William Butler Yeats Quotes

Where there is nothing, there is God.

William Butler Yeats

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• Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • World
  • Long
  • Science

• I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Up
  • Time
  • Father

• I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.

  

  Fay Wray
  • People
  • Life
  • Care

• My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.

  

  Maiara Walsh
  • Everything
  • Canvas
  • Go

• When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.

  

  Faith Hill
  • People
  • Children
  • Mom

• Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.

  

  Carey Williams
  • Change
  • Daughter
  • Farmer

• You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Good
  • Know
  • Size

• All you should try to do is behave with honour. If you can. At all times.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • You
  • Try
  • Times

• I never expected my writing to become as popular as it did.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Writing
  • Never
  • Popular

• You rewind. You think of your preparation. You think of everything you did throughout the week, your life, the practices, the intensity. Everything flashes, and you come right back to that point. And it's like, game on.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Life
  • Game
  • Week

• Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Good
  • Write
  • Page

• There are charms made only for distant admiration.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Made
  • Admiration
  • Distant

• I love to fly so much.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Love
  • Fly
  • I Love

• I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.

  

  Tate Taylor
  • Character
  • Truth
  • Funny

• We probably haven't seen the variety and diversity of threats to Americans' safety and well-being and our national security in a long, long time. Some have said it almost makes you yearn for the Cold War days when you knew who the bad guys were and who the good guys were, and there was a wall dividing us.

  

  Dan Coats
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• I just keep happy and help the team when I get an opportunity.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Happy
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.

  

  A. J. Bowen
  • Think
  • Movies
  • Fair

• For 'The Theory of Everything,' I was quite low down on a list of actors for the role, and I got the opportunity as a consequence of people saying no to it. So I have been very, very lucky.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Saying

• Todd Rundgren is a genius, and I don't use that word a lot.

  

  Jim Steinman

• There are different audiences out there, and everyone has different tastes of what they want. And it's a good thing because otherwise, there wouldn't be enough stuff to go around.

  

  Krysten Ritter
  • Good
  • Different

• At no time during the period intervening between the ratification of the Constitution and the inauguration of the new government were the leaders in Federalism certain that the agrarian party, which had opposed the Constitution, might not render the instrument ineffectual by securing possession of Congress.

  

  Charles A. Beard
  • Time
  • Party
  • Period

• I'm writing and putting together my next few things. Even during the Red Army process, I've been writing and developing things, so that now that I'm done and with efforts supporting it throughout this process, I'm armed and ready to go with some things that I'm really passionate about.

  

  Gabe Polsky
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Together

• I saw how you could get away with such a free-spirited, naturalistic sensibility in a mainstream Hollywood movie, and you could apply a lot of the skills of the '70s icons that I really admire to a contemporary, commercial movie.

  

  David Gordon Green
  • Hollywood
  • Away
  • Admire

• Where there is nothing, there is God.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • God
  • Nothing