Seamus Heaney Quotes

The bogholes might be Atlantic seepage. The wet centre is bottomless.

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• Nuclear holocaust might eliminate the Internet.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Internet
  • Might
  • Holocaust

• I struggled in school. Math and science were difficult for me. But I can watch 10 guys play, and I can tell you what everybody did. It might be a curse because when you see everything, sometimes you don't let your kids play.

  

  Larry Brown
  • School
  • Kids
  • Science

• I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • American
  • Might
  • Filmmaker

• I looked a little pasty. But hey, at least I didn't wet myself!

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Myself
  • Wet
  • Pastry

• I'm kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more.

  

  James Brown
  • Funny
  • inspirational
  • Might

• I don't want to show deleted scenes. I don't like an audience looking at what the movie might have been - if it's in the movie, it's in the movie.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Audience

• Since things neither exist nor do not exist, are neither real nor unreal, are utterly beyond adopting and rejecting - one might as well burst out laughing.

  

  Longchenpa
  • Real
  • Laughing
  • Might

• I always remind myself that [ Jean-Paul] Sartre and [Simone] de Beauvoir didn't have children. And when you don't have children, it might be easier to believe that the child doesn't come with something.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Might

• As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Might
  • Wells
  • Pops

• Professor Snape was forcing them to research antidotes. They took this one seriously, as he had hinted that he might be poisoning one of them before Christmas to see if their antidote worked.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Christmas
  • Research
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• I cared more about your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed. In other words I acted exactly as Voldemort expects we fools who love to act.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Truth

• The more you're drowning in familiarity, the better the fun is. It requires less novelty to produce even more gratification. And it's something that didn't come from you. It was about the other thing - the thing you were experiencing, or the people you were with, or the mechanism you were operating, or whatever it might be.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • People
  • Fun
  • Might

• Even though two and two might look like four, it could be three or five.

  

  Kevin Keegan
  • Looks
  • Might
  • Three

• I have stuff from 1979, 1980 in my collection. But I also have things from 2012. So I don't know if it's memorabilia as much as it is holding on to things that I find relevant that most people might not.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Stuff
  • Might

• Some things were too hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read.

  

  Hal Clement
  • Believe
  • Might
  • Statistics

• Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard) disagreeable to nearly all the females—and there is more in that than you might suppose.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Nature
  • Might
  • Female

• No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Die
  • Might
  • Majesty

• If you don't dream, you might as well be dead.

  

  George Foreman
  • Dream
  • Wells
  • Might

• I'm in a band. I have the basic idea, but when you surround yourself with really good players, why would I tell anyone what to play, because they're that good. They don't tell me what to play. They might encourage me, so that's what I do. I encourage them.

  

  Rick Nielsen Cheap Trick
  • Play
  • Band
  • Player

• We never announced a scorched-earth policy; we never announced any policy at all, apart from finding and destroying the enemy, and we proceeded in the most obvious way. We used what was at hand, dropping the greatest volume of explosives in the history of warfare over all the terrain within the thirty-mile sector which fanned out from Khe Sanh. Employing saturation-bombing techniques, we delivered more than 110,000 tons of bombs to those hills during the eleven-week containment of Khe Sanh.

  

  Michael Herr
  • Policy
  • Destroying
  • Bombs

• The very scary thing about religion, to me, is that people actually believe God is who they think He is.

  

  Donald Miller
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• The bogholes might be Atlantic seepage. The wet centre is bottomless.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Might
  • Centre
  • Wet