William Butler Yeats Quotes
I have often had the fancy that there is some one Myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all he did and thought.
Quotes to Explore
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Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
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I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.
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I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
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I like buying iTunes. It's instant.
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There are many drugs that have many serious side effects and that are harmful to people. Marijuana is no different than that. And especially we should try to discourage young people from using marijuana.
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It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.
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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
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I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.
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I'm terrible about people wanting to take pictures with me. I'm a giant baby about it. They treat you like a cartoon. There's nothing you can do except make light of it. That's if I'm in the mood – sometimes I get superbummed.
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I want money; I just don't want that money lying around.
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As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me.
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The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious. [...because they focus on what they don't have rather than being grateful for what they have, which is always better than some others.]
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It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
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Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.
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As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!
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I have often had the fancy that there is some one Myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all he did and thought.
