Willa Cather Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
-
Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
-
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
-
The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.
-
When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.
-
You get steely nerves playing poker.
-
Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
-
The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
-
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
-
I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you have all you need. The production then just polishes that idea into the finished thing.
-
A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning.
-
People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.
-
For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
-
Sort of like, I have to make the Japanese lyrics really deep.
-
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.
-
If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.
-
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
-
Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.
-
It's only the filmmaker. The script is really, really second. And there's a huge gap between filmmaker and script for me. I almost don't care about the story that they're telling; I really only care about who wants to tell it.
-
There is nothing more soul-satisfying than the first succulent bite into the juicy frankfurter.
-
I am very pro-royal. Britain without them would be a sadder place.
-
The older you get, you always learn more. Sometimes it's a process of learning about yourself and what your journey is. Sometimes the process moves forward at a rapid pace in a short amount of time - or moves backwards. And you're like, "Man, I thought I had made so much progress, and now all of a sudden, I'm 10 steps further behind than when I started."
-
How I wish you could see the potential The potential of you and me It's like a book elegantly bound, but In a language that you can't read just yet You got to spend some time, love You got to spend some time with me And I know that you'll find love I will possess your heart
-
If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.
