William Butler Yeats Quotes
The Father and His angelic hierarchy
That made the magnitude and glory there
Stood in the circuit of a needle's eye.
William Butler Yeats
Quotes to Explore
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
Washed Out
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
Jack Germond
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I love Tom Kenny. And Jill Talley. And Jennifer Aniston, too!
Wayne Knight
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
Cameron Diaz
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I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?
Idina Menzel
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
Salman Rushdie
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My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.
Natascha McElhone
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
Wendell Berry
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I think we should all call ourselves feminists.
Hanna Rosin
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
Imogen Cunningham
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Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.
Pat Metheny
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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I have a dark sense of humor.
Olivia Munn
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I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor.
Laura Dern
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Tonight, I want to say to every member of the democratic party, who believes in limited government, in personal opportunity and the united States constitution, and a safe and secure America, come home. To the Reagan Democrats, your party has left you. And the Republican party wants you, we welcome you back.
Ted Cruz
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Nobody has ever convinced me that ancient aliens have visited Earth. Not even close.
Dan Brown
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I do comedy at a lot of colleges, and at the end of those shows, I take time to be a little more real with audiences. I try to inspire them to follow their dreams. When I was that age, it was incredible to hear stuff like that.
Fortune Feimster
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My parents have always told me to work hard. My father was a friend, a very good friend, but when he needed to be a father, he was.
Jeev Milkha Singh
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You just can't take a day for granted. We had to work really hard for anything, and so that's been instilled in me. And I don't look at myself as better than anybody else, because in an instant everything can change.
Alicia Keys
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Do not treat others as you yourself would not be treated.
Confucius
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I don't know if anyone has noticed but I only ever write about one thing: being alone. The fear of being alone, the desire to not be alone, the attempts we make to find our person, to keep our person, to convince our person to not leave us alone, the joy of being with our person and thus no longer alone, the devastation of being left alone. The need to hear the words: You are not alone.
Shonda Rhimes
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The Father and His angelic hierarchy
That made the magnitude and glory there
Stood in the circuit of a needle's eye.
William Butler Yeats
