Top 100 Willa's Quotes
#1. Willa's big blue eyes, Willa's dimpled-cheeked smile. Tiffin's shaggy blond mane, Tiffin's cheeky grin. Kit's yells of excitement, Kit's glow of pride. Maya's face, Maya's kisses, Maya's love.
Maya, Maya, Maya ...
Tabitha Suzuma
#3. He made an angry clicking sound behind his teeth. "You already broke my leg." And he had the permanent limp to prove it. Willa's eyebrows wrenched upward. "You have two legs. I can play that game twice.
T.S. Joyce
#5. It's inevitable, Willa. We are inevitable. When you stop fooling yourself, come find me.
Tessa Bailey
#6. But she's the kind that won't be downed easily. She'll work all day and go to a Bohemian wedding and dance all night, and drive the hay wagon for a cross man next morning.
Willa Cather
#7. Most beautiful of all was the tarnished gold of the elms, with a little brown in it, a little bronze, a little blue, even
a blue like amethyst, which made them melt into the azure haze with a kind of happiness, a harmony of mood that filled the air with content.
Willa Cather
#8. Have the last word ma'm," he said cheerfully, "It's a lady's priviledge.
Willa Cather
#9. I never get tired of them old stars, Thee. I miss 'em up in Washington and Oregon where it's misty. Like 'em best down in Mother Mexico, where they have everything their own way. I'm not for any country where the stars are dim.
Willa Cather
#10. The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found out that one can never please the people they wanted to please.
Willa Cather
#11. I can't altogether tell myself, Lillian. It's not wholly a matter of the calendar. It's the feeling that I've put a great deal behind me, where I can't go back to it again - and I don't really wish to go back. The way would be too long and too fatiguing.
Willa Cather
#12. During those last weeks of the Bishop's life he thought very little about death; it was the Past he was leaving. The future would take care of itself.
Willa Cather
#13. Seems like nothing's getting safer or better," I said. "Seems like everything's getting worse."
"Maybe that's what's gotta happen," Willa Mae said.
"Maybe everything's gotta break lose and fall apart before we can put it back together again right.
Margaret McMullan
#14. The spark in his eye, which is one's very self, caught the spark in hers that was herself, and for a moment they looked into each other's natures.
Willa Cather
#15. A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.
Willa Cather
#16. Oh, that's the beauty of the rose, that it blossoms and dies.
Willa Cather
#17. The trouble is you almost have to marry a man before you can find out the sort of wife he needs; and usually it's exactly the sort you are not.
Willa Cather
#18. On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice.
Willa Cather
#19. Who's a good boy," Willa was saying to the dog in a light, silly voice that had the dog panting happily into her face.
"That's right," she cooed, "you are, aren't you? Aren't you a good boy?"
"Well I don't like to brag," Keane said, leaning against the doorjamb. "But I do have my moments.
Jill Shalvis
#20. I think that at 21, I still look like I'm 17 years old, so I feel like I'm going to be playing teenagers for a while, and that's a very relatable stage in a teenage life for a female - that kind of rambunctious stage.
Willa Holland
#21. You feel that, properly, Alexandra's house is the big-out-of-doors, and that it is in the soil that she expresses herself.
-O Pioneers
Willa Cather
#23. Oh, he's an old friend from the West," said Eden easily. "I won't introduce you, because he doesn't like people. He's a recluse. Good-bye.
Willa Cather
#24. She lent herself to immemorial human attitudes which we recognize by instinct as universal and true ... she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that somehow revealed the meaning in common things.
Willa Cather
#25. There's a million new people in the studio every day creating new stuff so I really had to be on my toes with this one so I could get it out before somebody else could.
Willa Ford
#26. Thackeray's a good writer and Flaubert is a great artist. Trollope is a good writer and Dickens is a great artist. Colette is a very good writer and Proust is a great artist. Katherine Anne Porter was an extremely good writer and Willa Cather was a great artist.
Truman Capote
#27. And that's what makes men happy, believing in the mystery and importance of their own individual lives.
Willa Cather
#28. An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.
Willa Cather
#29. At the age of five she has already come to terms with one of the life's harshest lessons: that the world isn't fair.
Tabitha Suzuma
#30. From the time the Englishman's bones harden into bones at all, he makes his skeleton a flagstaff, and he early plants his feet like one who is to walk the world and the decks of all the seas.
Willa Cather
#31. There are times when one's vitality is too high to be clouded, too elastic to stay down.
Willa Cather
#32. Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure, a cadence, a quality of voice that is exclusively the writer's own, individual, unique.
Willa Cather
#33. Willa said happiness means taking risks. And if you're not a little scared, you're not doing it right."
That made him laugh, "If that's the case, we have nothing to worry about," he said, leaning forward to kiss her. "Let's be terrified together again.
Sarah Addison Allen
#34. He's made himself a rabbit-skin cap, Jim, and a rabbit-skin collar that he buttons on outside his coat. They ain't got but one overcoat among 'em over there, and they take turns wearing it. They seem awful scared of cold, and stick in that hole in the bank like badgers.
Willa Cather
#35. My dear," he sighed when the lights were turned on and they both looked older, "it's been a mistake, our having a family and writing histories and getting middle-aged. We should have been picturesquely shipwrecked together when we were young.
Willa Cather
#36. Look at my papa here; he's been dead all these years, and yet he is more real to me than almost anybody else. He never goes out of my life. I talk to him and consult him all the time. The older I grow, the better I know him and the more I understand him.
Willa Cather
#37. I've almost got this fire lit," Duncan lied to change the subject.
"It's gas,Duncan," Willa told him. "You just turn a knob."
"Oh." Duncan did as she said, and a bright flame roared up through the fireplace.
Amanda Hocking
#38. It is scarcely exaggeration to say that if one is not a little mad about Balzac at twenty, one will never live; and if at forty one can still take Rastignac and Lucien de Rubempre at Balzac's own estimate, one has lived in vain.
Willa Cather
#39. To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
Willa Cather
#40. It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.
Willa Cather
#41. It's awfully easy to rush into a profession you don't really like, and awfully hard to get out of it.
Willa Cather
#42. I think that music is stale because of it. I think that we have the same artists from day to day. It's nice to see an artist dip out and come back in every once in awhile. There's a such thing as oversaturating the market. I mean look at Britney.
Willa Ford
#43. It's not a pleasant place to be lying while the world is moving and doing and bettering... but it rather seems as though we ought to go back to the place we came from in the end.
Willa Cather
#44. To fulfil the dreams of one's youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that.
Willa Cather
#45. It's by understanding me, and the boys, and mother, that you have helped me. I expect that is the only way one person ever really can help another.
Willa Cather
#46. That hour always had the exultation of victory, of triumphant ending, like a hero's death - heroes who died young and gloriously. It was a sudden transfiguration, a lifting-up of day. How
Willa Cather
#47. It's so much fun to play the bad girl. Everybody has that little side of them they never really get to get out.
Willa Holland
#48. [Dawn] is always such a forgiving time. When that first cold, bright streak comes over the water, it's as if all our sins were pardoned; as if the sky leaned over the earth and kissed it and gave it absolution.
Willa Cather
#49. A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
Willa Cather
#50. Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.
Willa Cather
#51. You can't tell me anything about family life. I've had plenty to last me.' 'But it's not all like that,' I objected. 'Near enough. It's all being under somebody's thumb.
Willa Cather
#52. Alexandra sighed. I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours, if you care enough about me to take it.
Willa Cather
#53. She was like someone in whom the faculty of becoming interested is worn out.
Willa Cather
#54. I believe honesty comes across in music because for people that music isn't just something to dance to. For people for whom music is something that they feel, they understand what I'm talking about.
Willa Ford
#55. The blond cornfields were red gold, the haystacks turned rosy and threw long shadows. The whole prairie was like a bush that burned with fire and was not consumed.
Willa Cather
#56. Today I stood taller from walking among the trees.
Willa Cather
#57. The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
Willa Cather
#58. It's a mood record. Like one night you're going to be down in the dumps depressed because you're thinking about your ex-boyfriend and the next moment you're gonna be like screw him you know? And the next one you're saying to yourself 'God I'm in love.'
Willa Ford
#59. What was any art but a mold to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself- life hurrying past us and running away, to strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
Willa Cather
#60. The fashion world has always been part of my life.
Willa Holland
#61. The three kinds of services you generally find in the Episcopal churches. I call them either low-and-lazy, broad-and-hazy, or high-and-crazy.
Willa Gibbs
#62. That was the first time I ever saw Anton Jelinek.
Willa Cather
#63. Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
Willa Cather
#64. I mean a song that's specifically for the girls. It's saying you know we talk about them night and day, we're constantly pondering on men and what they've done good and what they've done bad and all these things in our lives.
Willa Ford
#65. Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.
Willa Cather
#66. Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?
Willa Cather
#67. You must pray for him, my child. It is to such as he that our Blessed Mother comes nearest.
Willa Cather
#68. You know a lot of times you'll find girls in a club are jaded to the other girls in the club. There's a nasty vibe between the chicks in the club. It's like a pretty girl can't look at another pretty girl and say Wow she's pretty.
Willa Ford
#69. Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or property, but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts
that and nothing more.
Willa Cather
#70. There is no God but one God and Art is his revealer; that's my creed and I'll follow it to the end, to a hotter place than Pittsburgh if need be.
Willa Cather
#71. Because he talked so little, his words had a peculiar force; they were not worn dull from constant use.
Willa Cather
#72. I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.
Willa Cather
#73. The children you don't especially need, you have always with you, like the poor. But the bright ones get away from you. They have their own way to make in the world. Seems like the brighter they are, the farther they go.
Willa Cather
#74. I guess my weirdest fear is accidentally ingesting a sharp object.
Willa Fitzgerald
#75. The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death.
Willa Cather
#76. In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another; loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching.
Willa Cather
#77. He looked up quietly. "You know, don't you, Thee, that I think you are just the finest thing I've struck in this world?"
The tears ran down Thea's cheeks. "You're too good to me, Ray. You're a lot too good to me," she faltered.
Willa Cather
#78. I mean that's my entire life right there. I re-evaluted everybody in my life. I narrowed it down to the people that really cared about me. And did away with everybody else. Just kind of distanced myself. Same thing with the producers.
Willa Ford
#79. Grandfather's farm sometime before daybreak, after
Willa Cather
#80. Nebraska was home to indigenous peoples for centuries. It became a state in 1867, and has produced an important literary figure, Willa Cather, as well as an investor said to be the world's second richest man, Warren Buffett.
Stephen Kinzer
#81. Her secret? It is every artist's secret
passion. That is all. It is an open secret, and perfectly safe. Like heroism, it is inimitable in cheap materials.
Willa Cather
#82. One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers.
Willa Cather
#83. He used to say that he never felt the hardness of the human struggle or the sadness of history as he felt it among those ruins. He used to say, too, that it made one feel an obligation to do one's best.
Willa Cather
#84. I mean there are tons of reasons. Well first of all. I write my own record. I don't take other people's materials. And I have a job which is being Willa Ford on top of getting back in the studio and writing and recording.
Willa Ford
#85. How easy it would be to dream one's life out in some cleft in the world.
Willa Cather
#86. I had the sense of coming home to myself, and of having found out what a little circle man's experience is.
Willa Cather
#88. And I advise ye to think well, he told her It's better to be a stray dog in this world than a man without money. I've tried it both ways, and I know. A poor man stinks, and God hates him.
Willa Cather
#89. Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole - so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.
Willa Cather
#90. The air was cool enough to make the warm sun pleasant on one's back and shoulders, and so clear that the eye could follow a hawk up and up, into the blazing blue depths of the sky.
Willa Cather
#91. It's been a lot of fun getting to work with Tracy Middendorf, who plays my mom. As an actor, it's always fun to have different parents and to create different familial dynamics than you have in your real life.
Willa Fitzgerald
#92. About us it was growing darker and darker, and I had to look hard to see her face, which I meant always to carry with me; the closest, realest face, under all the shadows of women's faces, at the very bottom of my memory. "I'll
Willa Cather
#93. I tried to bring in the live orchestra like Bjork does. I love the feeling that that music gives me when I just listen to it. I mean it would be awesome to do an entire record like that. But unfortunately that's not my style. So rather than do a record like that I just got inspired by it.
Willa Ford
#94. It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?
Willa Cather
#95. ...Now did you ever hear of a young feller's having such hard luck, Mrs. Burden?"
Grandma told him she was sure the Lord had remembered these things to his credit, and had helped him out of many a scrape when he didn't realize that he was being protected by Providence.
Willa Cather
#96. People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.
Willa Cather
#97. Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear
ourselves! Until then we have not lived.
Willa Cather
#98. She began to wonder whether she would not do better to finish her life alone. What was left of life seemed unimportant.
Willa Cather
#99. I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.
Willa Cather
#100. In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.
Willa Cather
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