Seamus Heaney Quotes

I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself.

Seamus Heaney

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• The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Nice
  • Criticism
  • Anger

• Somewhere, in some city in America, someone is wearing my clothes, and I'm happy with that.

  

  Raf Simons
  • America
  • Happy
  • City

• The world itself has become a smaller place. If you want to be remembered and create a legacy, you have to reach out to people. They want to know you. I can just say where I'm going, and Twitter will get it, and if there's a controversy, I can give my opinion. It's easier to communicate.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • People
  • World
  • Opinion

• I'm kind of like an open wound all the time, and that's hard. It's hard to deal with, especially in this industry. Every time I leave a movie, I feel like I'm going to die. Because you connect with these people, and then they all leave. I wish I wasn't like that, but I am.

  

  Alex Wolff
  • People
  • Time
  • Movie

• You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Friend
  • Wonder
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• You can't just have a clean public space - you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.

  

  Bette Midler
  • People
  • Space
  • Use

• Excuse me Doctor, I think I now a little something about medicine.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Medicine
  • Doctor

• Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Men
  • May
  • Free

• Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly "forgot it" and named their European inventors. In short, we regarded China as a sort of different and quite inconsequential planet.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Different
  • Gunpowder

• If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Man
  • Beat
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• It's just endless what you can learn from a single work of art. You can fill up the crevices of your life, the cracks of your life, the places where the mortar comes out and falls away-you can fill it up with the love of art.

  

  Vincent Price
  • Art
  • Fall
  • Endless

• From whence it follows, that were the publique and private interest are most closely united, there is the publique most advanced.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Advanced
  • Private Interest
  • Publique

• Fashion has become so whatever. I don't think there are any stones left to unturn.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Thinking
  • Fashion
  • Left

• Steven and I stood on the stage at the Boston Garden after the Stones had just played there and the stage was still up. We had been playing cards, maybe a high-school dance, to 400 or 500, maybe a thousand. We just stood on the stage and thought, 'Well,man,maybe someday.' In 4 years that was OUR stage.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Stage
  • Stones
  • Boston Garde

• The fall of waters and the song of birds, And hills that echo to the distant berds, Are luxuries excelling all the glare The world can boast, and her chief favorites share.

  

  William Cowper
  • Song
  • Fall
  • Water

• I was raised by my grandmother. She instilled everything into me. She taught me right from wrong from day one. I remembered everyday, being 4 or 5 years old, and walking to school, she would be like, Raise your right hand and stay on the right side of the street and make sure you do the right thing in school.

  

  Nick Cannon
  • School
  • Walking
  • Everyday

• I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Stones
  • Oneself