William Butler Yeats Quotes

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

William Butler Yeats

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

JoyTragedyIrishHimThroughSense

To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless.

Jean Monnet

HistoryEyesTaskMeaninglessOnly

It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new.

Sophia Loren

SchoolMistakeThinkLearnYouNew

As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.

Skeet Ulrich

HomeRoadsPeopleMeGuitarPlay

People still look at Michael Jackson as being a Motown artist.

Smokey Robinson

PeopleArtistLookMotownBeing

I always had an interest in seeing people within their environments.

Roger Deakins

PeopleSeeingAlwaysWithinInterest

It's a tremendous feeling walking on to a set with a live audience and making them laugh, but I love drama, and I love drama where there's the ability to bring comedy into it because in a lot of tragic circumstances in life there is comedy to be had.

Julia Sawalha

LifeLoveLiveLaughWalkingComedy

When the kids were growing up, we didn't have a television in the house connected to a cable or an antenna. If something bad happened in the world, I wanted the kids to hear about it from me.

Bob Goff

MeGrowing UpWorldBadHouseUp

I'm just coming from a more personal - and, I guess, more nostalgic - point of view.

Winona Ryder

ViewPoint Of ViewPersonalMore

I've always worked on all different types of music, some with specific project goals and deadlines and some not. Sometimes I would write a piece of music that is almost like a film score or weird electro pieces, wherever the muse took me, and I still do that.

Serj Tankian

GoalsMusicMeWeirdSometimesMuse

My father used to say it was just there, the opportunity. It was all teed up for him. The talkies were starting, and here was Hollywood waiting for people to come from New York who had the training, who could do music with a sense of dramatic context.

Thomas Newman

FatherMusicOpportunityTraining

I'm so proud, from the food to the women to the curves. I just need to learn a little more espanol.

Nikki Bella

WomenFoodProudLearnCurvesNeed

I've two huge German shepherds who are my boys. They're called Biscuit and Buster, and I love them to bits.

Martin Compston

LoveTwoWhoThemI LoveGerman

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