William Butler Yeats Quotes
The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves The brilliant moon and all the milky sky And all that famous harmony of leaves Had blotted out man's image and his cry.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced.
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I cry at films and TV and even adverts.
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I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.
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The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
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I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
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Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.
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I don't have a craving for money. And I don't have a craving for fame.
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I lost the ball in the moon.
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Fame hasn't really affected me. I have a really close knit group around me, and my sister is always with me, so it's like a bit of a travelling circus.
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Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.
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Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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The successful landing on the moon, very probably, is the best story.
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Like every artist that comes out, you want to make a mark; you want to be a household name and you want to be someone that people are going to look back in ten years/fifteen years' time and go, 'I love this guy Olly Murs. He was brilliant back in the day; he was someone I really, really liked.'
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I try not to focus on fame; I don't even really know what it means exactly because it's so fleeting.
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Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!
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Painful emotions show you what prevents you from creating harmony, cooperation, sharing and reverence for life.
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Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame five years in a row.
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One of the principles we teach in our programs is "If you shoot for the stars, you'll at least hit the moon." Poor people don't even shoot for the ceiling in their house, and then they wonder why they're not successful.
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Not having all the information can make me feel vulnerable.
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When people think what is the most simple sort of human, it's a white man, and anything else that is added to that complicates it for people. It comes with all kinds of meanings and connotations. If they have a different skin color, that comes with a connotation. If they're a woman, 'Oh well, what do I feel about that?'
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Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.
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The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves The brilliant moon and all the milky sky And all that famous harmony of leaves Had blotted out man's image and his cry.
