Jack Butler Yeats famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
Power is the flower of organization.
There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower. And there is a beauty which God grants when by His grace men are born again. That kind of beauty never vanishes but blooms eternally.
There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.
Before I take my last breath, before my last flower withers, I wish to live, I wish to make love, I wish to be in this world close to those who need me, those who I need, in order to learn, comprehend and rediscover that I can be and I want to be better at every moment.
With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get.
If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing weather.
Sometimes miracles occur only when you jump in.
Don't wait for miracles, your whole life is a miracle.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with Oscar Levant that a miracle can't fix.

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