Seamus Heaney Quotes

Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.

Seamus Heaney

• Strange
• Huge

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Music
  • Film
  • Loved

• I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Power
  • Found
  • Delhi

• I listen to music constantly while writing.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Listen

• I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Boy
  • Down
  • Fish

• We live surrounded by critics, so let them talk, let them criticize me as much as they want. Ultimately, that makes me a better player.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Want
  • Me
  • Talk

• Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Director

• Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Ignorance
  • Case
  • Bliss

• I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Life
  • Real
  • Me

• I could've always worked shows, clubs, Las Vegas and Atlantic City, but I was successful in business ventures, and things weren't happening in show business, so I said, 'Let me see what I can do.'

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • Business
  • City
  • Successful

• Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Thinking
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Sports
  • Basketball
  • Tennis

• Irreverence not only shows disrespect to Deity but also makes it hard for the Spirit to teach us the things we need to know.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Know
  • Teach
  • Disrespect

• There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Like
  • Dance
  • Just

• I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • World
  • Athletes
  • Expert

• But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, what wasn't, what was funny what wasn't... what had some depth to it, what didn't.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Funny
  • Thought
  • Movies

• The last season of 'Rescue Me' is going to be very sort of half and half: it's how you think 'Rescue Me' would end versus something very outside the box. And, they do it in this sort of perfect way - it's only nine episodes, you know. Very stream-lined.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • Me
  • Perfect
  • End

• I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • People
  • Always
  • Praise

• New Orleans will always be in my heart. New Orleans raised me - it's in my blood.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Heart
  • Me
  • Blood

• Right now everything looks so strange to me, as if I don't belong here. It's me that's out of place. And the worst thing is that I feel there's somewhere I do belong, but I just can't find it.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • Looks
  • Strange
  • Worst

• We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Always
  • Angels
  • saw

• He wants to tell her that he is not hopeless, that he is not filled with hatred or violence, that he is not a number, a 300 or 600 or any hundred, but just a kid with no one and nothing, and who would do anything to make it otherwise. Just tell me how, he wants to scream. He wants to tell her what it's like to have the same dream night after night, that he's playing tag with his little sister, laughing, happy - then waking up and not knowing if the image in his head is a dim memory, or just something his mind cooked up to fill the black hole. Do you know what it's like to have no past? he wants to ask. And behind it all, like a ringing in his ears, is the question that really nags at him all the time, the one that has haunted him since he was six years old and his family evaporated. He wants to ask it, then and there and for good: What did I do wrong back then? What did I do to deserve this life?

  

  Edward Humes
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Violence

• Twelve cities in three days is not a public consultation or proper public process. It is not adequate.

  

  Elizabeth May
  • Progress
  • Public
  • Consultation

• Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Strange
  • Huge