William Butler Yeats Quotes

O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out.

William Butler Yeats

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• One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Want
  • You
  • Successful

• The difference between working with actors that have put their time in the theater and just straight film and television actors is that you trust theater actors a lot more. You know that they're seriously more trained than anyone else because theater is the best place to grow as an actor.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Time
  • Best
  • Trust

• I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Children
  • High

• The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Life
  • Never
  • Actor

• I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Black

• Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.

  

  Ione Skye
  • Real
  • Me
  • Deep

• Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Drug
  • Hallucinogenics

• Cerrone, he's a very good Muay Thai guy, very long.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Good
  • Long
  • Guy

• I wanted to get out in the world, have a great job, make my mark, and see how far I could go. And I wanted to make good on the philosophy my mother drilled into us with all the subtlety of a Lady Gaga performance. I got it loud and clear. I would need to succeed, and then I could possibly be happy.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Life
  • Dad
  • Football

• It is not easy for me to digest meat. I waste too much energy in digesting meat, and that's why I get my proteins from other products. I like beans and other legume plants very much. I need a lot of 'live' products such as fruit and vegetables.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • Live
  • Why
  • Energy

• In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.

  

  Vendela Kirsebom
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Happy

• Travelling expands the mind rarely.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Mind
  • Travel
  • Travelling

• We know that 99.9% of Arab-Israelis are loyal to Israel.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Know
  • Israel
  • Loyal

• If it's a good cause, I'll play just about anything.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Good
  • Play
  • Anything

• Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Think
  • Hate
  • Taken

• If you talk about sous-vide, then you have to talk about food safety, and microbiology, and heat.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • You
  • Food
  • Safety

• The petition of persons under eighteen, praying that I would free all slave children, and the heading of which petition it appears you wrote, was handed me a few days since by Senator Sumner. Please tell these little people I am very glad their young hearts are so full of just and generous sympathy, and that, while I have not the power to grant all they ask, I trust they will remember that God has, and that, as it seems, He wills to do it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Children
  • Persons

• No lake so still but it has its wave. No circle so perfect but that it has its blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are.

  

  Confucius
  • Change
  • Wave
  • Circle

• I find making trailers really frustrating, because sometimes the worst trailers are for the best movies.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Sometimes
  • Worst
  • Frustrating

• An intellectual hatred is the worst.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Worst
  • Intellectual
  • Hatred

• The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Consciousness
  • Worst
  • Paper

• O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Worst
  • Fine
  • Died