Seamus Heaney Quotes

Best to say that once a poem is finished I trust it to make its way, and I trust readers will find their way to it and through it, if the thing has got itself rightly expressed.

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• I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Love
  • History

• The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Remember
  • Wife
  • Best

• I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Help
  • Feeling
  • Best

• Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • People
  • Life
  • Today

• I want to be a female artist who is honest. I want to encourage other girls to be honest with who they are and not try to be picture perfect, because it's a woman's imperfections that make her perfect anyway.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • Perfect
  • Woman
  • Picture

• I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.

  

  Washed Out
  • Interesting
  • Child
  • Internet

• I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • People
  • Work
  • Friends

• The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • War
  • Wedding
  • Queen

• Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

  

  E. B. White
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Bad

• One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Always
  • Things
  • Still

• I try to work on my defense every game, every practice.

  

  Oscar Taveras
  • Work
  • Game
  • Practice

• The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • House
  • You

• That the caste system must be abolished if the Hindu society is to be reconstructed on the basis of equality, goes without saying. Untouchability has its roots in the caste system. They cannot expect the Brahmins to rise in revolt against the caste system. Also we cannot rely upon the non-Brahmins and ask them to fight our battle.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Society
  • Fight
  • Equality

• When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Life
  • Know
  • Find

• I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Life
  • World
  • Perfect

• If the Numerai fund performs well, that should lead to more assets under management, which should lead to more revenue for Numerai's general partner, which should lead to higher payouts for the data scientists, which implies a higher Numeraire valuation.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • Management
  • Partner
  • Data

• I've always listened to and loved country music ever since I was a kid.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Music
  • Country
  • Loved

• I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Play
  • Never
  • Broadway

• I don't want to be Angelina Jolie. Not that Angelina Jolie is not the most talented, beautiful, successful, amazing, admirable person who does good things for the world, but I don't want to be a movie star like that.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • World
  • Good
  • Movie

• The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Important
  • Way
  • Positive

• A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear, We can begin to feed!

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Need
  • Feed
  • Loaf Of Bread

• Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.

  

  Adam Phillips
  • Ends
  • Means
  • Heroes

• Best to say that once a poem is finished I trust it to make its way, and I trust readers will find their way to it and through it, if the thing has got itself rightly expressed.

  

  Seamus Heaney
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