Seamus Heaney Quotes

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

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• Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Life
  • Today
  • Regret

• I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

  

  Ice T
  • Up
  • Men
  • Think

• Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Live
  • Soul
  • Man

• The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Change
  • Best
  • Easy

• Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Past
  • Like
  • Bones

• Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Try

• If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • World
  • Chinese
  • Tomorrow

• I'm pretty hard on myself in general.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Pretty
  • Myself
  • Hard

• Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Music
  • Writing
  • You

• All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Life
  • Important
  • Chance

• But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.

  

  Hamlin Garland
  • Remember
  • Nature
  • Trees

• Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving you're putting on a show!

  

  Ted Allen
  • You
  • Waiting
  • Thanksgiving

• Talking to people from the heart matters, and it's unfortunately something brands have forgotten about. Celebrity endorsement deals try to gain recognition for brands, but at their core, what matters is if the celebrity truly backs the brand.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Heart
  • Celebrity

• I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Good
  • Write
  • First

• I am writing a book more improbable than 'The Interrogative Mood' that I call 'Manifesto'. It's two guys talking who speak artificially conveniently.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Mood

• It's interesting: I've been doing this since I was 17, and it's kind of weird to see yourself grow up on television.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Up
  • Interesting
  • Weird

• My father was an air officer in the Second World War. My brother was a marine in Vietnam. When I was given this opportunity, I leapt at the chance because I thought it would be a hell of a lot more interesting than what my friends were doing.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • World
  • Friends
  • War

• I want you to know that I am one of the more fortunate people in life. There aren't too many of us that somebody selects and says, 'You know, that guy ought to be an umpire.' That's what happened to me.

  

  Doug Harvey
  • People
  • Life
  • Guy

• You only have to wade through a metric measure or two of European prose, culled from its directives, circulars, reports, communiqués or what pass as debates in its 'parliament', and you will quickly understand that Europe is, in truth, synonymous with bureaucracy – to which one might add 'to', 'from' and 'with' bureaucracy if one were so minded.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Truth

• I smoked, I drank, I did all the kicking my heels up type things, but I went to Mass on Sunday.

  

  Elaine Stritch
  • Up
  • Sunday

• The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.

  

  Dai Vernon
  • Mind
  • Logic
  • Steps

• Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Mind
  • Tales
  • Whispering

• Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Said