Seamus Heaney Quotes

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

Seamus Heaney

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• I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Film
  • Wonder
  • Enough

• I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

  

  Patricia Neal
  • Strong
  • Wonder
  • Positive

• I wonder if I maybe have a natural floatiness that comes through in everyone I play.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Play
  • Wonder
  • Everyone

• The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Power
  • Never
  • Mysterious

• Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Live
  • Present

• I'm attracted to mysterious men. Every woman can relate to that, right?

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Men
  • Woman
  • Mysterious

• I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Life
  • Painting
  • Magic

• If I do have kids, I can't wait because I'm excited to go back to school to help them with their homework and remember how to do simple math. I think it's about staying curious and not losing the sense of wonder.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • School
  • Kids
  • Remember

• The Small Faces are thought to be a one-hit wonder in America because we only had 'Itchycoo Park.' Then the Faces just had 'Stay with Me.' So both bands could be considered one-hit wonders in America, even though we had several huge hits in England.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • America
  • Small
  • Wonder

• You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Life
  • Done
  • Why

• The library, with its Daedalian labyrinth, mysterious hush, and faintly ominous aroma of knowledge, has been replaced by the computer's cheap glow, pesky chirp, and data spillage.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Knowledge
  • Library
  • Mysterious

• What am I doing in this silly showbiz life? I do wonder that sometimes.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Life
  • Wonder
  • Silly

• Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Mind
  • Law
  • Wonder

• The colors...oh, I see the most fantastic things. Do you realize when people just close their eyes what they see? It's unbelievable. Colors and things, forms of every sort. I wonder if that happens for everybody?

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Wonder

• Some men like Jack and some like JillI'm glad I like them both but stillI wonder if this freewheelingReally is an enlightened thing,Or is its greater scope a signOf deviance from some party line?In the strict ranks of Gay and StraightWhat is my status: Stray? Or Great?

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Great
  • Men
  • Party

• I'll be dead and you'll think about this day and wonder which of us was more the slave, you or me!

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Wonder

• A society that trains us to specialize in making, doing, performing, and producing neglects to educate us in wonder and appreciation.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Society
  • Wonder
  • Appreciation

• Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists.

  

  Fred Thompson
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Wonder

• In the quiet hours when we are alone and there is nobody to tell us what fine fellows we are, we come sometimes upon a moment in which we wonder, not how much money we are earning, nor how famous we have become, but what good we are doing.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Good
  • Money
  • Alone

• Characters can be mysterious and you're not really sure which way they might turn at a given point.

  

  Michael Zaslow
  • Character
  • Mysterious
  • Might

• I bought a pair of Carpe Diem boots, which were completely unnecessary and hideously expensive, but they make me feel quite fine and dandy.

  

  Sean Pertwee
  • Feels
  • Boots
  • Unnecessary

• I could have stayed in L.A. and done sitcoms for awhile and will probably go back and do one I hope.

  

  Andrea Martin
  • Done
  • Hope

• Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Wonder
  • Mysterious