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Willa Cather Quotes

A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: December 7, 1873 - April 24, 1947

Topics

Better New Matter Shoe Old Like

One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.

Battle Philosophy May Beaten His

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

Meister Eckhart

Action Plant Brainy Harvest Soil

I love the role I'm playing in 'Conan.' I'm enjoying making the film tremendously. It's very physically demanding. You know, Conan is 28 years younger than me and a big dude, so I have to depend upon my wolf-like wiles to defeat this young bull.

Love Me You Defeat Know Young

When you get to a point where you're not beholden to a record company, then it's up to you to say, 'OK, enough knob-turning. We're done.'

Enough You Done Say Company Up

I have never owned a share of stock in my life, and the only time I've double dipped into anything is at the snack tray.

Life Time My Life Snack Never Share

I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature at school and taking that into Shakespeare and finding that opened up a whole world of self-expression to me that I didn't have access to previously.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

School Me World Reading Loved Young

For the uninitiated, 'Calvin and Hobbes' is a daily comic strip detailing the antics of an unruly six-year-old and his misanthropic stuffed tiger. The boy, whose vocabulary is packed with more 10-dollar words than a GRE flashcard set, is named after John Calvin, the Reformation-era theologian who preached the doctrine of predestination.

Daily Words Tiger Boy Vocabulary

The judiciary must be strengthened and released from political interference.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Political Judiciary Must Interference

I never studied film formally at school, but as a kid, I spent most of my time in cinemas.

Time School Never Kid Film My Time

When you start, you have no brain; you are a kid. It's fine. But then I started to be scared. I was scared of judgment - not as a dancer, but as a person - and I was really uncomfortable with people. And it lasted for a very long time.

Time People Brain Start Long You

Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife.

Shelley Winters

Lunch Someone You Go Want Ex-Wife

When governments are cowed or simply don't care to enforce fundamental human and labour rights or to ensure corporate tax is paid so that they can invest in social protection and in the health and education of their people, they cede control to corporate greed.

Education Health People Control Care

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