Seamus Heaney Quotes

The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful, to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.

Seamus Heaney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: April 13, 1939 - August 30, 2013

Topics

LifeYourselfWritingGiftOutGet

I made money. What am I gonna invest in? Stocks? No. I'm going to invest in music.

Melissa Auf der Maur

MusicMoneyGoingInvestMadeAm

Reality TV, although I'm a part of it, I think reality TV is a terrible thing.

Andre Leon Talley

ThinkRealityReality TVTerribleTV

Everything you need to get that relaxed driving that brings consistency only comes with practice.

John Surtees

PracticeConsistencyDrivingYouGet

The worst cruelty that can be inflicted on a human being is isolation.

Sukarno

IsolationWorstHumanCrueltyBeing

For some reason the football coach of a major college program is seen as one of the leaders of the campus. And some way we have to let our young people know that that leader can look like anyone.

Tony Dungy

LeaderFootballPeopleCollegeLook

Reality is a powerful solvent.

Tony Judt

RealityPowerfulSolvent

I know what I am, and what I have to do in my profession, so I can handle the pressure. It's the way I think.

Michael Schumacher

I AmThinkPressureI CanKnowWay

Cycling into work every day is a brilliant way to add in extra training hours without feeling like you are taking up much time.

Jonathan Brownlee

WorkTimeDayTrainingYouFeeling

Around 2000, I was working on cartoons like 'PB&J Otter' and 'Doug.'

Christopher McCulloch

WorkingLikeCartoonsAround

I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by 'unbridled' you mean unregulated.

Chris Patten

CapitalismThinkYouMeanShould

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Booker T. Washington

LifePowerSimpleInfluenceEarth

All the suits I buy have to be tailored, no matter what. But it's not just because of my height; it's because I've been skating for so long. My waist is very small, but my legs are just huge. Most really nice suit makers are Italian, and usually they make suit pants for Italian men. I'm like, 'Those Italians must have pretty skinny legs.'

Apolo Ohno

MenSmallSuitsLongNiceSkating

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