William Butler
William Butler
Multi-instrumentalist for the band Arcade Fire who plays bass, synth, guitar, and percussion. He has also worked on movie soundtracks, like the one for Her.
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth6 October 1982
art fighting men
The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.
dark fighting back-alleys
It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
party character fighting
Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
hate fighting fate
I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
philosophy fighting babe
Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.
philosophy fighting night
The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole.
horse fighting sea
"Chaunt in his ear delusions magical, That he may fight the horses of the sea." The Druids took them to their mystery, And chaunted for three days.
truly
Really and truly -- I've nothing to wear.
berry god
Doubtless God could have made a better berry (than the strawberry), but doubtless God never did
cent cost five heard hundred jewelry mean moment ten wide worth
But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare,When at the same moment she had on a dressWhich cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less,And jewelry worth ten times more, I should guess,That she had not a thing in the wide world to wear!
shall
What shall I do for pretty girlsNow my old bawd is dead?
kiss miss shall sigh
I sigh that kiss you,For I must ownThat I shall miss youWhen you have grown.
kiss miss shall sigh
I sigh that kiss you, For I must own That I shall miss you When you have grown.
deal great wisdom
It would need a great deal of wisdom to know what it is we want to know.