Beowulf Quotes
Collection of top 14 famous quotes about Beowulf
Beowulf Quotes & Sayings
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Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.
— Seamus Heaney
Beowulf's Bane, an exotic glowing fungus that ate the flesh of elves, bore an uncanny resemblance to those of necrotizing fasciitis.
— Peter Watts
When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an uneasy silence.
— Brand Blanshard
Free Trader Beowulf - you had to be at least forty and a recovering pen-and-paper role-playing-gamer to get the reference, but it was apt. Google it.
— Lev Grossman
Let whoever can win glory before death.
— Seamus Heaney
The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began to give way to hope.
— Rudolph Fisher
Focus on the positive things in your life and you'll be shocked at how many more positive things start happening
— Sophia Amoruso
To encounter 'Beowulf' is like taking a sledgehammer to a quarry face. You must bang in there.
— Seamus Heaney
In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf
— Christopher Paolini
We both love sushi and hate Star Wars.
— Alessandra Torre
Optimism is lack of information.
— Faina Ranevskaya