William Butler Yeats Quotes
You ask what I have found and far and wide I go, Nothing but Cromwell's house and Cromwell's murderous crew, The lovers and the dancers are beaten into the clay, And the tall men and the swordsmen and the horsemen where are they?
Quotes to Explore
-
I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
-
Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
-
My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
-
I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
-
The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.
-
All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
-
I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
-
One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
-
When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
-
I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.
-
The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
-
You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
-
I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.
-
So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.
-
Formula One has been the backdrop of my life.
-
Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
-
Your body thinks radium is a great thing to pack into bone - where it kills some cells outright and scrambles the DNA of others, causing problems like cancer.
-
I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.
-
The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
-
In mathematics, if a pattern occurs, we can go on to ask, Why does it occur? What does it signify? And we can find answers to these questions. In fact, for every pattern that appears, a mathematician feels he ought to know why it appears.
-
The dullard finds even wine tasteless, while the sorcerer is intoxicated by the mere sight of water.
-
If you don't feel comfortable in a plunging sweater, skin-tight jeans and killer heels, go home and change.
-
Yes, it will go through the disciplines that all puppies go through including house training and puppy walking, then at twelve month old it the training becomes a lot more rigorous which has to be done carefully otherwise you are in danger of stressing the dog.
-
You ask what I have found and far and wide I go, Nothing but Cromwell's house and Cromwell's murderous crew, The lovers and the dancers are beaten into the clay, And the tall men and the swordsmen and the horsemen where are they?
