Seamus Heaney Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.
-
For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.
-
One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
-
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
-
A company's logo can be a visual ambassador, one that goes on everything from business cards to delivery trucks. When used effectively, it can be the window into the soul of a brand.
-
I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think what really happened was just my music seems to work so well with rap music.
-
I would like to show that I have a heart, that I am a human being and I have feelings. And to be this kind of role model, not only for beauty pageants but also for life.
-
I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
-
This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
-
Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
-
Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
-
I'm doing exactly what I should be doing, every day on the road.
-
I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.
-
You'll hear 'Hippie,' or, 'Get a haircut.' I like it. I think it's funny because they think we've never heard that before. So, like, good one.
-
It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.
-
The genius of vinyl is that it allows - commands! - us to put our fingerprints all over that history: to blend and chop and reconfigure it, mock and muse upon it, backspin and skip through it.
-
If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.
-
I've always known that Rio and Tokyo are my two Olympics. Now that Rio hasn't gone to plan, Tokyo has to work, and I'm more motivated than ever.
-
A learned person will become noble only when he or she has put into real practice what has been learned, instead of mere words.
-
Your good mother tells me you are feeling very badly in your new situation. Allow me to assure you it is a perfect certainty that you will, very soon, feel better - quite happy - if you only stick to the resolution you have taken to procure a military education.... On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.
-
For the moment, the big thing is rebuilding and it's going to be hugely expensive and acrimonious.
-
I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
-
If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.
