William Butler Yeats Quotes

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

William Butler Yeats

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ThinkDesignConnectionSilentTaste

I don't have a favorite drink. I don't do favorites of anything, practically.

John Darnielle

DrinkAnythingFavoriteFavorites

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Anatole France

GodGovernmentFreeChanceWant

I'd love to get in a room with Kanye at some point, have a conversation, and see if something cooks up.

Andy Mineo

LoveConversationSeePointUpRoom

The Starbucks brand has shifted over time from being a specialty brand to being more of a mass brand. There is a gap at the top of the market.

John Quelch

TimeBrandStarbucksMoreTopOver

On some level, acting is the art of pretend, and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be able to see things that aren't there, no matter what aspect of acting, whether it's green screen, whether it's on stage, whether it's anything else, whether you're working on the radio.

Stephen Lang

ArtImaginationGreenYouActing

I love the sense of looking at the sad, paltry, and yet very familiar spectacle that we must make from moment to moment in our lives, and in our frenzy, as something that's as out there as alien life.

Tracy K. Smith

LifeLoveSadMomentLookingAlien

The fine-art world knows very little about the cartoon world.

Robert Crumb

WorldLittleCartoonKnowsVery

Maybe it took a little time, or we're a little late, but finally we're recognizing that international stars are fantastic. They're the greatest actors in the world, and few people know that.

Rob Marshall

StarsTimePeopleWorldLateKnow

Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.

Joshua Foer

TodayTimeMemoryAlienSeemUs

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

Jaron Lanier

ChangeTechnologyThinkExpensive

Genetic Denim gods, if you're listening, please don't rip, and if you have to, maybe you could have an elf from your warehouse send me another pair... I'm a size 28 and its called 'The Twig' in a dark grayish wash... I will wear them until I die, unless those rips beat me to it.

Dawn Olivieri

MeListeningDieYouDarkWill

I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.

Dean Smith

BelieveWhichDeservesPraised

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