George V. Higgins Quotes
Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the sooner you break the habit of relying on yours, the faster you will advance.
George V. Higgins
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There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.
A. J. Cook
I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
N. Murray Edwards
Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor's words in speech or writing or design.
Filippo Brunelleschi
International friendlies, they mean something, but what you want is to play on the biggest stage, play under the lights.
Abby Wambach
When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
Yael Naim
I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
Barbara Bush
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very long, suddenly, Republicans were thought of as being as interested and as competent in education as Democrats, and why? Because they were talking about it and doing something about it.
Lamar Alexander
My grandmother was fond of painting and playing the piano. She had been given lessons by Emmanuel Chabrier, who used to spend the summer months in nearby Membrolle.
Yves Chauvin
It's fun to grow with a character over the course of a TV series. Video games are usually a much more condensed process.
Laura Bailey
Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.
Oliver Herford
Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
Oscar Wilde
I've had four presidential candidates visit me in the tents, and they all lost. I tried to get Hillary down here, but she's too smart. She won't come to the tents.
Joe Arpaio
It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.
Peter Abelard
I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
Larry Wilmore
I don't think anyone can measure up to what my father had achieved. I'm just happy to at least play some of his music, but he is really the one who was the pioneer, the one who started all this. He's really The King.
Natalie Cole
We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.
Natalie Clifford Barney
Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the sooner you break the habit of relying on yours, the faster you will advance.
George V. Higgins
