is staying in it mentally and not getting f...
GARRY MOORE

There were about seven guys that stayed in the 70s and were real patient throughout the whole day,
GARRY MOORE

We've had a pretty good season, ... The boys did a good job, they put up good numbers and it was goo...
GARRY MOORE

The traffic - that is what is hindering downtown Bluefield, ... There is no traffic. Again, we are j...
GARRY MOORE

The traffic - that is what's hindering downtown Bluefield. There is no traffic. Again, we are just t...
GARRY MOORE

Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body."
GARRY MOORE

My first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show was in '81.
GARRY SHANDLING

A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting ...
GARRY DISHER

When I give notes on a script, I say, 'Guys, I may drift, but it's part of the process.'...
GARRY SHANDLING

From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as...
GARRY DISHER

That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the enterta...
GARRY TRUDEAU

In chess, we have styles - like in any other field. There are also fashions in the kinds of systems ...
GARRY KASPAROV

Surprised? Yes. In training camp, he wasn't that high. He's consistent, runs good routes and is wher...
GARRY MCPEEK

At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance a...
GARRY DISHER

It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of ...
GARRY KASPAROV

When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems na...
GARRY TRUDEAU

That's what we were exploring on 'Larry Sanders' - the human qualities that have brought...
GARRY SHANDLING

I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life.

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