Yancy Butler Quotes
My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.
Yancy Butler
Quotes to Explore
-
Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
Damien Hirst
-
I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
Natasha Trethewey
-
I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.
Vanessa Bayer
-
What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
Nancy Carell
-
Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
Dag Hammarskjold
-
Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
-
Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
Najib Razak
-
When mom and dad were at the height of their careers, and things were super-crazy, and they couldn't leave their houses, there wasn't social media. It was all about autographs. Now, everyone's the press. I feel fame is perforated: it can be glorious, but it can completely destroy a human, too.
Dakota Johnson
-
One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
Sam Altman
-
Even great actors shine brighter in the right atmosphere.
Caleb Deschanel
-
When a crowd rushes into your house without declaring its intention, it is, by definition, an invasion.
Viktor Orban
-
When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.
Bai Ling
-
The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.
P. J. O'Rourke
-
The future is open, and I never make plans. As long as it's interesting to me, I try to live my life to the fullest.
Ann Demeulemeester
-
May be we are not such fools as we look. But though we be, we are well content, so long as we may be two fools together.
R.D. Blackmore
-
In New York, you collect a thousand encounters a year, a passel of handshakes, a zillion air-kisses, and boatloads of business cards that you pitch into your purse and eventually deposit your chewing gum into. Amid this break-neck montage of glancing contacts, I'm tormented by the constant thrumming fear of being fingered as a flake.
Mary H.K. Choi
-
People book me because of the songs I write, not because of the sets that I play, per se... I'm sure I'm going to be moving to a laptop really soon, but I was one of the last guys to let the vinyl go. I was crying. In my room, I still have thousands of records. I still pull them out and play them all the time.
Kaskade
-
My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.
Yancy Butler
