Willa Cather Quotes
Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife--beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table.
Quotes to Explore
-
I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
-
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
-
When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!
-
As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
-
I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
-
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
-
When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.
-
When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
-
I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
-
Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
-
I don't talk about how old I am because sometimes it can affect parts that you get in Hollywood. I don't believe that it's a necessary element. I feel that I'm a character, and I'm an actor. People focusing on my age instead of the role I'm playing can be a hindrance.
-
I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
-
Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.
-
I didn't understand key signatures or anything, you know. I'd say silly things at the top of a trumpet part like, 'Note, when you play B naturals, make the B naturals a half step lower because they sound funny if they're B naturals.' And some guy said: 'Idiot, just put a flat on the third line and it's a key signature, you know?'
-
If the constitution goes, I go.
-
I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
-
The latter 1940s and early '50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation.
-
If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.
-
But, perhaps, the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in few words.
-
Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes-while not becoming an extremist. Most companies don't do paradox very well.
-
A guitar is just theoretically built wrong. Each string is an interval of fourths, and then the B string is off. Theoretically, that's not right, all the strings should be off.
-
I did a co-authored book not so long ago that was an American historical romance set at the turn of the century. I'm fascinated by that period in time and would love to do more.
-
A man should always care about pleasing his wife.
-
Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife--beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table.
