William Butler Yeats Quotes
Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.
-
Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
-
Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
-
I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.
-
Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
-
What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.
-
Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
-
If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
-
Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
-
I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
-
Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
-
Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
-
Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.
-
I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.
-
I'm missing work. We didn't have enough money for preschool. I had a panic attack. I couldn't do it. I became one of those horrible foster parents who give the kids back.
-
I grew up thinking that whatever I wanted to do, I could do.
-
When I go out, I love steak and caviar.
-
I'm not running about playing romantic leads. I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing, but it's the way it's sort of working out.
-
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.
-
With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.
-
Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating
-
It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
-
You can't talk the talk and not address the issue with the players...
-
Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.
