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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Work hard, earn a great living, get whatever you want out of life, have all the stuff you want. But there should be a ceiling on it-enough is enough!
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As a so-called "civilized" people, and as members of a society in search of lasting peace in the world, we cannot remain callous to our responsibility toward nature and insensitive to the inherent rights of the animals.
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My purpose was what my father's purpose was - to make a living and to have a family. I was going to do the right thing. My dream to me was to have money to support it and to live in the kind of house I liked.
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Their violence (the jungle wars of the '70s), and all violence for that matter, reflects the neutral exploration of sensation that is taking place, within sex as elsewhere and the sense that the perversions are valuable precisely because they provide a readily accessible anthology of exploratory techniques.
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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.
