Peter Higgs Quotes

One of the first things I did on arriving at school was to break my left arm falling into a bomb crater.

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• I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Love
  • Want
  • Forever

• There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • Interesting
  • Face
  • Landscape

• With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Life
  • Respect
  • Purpose

• Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Important
  • Feel
  • Stories

• Self-doubt kills talent.

  

  Edie McClurg
  • Doubt
  • Talent
  • Self-Doubt

• The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Party
  • Status
  • Status Quo

• A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • More
  • Dinner

• The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Change

• Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Men
  • Power
  • Nature

• I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Think
  • Always
  • Majority

• The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.

  

  Garrett Graff
  • Positive
  • Influence
  • Media

• I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Doubt
  • Find

• Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Up
  • Real
  • You

• Mister Cee's a legend, man.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Man
  • Legend
  • Mister

• I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Dreams

• In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Time
  • Long
  • Real

• Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happiness
  • Knowing
  • Grateful

• For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Help
  • Team
  • Beginning

• Now God be praised, I will die in peace.

  

  James Wolfe
  • God
  • Peace
  • Die

• I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • School
  • High
  • College

• I went to film school and studied Alfred Hitchcock. I knew of Alma Reville existence, but had no idea really who she was or how influential she was on him. She stayed in the shadows. Go online, and there are hardly any images or film of her. She really stayed out of the limelight on purpose. She didn't want it, and I think that's one of the reasons that she's really lost in the shadows of Hitchcock's history to a degree.

  

  Sacha Gervasi
  • Thinking
  • School
  • Purpose

• It's deeply humbling to realize that there is no such thing as a society with a purchase on truth.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Realizing

• I think my career would probably be in a better place had I been more aggressive. But I don't have it in me. I'm not a competitive person, and I'm also really private.

  

  Debi Mazar
  • Career

• One of the first things I did on arriving at school was to break my left arm falling into a bomb crater.

  

  Peter Higgs
  • School