Stones By Seamus Heaney Quotes

#1. I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for.

Jonathan Dimbleby

#2. The only way to learn to write is to force yourself to produce a certain number of words on a regular basis.

William Zinsser

#3. Gadgets are usually the last thing I think about, and if there's something new, I'll get to the store for the final shipment of the first generation when it's on sale. So I have last year's stuff.

William Gibson

#4. Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.

William Blake

#5. Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

John Quincy Adams

#6. They've changed the salesman but they haven't changed the product.

Tony Abbott

#7. I don't wait for inspiration. I'm not, in fact, quite sure what inspiration is, but I'm sure that if it is going to turn up, my having started work is the precondition of its arrival.

Quentin Blake

#8. Paris is a city that liberates you as a woman from all your sins that you think you are guilty of; it washes away all of that, and you are free.

Golshifteh Farahani

#9. It is only by historical analysis that we can discover what makes up man, since it is only in the course of history that he is formed.

Emile Durkheim

#10. Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

Thomas Szasz

#11. I'm a light eater. As soon as it's light, I start to eat.

Art Donovan

#12. Who cares if virtually the entire world views Obama's drone attacks as unjustified and wrong? Who cares if the Muslim world continues to seethe with anti-American animus as a result of this aggression? Empires do what they want.

Glenn Greenwald

#13. Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation.

Swami Vivekananda

#14. You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.

Paul McCartney