Willa Cather Quotes
Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing.
Quotes to Explore
-
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
-
You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
-
Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
-
People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
-
Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
-
The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
-
I can do whatever I want.
-
The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
-
I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
-
Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
-
Let's just say, if I weren't a model, I'd be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that's aching to be decorated; I find it all very fascinating.
-
I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
-
What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
-
Before mobile phones, I used to call my parents from a phone box and reverse the charges.
-
It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
-
I think the premise of somebody trying to recreate a night from their teenage years stuck with me as something potentially very tragically comic.
-
The NFL is my goal, not my dream. My dream is to have an impact on people.
-
There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it – I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.
-
There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
-
In popular culture, when women compete, it's usually over a man, and it's usually very nasty. And that is just frankly not my experience. That's just some kind of popular mythology, it feels like. I find it insulting.
-
Writing is sort of putting a puzzle together halfway. Then, performing it has always been the completion of it. Once that happens, I'm feeling verbally communal with other people. It's out there and I feel so much better about it.
-
It's weird because I am accessible to people on Twitter, and I can choose to read good things or mean things, and people can reach out to me directly and tell me how much they hate me or love the song. It's a very strange new paradigm as an artist to find yourself among this kind of connectivity.
-
In the last two or three decades, there's been a feminization of the man in popular media that I've never really understood.
-
Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing.
