Michael D. Higgins Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
-
I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
-
I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
-
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
-
A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.
-
In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
-
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
-
Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.
-
We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.
-
I always wanted to be a mom.
-
I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.
-
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
-
I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
-
Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
-
I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.
-
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-
Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.
-
The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera.
-
Everything happens for a reason - I'm a believer of that for sure.
-
A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character.
-
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
-
Africa’s progress will also depend on security and peace - because an essential part of human dignity is being safe and free from fear.
-
Be proud to be a decent American rather than a wanker whipping up fear.
