John Higgins Quotes

I was worried when I returned that I might be booed or barracked. Nobody has waved fivers at me. I am touched by the reception since I have come back.

John Higgins

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• I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Up
  • Watching
  • Bull

• You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'

  

  Yaya Toure
  • People
  • Money
  • Father

• I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Financial
  • Said
  • Collapse

• I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would get us out of ill-advised wars, that he would do something about health care costs, and that he would protect civil liberties. Like many Americans, I was disappointed.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Health
  • Disappointed
  • Wars

• Charity never lacks what is her own, all that she needs for her own security. Not alone does she have it, she abounds with it. She wants this abundance for herself that she may share it with all; and she reserves enough for herself so that she disappoints nobody. For charity is perfect only when full.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • May
  • She
  • Perfect

• Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Up
  • Family
  • Small

• When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • You

• I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Want
  • Everyday
  • Own

• Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• I did some good things as a rookie.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Good
  • Good Things
  • Rookie

• I don't know if my songs fit in films.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Know
  • Songs
  • Fit

• Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Soul
  • You
  • Insults

• Ideas come through us, not from us.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Ideas
  • Come
  • U.S.

• When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I've seen out there, you know, the things that's out there that ain't good for her. It's a crazy world we live in.

  

  Nas
  • World
  • Good
  • Live

• Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Life
  • High
  • Sports

• Before 'Giant,' I had only ever worked with Michael Greif, Michael John LaChiusa and Kate Baldwin in readings. It's really exciting to be blessed with the opportunity to work with so many I would put in the 'genius' book.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Work
  • Book
  • Opportunity

• Soybeans really need an uplift, being on the dull side, but, like dull people, respond readily to the right contacts.

  

  Irma S. Rombauer
  • People
  • Right
  • Need

• Here forms, here colours, here the character of every part of the universe are concentrated to a point; and that point is so marvellous a thing … Oh! marvellous, O stupendous Necessity - by thy laws thou dost compel every effect to be the direct result of its cause, by the shortest path. These are miracles...

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Character
  • Universe
  • Path

• There's always opportunity in the now. If I'm there, I will seize it.

  

  Michelle Waterson
  • Opportunity
  • Seize

• A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Good
  • Politics
  • Journalism

• That there is pain and evil, is no ruleThat I should make it greater, like a fool.

  

  Leigh Hunt
  • Pain
  • Evil
  • Fool

• I never outline my novels before I write. I do have a vague sense of beginning, middle, and end at the outset of each book, but for me, writing has always been a very character-driven process.

  

  Emily Giffin
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Book

• Oscar Wilde quite rightly said, 'All art is useless'. And that may sound as if that means it's something not worth supporting. But if you actually think about it, the things that matter in life are useless. Love is useless. Wine is useless. Art is the love and wine of life. It is the extra, without which life is not worth living.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Art
  • Mean
  • Wine

• I was worried when I returned that I might be booed or barracked. Nobody has waved fivers at me. I am touched by the reception since I have come back.

  

  John Higgins