William Butler Yeats Quotes

THOUGH you are in your shining days, Voices among the crowd And new friends busy with your praise, Be not unkind or proud, But think about old friends the most: Time's bitter flood will rise, Your beauty perish and be lost For all eyes but these eyes.

William Butler Yeats

• Thinking
• Friends
• Eye
• Flood

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• The difference between an actor and a star is the budget and the overall presentation of a film.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Star
  • Budget
  • Presentation

• Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Time
  • First
  • Apple

• It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Pretty
  • Like
  • Seem

• You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • You
  • Body
  • Force

• It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • True
  • Soul
  • Eyes

• We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Up
  • Green

• As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.

  

  Tate Taylor
  • Life
  • Different
  • Writing

• Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Work
  • Look
  • Well

• What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all - the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Money
  • Giving

• I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Best

• See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • See
  • Surprise
  • Awards

• I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Night
  • Dad
  • Day

• Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

  

  Malcolm Arnold
  • People
  • Music
  • Friendship

• Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Same
  • Makeup
  • Inside

• Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • See
  • Everything
  • Got

• I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Different
  • Think
  • Start

• It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Work
  • Ultimate

• My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Life
  • Professional
  • Nothing

• It's up to to you to perfect that gift that you've been given. Put your spirit into that song. Focus on the words that you are singing. Get into the experience that you are singing about and sing your heart out.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Experience

• Cherish your health, family, friends, and vocation for none of these things are permanent.

  

  Joe Sacco
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Vocation

• One of these days in the next 10 years, I will play 'Evita.' I don't know when or where, but I love 'Evita', especially with all my Latin and Spanish studies. It's a very demanding role but I'd love to play it.

  

  Aileen Quinn
  • Spanish
  • Latin

• I work best after the deadline has passed, when I'm in a panic.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Work
  • Panic
  • Deadline

• THOUGH you are in your shining days, Voices among the crowd And new friends busy with your praise, Be not unkind or proud, But think about old friends the most: Time's bitter flood will rise, Your beauty perish and be lost For all eyes but these eyes.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Thinking
  • Friends
  • Eye