The Wild Swans At Coole Quotes

#1. FRANK: Do you know Yeats?
RITA: The wine lodge?
FRANK: No, WB Yeats, the poet.
RITA: No.
FRANK: Well, in his poem 'The Wild Swans At Coole',Yeats rhymes the word "swan" with the word "stone". You see? That's an example of assonance.
RITA: Yeah, means getting the rhyme wrong.

Willy Russell

#2. My mom and dad are second-generation Greek-Americans who instilled in our middle-class family the values of hard work, self-reliance, and service, exemplified by my father's tenure as a U.S. Marine who was stationed at Camp David under President Truman.

James Costos

#3. It's important to realize that, often, the person we can turn to regarding one issue is not the best person to talk to about other issues.

Brene Brown

#4. When she was in United States, we maintained contact, we talked to each other on the phone, almost every night. And there was one occasion I tried to fix this video conferencing but somehow it did not come out very well enough so better to talk on the phone.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#5. On the road to success, even little stones may cause you fall down! If you are not serious and careful, forget about reaching your target!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. This is the first time she'd understood that joy could be even more severe than pain.

Stephanie Meyer

#7. War, and the preparation for war, are the two greatest obstacles to human progress, fostering a vicious cycle of arms buildups, violence and poverty.

Oscar Arias

#8. When I was born there were still different drinking fountains you had to drink out of.

Larry Wilmore

#9. Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which a musical idea can be expressed with utmost perfection in terms of brevity of form and simplicity of means.

Bela Bartok

#10. Some people said, 'Oh you're going to become a fine artist now and do exhibits and stuff.' But I have no desire to do that. I really like design and I'm going to stay with it.

Stefan Sagmeister

#11. Two hundred and sixty million acres of U.S. forests have disappeared, to make room for cropland to farm meat.

Rudy Hadisentosa

#12. Sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest

Gaston Bachelard