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

• 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'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 always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • People
  • Morning

• It is not by recognizing the want of courage in someone else that you acquire courage yourself..

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Courage

• If you decide you want to change your life around, it doesn't matter where you came from, what you did, if you were incarcerated or you are from the projects, if you are an uppity kid who came from a really wealthy family - and all of them do drugs and are into that life - it doesn't matter; come as you are, and God does his work.

  

  Adrienne Bailon 3LW
  • Life
  • Work
  • God

• Harry Dresden: Took cover. In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.

  

  Jim Butcher
  • Business
  • Action

• We decided it here. Ilyich [Lenin] believed that we shouldn't leave the Whites a live banner to rally around, especially under the present difficult circumstances.

  

  Yakov Sverdlov
  • Live
  • Present

• If we die without making peace with God through His precious blood which was shed for us on the cross surely we shall end up in hellfire.

  

  Bakht Singh
  • Up
  • God
  • Peace

• Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.

  

  James Fallows

• I'm one of those pesky Brits.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Those
  • Brits

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

  

  Seamus Heaney
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