You think it horrible that lust and rageShould dance attendance upon my old age;They were not such a plague when I was young;What else have I to spur me into song?
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Related When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats... HOWARD NEMEROV Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little s... W.B. YEATS Too long a sacrifice/ Can make a stone of the heart. -William Butler Yeats. WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once lo... WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Who Goes With Fergus? Who will go drive with Fergus now, And pierce the deep wood's ... W.B. YEATS An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere amon... W.B. YEATS That's certainly what I grew up with-ballet and musical comedy. My mother taught ballroom dancing an... DONNA MILLS Few in the Nineties would have ventured to prophesy that the remote dim singer of the Celtic Twiligh... AUSTIN CLARKE Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of wo... GEORGE BURNS I think, in the early years, my biggest influences would have been... Daft Punk was a huge one for m... FLUME An explanation of an old man’s mistakes. For I see now that what I have done, and not done, with r... J.K. ROWLING I was really creative. I started to dance very young. I loved to dance. I begged my mother to put me... LAVERNE COX I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually o... THOM GUNN My dad and his brothers were involved in amateur dramatics. From an early age, I was dragged along t... TOM GLYNN-CARNEY Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea... DEYTH BANGER When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes. JEFF BRIDGES I thought it was a tacky revue of ABBA tunes. What else would you think when you saw that title and ... LOUISE PITRE From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and bef... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Butler: Do you think I look deaf? William: Whadda I know. You look like you could be anything. RICHMAL CROMPTON I was really happy with the audience's response to what they were seeing. They were really into the ... JOEL FISCHMAN When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years ... BEN BARNES I remember when I was young, I was watching TV, and my father came into the room, agitated, and told... SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO Even though I played national level badminton, I told my parents when I was in 10th that I was not i... DEEPIKA PADUKONE You're such a young king. I barely remember being your age." "Then clearly we're talking about ... JENNIFER A. NIELSEN I carry Yeats with me wherever I go. He's my constant companion. I always can find some comfort ... LINDA HAMILTON O thrush, your song is passing sweet,
But never a song that you have sung
Is half so sweet as ... WILLIAM MORRIS That's a nice song,' said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time.... TERRY PRATCHETT You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that ... BLACK ELK My mom put me in dance classes when I was 5 years old. DANNY PUDI I was very against pink and purple when I was young, because they were girls' colors. But that w... DANICA PATRICK When I was very young, there was a lot of music at home, mostly jazz. I was walking around singing a... NILE RODGERS As a young girl, there were the obvious messages about what girls could and couldn't achieve. An... CHELY WRIGHT The thing was, at a young age, my mom and my grandma always tried to keep me out of the streets as m... BIG SEAN I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with ... LIV TYLER I was told by my mom when I was very young not to drink and to make good decisions so for those who ... ANDRE WILLIAMS He told me that when you record a love song, there is no better song for people to relate to. My fir... JOSH TURNER I'm not sure how young kids get to the point where they're memorizing and knowing songs, but... BRANDON FLOWERS Doing a musical is not just acting. It's total theater. When you have to justify the enormous pr... DONNA MCKECHNIE I started dancing ballet when I was very young, so my background really is dance. But I remember lov... CAROLINE SUNSHINE I'm too young to have experienced firsthand the '70s rock, but when I was in high school, me... BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette p... KRIST NOVOSELIC When I first came to this land because I did not go to such meetings as those were, it was presently... ANNE HUTCHINSON I was having problems because [Augusta Chairman ] Cliff Roberts and [and former U. S. President ] Ge... CARL JACKSON 38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa... JAMES C. DOBSON My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very you... AARON DIEHL I think I have a pretty goofy profile for a writer. It seems to me most writers were reading 'Li... JERRY SPINELLI Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be... J.K. ROWLING Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of jo... W.B. YEATS I never really had a job, because I've been cycling from such a young age: there was never reall... LAURA TROTT I grew up in Baltimore, which is, you know, a city of extremes certainly, but my parents were very c... JOHN WATERS I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape... ZOE LISTER-JONES ...when I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach i... JOHN GEDDES Dancing was one of the hobbies my brother and I had when we were kids, and dance ended up being the ... DAMIAN WOETZEL I'm not afraid to use my personal experiences and put them into a song. I think that's when ... PIXIE LOTT Creating emotion was what my career was all about. I wanted people to laugh at me; I wanted people t... JOHNNY WEIR That's when Sam grabbed my hand. "I love this song!" She led me to the dance floor. And she started ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know what to think about this, whether it's a serious problem or not. What it seems to me is... CRAIG DAVIS I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I st... MANDY MOORE I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, bec... SAINT PATRICK The little song and dance number at the end - that's me, my voice, howling out. It was a new exp... HUGH DANCY There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age,... J. B. PRIESTLEY There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old there is no respect for age. ... J. B. (JOHN BOYNTON) PRIESTLEY There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age-... J. B. PRIESTLY As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand... LEONARD COHEN From a young age, I was encouraged to sing, dance and learn folk and popular songs in Spanish. AILYN PEREZ Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. THEODORE ROOSEVELT He was just thrilled, ... He said, 'Oh my gosh, you want to record that old song? I think I got it u... BRIAN SETZER I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my paren... MARA WILSON Call you that backing of your friends? A plague upon such backing! -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were. ADAM CAROLLA Having children is the greatest thing that can happen to you as a husband and wife. They are infuria... MARY BERRY I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. ... NAWAL EL SAADAWI For her to be able to do that at such a young age, she has such potential to become way bigger in th... JANICE WILLIAMS It was a full Spears album, apparently, and each song was as ridiculous as the one before. They were... HEIDI CULLINAN I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think le... NATHAN FILLION I was raised a Calvinist. You might think you know what that means, but let me explain it the way my... KAREN FINERMAN When you are young, you think that the old lament the deterioration of life because this makes it ea... JULIAN BARNES I started using contact microphones that you can place on common, ordinary objects, like a rake. I p... EUGENE CHADBOURNE The few weeks I have had at my disposal have not given me the chance to revive and to work through m... ABY WARBURG When I was a little girl, my mother tried to make me dance, but I did not like it then. CARINE ROITFELD My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something th... J. J. WATT From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, l... LARA PULVER Sure, I went through my 'J'accuse' phase. I was so angry for so long, I could hardly hav... FRANK MCCOURT We were driving to school one morning when he was 8 years old and I said, 'Luke, what do you want to... JENNIFER SCOTT I only wish I could have played in the big leagues when I was young enough to show what I could do. ... BUCK LEONARD I started writing songs when I was real young, when I was 3 years old. The piano spoke to me - I don... IAN AXEL When I was young, my mom realized I could dance and hold a beat, and I really danced just for fun. I... TOM HOLLAND I feel like my entire career and life, I've been judged by people who did not really know me. I ... NICKI MINAJ When I looked further into my mother's history, I realised that her anxieties and her neuroses c... JOHN RHYS-DAVIES And I can't tell you how many women from a certain age group - they would be in their 30s now, 2... LINDSAY WAGNER When you find a song that you love, you just have to do it - why would I try to match it? When I wro... BONNIE RAITT I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've al... FAITH PRINCE Then, for no reason I could tell you, I tossed the spool again, even though Elaine had asked me not ... STEPHEN KING Through ballet I was fortunate to find a place to escape, a refuge from my feelings of being an outs... HEATHER WHITESTONE The only thing I can give to young gay people is that when I was growing up, there were no role mode... RUSSELL TOVEY I kind of struggled as a 10-year-old to make out what it meant that Martin Luther King and Bobby Ken... TIM KAINE No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates ... ROWAN ATKINSON Puberty was not kind to me. I had acne, eczema and had a stye in my eye, so it was quite hard to go ... SOPHIE WU I didn't think it would really have much of an effect on me until I walked out on the field and saw ... DAVE WANNSTEDT I think it was, my parents got me a karaoke machine when I was about 9 years old. Even before that, ... LESLIE ODOM, JR.
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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