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William Butler Yeats Quotes

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

William Butler Yeats

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

God Great Broken I Am World Feet

There's been about 75 movies about Jesse James, and I've seen about four of them. He's usually portrayed as this plucky rebel who's got no choice but to turn to crime, because the railway's hassling his mother. But he wasn't like that.

Mother Rebel Choice Movies Crime

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

Sunset Technology Internet Along PC

I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being submerged within that, at the startling green color of those ferns.

Green Color Remember Two Out Within

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.

People Action Pictures Go Movies

Giving up your core business in search of a phantom audience is not wise.

Business Wise Search Giving Audience

Growing up, people are like, 'Mary, we'll see you at the Grammys.' You're like, 'I'll be at the Grammys.' Then, you're actually at the Grammys! That actually is happening; it's not just something people are saying because they like your music. It's real!

Music People Growing Up Saying You

I decided that I would defy expectations, be it those put on me by society, race, socioeconomic status, or my father.

Father Me Society Expectations Race

I support the work of the NRA. I'm a member of the NRA.

Work Support Member NRA

It's not a deliberate thing. It's not like I was rejecting the UK, which is what the papers said. It's just that when you spend a lot of time in your formative years around an accent, you're going to pick it up. I had been living in LA for a bit and that's what happened.

Time You Said Living Years Up

The best things in life are usually difficult.

Life Best Difficult Things

I'm so sick of Betty White.

Cloris Leachman

Sick White Betty

I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

Anthony Hopkins

Life Wisdom Beautiful Peace Wife

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