Seamus Heaney Quotes

Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.

Seamus Heaney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ClimbListeningMoreUpBigSofa

If you do television, and it's great, it's the best job there is. Every week it's another opportunity to really make that work and figure out how to make it work better. I love that it's like theater too, and the audience, and it's so short, like twenty minutes... It's like a Haiku or something.

Joan Cusack

WorkLoveOpportunityGreatBest

I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet.

Maya Rudolph

MotherChildMeQuietWouldLoud

It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into.

John McCarthy

LiveAloneManPeopleSometimesGet

We're living in a time where I think most people are wanting someone to invite them respectfully to a policy position, not try to just slash and burn the other person.

Jeff Fortenberry

TimePeopleThinkSomeoneBurnTry

I write about Texas, New York, California and Virginia, and they're all important places in my repertoire.

Sissy Spacek

New YorkTexasNewImportantPlaces

During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to my surprise and great relief, they often wanted to talk - they wanted their recently deceased loved ones recorded in print.

Tom Rachman

GreatPastWritingFactsLovedTalk

The Pentagon can't even audit its own books. It doesn't even know where its money is going. And we refuse to have the tough forces go on the Pentagon so that at least they are efficient with the money they're spending.

Tom Coburn

MoneyToughGoKnowAuditOwn

I eat a lot of fruit because if I fill up on strawberries or an apple, then I'll have one small piece of cheesecake rather than two big pieces.

Tom Frieden

FruitSmallAppleStrawberriesEat

I certainly think that another Holocaust can happen again. It did already occur; think of Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia.

Miep Gies

ThinkHolocaustHappenAgainRwanda

People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.

Michael Moore

EducationPeopleCollegeMeYouUp

It is very hard leaving home for life on the road. The toll that it takes is actually immeasurable, and you can think all you want about what it does to your relationships, but the way it actually plays out is very deep and very unique to those personalities that are involved.

LP

LifeHomeRoadDeepThinkYou

Someone told me I had funny facial expressions. I don't know whether I take that as a compliment or not, but.

Lucy Punch

FunnyMeSomeoneKnowCompliment

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