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

• 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

• There are moments when her voice is all he needs.

  

  Max Frisch
  • Moments

• A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Say
  • Everyone
  • Consensus

• I had grand visions of being in professional sports. But when reality set in, I went, 'Oh, OK. I'll just move to Hollywood and be an actor.' I didn't want to look back on my life and wonder, 'What if I had done this? Or I had done that?'

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Life
  • Done
  • Reality

• My audience has lots of people between 20 and 35, but there are always a few 60-year-olds, and it makes me happier than if everyone was 22.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • People

• I'll never speak to another person without telling the truth. I've been a cruel man in my time, I've been a devious man in my time, like everybody else. I've told lies in my time. But I've seen enough suffering to experiment with the truth.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Suffering

• Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

  

  Georges Bernanos
  • Faith
  • Loses
  • Shape

• 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