Seamus Heaney Quotes
I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
Seamus Heaney
Quotes to Explore
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I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.
Frederik Pohl
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Museums are like sports stadiums, hotels and hospitals: they are in the category of captive-audience dining.
Danny Meyer
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Men are hugely significant to me and to many of the women I interview.
Amanda de Cadenet
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Everybody has busy lives, but you can tell people, 'Go outside and look at the night sky. We've been able to demonstrate that every star you see probably has a planet around it.'
Ellen Stofan
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If you look where kids are spending time on the Net, they may have all the information in the world, but they're not accessing it.
Beeban Kidron
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South America was not really that open - you had to fit in, and I didn't fit in. I was different - my tastes, my point of view - were a bit weird, and I found in Britain a sense of calm, that I could just be.
Mario Testino
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Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised.
Daniel Pinkwater
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After Jessica Mitford published 'The American Way of Death' in 1963, to expose the abuses in the funeral industry, a groundswell of support for government intervention followed. Under President Ronald Reagan The Funeral Rule was first enacted to protect consumers from deceptive practices, but the rule has yet to put the nail in the coffin.
Perianne Boring
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I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
Bill Gates
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Can any man say with certainty that he was happy at a particular moment of time which he remembers as being delightful? Remembering it certainly makes him happy, because he realizes how happy he could have been, but at the actual moment when the alleged happiness was occurring, did he really feel happy? He was like a man owning a piece of ground in which, unknown to himself, a treasure lay buried.
Eugene Delacroix
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There are two things I enjoy most about my work. First, I get to work with interesting and enthusiastic people who are also fired up about science. Second, every once in a while I have moments in which I suddenly understand the solution to a problem that I've been working on - those are great moments.
David J. Anderson
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I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
Seamus Heaney
