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William Butler Yeats Quotes

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

William Butler Yeats

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: irish
Birth: June 13, 1865 - January 28, 1939

Topics

Child Sympathy World You Understand

I wanted to make a movie that was kind of a tribute to the way I feel when I watch a John Hughes movie.

Feel Kind Way Watch Tribute I Feel

My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing.

Happy Parents Me Singing Lawyer

If the rights of civil partners are met differently in law to those of married couples, there is no discrimination in law, and if civil partnerships are seen as somehow 'second class' that is a social attitude which will change and cannot, in any case, be turned around by redefining the law of marriage.

Change Marriage Attitude Law Class

I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable?

Society Aesthetic You White Want

I'll sleep in my clothes sometimes. I sleep in my clothes all the time, actually - in my coat. I just hate getting changed for bed; I like the idea of falling asleep in a natural way.

Suki Waterhouse

Time Hate Sleep Clothes Sometimes

I use Ole Henriksen eye gel when I think of it, and go for facials when spa gift certificates appear as a professional thank-you or in a gift bag. Once ensconced in a facialist's chair, I let myself be coaxed into all sorts of treatments, because I'm there already, so why not?

Myself Eye Gift Think Bag Chair

Everyone has their preferred stroller, their preferred crib, their preferred Moses basket. And they have advice on that too!

Advice Everyone Basket Too Moses

William Henry Harrison, who died of pneumonia in April of 1841, after only one month in office, was the first Chief Executive to hide his physical frailties.

Hide April First Office Month Chief

It's about getting a more democratic Wales for the purpose of improving our economic performance, for improving the delivery of health care, for raising educational standards.

Health Purpose Performance Care More

Comedy is tragedy plus time, but the time is different for everybody.

Time Comedy Tragedy Different Plus

I had this instinct and I just knew it. It was a very strange thing and as soon as I finished recording it, we were all in the studio saying we have something really special here.

Saying Special Strange Something

I consider myself a political revolutionary humanist.

Myself Political Revolutionary

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