Willa Cather Quotes

Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.

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• I like to stay home. I don't want to be away shooting in Europe for six or eight months at a stretch.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Home
  • Want
  • Europe

• I am a perfectly normal woman. If what we do is storytelling and represent people that we see all day and every day, well, we do not see supermodels all day and every day.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Day
  • Woman

• I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Girl

• Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • Fun
  • Films
  • Fact

• I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Women
  • Community
  • Health

• I was always a fan of the game, and I wouldn't have taken this job if I wasn't a fan of the game.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Job
  • Game
  • Taken

• Most computers today have built in backup software.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Today
  • Computers
  • Software

• I really want to work for myself and build a business from nowhere.

  

  Ieva Laguna
  • Work
  • Business
  • Myself

• When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• It's so easy for me to get caught up in the feeling of a city like Venice, where everything is just beautiful color and gorgeous buildings that are so peaceful. You can roam around and get lost in the labyrinth.

  

  Nanette Lepore
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Feeling

• I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Book
  • Finish
  • Almost

• I don't think nobody's doubting I can play basketball.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Think
  • Play
  • Basketball

• We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Black
  • Thought
  • Gay

• Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Art
  • Sad
  • Popular

• The environment that nutures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Environment
  • Management
  • Marketing

• I am resigned to the fact that people who don't know me loathe me. Perhaps it is because I am a woman writing poetry. It must be annoying to a man who wants to write to see this horrid old lady who can.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • People
  • Writing
  • Poetry

• Kernik had stumbled on an immutable truth, a truth older than the world. Priests claimed the gods made men, but this was not so. Men made the gods. Firstly, by forming them in clay, by chipping them from stone. Secondly, and more importantly, by believing in them, believing in them utterly.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • World
  • Men
  • Truth

• I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave. I need to be alone a lot, and I need the outdoors.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• 'When times are stable, and the sea is calm and secure, no one is really tested.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Sea
  • Calm

• Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people.

  

  Boris Yeltsin
  • People
  • House
  • Storm

• He is very calm-very, very calm. Never raises his voice. Well-informed, contrary to the sense outside that he is ill-informed and isolated. And decisive.

  

  Kofi Annan
  • Calm

• On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • End
  • Back
  • Bus

• Nam multa praeter spem, scio, multis bona evenisse. At ego etiam qui speraverint, spem decepisse multos.

  

  Plautus
  • Ego

• Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Calm
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