Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quotes
Only yonder magnificent pine-tree... holds her unchanging beauty throughout the year, like her half-brother, the ocean, whose voice she shares; and only marks the flowing of her annual tide of life by the new verdure that yearly submerges all trace of last year's ebb.Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.
Victoria Pendleton -
Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
A. S. Byatt -
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde -
I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
Dalai Lama -
I love owning my masters.
Fat Joe
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Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.
Fabrice Muamba -
I knew everything in the forest. I had a secret home tree, where I pretty much lived. I also liked rooftops and streetlamps. My parents would get calls saying 'He's out there again.'
Bas Rutten -
One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
H. L. Mencken -
If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?
Naveen Andrews -
We weren't One Hit Wonders. We had a few hits.
Gary Cherone Van Halen -
Our age is an age of moderate virtue And moderate vice
T. S. Eliot
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I balance family and career by doing what makes me the happiest! That for me, without question, is putting my family and kids first.
Bridgette Wilson -
Singing is my passion, regardless of anything else that I've ever done. That's the one thing that no one can ever take away from me is my voice, and that is what I really want to do.
Alex Newell -
For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.
Maya Angelou -
We're just dealing with the kind of warp and woof of television ratings.
Andrew Heyward -
I don't pay attention to stats or anything like that. I just pay attention to how I play and the intensity that I play with.
Austin Seferian-Jenkins -
The reality is that I'm making better wine than I thought I would. The whole process is simple but beautiful.
Brian Schmidt
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I pack on mass quickly when I lift.
Zach McGowan -
Sex has the unparalleled power to make us absurd to ourselves. It also has the power to make us understand transcendence.
Erica Jong -
Behind every great man is a good brother.
Nathan Followill -
It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.
George Bernard Shaw -
We may take breaks and do other things, but we feel we'll ultimately have Pearl Jam as a family.
Stone Gossard Pearl Jam -
Only yonder magnificent pine-tree... holds her unchanging beauty throughout the year, like her half-brother, the ocean, whose voice she shares; and only marks the flowing of her annual tide of life by the new verdure that yearly submerges all trace of last year's ebb.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson