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 am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.
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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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We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.
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The successful landing on the moon, very probably, is the best story.
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If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
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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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Pleasant to bring back the divisions of a parish; Also pleasant to us the time of paradise. Pleasant, the moon, a luminary in the heavens; Also pleasant where there is a good rememberer.
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Carl Sagan spoke fluently between biology and geology and astrophysics and physics. If you move fluently across those boundaries, you realize that science is everywhere; science is not something you can step around or sweep under the rug.
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What are ten, twenty, or thirty millions when the British Empire is at stake? This is an artillery war. We must have every gun we can lay hands upon.
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Every failure is a step to success.
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I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers.
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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.
