Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quotes

Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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• When it comes to setting the market values, I let that stuff take care of itself. I know my value in this league, and I know the team appreciates me. I'm going to continue to make myself an indispensable part of this roster. When you do that, when your time comes up to get a contract, you usually get a contract extension.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Up
  • Time
  • Team

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Hands
  • Two
  • Give

• The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.

  

  Adam Draper
  • World
  • Strong
  • Community

• I think that our comfort is in our history.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • History
  • Think
  • Comfort

• The song that's affected me the most profoundly is probably Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' or, more specifically, the couple seconds of instrumental break before Vincent Price starts 'rapping.'

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Couple
  • Thriller
  • Specifically

• I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little stories about nothing in particular. I recall one about someone with an illness. But my dedication wasn't really healthy, and it reached the point where I wasn't sleeping. My mum would tell me, 'You need to go outside to get some fresh air.'

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Air

• I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Remember
  • Big
  • Meeting

• It's so fun to play a villain. I get to tap into a side of myself I thought I never had.

  

  Abbie Cobb
  • Fun
  • Myself
  • Thought

• Buttermilk's palate-cleansing tartness is one reason it's used a lot in southern India, where meals often end with a small bowl of the stuff served with plain rice and pickles.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Small
  • End
  • India

• The more a man is trained to 'be a man,' the more he is trained to protect women and children, not hurt women and children. He is trained to volunteer to die before even a stranger is hurt – especially a woman or child.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Children
  • Die

• The words they spoke were voices that she heard. She looked at them and saw them as they were And what she felt fought off the barest phrase.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Words
  • Voices
  • Phrase

• Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

  

  Alain de Botton
  • Lonely

• If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

  

  Chanakya
  • Good
  • Value

• It's all about the mood I'm in and the scene I'm writing. 'Cause work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life. So I don't listen to any music that's not an influence on what I'm working on that day. Music is a big influence in my work and sometimes drives the energy of where I want to go.

  

  Lemon Andersen
  • Life
  • Work
  • Music

• I know the world is pretty intense, but in my opinion, there's nothing more perilous than being a teenager and watching a raunchy comedy with your parents.

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Parents

• I just want choices. It's not about making money and having a lot of friends in Hollywood; that's the last thing I want.

  

  Bojana Novakovic
  • Money
  • Friends
  • Choices

• Now you can get artisanal everything - pickles, coffees, house-cured meats, mustard. The pendulum has swung back to this kind of food, and it gives me the greatest hope for the future, especially because we're living in a time with issues like polluted Gulf Coast seafood and food labeled organic that may not really be organic.

  

  Adam Richman
  • Time
  • May
  • Hope

• In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.

  

  Armstrong Williams
  • Life
  • Live
  • Beautiful

• The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it ... If people are fit to live, let them live under decent human conditions. If they are not fit to live, kill them in a decent human way. Is it any wonder that some of us are driven to prescribe the lethal chamber as the solution for the hard cases which are at present made the excuse for dragging all the other cases down to their level, and the only solution that will create a sense of full social responsibility in modern populations?

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Live
  • Community
  • Moment

• If the body is stiff that is understandable. But if the mind is also stiff then you can’t get anywhere. The mind has to become flexible.

  

  Geeta Iyengar
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Flexible

• The day a character becomes predictable is the day a writer should think about moving on - because the reader certainly will.

  

  Mark Billingham
  • Character
  • Moving

• Kings ought never to be seen upon the stage. In the abstract, they are very disagreeable characters: it is only while living that they are 'the best of kings'. It is their power, their splendour, it is the apprehension of the personal consequences of their favour or their hatred that dazzles the imagination and suspends the judgement of their favourites or their vassals; but death cancels the bond of allegiance and of interest; and seen AS THEY WERE, their power and their pretensions look monstrous and ridiculous.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Character
  • Imagination
  • Hatred

• Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.

  

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • Character
  • Quality
  • Genius