Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quotes
As the spring comes on, and the densening outlines of the elm give daily a new design for a Grecian urn, — its hue, first brown with blossoms, then emerald with leaves, — we appreciate the vanishing beauty of the bare boughs. In our favored temperate zone, the trees denude themselves each year, like the goddesses before Paris, that we may see which unadorned loveliness is the fairest.Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.
Gary Player -
I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
Zinedine Zidane -
The polls and the pundits and the media seem to talk to each other. It's sort of like an echo chamber.
Larry Hogan -
I want people to remember me as a guy who works hard.
Rafael dos Anjos -
I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
Tamsin Egerton -
Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes.
Adam Carolla
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I was quite happy with the way I went, I think.
Lalla Ward -
I wasn't a vegan when I came to Congress. It was a decision I made soon after I got here, and it's had such a positive impact on my life that I decided to try to help others as well.
Ted Deutch -
In September 1968, Rush played for around 20 people at a small hall in a church basement. We played songs like 'Spoonful,' 'Fire' and 'Born Under a Bad Sign,' and got paid $10. Then we went to a nearby deli and ordered Cokes and French fries and started planning our future.
Alex Lifeson Rush -
Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.
Carolina Herrera -
I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it.
Buffy Sainte-Marie -
I like things that are simple, such as an alarm clock.
Martin Freeman
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Marvel is obviously a giant, global super-brand, so being a part of that is exciting because of the huge built-in audience and the appetite for it.
Krysten Ritter -
Kids are pretty brutal.
Jesse McCartney -
My personal philosophy is I'm running a 100-yard dash, and I haven't reached the end.
Bill Kurtis -
I wish I could play the whole game and come back tomorrow.
Angela Ruggiero -
Michael Owen isn't the tallest of lads, but his height more than makes up for that.
Mark Lawrenson -
Whether you like me or you don't, I still dig showing up for work.
John Cena
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Take away that fool’s bauble, the mace.
Oliver Cromwell -
Honor is the same as credit; it's one's ability to keep ones promises, but also, in the case of a wrong, to 'get even'.
David Graeber -
In the course of time I have learned to tramp about coral reefs, twenty to thirty feet under water, so unconcernedly that I can pay attention to particular definite things. But after all my silly fears have been allayed, even now, with eyes overflowing with surfeit of color, I am still almost inarticulate. We need a whole new vocabulary, new adjectives, adequately to describe the designs and colors of under sea.
William Beebe -
If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.
Douglas Coupland -
As the spring comes on, and the densening outlines of the elm give daily a new design for a Grecian urn, — its hue, first brown with blossoms, then emerald with leaves, — we appreciate the vanishing beauty of the bare boughs. In our favored temperate zone, the trees denude themselves each year, like the goddesses before Paris, that we may see which unadorned loveliness is the fairest.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson