William Butler Yeats Quotes

What shall I do with this absurdity- O heart, O troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's tail? Never had I more Excited, passionate, fantastical Imagination, nor an ear and eye That more expected the impossible.

William Butler Yeats

• Heart
• Age
• Imagination
• Eye
• Impossible
• Passionate

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• Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Time
  • Best
  • Professional

• My mother, R. Rajalakshmi, taught at Annamalai University in Chidambaram, and during the day, I was well cared for by aunts and grandparents in the usual way of an extended Indian family.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Day

• I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Learning
  • Dance
  • Stars

• I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • I Can
  • Retire
  • Pedal

• When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Movie

• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Job
  • Career
  • Feeling

• I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Mother
  • Hand
  • Now

• I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.

  

  Tania Raymonde
  • Up
  • Lost
  • Years

• Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • World
  • Best
  • Beer

• I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Try

• Humor is an antidote to all ills.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Humor
  • Antidote
  • Ills

• I don't care who is attacking my son. I still support him; I still love him.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Love
  • Support
  • Son

• This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Never
  • Beauty
  • Something

• I never trusted good-looking boys.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • Trust
  • Never

• Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never.

  

  Karl G. Maeser
  • May
  • High
  • Honor

• I wasn't, like, this top model; I was quietly doing my work, and when I became an actress, people started doing research, and everybody found out. People dug out photos, and suddenly people became interested - but no one was interested in my photos when I was a model.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Work
  • Model

• Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my father's responsibility, and duty then counted for something.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • War
  • Father
  • Parents

• The strange thing is, no matter what, when you become some kind of public figure, you have your go-to answers for all scenarios and instances.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Kind
  • Matter
  • Strange

• We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.

  

  Young Thug
  • Money
  • Power
  • Game

• Within our lifetime, we can remember a time when Islamism wasn't the dominant form of discourse or the aim should be to minimise the absolutists within any religious community and contain them.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Community

• I won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Eye
  • Blue
  • Ribbons

• What shall I do with this absurdity- O heart, O troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's tail? Never had I more Excited, passionate, fantastical Imagination, nor an ear and eye That more expected the impossible.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Heart
  • Age
  • Imagination