William Butler Yeats Quotes
The things a man has heard and seen are threads of life, and if he pull them carefully from the confused distaff of memory, any who will can weave them into whatever garments of belief please them best. I too have woven my garment like another, but I shall try to keep warm in it, and shall be well content if it do not unbecome me.William Butler Yeats
Quotes to Explore
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
R. Kelly -
Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
Barbara Corcoran -
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
J. B. Priestley -
During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.
Xi Jinping -
When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson -
A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
Jack Horner
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The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.
Barry Ritholtz -
You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
Karlie Kloss -
I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
T-Pain -
When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
J. P. Morgan -
My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.
Nancy Kerrigan -
Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
Iggy Pop
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I write novels and other things.
Jack L. Chalker -
The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
Kate Atkinson -
When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
Dakota Fanning -
Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all say they read - and the kind of people with whom they spend their time.
Jack Germond -
The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
Carlos Santana Santana -
New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
Eddie Huang
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Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.
Plautus -
On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
Patrick O'Brian -
Krupa's drums went through us like a triple bourbon.
Eddie Condon -
It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening.
Fred Ward -
The things a man has heard and seen are threads of life, and if he pull them carefully from the confused distaff of memory, any who will can weave them into whatever garments of belief please them best. I too have woven my garment like another, but I shall try to keep warm in it, and shall be well content if it do not unbecome me.
William Butler Yeats