Willa Cather Quotes
Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.Willa Cather
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
Edmund Phelps -
We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
Gary Lineker -
I enjoy building more than managing.
Wayne Huizenga -
So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
Caio Fonseca -
These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
Bar Refaeli -
I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
Ian Anderson
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I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.
Questlove -
There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
Jack Youngblood -
Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I no longer limit myself.
Karlheinz Stockhausen -
There's no regrets for me.
Adam Lambert -
I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
Sam Shepard
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
Edsger Dijkstra -
William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
Patrick Stewart -
It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
Pankaj Patel -
Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.
Dan Gilbert -
Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
Pamela Anderson -
The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.
Laura Miller
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If you look at a map, you see that Hawaii is in the middle of nowhere. It's 17 hours of straight flying from London. It's very far away, and sometimes you feel as if you're on another planet. But I like that. Also, that's ideal for writing.
Paul Theroux -
The book [ A Passage to India ] shows signs of fatigue and disillusionment; but it has chapters of clear and triumphant beauty, and above all it makes us wonder, what will he write next?
E. M. Forster -
If it were legal, I'd marry food.
Niall Horan One Direction -
Revolution in America begins in books and music, then waits for political operatives to 'implement changes after the fact.'
William S. Burroughs -
I think I give far more space and play to avant-garde writing than any other contemporary textbook author. I want students to be able to decide for themselves which aesthetics are closest to their own. Still, while I try not to be a nostalgist myself, I suppose I am drawn to those poignant moments in our lives, rendered clearly and artfully.
David Starkey -
Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.
Willa Cather