Seamus Heaney Quotes

The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation, persuasion, speech itself, for God's sake, just seemed otiose and superfluous to them.

Seamus Heaney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GodBehaviorSpeechPersuasionSense

In precisely the same way money is often hired, and the hire paid for the use of it is called Interest.

John Buchanan Robinson

MoneyWaySameHireInterestPaid

I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses.

Maurice Gibb

StarsLiveCarSmartDriveThink

The thought processes that go through my head when I'm playing a game compared to the thought processes in real life are very, very different. And they're more interesting to me than what you think about when you're doing the dishes, cleaning the yard, watching TV, driving or watching a movie.

John Romero

LifeMeGameThinkThoughtDriving

What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability.

Stephen Kinzer

GovernmentEarly1950sStability

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

Robert E. Lee

WisdomWarSidesBoth SidesBeen

Well I am afraid that I am going to die, because I have just put a down payment on a house.

David Thewlis

I AmDieHouseDownAfraidGoing

Pro wrestling is what provided for my family.

Cody Rhodes

FamilyWrestlingProProvided

The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.

Pierre de Coubertin

LifeGreatWorldRealityMovement

The body needs to rest. It needs a lot less exercise than you think.

Sylvester Stallone

RestThinkExerciseYouBodyNeeds

When I travel, I always take my Winsor & Newton watercolor kit, which is the size of a pack of cigarettes when folded up. I bought my first one in the 1980s. It was handy to bring on trips, and I packed it into a leather pouch along with a couple of brushes, a pencil, an eraser and paper.

Susan Minot

TravelFirstPencilSizeLeatherUp

My flow follows sometimes what's going on in the hip-hop industry even though I'm speaking Jamaican patois.

Sean Paul

SometimesHip-HopFlowIndustryEven

A page is turning for me. I won't be candidate in legislative elections, nor in any elections to come.

Nicolas Sarkozy

MePageLegislativeElectionsCome

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