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

• And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Question
  • Humans
  • Might

• It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Life
  • Men
  • Poetry

• 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
  • Might

• 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

• Where it all ends I can't fathom, my friends. If I knew, I might toss out my anchor.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Friends
  • Ends
  • 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

• I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.

  

  Mike Figgis
  • Play
  • Actors
  • Guitar

• Shut the door, Wales.

  

  Beau Brummell
  • Door
  • Shut

• The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Science
  • Changes
  • Novelty

• What wounded veteran's don't need is sympathy. THey need to be treated like the men they are: equals, heroes, and people who still have tremendous value for society.

  

  Chris Kyle
  • People
  • Men
  • Society

• I have never loved Fortune, even when she seemed most to love me. I never considered her treasures mine, neither her money, nor her office nor her influence. Her theft of these things, therefore. has taken away nothing of my own. Mother, my roof is the stars. My house is human goodness. My body is clothed. My stomach is full. And the thirstier part of me, my soul, drinks gladly from the pool of my books.So much for me. I am just fine.

  

  Walter Wangerin
  • Mother
  • Taken
  • Influence

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

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Might
  • Centre
  • Wet