Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quotes

There is certainly no defence or water -proof garment against adverse fortune which is, on the whole, so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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• Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • God
  • Education
  • Evil

• If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Powerful
  • Blind
  • Deaf

• I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Mind
  • Honesty
  • Prove

• I've been blessed. I've had a great life and am continuing to have one.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Life
  • Great
  • Blessed

• Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Time
  • Stop
  • Find

• In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale.

  

  Caleb Deschanel
  • Life
  • Up
  • Small

• We need to make more original movies, and audiences would do well to support original movies for the future of the medium.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Future
  • Support
  • Movies

• I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're supposed to like her face, and if you like her face, you ought to be careful about doing crumby stuff to it, like squirting water all over it. It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Girl

• I don't think young people are prepared for the moment of reckoning at the end of college - if you even go to college - where you have to get off of the hamster wheel and decide, 'Wait, where do I go from here?'

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • People
  • College

• Any proposal that allows people who are here illegally to cut to the front of the line is amnesty.

  

  Cory Gardner
  • People

• I was a class clown, but I'm not a bully.

  

  Kevin Dillon

• 'Indiana Jones' was me growing up. I could quote lines from 'Tango and Cash' as much as I could quote lines from 'The Searchers'.

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • Up
  • Growing

• When it's all about the work, it's clear who in the company is pulling their weight and who isn't.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Work

• I think that if an audience is truly appreciative of a performance, they will show it. Sometimes though, there are little differences, and there are audiences that are very reserved even though they are enjoying the show.

  

  Lea Salonga

• I first came to cinema as a passionate filmgoer, when I was a child. Then, when I was a very young man, I became a film critic precisely because of my knowledge of cinema. I did better than others because of this. Then I moved on to screenwriting. I wrote a film with Sergio Leone, 'Once Upon a Time in the West.' And then I moved to directing.

  

  Dario Argento
  • Time
  • Knowledge

• Is there a better example of natural selection in action than 'Project Runway?'

  

  Jamais Cascio
  • Action

• The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

  

  Friedrich Engels

• I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake.

  

  Joe Cornish
  • Mistake
  • Sympathy

• Bette Davis in All About Eve was huge for me. Her acting was staggering.

  

  Winona Ryder
  • Acting
  • Staggering
  • Bette Davis

• With real estate, it's location, location, location. In public speaking, it's acoustics, acoustics, acoustics.

  

  Christopher Buckley
  • Real

• Baltimore was never intended to be anything other than this original novel that Chris Golden and I did together. There was never any thought of this thing going on and becoming a series. If there's any common thing between these characters, it's that they weren't anything I was seeing in comics. Almost everything I've done is something I wish somebody else was doing, because it's what I'd like to read.

  

  Mike Mignola
  • Character
  • Together
  • Common

• My passion for music has always inspired my designs.

  

  Tommy Hilfiger
  • Passion
  • Design
  • Inspired

• There is certainly no defence or water -proof garment against adverse fortune which is, on the whole, so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

  

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson