Willa Cather Quotes
Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.Willa Cather
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I have what is probably the largest big bike collection in the city: a Fat Boy, a sportser Harley Davidson and two Yamahas. All these are 1200cc-plus bikes. Riding these bikes is something I still do and some trekking as well.
Baba Kalyani -
My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
Tammy Duckworth -
Whether it's backing up or starting, I have the confidence to go out there and do good, so I'm gonna play my role.
Zach LaVine -
It's totally viable to envisage a million Jews living in Judea and Samaria.
Naftali Bennett -
We're more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is also the Dutch auction, where prices start high and go lower until somebody bites. Movies are sold to the audience via a very slow Dutch auction, where each phase between price drops can last weeks or months.
Nathan Myhrvold -
I've been down to the Ecolodge in Panama, but there really are only a handful of real green hotels in the U.S.
Barry Sternlicht
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If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.
Ted Danson -
When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.
Abu Bakr -
To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of circumstance, and not choice, has driven us, is oppressive to the heart.
Samuel Lover -
She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.
W. L. George -
I'm definitely caught up in the Kool-Aid of true-crime stories.
Samira Wiley -
Palestinian people are in love with life.
Mahmoud Darwish
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I'm a little weird that way. I don't really know how to express my happiness.
Nargis Fakhri -
I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.
Yuna -
My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it.
Zhu Rongji -
The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.
Saadi -
I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.
Patrick White -
A lot of people in my state of Vermont are gun owners.
Patrick Leahy
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The final words of a domestic bully: If you leave me now furious angels will descend upon you and bring you back to me.
Patsy Cline -
Authentic followers of Christ follow Him in the midst of a hostile and toxic environment.
Chip Ingram -
I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.
Ian McShane -
I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
Fernando Botero -
I want to know how God created this world. I'm not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details.
Albert Einstein -
Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.
Willa Cather