Seamus Heaney Quotes

I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.

Seamus Heaney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.

Joe DiMaggio

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I have absolutely no difficulty myself with the playing of God Save the Queen in the presence of Her Majesty.

John Howard

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I watch Letterman. Once in a while, on the odd night, I'll catch the Food Network and watch 'Ace of Cakes,' which I'm kind of obsessed with.

Amanda Righetti

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I didn't play receiver my whole life. I played running back, and I liked a bunch of running backs coming up, but I never tried to emulate them.

Stefon Diggs

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Every band needs it's own special chemistry. And Bez was a very good chemist.

Tony Wilson

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In every successful still photographic project that I have completed, there has always been a turning point in the story where I felt that perhaps I was working on something that could be very special.

Mary Ellen Mark

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The best I can do is to make a film every two years.

Martin Scorsese

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The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change.

Dick Wolf

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Freshly minted Ph.Ds typically teach the way their favorite professors taught.

Derek Bok

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Aristotle

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Over the years, I began to understand that there were a lot of people out there reading physics in popular literature that they could not understand - not because it was too advanced, but because it wasn't advanced enough.

Leonard Susskind

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A lot of writers fall in love with their sentences or their construction of sentences, and sometimes that's great, but not everybody is Gabriel Garcia Marquez or James Joyce. A lot of people like to pretend that they are, and they wind up not giving people a good read or enlightening them.

James Patterson

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