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William Butler Yeats

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Will hardly seem worth thinking of
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AUSTIN CLARKE A finished gentleman from top to toe.
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MIKE CONNER My full name is Ross Fleming Butler; it's very British-Irish.
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GARY F EVANS... Don't step on your enemy's toe if your boots is not made of steel.
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KAITLYN DEVER When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.
DEEPAK CHOPRA Keep learning! Learning means growing. He who always learns knows how to grow in maturity. When we s...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
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LUCIANO PAVAROTTI I know that in my past I was young and irresponsible - but that's what growing up is. You learn ...
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JOSH SCHWARTZ But these guys learn so fast now, they sort of soak up the information, they're fearless. Those ...
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JESSICA SCHILLING The Irish have to sort out their own concerns rather than fire bullets at us.
CLIVE GRIFFITHS So it's pretty simple. Go sing. Sing well or sing badly -it doesn't matter, as long as you sing your...
ADI ALSAID They made it too accessible and too tempting (to trade). ... Whatever fund is hot is where you put y...
PETER ANDERSON Stevie came out of the (San Rafael) in great shape and ate up well.
DOUG O'NEILL Don't learn the tricks of the trade, learn the trade.
UNKNOWN Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.
BEVERLEY MITCHELL Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.
BEVERLY MITCHELL Growing up in any sort of spotlight is difficult. Everything is magnified.
HOLLY MARIE COMBS My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Don't just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade.
JAMES BENNIS A shaft of sweetness shoots through me from top to toe when the sun rises; I shoulder my gun in sile...
KNUT HAMSUN The best way to learning anything well is to seek out those who are the best in what you want to lea...
LORRIN L. LEE In these days of our new materialistic Irish state, poetry will have a harder, less picturesque task...
AUSTIN CLARKE Why be an ostrich?
MARGARET MITCHELL The beauty of a person is confidence whatever your race, color, creed, age, shape and size. The true...
LORD ROBIN I took the sing from your song. I made a bed where you don't belong.
BEN HOWARD We’ve all made mistakes, we all have struggles, and we‘ve done things we don’t even want to re...
ANE KRSTEVSKA Butler: Do you think I look deaf?
William: Whadda I know. You look like you could be anything.
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JIM PARSONS Directions for Singing
1. Learn these tunes before you learn any others; afterwards learn ...
JOHN WESLEY Alone!--That worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing, and ...
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to say, what you, in your aloneness, are;
and th...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.
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ROD STEWART Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well; I see you have a singing face.
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KERRY MUNK It was just two great teams out there going at it toe to toe. The game could have gone either way, b...
GARY GLASSCOCK It's very easy to stay in shape when you never let yourself get out of shape. He got pretty banged u...
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ADAM LOEWEN We'll sing certain programs of music, such as an Irish one or holiday tunes.
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CORMAC MCCARTHY Learn to look up now and then, just in case a piano is falling from overhead.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Waitress: "And to drink?"
Artemis: "Spring water. Irish, if you have it. And no ice, please. As...
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WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS An intellectual hatred is the worst.
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WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. . . .
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some ...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before w...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS May she be granted beauty and yet notBeauty to make a stranger's eye distraught,Or hers before a loo...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore. . . .I hear it in the deep heart's core.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I think a man and a woman should choose each other for life, for the simple reason that a long life ...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I'd as soon listen to dried peas in a bladder, as listen to your thoughts.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I heard the old, old, men say "all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS There's more enterpriseIn walking naked.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS And therefore I have sailed the seas and comeTo the holy city of Byzantium.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Farewell -- farewell,For I am weary of the weight of time.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS When such as I cast out remorseSo great a sweetness flows into the breastWe must laugh and we must s...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once lo...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Out of Ireland have we come.Great hatred, little room,Maimed us at the start.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS When we are young we long to tread a way none have trod before
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS A shudder in the loins engenders thereThe broken wall, the burning roof and towerAnd Agamemnon dead.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely ...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Life is a long preparation for something that never happens
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Come swish around, my pretty punk,And keep me dancing stillThat I may stay a sober manAlthough I dri...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I sigh that kiss you,For I must ownThat I shall miss youWhen you have grown.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Style, personality -- deliberately adopted and therefore a mask -- is the only escape from the hot-f...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps,...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I a...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance ...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mo...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gif...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS That William Blake
Who beat upon the wall
Till Truth obeyed his call.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS One had a lovely face, and two or three had charm, but charm and face were in vain. Because the moun...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opini...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS A mermaid found a swimming lad,
Picked him for her own,
Pressed her body to his body,
La...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Miss Flora McFlimsey of Madison Square, Has made three separate journeys to Paris, And her fat...
WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a dress Whi...
WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the ...
WILLIAM FRANCIS BUTLER Doubtless God could have made a better berry (than the strawberry), but doubtless God never did
WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare,When at the same moment she had on a dressWhich cost ...
WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Really and truly -- I've nothing to wear.
WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER