William Butler Yeats Quotes
What the world's million lips are searching for, must be substantial somewhere.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.
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Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
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I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name 'Rain.' I always did my best, and I thought if I did, it would eventually show, and even if it didn't turn out well, I wouldn't have any regrets.
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I had a penchant myself for doing several things at once. I wanted to draw, write, speak.
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For as long as I can remember, I've just loved Chanel.
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Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies.
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For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.
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What the world's million lips are searching for, must be substantial somewhere.
