Seamus Heaney Quotes

The main thing is to write for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust that imagines its haven like your hands at night dreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast. You are fasted now, light-headed, dangerous. Take off from here.

Seamus Heaney

• Writing
• Dream
• Night
• Imagine
• Dangerous

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• Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Want
  • Cooking
  • Camera

• Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Day
  • Democracy
  • Everyday

• I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out. This USO tour is especially meaningful because of the friends I have met and I am honored to be apart of it.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Friends
  • Respect
  • Day

• People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • America
  • Angry

• I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Good
  • Thought

• I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Child
  • Tree
  • Physical

• Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Book
  • Voice
  • Identity

• It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Mankind
  • Peculiar
  • Transcend

• I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Man
  • Simple
  • Turn

• It's kinda all about image.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Image
  • About
  • Kinda

• The NFL is my goal, not my dream. My dream is to have an impact on people.

  

  Manti Te'o
  • People
  • Dream
  • Goal

• On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • History
  • Age

• They call me Fearless Felix.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Me
  • Fearless
  • Call

• I never met a kid I liked.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Never
  • Kid
  • Met

• If I could change anything, I would definitely have had a father around. My father. I would definitely say it affected me deeply as a young man, coming up. Who doesn't want a father? Those are the beginnings, and those are what can dictate the roads you choose in life, and choosing them well.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Life
  • Up
  • Father

• I was watching 'Pulp Fiction' when we were making 'Now and Then'. I didn't care about 'Now and Then,' you know?

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Know
  • Care
  • Now And Then

• The medical system in the United States is among the best in the world, if not the best. What if we were to make the United States a medical destination? That would bring a lot of people here because there are a lot of sick people around the world. If they can get U.S. treatment, they will take it, but now think about what that will do.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • People
  • World
  • Best

• 'Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Black
  • Crazy
  • Horse

• Don't focus on negative things; focus on the positive, and you will flourish.

  

  Alek Wek
  • Focus
  • Positive

• The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Writing
  • Beautiful
  • Story

• I've always dreamt of somewhere down the line getting one match out of Hogan, just because that was always a dream.

  

  Jeff Hardy
  • Dream

• I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Way
  • Me
  • Act

• The main thing is to write for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust that imagines its haven like your hands at night dreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast. You are fasted now, light-headed, dangerous. Take off from here.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Writing
  • Dream
  • Night