William Butler Yeats Quotes

Even when the poet seems most himself . . . he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast; he has been reborn as an idea, something intended, complete.

William Butler Yeats

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• I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Earth
  • Like
  • Nothing

• I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Surprise
  • Obsessed
  • Kitty

• I live a good life but a pretty simply life. I just store all my money under my mattress. My wife and I travel, and I bought my dream car, the Cobra.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Life
  • Good
  • Live

• For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don't-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Choice
  • Bird

• If we really want to cherish religious freedom, people who want to believe that same-sex marriage should take place, they have a right to believe that, and people who want to believe it's inappropriate, we should not demonize those people - if we really believe in religious liberty.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Believe
  • Freedom

• I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about that club and the team. And I miss the players a lot.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Energy
  • Team
  • Positive

• I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works.

  

  Tad Williams
  • World
  • Writing
  • Real

• I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.

  

  Tatyana Tolstaya
  • Art
  • Want
  • You

• What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Family
  • Love
  • Mother

• There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.

  

  Wale
  • Good
  • Think
  • Me

• Everyone has a breakup in their lives, and I think everyone should experience love.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Lives

• Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

  

  Florence King
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Will
  • Anything

• There are people who consider it almost unpatriotic to be inquisitive and to be truthful about your opinions.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Opinions
  • Almost

• When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.

  

  Candice Millard
  • Work
  • Book
  • Doubt

• As a company, we have to be very transparent. We are in a business very related to finance, and I want this company to last long, and I want this company to be audited by everyone.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Long
  • Business
  • Finance

• Some of the most fascinating scenes in 'Unforgiven,' for me, is that scene with Gene Hackman where he's talking about the Duke of Death that Richard Harris played, and he's basically demolishing this myth of this man very unwesternly – not what you expect in a western.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Death
  • Scene
  • Myth

• Willow: What did I have for breakfast this morning? Do you remember?Tara: Huh?Willow: I-I wanna say bagel, but I think that was yesterday. You had two eggs sunny side up. I remember because they were wiggling at me like little boobs.Tara: Sassy eggs.

  

  Amber Benson
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Morning

• I remember sitting there on my father's couch or my mother's couch, listening to this lecture about how there were two groups and we had to be separated. We've come a long way from this kind of open racism. And I think it's wonderful.

  

  James Heckman
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Mother

• Once the new power has taken over they have to establish a new status quo just to keep the factories and trains running.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Power
  • Running
  • Status Quo

• I know a lot of actors who started out as musicians and have very successful careers as actors, but most people don't know them as musicians.

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
  • People
  • Knows
  • Actors

• Even when the poet seems most himself . . . he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast; he has been reborn as an idea, something intended, complete.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Poet
  • Breakfast
  • Accidents