Willa Cather Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.
-
Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
-
A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
-
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
-
Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
-
The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
-
I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
-
My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
-
I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
-
I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful wife, brilliant students, the best job anyone could hope for, and about half of my hair. Not the half I would have kept, but no one consulted me.
-
The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
-
A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
-
Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
-
Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
-
Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
-
I'm the only person in this sport, for the most part, that ain't on steroids. Now there's new rules in effect, yeah, you've got guys not on steroids now, but they used to be. They've always been on steroids.
-
My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
-
How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
-
I'm impressed with how professional they are and what they can get an animal to do. I mean, dogs and cats - that's one thing. But when you get into the larger animals, that's a different thing all together.
-
Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.
-
I've never been sick a day in my life. I'm healthy, and I think I can make other people healthy, too.
-
Even as we get older, we get in these routines - and routines are nice and comfortable - but I think that it's important to live life to its fullest and try different things. Because you never know what you're going to learn. You might not like it, you might like it.
-
I have a limited amount of time to build a career out of football and be the best that I can be at this job. When this job is over, I have the rest of my life to do what I want with my time.
-
The end is nothing; the road is all.
