William Butler Yeats Quotes

The hare grows old as she plays in the sun And gazes around her with eyes of brightness; Before the swift things that she dreamed of were done She limps along in an aged whiteness.

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• Beware of addictive medicines. Everything in moderation. This applies particularly to the Internet and your sofa. The physical world is ultimately the source of all inspiration. Which is to say, if all else fails: take a bike ride.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • World
  • Inspiration
  • Internet

• I can't speak for other people, but for me, I feel like gone are the days that you need to come out of a closet. I never felt like I was in a closet. I never did. I always felt comfortable with who I am and the decisions I made.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Decisions
  • Comfortable
  • Closet

• I didn't expect to have music as my main thing. I always thought I was going to be a lawyer. When I graduated, I was doing really well with my music in Malaysia. I had stable income, and I had really good momentum in the music industry, so I had to make a decision whether to stop that and continue being a lawyer.

  

  Yuna
  • Good
  • Music
  • Stop

• I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Character

• I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite artists to work with has been Kucka. She's Australian, too, and it's great working with her because we kind of have a very similar take on music, and we like a lot of the same stuff. We're not super-precious about ideas.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Reading
  • Listening
  • Gift

• It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Death
  • Knowledge
  • Smoking

• The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Life
  • Best
  • Adventure

• There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.

  

  Pat Cash
  • You
  • Win
  • Determination

• I grew fond of acting rather late. And that was because I was not getting any job. I had a few friends in Delhi who were associated with theater. They took me to see some plays in Delhi and Baroda. That led me to believe the I could also act. And it was after that I joined National School of Drama in 1993.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Believe
  • School
  • Job

• While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.

  

  Earl Butz
  • Popular
  • President
  • While

• People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• In a lot of movies, you'll see people on crazy dates, and you're like, 'No one would ever do that!'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Movies

• Try not to eat after 7 P.M. Try to stay away from heavy food in the night, like hamburgers and chicken nuggets. Eat that stuff in the morning or early afternoon.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Night
  • Food
  • Morning

• Cricket is very simple... you play till you can sustain.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Play
  • Simple
  • Cricket

• I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album syndrome. I'm living proof; it's very real. It was like a psychological battle to be creative. I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Real
  • Job

• I'm really scared of flying. Like, really, really, really scared.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Like
  • Flying
  • Scared

• Being first lady is a full-time job. Betty Ford worked full time and should have received a salary. Michelle Obama works full time and should be paid.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Time
  • Job
  • Salary

• I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Voice
  • I Believe
  • Salvation

• We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Heart
  • Fall
  • Taken

• Our rooms were bugged, our phones were tapped, and our lawyer's rooms were broken into and their files stolen. We finally had to hire armed guards with pistols to be able to maintain our records. It was hard to believe we weren't in Russia.

  

  Jimmy Hoffa
  • Believe
  • Broken
  • Lawyer

• Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Personality
  • Revolution
  • October

• Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Gift
  • Guilt

• The hare grows old as she plays in the sun And gazes around her with eyes of brightness; Before the swift things that she dreamed of were done She limps along in an aged whiteness.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Done
  • Age
  • Eye