William Butler Yeats Quotes

John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from that Contact everything Antaeus-like grew strong.

William Butler Yeats

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• And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Different
  • Love

• I read a lot of science fiction, but I also mixed it up with a lot of other genres: crime, literary fiction, as well as nonfiction. Author-wise, I'm a fan of Stephen King, Lauren Beukes, Robert McCammon, Raymond Chandler, Greg Rucka, Ed Brubaker and Gail Simone, among many others.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Up
  • Science
  • Wise

• I am not averse to politics, but that does not mean that I am going to join politics.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • Politics
  • Join

• Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Riot
  • Armenians
  • Azerbaijanis

• You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Money

• As a day well spent procures a happy sleep, so a life well employed procures a happy death.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Death

• My e-mail address is actually my wife's e-mail address. I actually hate computers.

  

  Joe Sakic
  • Hate
  • Wife

• When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access to justice under the law is an American value embedded in the fabric of our legal and political system - the idea that anybody, powerful or not, can have their day in court.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Job
  • American
  • Political

• A lot of actors work too much. There comes a point where it's hard to mask your basic personality. It's a bit like a relationship. If you're always there, they can't desire you.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • Work
  • Relationship
  • Desire

• Of course, presidents are always blamed or rewarded for the state of the economy.

  

  James Surowiecki

• A fantasy film is often improved by some kind of human reality.

  

  James Mangold
  • Reality

• Where a man is forceful, a woman is shrill.

  

  Marcia Clark

• My kids and I sometimes will just sit in my office and talk about what the world was like 68 million years ago. Amanda, our oldest daughter, wanted to be a paleontologist for a long time.

  

  Phil Mickelson
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• I don't mean to complain. I wouldn't trade my life for anything.

  

  Lucinda Williams
  • Life

• I am not only overwhelmed with excitement to be back in the seat but also to show my support to help raise awareness to end domestic violence and sexual assault by displaying the 'No More' symbol as I pilot the No. 24 car.

  

  Amber Cope
  • Help
  • Support
  • Violence

• A bride is a bride the first time around. The white dress and the white veil are symbolic. So many people are breaking the rules that people don't know what the rules are.

  

  Letitia Baldrige
  • People
  • Time

• When you're writing in big block paragraphs, you can afford to have a redundant sentence now and then, but the Twitter format requires concision.

  

  Anthony Marra
  • Writing

• My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.

  

  Annie Leibovitz
  • Hope

• I've never been a big cinephile, which may be why I could treat 'The Clock' like a puzzle and force the pieces to fit together in odd ways.

  

  Christian Marclay
  • Why
  • May
  • Together

• We've always had a philosophy that we would always go wherever the joke is.

  

  Jay Chandrasekhar

• In a way, we women take on more than we need to sometimes.

  

  Shania Twain
  • Women

• Revenge proves its own executioner.

  

  John Ford
  • Revenge

• See?" Fezzik pointed then. Far down, at the very bottom of the mountain path, the man in black could be seen running. "Inigo is beaten." Inconceivable!" exploded the Sicilian. Fezzik never dared disagree with the hunchback. "I'm so stupid," Fezzik nodded. "Inigo has not lost to the man in black, he has defeated him. And to prove it he has put on all the man in black's clothes and masks and hoods and boots and gained eighty pounds.

  

  William Goldman
  • Men
  • Black
  • Running

• John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from that Contact everything Antaeus-like grew strong.

  

  William Butler Yeats