Seamus Heaney Quotes

You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one.

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• I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Business
  • Rock
  • Star

• Sometimes I post something unwittingly that connects with women. But I never think, 'OK, let's take a shirtless picture for the girls.'

  

  Maluma
  • Women
  • Think
  • Picture

• Of all the American educational system's problems, none is more severe than the academic year beginning before Labor Day.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Day
  • Beginning

• I know when I walk into that classroom in the morning, even if it’s for a split second, at some point I’m being checked out.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Morning

• How completely, how thoroughly he has stolen my child. I have never even tried to forgive him.

  

  Octavia E. Butler

• The instant case involves liberty of the person both in its spatial and more transcendent dimensions.... Bowers was not correct when it was decided, and it is not correct today.... As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

  

  Anthony Kennedy
  • Today
  • Freedom
  • Search

• The greatest saving one can make in the order of thought is to accept the unintelligibility of the world - and to pay attention to man.

  

  Albert Camus
  • World
  • Attention

• We are not occupying Afghanistan, we are there as guests of a government, at their request.

  

  Christopher Hitchens

• I wasn't a person who hated working. When I was working and training, I loved it. I loved that I had to work that hard. I think it transformed into the gym and then transformed into the octagon. It was a good thing.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Training

• A lot of people involved in the Black Lives Matter movement are actually sticking up for those other lives. They are turning out for their Muslim brothers and sisters who are now being targeted.

  

  Angie Thomas
  • People
  • Up
  • Black

• I'm a person who likes habit and knowing what my job is.

  

  Jane Lynch
  • Job
  • Habit

• I learned many things from Professor Brown, including his philosophy toward research, but there is one thing he said that I recall with particular clarity: 'Do research that will be in the textbooks.' It is not easy to do such work, but this has remained my motto.

  

  Akira Suzuki
  • Work

• Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I'm one of those people.

  

  Al Green
  • People
  • Believe

• I ain't learn everything yet at 95. But I got good fingers, that's one thing, I got good fingers. If it weren't for them fingers I wouldn't be going now.

  

  David Edwards
  • Good

• If it is warming, it's because it's happened before, cyclitic, it will happen again, regardless of what you and I do.

  

  Don Young

• If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.

  

  Bob Kane
  • Truth
  • Batman

• I said to my agent, 'I want short, sharp, well-paid jobs because I haven't got time for anything else.'

  

  Billie Whitelaw
  • Time

• Lift thyself up, look. around, and see something higher and brighter than earth, earthworms, and earthly darkness.

  

  Jean Paul
  • Up
  • Earth

• I know women at work who don't talk about having a baby because they don't want to upset the apple cart, but unless people know what the problems are, why should they engage with it?

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • People
  • Work
  • Women

• When it comes to the declared death of Bin Laden, Egypt is against all kinds of violence. The Egyptian government does not have a comment.

  

  Nabil Elaraby
  • Death
  • Government
  • Violence

• Without security, civilization is cramped and dwarfed. Without security, there can be no freedom. Nor shall I say too much, when I declare that security, guarded of course by its offspring, freedom, is the true end and aim of government.

  

  Charles Sumner
  • True
  • Freedom

• Shaquille O'Neal walked in and said we were hiring him, so we said, "Yes sir!" Shaq is a genuinely funny guy. He's really funny in the movie. He's not just a stunt cast- he's a genuinely funny actor.

  

  Dennis Dugan
  • Guy
  • Actors
  • Said

• There are freaky talking mannequins in the Salem Witch Museum that recite the Lord's Prayer and while they do resemble shrunken apples they nevertheless help the visitor understand how hard it must have been for the condemned to say the line about forgiving those who trespass against us.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Prayer
  • Helping
  • Lord

• You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Loses
  • Witch
  • Pilots