Seamus Heaney Quotes

Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.

Seamus Heaney

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• The secret of my success with Geraldine is that she's not a putdown of women. She's smart, she's trustful, she's loyal, she's sassy.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Women
  • She
  • Success

• My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Literature
  • Reverence
  • Fatal

• I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • People
  • Up
  • Space

• An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a game: it is something very serious which completely requires everything you have to give.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Art
  • Game
  • Artist

• I knew she was from Australia and I knew that is where she started but I didn't know if she was still popular there. I hope people understand we aren't making fun of Kylie.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • People
  • She
  • Fun

• Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Earth
  • Human
  • Right

• Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.

  

  Finn Jones
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • People
  • Great
  • Help

• I was born in Burnsville, Minnesota, and raised in Eagan, which is right by Burnsville. I've been in that area my whole life.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Life
  • Right
  • Born

• I'm not good at interviews, I'm not good at dancing, I'm not good at looking like I'm having fun. I never will be, I don't think. Unless I go to a life coach.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Life
  • Good
  • Fun

• I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • She
  • Pretty
  • Style

• Being a musician, it's my job to be real and be true to whoever I am. Hopefully that will inspire other people. I hope it inspires people to be themselves and be comfortable in your own skin.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Real
  • Job

• I get these weird divine feelings. They're, like, so strong I can't shake them.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Strong
  • Feelings
  • Weird

• I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.

  

  Questlove
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Home
  • Moments

• Sometimes if you have a coach or team-mates for too long, you get caught in certain routines. I think it's good to shake up things a little bit.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Up
  • Good
  • Long

• God makes everything in perfect time, and he doesn't give you anything you can't handle.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Time
  • God
  • Perfect

• Any time I get to blow bubbles pretty much lights me up.

  

  David Helvarg
  • Time
  • Blow
  • Bubbles

• I was miserable the entire time I was Vanity. I spent so many days and so many nights crying, hating who I'd become.

  

  Vanity
  • Time
  • Crying
  • Vanity

• My concentration span is truly that of a gnat. Some people have this ladder, and that's all there is - the ladder. I have the ladder, too, but there's a building around it with scaffolding, and lots of windows for me to peek into. Then suddenly I'll remember, 'Oh, there's the ladder. I should be concentrating on that.'

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • People
  • Remember
  • Me

• I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Memories
  • Virtue
  • Humility

• Mr. Trump is an entertainer, bringing a rawness and wildness to the presidential race that no other candidate can come close to matching.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Trump
  • Presidential

• Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Remember
  • Memories
  • Facts