William Butler Yeats Quotes

Laughter not time destroyed my voice And put that crack in it, And when the moon's pot-bellied I get a laughing fit.

William Butler Yeats

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• Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Fraud

• I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Trying
  • Thoughts
  • Enjoy

• The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • People
  • Writing
  • Real

• Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Criticism
  • Sympathy
  • Universities

• There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Mission
  • Statement
  • Toast

• My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'

  

  Yves Behar
  • Good
  • Ideas
  • Design

• I don't think men like a bad girl. Well, I haven't had a date in a year so I'm obviously doing something wrong. It's not that my standards are too high, I haven't even been asked out in a year. I have no standards, anyone, please!

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • Men
  • Bad
  • High

• My approach to every game was to try to erase the games that were before and try to focus on the game at hand.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Game
  • Hand
  • Focus

• Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

  

  Jack Paar
  • People
  • Fun
  • Saying

• If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is not from God, how can infidels explain Jesus Christ? His existence in history they cannot deny. How is it that without force or bribery, without arms or money, He has made such an immensely deep mark on the world as He certainly has?

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • World
  • God
  • Money

• First of all, it was such an honor to be chosen. You had to be voted in by players and coaches that time. But having it in Hawai'i was a brilliant idea.

  

  Dan Fouts
  • Time
  • You
  • Honor

• Al Jazeera is not a tool of revolution. We do not create revolutions. However, when something of that magnitude happens, we are at the center of the coverage.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • Revolution
  • Create
  • Tool

• I don't look too far ahead.

  

  Xander Berkeley
  • Look
  • Far
  • Ahead

• No matter where you are, depression responds to the same treatment.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Matter
  • Same
  • Depression

• We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Way
  • Taken
  • Prayer

• I'm extremely happy that I could win the gold medal. It's a special moment in my career.

  

  Ma Long
  • Happy
  • Career
  • Win

• I wanted to share my doubts and my culinary, amorous, and cosmic experiences. So I wrote 'Like Water for Chocolate,' which is merely the reflection of who I am as a woman, a wife, a mother, a daughter.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Mother
  • Wife
  • Water

• And be prepared. Luck is truly where preparation meets opportunity.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Opportunity
  • Luck
  • Preparation

• Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.

  

  John Milton
  • Light
  • Sun
  • Sea

• In such a fast-paced world, gathering people around a table to share a meal allows everything to slow down. I would ask people to sit at least once a week around a table and just enjoy each other's company. Give them the time to talk, laugh, and fill their bellies. It seems like a small thing, but it can bring so much joy to so many people.

  

  Zac Posen
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Society
  • Attention
  • Language

• There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Challenge
  • Childhood
  • Husband

• Laughter not time destroyed my voice And put that crack in it, And when the moon's pot-bellied I get a laughing fit.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Moon
  • Laughter
  • Laughing