"The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world."

-- Willa Cather

#Animal Quotes #World Quotes #Fields Quotes

“A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.”
“Winning is often simply getting up off the ground one more time than your opponent.”
“In most of the world, breakfast is an important meal.”
“One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washÃ¨d it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide and made my pains his prey. Vain man (said she) that dost in vain assay A mortal thing so to immortalise; For I myself shall like to this decay, And eke my name be wipÃ¨d out likewise. Not so (quod I); let baser things devise To die in dust, but you shall live by fame; My verse your virtues rare shall eternise, And in the heavens write your glorious name: Where, when as Death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew.”

Source : 'Amoretti' (1595) sonnet 75
“The more we reduce the amount of information in an idea, the stickier it will be.”
“Itâ€™s simple: when God is for you, who can be against you?”
“Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.”
“I feel connected to every other creative element because I have a creative soul. My isolation is not through the work it's through not being able to connect with mediocrity. When I was younger I was a punk and then when I got married and had children I became a mother. They are the only two memberships to any clan-like cultures that I have ever embraced.”

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