Seamus Heaney Famous Quotes & Sayings

If you just mimic the surface of somebody's work without understanding where they are coming from, your work will never be anything more than a knockoff. — Austin Kleon

What I've said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar. — Seamus Heaney

I liked him I just didn't like complicated. And what could be more complicated that a priest? — Marshall Thornton

We're more interested in the editor of this Astounding Science Fiction. General Groves sent me to ask that someone who knows more about this work you're doing interview this" - he glanced at a card - "John W. Campbell. — Gregory Benford

In life, I'm pretty low-key and quite non-descript. — Olivia Cooke

Waiting for something horrible to happen is almost more draining than it actually happening. — Erin Kelly

I wanted to tell them that I'd never had a friend, not ever, not a real one. Until Dante. I wanted to tell them that I never knew that people like Dante existed in the world, people who looked at the stars, and knew the mysteries of water, and knew enough to know that birds belonged to the heavens and weren't meant to be shot down from their graceful flights by mean and stupid boys. I wanted to tell them that he had changed my life and that I would never be the same, not ever. And that somehow it felt like it was Dante who had saved my life and not the other way around. I wanted to tell them that he was the first human being aside from my mother who had ever made me want to talk about the things that scared me. I wanted to tell them so many things and yet I didn't have the words. So I just stupidly repeated myself. Dante's my friend. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

That's right: Never underestimate the power of a good laugh. It can stop some of the fiercest middle-school monsters. — James Patterson

If you can't beat them, conjoin them — Josh Stern

You'd be safe to hold 5% of your assets and savings in gold and silver. Insurance for the future. — John Paul DeJoria

You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you. — Annie Dillard

Cross Country: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only true sport. — Chuck Norris