Willa Cather Quotes

If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, i felt what would be would be.

Willa Cather

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• I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.

  

  T. J. Miller
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  • Like
  • Hip Hop

• I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Home
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• Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Thinking
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• Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.

  

  Victoria Moran
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• I want to play for my country, play for everybody, and I want to be there. I just feel like I have so many feelings and I want to play in the Olympics and feel how special if I can win that tournament.

  

  Yani Tseng
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• The addition of nuts in salad... I always find to be beneficial.

  

  Larry David
  • Always
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• Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Men
  • Children
  • American

• No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.

  

  Gary Goetzman
  • Country
  • Know
  • Nothing

• I've done literally 100, 150 different characters. Some of them have only appeared for a line or three. But the point is, every sound I can make has been harvested.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Different
  • Done
  • Sound

• You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • God
  • Education
  • Relationship

• In comparison to other women in the world, perhaps I'm seen as smaller. But I've never had a problem thinking of myself as a large woman.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Women

• Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Bad
  • Team
  • Better

• I'm not a publicity hound, I hope.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Hope
  • Publicity
  • Hound

• The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.

  

  Jack Markell
  • Business
  • Me
  • Hand

• You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • You
  • Something
  • Try

• Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • People
  • Law
  • Going

• Puns are the highest form of literature.

  

  Alfred Hitchcock
  • Literature

• My concept of an advice giver had been a therapist or a know-it-all, and then I realized nobody listens to the know-it-alls. You turn to the people you know, the friend who has been in the thick of it or messed up - and I'm that person for sure.

  

  Cheryl Strayed
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• I thought, "If I could bring these characters [Wonder Boys] to life and lead the audience to react the same way I did, this could be a really special picture." Then I read Michael's [Chabon] novel and got even more enthusiastic about it.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Life
  • Character
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• It makes sense that it's so different from film and television, because it's so in-depth. As actors, when we're in film or television, we can have transcendent moments and we get to work with really creative and incredible people, but it's such a small percentage of your time that's about your process.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, i felt what would be would be.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Night
  • Earth
  • Prayer