Yeats Oxford Quotes & Sayings

The true identity theft is not financial. It's not in cyberspace. It's spiritual. It's been taken. — Stephen Covey

Ever read a story that you simply can't imagine how it will end? This place is like that. The best things in life are like that. — Sarah Addison Allen

Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine. — Barbara Kolb

Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy. — Peter L. Berger

The night belonged to the bold, to the crazed and to the artist
often one and the same — Anne Fortier

The United States is at a turning point because of a decreasing influence of faith . — Os Guinness

The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments. — Joseph Joubert

It felt like time had slowed down when Rose looked up and found Kyran. They stared at the other as the battle raged around them. Then Kyran's eyes darkened and his expression turned to fury. He pulled back his hand and threw out a stream of fire, straight at Rose. — S.F. Mazhar

I will never be without information,' she determined. 'I will do better than my sisters. If a bird or any other beast comes out of that uncanny republic where husbands are grown, I will see him with his skin off before I agree to fall in love.' For this is how Marya Morevna surmised that love was shaped: an agreement, a treaty between two nations that one could either sign or not as they pleased. — Catherynne M Valente

Shy Carter helped me write 'One Call Away.' He is a brand new artist. I really want to help jumpstart his career because I think he's super-talented. — Charlie Puth

Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts. — Saint Augustine

There are certain things a girl just knows, like that a fourth minute on a punk song is a bad, bad idea, — Rachel Cohn

I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera. — William Butler Yeats

It's called 'The Oxford Book of Modern Verse, 1892-1935'. They let a man named Yeats make the choosings. They shouldn't have. Who is he - and what does he know about verse?
I hunted through that book for poems by Wilfred Owen or Siegfried Sassoon. There weren't any - not one. And do you know why not? Because Mr Yeats said - he said, "I deliberately chose NOT to include any poems from World War I. I have a distaste for them. Passive suffering is not a theme for poetry. — Mary Ann Shaffer

My father had not been outside the house except to drive back and forth to work or sit out in the backyard, for months, nor had he seen his neighbors. Now he looked at them, from face to face, until he realized I had been loved by people he didn't even recognize. His heart filled up, warm again as it had not been in what seemed so long to him- save small forgotten moments with Buckley, the accidents of love that happened with his son.

~pgs 209-210; Buckley, Lindsey and Jack on Susie — Alice Sebold

I wasn't sold on 3-D until it was in my own home. The images jump out at you, even more so than in the theater, because you're in tighter quarters and you're closer to the TV, so it feels like the depth is very dramatic. — Katie Leclerc