Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quotes

How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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• I have a physical background. It's not like I'm a kung fu master, but my real training was dance school, and through that, I move to this thing called Capruera that I used in 'Ocean's 12.' I can pretend that I can do a lot of things, but then, I don't really master anything.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Real
  • School
  • Dance

• We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Music
  • Book
  • Silence

• I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Love
  • Song
  • Night

• Cryptocurrencies in general give us a stable medium through which we can communicate our information about values and prices in a way that no government mandarin can distort or usurp. For the predators who have used our central institutions to predate on the rest of humanity, it's a very bad development.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Bad
  • Government
  • Rest

• When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Pain
  • Boy
  • Dog

• We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.

  

  Orrin Hatch
  • Up
  • Respect
  • Expectations

• Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Well

• I like manual things, doing things with my hands, the feeling of touching.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Feeling
  • Doing
  • Hands

• I love life. I think it's fantastic. Sometimes it deals hard things, and when it deals great things, you have to seize them.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Great
  • Love

• I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Time
  • Done
  • Home

• Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • May
  • Friends
  • Think

• I think the only consistent thing is that I like projects that explore different social themes. 'Our Family Wedding' is a comedy, but it deals with two different cultures coming together. It's also about people letting go.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Different
  • Family

• It's the sweetest thing to be a parent of a daughter. When they hit their twenties, they become these lovebugs that come back. It's just so sweet.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Daughter
  • Sweet
  • Parent

• I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners- two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Why
  • War

• I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of sudden a thought occurred to me: If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight. I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Fall
  • Weight
  • Sitting

• The camera can photograph thought.

  

  Dirk Bogarde

• Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.

  

  James Monroe

• My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • Life

• It's important to have a life outside the band.

  

  Liam Payne One Direction
  • Life
  • Important
  • Band

• When the Black Camel comes for me, I'm not going to go kicking and screaming - I am, however, going to try to talk my way out of it. "No, no, you want the other Walter Slovotsky.

  

  Joel Rosenberg
  • Black
  • Screaming
  • Black Camel

• She watched his lips forming the words, at the same time she heard them under her skin, under her winter coat, so near and full of warmth that she felt herself go hot.

  

  Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Winter
  • Hot
  • Skins

• I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • People
  • World
  • Think

• When I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a few individual features, for a different person, were it not for the existence of the chain of memories.

  

  Ernst Mach
  • Memories
  • Existence
  • Exception

• How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!

  

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • Years
  • Should
  • Winter