Seamus Heaney Quotes

The appointment in Harvard gave me economic safety, writerly support, and intellectual self-respectplus eight months to myself every year.

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• You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Day
  • Singing
  • Cold

• Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Time
  • Great
  • Sports

• Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • American
  • You
  • Inside

• I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Listening

• I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Like
  • Dark
  • Break

• The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Guitarist
  • Taylor
  • Coleman

• I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Trying
  • Leader
  • Civil Rights

• Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • War
  • Progress
  • End

• I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Different
  • Want

• The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Real
  • War
  • Peace

• Did you really think I would sell you out?

  

  Karl Malone
  • Think
  • You
  • Sell

• I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably something I wanted to do were Stephen King and Douglas Adams, when I was probably, like, ten years old.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Age
  • Me
  • King

• I believe that work can be done on security; in combating terrorism in Mexico we have done our part in this area. But at the same time, the world must continue working.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• Sometimes the media twists your words, and they say things to get a headline, and it's not necessarily what came out of your mouth, and they take things out of context 90 percent of the time. But I guess - any publicity is good publicity, I guess.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Time
  • Good
  • Words

• If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Business
  • You
  • Working

• Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Creativity
  • Go
  • Letting Go

• TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Age
  • Google
  • Beyond

• The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Death

• If the girl is good looking and talented, and for some reason the film doesn't work, she gets a second chance. But if subsequent films don't work, she gets branded as an 'iron leg.' The whole thing gets negative.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Good
  • Work
  • She

• A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

  

  Andrew O'Hagan
  • People
  • Good

• I love to read about music and about art, but I don't try and take things about mythology or guidelines as to how I'm to behave as an artist. It's the realm of intellectual debate. Actually, more and more my direction is trying to get further away from being self-conscious of what the parameters are of the mainstream, where it intersects with the underground.

  

  Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
  • Trying
  • Artist
  • Intellectual

• It's an undeniable fact, that President Jonathan has done well for Nigeria in such a very short time, and I think he is the answer to the prayer of many Nigerians. I must not be President, but I have vowed to support anyone who shares the same vision I have for Nigeria. And take it from me, President Jonathan has surpassed my vision for Nigeria

  

  Nuhu Ribadu
  • Support
  • Vision
  • Prayer

• The appointment in Harvard gave me economic safety, writerly support, and intellectual self-respectplus eight months to myself every year.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Support
  • Safety
  • Economic