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Willa Cather

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Where there is great love there are always miracles. -Willa Cather.
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STEPHEN KINZER [Quinn portrayed characters including kings, Indians, a pope, a boxer and an artist.] I never get th...
ANTHONY QUINN Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us ...
WILLA CATHER If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o...
DEYTH BANGER I think irony precludes really feeling deeply about anything. I just didn't want to be that kind...
TONY EARLEY The fact that he was a self-made man, that he was a lieutenant in the army and became the emperor, I...
AUGUST WILSON A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS I like the word 'fuck'. The word means what it means, but it also means whatever you need it to mean...
LISA GLATT Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the fi...
GILDA RADNER They didn't have very far to fall--I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability to...
EMMA CLINE Slowly, I'm beginning to realise that what happened to me wasn't my fault, that I was taken advantag...
GIRL A People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself, and they never forget a single m...
OM BENIWAL You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA You won’t burn in hell. But be nice anyway.
RICKY GERVAIS I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King...
ANDREW JACKSON I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or ...
PAMELA ANDERSON To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was...
LADY GAGA She was disappointed in herself for being the typical girl. She never wants to be that girl. That gi...
IESHA S. WALKER I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER To be a leader, take action and be an example. To be an adviser, be wise.
DEBASISH MRIDHA If I live to grow old, as I find I go down, Let this be my fate in a country town; May I have ...
WALTER POPE An aerial IED would be another indication of the enemy's innovation and creativity. Clearly they rec...
GENJOHN KEANE I never liked apples. In fact, when I was a little girl, my mom wanted to give me apples in my lunch...
LANA PARRILLA I always wanted to be a femme fatale. Even when I was a young girl, I never really wanted to be a gi...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG Even as a little girl, my mom never wanted me to watch BET, but when I was at my grandparents' h...
WINNIE HARLOW It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've nev...
JOHN HURT Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a ...
GENE TIERNEY Marilyn was terrible to work with. I was fond of her, she was a nice girl, but she was a damaged gir...
RICHARD WIDMARK Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI Truth, meanwhile, was a weapon
that even a damaged fist could still grasp and wield. It was a r...
MARK ALLEN SMITH As a 13-year-old girl, it was never my intention to be the center of world news.
LAURA DEKKER I was never pretty enough to be the pretty girl and I was never quirky enough to be the quirky girl....
LEA MICHELE GOD IS ALWAYS WITH US HE'S NEVER TOOK A SICK DAY !
MITCHELL GREEN People live for eating,but I eat for survive
OM BENIWAL I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.
BAO DAI Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE He does not need to be an emperor, but a prince.
If he has enough charm or elegance to convince...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no cl...
NEIL GAIMAN A fact can never be an opinion but an opinion can at times be a fact.
ASARE BEN CHRIS(ABC) I was named after the great emperor Cyrus as my father, Farokh Broacha, was a great admirer of the P...
CYRUS BROACHA Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out...
ANNE FRANK I enjoy being a girl.
PALOMA FAITH How to be a Poet (to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that opp...
CHINUA ACHEBE Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.
CHARLES V Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball
CHARLES V Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW I never said I was a 'good girl.' I'm not a bad girl.
KELLY CLARKSON My mum had a very strong moral code, which I kind of came with. I never really had to be told what w...
GLORIA ESTEFAN To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy

"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS I was a tomboy as a kid - I was skinny and had cropped hair and was often mistaken for a boy - and u...
ELIZABETH HAND Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I'...
CAROLE KING When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never...
EMINEM Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT … an Emperor says, "I will kill you if you do not come", and the man bursts into a laugh and says,...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no cl...
NEIL GAIMAN I could never play the ingenue, the girl next door or the very successful young doctor. That would b...
JENNIFER JASON LEIGH I think the happiest time of my life was when I was in my late teens. I was a little bit of an it-gi...
CHARLOTTE RAMPLING I never gave it that much thought to pursue acting or anything, but I would definitely be a Bond gir...
LARA STONE I was an aspiring astrophysicist, and that's how I defined myself, not by my skin color. People ...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON It’s a pontifex, a bridge to the skies, in fact the Pope himself is called Pontifex Maximus
FATHER MARK MONTEBELLO My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could ca...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN I didn't have many girlfriends in my youth. I was an active young man, jumping from one girl to ...
VINCENT CASSEL When I was very young, I wanted to be a girl. I was jealous that girls got to be princesses and wear...
OLIVIER THEYSKENS That was the goth stage, where I decided I'd never get the girl of my dreams because of my scars. No...
LISA MCMANN I've never asked for special treatment along the way. And I'm never going to hide the fact t...
DANICA PATRICK There was once this viral photo of the Pope doing his Pope-mobile parade, and everyone had their pho...
CHRISSY TEIGEN I have no political ambitions for myself or my children.
JOSEPH P. KENNEDY Dr. Armonson stitched up her wrist wounds. Within five minutes of the transfusion he declared her ou...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES I played a Siamese girl from Thailand. I played an Arabian girl. I did a lot of American Indians. I ...
RITA MORENO I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, an...
YOKO ONO My father never liked me or my sister, and he never liked our mother either, after an initial infatu...
ARAM SAROYAN I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years...
TIM BURTON I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference.
MARILYN MANSON I like being a Girl Scout.
DEBBIE REYNOLDS It's just fun just being a girl.
STACY KEIBLER ...If you can make a girl laugh - you can make her do anything...
MARILYN MONROE I never said I was a 'good girl.' I'm not a bad girl.
KELLY CLARKSON As I was working I noticed that the way I designed the differential gearing actually created a spare...
KIT WILLIAMS My phone buzzes in my shirt pocket, and Frank takes a step back to let me answer it. I’ve got anot...
ABRIA MATTINA When I was a little girl at school, I really wanted to be Katie or Sarah or Sophie. When you're ...
VIVA BIANCA I've never hidden the fact that I used to be shy, even when I was 30. However, I might have been...
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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
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WILLA CATHER Where there is great love there are always miracles. -Willa Cather.
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WILLA SIBERT CATHER Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere.
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