Seamus Heaney Quotes

Every time you read a poem aloud to yourself in the presence of others, you are reading it into yourself and them. Voice helps to carry words farther and deeper than the eye.

Seamus Heaney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TimeWordsYourselfEyeReadingYou

I'm not in the being-annoyed business.

Jim Lehrer

Business

I write my own blog every day. I do the Twitter every day and the Facebook. Without a gap. I do everything myself: I load my own photographs; I sometimes take my own videos and post them.

Amitabh Bachchan

MyselfDayEvery DaySometimesWrite

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

Sophocles

ManMeSickFreePoorPraise

When I was fighting, I would look to excite the crowds with a bolo punch or something taunting. Looking back, they were legal - but not sportsmanlike. I don't recommend another boxer try them. But we looked more to make the robot fights dramatic first and realistic second.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Looking BackLookingLegalFighting

Whenever I finish a movie, I usually go through a period where I think I'll never have another idea. And then, somehow, you get another idea.

Sofia Coppola

ThinkYouGoNeverFinishThrough

People own their own bodies and have the absolute right to put anything they want into it.

Roger Ver

PeopleWantRightAnythingOwnPut

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Robertson Davies

MindEyeOnlyPreparedComprehend

Optimistic people generally feel that good things will last a long time and will have a beneficial effect on everything they do. And they think that bad things are isolated: They won't last too long and won't affect other parts of life.

Martin Seligman

LifeGoodTimePeopleGood Things

I come from a background of hanging out with friends and shooting videos with them, with funny stuff coming out of the group. I guess we got the same charge jocks get out of sports.

Michael Patrick Jann

FunnySportsFriendsGroupShooting

Seeing states like North Carolina enacting these bathroom bills that are banning transgender individuals from using the restrooms they identify as... it's complete discrimination.

Jazz Jennings

DiscriminationSeeingBathroomBills

I've seen my own blood and broken a few bones. I've been hit, which isn't an entirely bad thing, as at least you have a glimpse of the suffering endured by the people you are photographing. And in a sense, crumbling empires and war have been with me all my life.

Don McCullin

LifeBrokenWarPeopleSufferingMe

In my opinion, if you only show quality but no fighting spirit, you are half a player.

Claudio Ranieri

QualityOpinionFightingYouSpirit

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