William Collins Quotes

And with Yeats you lean against a broken pear tree, the day hooded by low clouds.

William Collins

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• As an actor, we're unemployed a lot, so I'm familiar with the stress of trying to get a gig, and sometimes you take shows that you don't really want to do to keep the money coming in.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Stress

• I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Real
  • Think

• I'll tell ya, when you open up that can of dab, it's always fresh.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Up
  • You
  • Always

• I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Doing
  • Old
  • Reach

• 'RoboCop,' when that came out, was like the best comic book movie ever, and it's not based on a comic book.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Best

• My quick beauty tip is always have a tinted gloss of some kind to give you some color even if you have no makeup on.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Color
  • Beauty
  • Makeup

• A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Moment

• A president who aspires to be recognized as a global leader should not personally stake out a foreign-policy goal, commit himself eloquently to its attainment, and then yield the ground when confronted by firm opposition.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Goal
  • Leader
  • Yield

• All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • World
  • Best
  • Golf

• You're on your own in college, but you get sheltered a little bit more with the coaching staff and everything.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • You
  • College
  • Coaching

• Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Education
  • Become
  • Activity

• This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Home
  • Together
  • Earth

• A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Book
  • Me
  • Childhood

• The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency).

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • People
  • Life
  • Knowledge

• Publishing, legacy or indie, is a vehicle, and you can't opine about whether someone has chosen the right vehicle if you don't know where she intends to drive it.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Legacy
  • Publishing
  • Vehicle

• It is a big responsibility to headline on pay-per-view.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Responsibility
  • Big

• There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Control
  • Heads
  • Royal

• Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

  

  Questlove
  • Art
  • Business
  • Hip Hop

• I would feel safe with my husband as president. I think Barack Obama is a fine man. I think Michelle Obama is a fine woman. This is about who would be better and I think my husband would be better.

  

  Cindy McCain
  • Husband
  • Feels
  • President

• Sometimes the British press is maybe a little bit racist.

  

  Vincent Tan
  • Sometimes
  • British
  • Racist

• They were not failures, they were new found ways of what does not work.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Work
  • Ways
  • Failures

• In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Children
  • American
  • Parents

• Heart of my heart, we are one with the wind, One with the clouds that are whirled o'er the lea, One in many, O broken and blind, One as the waves are at one with the sea! Ay! when life seems scattered apart, Darkens, ends as a tale that is told, One, we are one, O heart of my heart, One, still one, while the world grows old.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Life
  • World
  • Heart

• And with Yeats you lean against a broken pear tree, the day hooded by low clouds.

  

  William Collins
  • Broken
  • Against
  • Low