Seamus Heaney Quotes

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

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• I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Money
  • Couple
  • Credit

• I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Why

• I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Up
  • Period
  • Movies

• I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Guy
  • Director
  • Easygoing

• I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.

  

  Young Thug
  • Want
  • Forever
  • Rap

• Madrid is not as big as London, but it is true when you are coming from a big city like Madrid, nothing is going to surprise you, and I am very happy to move to a city like London. It is a big city, and you can do everything you want with the respect that the English people always have.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • People
  • True
  • Happy

• When online business first appeared, a lot of operations would take your order and then disappear.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Business
  • First
  • Disappear

• Personally, just as an actor, I love accents; they're fun.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Fun
  • Actor
  • Accents

• I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop.'

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Trying
  • School
  • Done

• The Flight 93 Memorial isn't that easy to get to. It isn't like the memorials in New York City or Washington, D.C., where you may go on a business trip or family vacation. No, in order to get to Shanksville, PA, you fly to Pittsburgh, make your way through the traffic and onto the highway that takes you through the beautiful wooded countryside.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Family
  • May
  • Business

• That's the unwritten rule in hip-hop. If I get on a record with you, I want to smash you. That's it. Every MC knows that. If I'm on a track with you, I want to be the best on the track. That's just how it is in hip-hop.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Want
  • Best
  • Hip Hop

• It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • World
  • Gold

• My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Ego

• I don't see myself in the political realm.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Political
  • Myself
  • See

• In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Men
  • Name
  • Noble

• I want to take a more international direction with my career.

  

  Maluma
  • Want
  • Career
  • Direction

• I'm kind of a jock. I sail, I ride a bike, I hike, I pump iron. I just love to be active.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Love
  • Bike
  • Sail

• It's in this book I was reading. Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad thing that's happened, it's appeared to somebody. Last time, he appeared in a Cadillac.

  

  Meg White The White Stripes
  • Time
  • Book
  • Bad

• I have lived among Negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am for the Government of my fathers with Negroes, I am for it without Negroes. Before I would see this Government destroyed, I would send every negro back to Africa, disintegrated and blotted out of space.

  

  Andrew Johnson
  • Life
  • Space
  • Slavery

• I'm just trying to stretch the public space wider and make it more open so that a wider variety of people and faces and stories and perspectives and also expertise can come through. So everything that I do rests on that, trying to support on other voices.

  

  Deeyah Khan
  • People
  • Trying
  • Support

• Scary in the idea it could be a little overwhelming to have 70 or 100 clowns in a public space. Intriguing in that it could be something interesting. I'm up for any kind of public art.

  

  Carole King
  • Up
  • Art
  • Interesting

• People tell me, 'Bill, let it go. The Kennedy assassination was years ago. It was just the assassination of a President and the hijacking of our government by a totalitarian regime — who cares? Just let it go.' I say, 'All right then. That whole Jesus thing? Let it go! It was 2,000 years ago! Who cares?'

  

  Bill Hicks
  • People
  • Jesus

• I bet you went on one date and wanted to get married.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Wanted
  • Married

• I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Space
  • Credit
  • Walks