Brian Higgins Quotes

I oppose the president's plan to privatize Social Security.

Brian Higgins

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• I've been a fortunate girl: I grew up in a family that loved me from day one. I feel well grounded and lucky from that. So everything else is a bonus, because I grew up in this family that I adored, and adored me, and I think when you have that, you are already ahead of the game in the sense of how you feel about yourself.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Up
  • Family
  • Game

• The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • American
  • Literature

• I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.

  

  Magnus Magnusson
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Best

• It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.

  

  Man Ray
  • Never
  • Dreams
  • Determination

• There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Free
  • Woman
  • Relationships

• I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I'd like to test at some point at the big league level. The job of manager appeals to me, a coach appeals to me, at a different time frame.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Time
  • Different
  • Job

• I thought Twitter was a joke. I really thought it was a gag. I thought it was like National Lampoon or the Onion.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Like
  • Thought
  • Twitter

• I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • School
  • Never
  • Smart

• In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett, all those people.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a child was, which was enough for me. Everything was so urgent. I needed to say it immediately.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Good
  • Me
  • Child

• I can't imagine my life without books. My father was an electrical engineer, and my mother was a public school teacher. Books were an integral part of my childhood.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Life
  • School
  • Mother

• There have been so many great tournaments that I've been privileged to see, and people paid me to go watch, that I'm awfully grateful for it.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • People
  • Great
  • Grateful

• There can be no security where there is fear.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Fear
  • Security
  • Where

• I think the accent is what a lot of people find attractive. If you take the accent away, I'm a very troll-like individual.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • People
  • Think
  • Find

• Stop spending money you don't have.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Money
  • You
  • Stop

• It's cheesy, but having a pimple or a bad hair day isn't going to matter in five years. I don't always remember that, but I try.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Remember
  • Bad
  • Day

• Unemployment to a man is the psychological equivalent of rape to a woman.

  

  Warren Farrell

• They can picture love affairs of chemicals and stars, a romance of stones, or the fertility of fire. Strange, fertile correspondences the alchemists sensed in unlikely orders of being. Between men and planets, plants and gestures, words and weather.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Men
  • Words
  • Picture

• Stacy Schiff. 'The Witches of Salem: Diabolical doings in a Puritan village', The New Yorker, September 7, 2015, pp. 46-55.

  

  Cotton Mather
  • September

• The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.

  

  Frederik Pohl
  • Life

• La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine

• I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

  

  Alice James
  • Believe
  • Rule
  • Compliments

• I'd never imagined myself writing at all until I was almost 30. And horror films weren't to my taste, at least the super popular (slasher-y) ones of the day back then. The first novel I ever loved as a kid was Frankenstein, and I was always a crazy Hitchcock and Polanski fan... but I never saw myself - a square spazzy girl from the suburbs - writing anything that would horrify anyone. Or so I thought.

  

  Karen Walton
  • Writing
  • Crazy
  • Firsts

• I oppose the president's plan to privatize Social Security.

  

  Brian Higgins