Thomas Wentworth Higginson quote: "Do not waste a minute -- not a second -- in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it."

The bee himself did not evade the schoolboy more than she evaded me, and even at this day I still st...
THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON

Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON

All...religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries ...
THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON

All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries...
THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.
THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline fo...
THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
THOMAS W. HIGGINSON

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
THOMAS W. HIGGINSON

To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country. - Thomas W. Higginso...
THOMAS W. HIGGINSON

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.
THOMAS W. HIGGINSON

When a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson in grammar seems an impertinence.
THOMAS W. HIGGINSON

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a me...
THOMAS W. HIGGINSON

When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.
THOMAS W. HIGGINSON

To be really cosmopolitan, a man must be at home even in his own country.
THOMAS W. HIGGINSON

The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in th...
THOMAS W. HIGGINSON

Great men are rarely isolated mountain- peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
THOMAS W. HIGGINSON

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges
THOMAS W. HIGGINSON

Forgive you? -- Oh, of course, dear, a dozen times a week! We women were created forgiveness but to ...
ELLA HIGGINSON

It's what you do, unthinking, that makes the quick tear start; The tear may be forgotten -- but the ...
ELLA HIGGINSON

I wouldn't be playing for the Devil Rays or the Kansas City Royals, or something like that.
BOBBY HIGGINSON

I wouldn't be playing for the Devil Rays or the Kansas City Royals, or something like that,
BOBBY HIGGINSON

Dude. I thought you were dead.
BOBBY HIGGINSON

You just deal with it. I kind of figured I wouldn't be back here.
BOBBY HIGGINSON

It's just not ready,
BOBBY HIGGINSON

It's safe to say. I've come to grips with it already.
BOBBY HIGGINSON

I'd go two or three days when I'd throw and it would be OK. Then I'd wake up one morning and it woul...
BOBBY HIGGINSON

It looks like some of our competitors are going to get a bit stronger and you've got a background wh...
ANDREW HIGGINSON

This year we'll be fighting for every pound.
ANDREW HIGGINSON

We had two very strong Christmases before this, so to hang on to the gains and push on again ... is ...
ANDREW HIGGINSON

Aunt Syl must have conveniently stopped reading the childhood fairy tales when the knight left the d...
RACHEL HIGGINSON

Their findings confirm our concerns. Oregon's emergency medical services system is fragmented, ineff...
GRANT HIGGINSON

I believed I would never trust another person for as long as I lived. Yet, I couldn't help but trust...
RACHEL HIGGINSON

None of this is unexpected, given the consistent reductions in resources over recent years. Committe...
GRANT HIGGINSON

I think we've grown so far apart, we don't even know each other anymore.
RACHEL HIGGINSON

Our relationship was toxic. He was slowly poisoning me. I was slowly poisoning him.
RACHEL HIGGINSON

When Silas said Gabriel was a priest, I assumed he meant to a real congregation, not the caretaker o...
RACHEL HIGGINSON

Love. Was I really calling it love again? I wished I could say that it felt like love and that was t...
RACHEL HIGGINSON

I hadn't worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I...
WENTWORTH MILLER

I feel extremely lucky, extremely grateful, and a little bittersweet, too.
WENTWORTH MILLER

My first gig in the business was a guest star on 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' so I'm neck...
WENTWORTH MILLER

I made a decision not to work out because I'm lazy and also, the character is not a superhero. I...
WENTWORTH MILLER

Unfortunately, I'm allergic to all animals and even some people.
WENTWORTH MILLER

The mail amazes me. I sometimes get these letters that are ten pages, and handwritten, from women po...
WENTWORTH MILLER

Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a wil...
WENTWORTH MILLER

I worked with the same trainer that worked with Denzel Washington in THe Hurricane. It was three mon...
WENTWORTH MILLER

If I were to wait only for roles that clarify my racial makeup, I'd be waiting for a very, very ...
WENTWORTH MILLER

To be honest, I find going out pretty scary and intimidating. Got all those people checking you out,...
WENTWORTH MILLER

There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, ge...
WENTWORTH MILLER

Professionally speaking, the proudest moment was when I booked the 'Human Stain.' I knew it ...
WENTWORTH MILLER

I spend my weekends sleeping and watching DVDs, and eating at restaurants within a 2-block radius of...
WENTWORTH MILLER

I surrender the idea of having some kind of control over the arc of my career a lot of the time beca...
WENTWORTH MILLER

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than an...
WENTWORTH MILLER

Growing up, I was a target. Speaking the right way, standing the right way, holding your wrist the r...
WENTWORTH MILLER

I'm kind of a dork. I don't have much game. I'm not particularly comfortable in bars or ...
WENTWORTH MILLER

I'm very pleased with being a part of the Bean Pole family. It's a relationship that makes s...
WENTWORTH MILLER

You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have ...
WENTWORTH MILLER

It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publi...
WENTWORTH MILLER

The limits along the highway of the collapse were controlled by what the materials that the highway ...
CARL WENTWORTH

It was a very important, pioneering study.
CARL WENTWORTH

He would be sitting up at his dinner table, and we had a wonderful time doing constructive geology a...
CARL WENTWORTH

Doc was an extraordinary person. He was a gentle man and a very nice person -- a very patient, const...
CARL WENTWORTH

There was a set of apartment buildings that simply tipped over. One of the buildings tipped over so ...
CARL WENTWORTH

You have to love what you do, and you have to need it like you need air. And there's nothing els...
WENTWORTH MILLER

I had a brief experience in the food industry. I was a bus boy in a Mexican restaurant in Arizona, s...
WENTWORTH MILLER

I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written...
WENTWORTH MILLER

Each episode is going to have a number of puzzles for viewers to solve, and there are six or seven d...
WENTWORTH MILLER

Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that y...
WENTWORTH MILLER

I think it's a very dangerous game to play when you assume that just because someone's an en...
WENTWORTH MILLER

My character in 'Prison Break' needs to be formidable. In reality, I'm not very tough at...
WENTWORTH MILLER

There's nothing the Internet can tell me about myself that I don't already know. The rest is...
WENTWORTH MILLER

I remember my father saying one word to me as I would walk out to school every day: 'increments.' Ev...
WENTWORTH MILLER

Want of decency is want of sense
WENTWORTH DILLON

Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the ...
WENTWORTH MILLER

I was looking at my CD collection every month to see what I wouldn't mind hocking to pay the rent. A...
WENTWORTH MILLER

My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a...
WENTWORTH MILLER

I think what you learn, working on a film or TV set, is how to tune certain things out. You've g...
WENTWORTH MILLER

But words once spoke can never be recalled
WENTWORTH DILLON

When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were ...
WENTWORTH MILLER

My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes ...
WENTWORTH MILLER

In my career as an actor, there is a catchphrase that Scofield always says often in regards to his b...
WENTWORTH MILLER

The commonwealth is confused as to who committed this offense. They are unsure who the shooter was. ...
WENTWORTH VEDDER

I have very high expectations of myself. I'm a very competitive person but competitive with myse...
WENTWORTH MILLER

He's great. He's a great actor, has a really interesting presence. It kind of reminds me of he ha...
WENTWORTH MILLER

I don't feel any particular pressure to be the cute one. That's Dominic's territory.
WENTWORTH MILLER

It takes about four to five hours to apply, if you've got two people working on you, ... It's a seri...
WENTWORTH MILLER

The prison helps a great deal in keeping me grounded in the character, ... When you're surrounded by...
WENTWORTH MILLER

That is very true for any walk of life and very true for my character in 'Prison Break' because he's...
WENTWORTH MILLER

There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting re...
WENTWORTH MILLER

[Meanwhile, within the prison walls, a little bit more of Michael's plans come into view each week -...
WENTWORTH MILLER

All he has is his wits. He's not a superhero. He doesn't have any Jackie Chan martial-arts moves, .....
WENTWORTH MILLER

If there was a place that was ever haunted, it would be Joliet,
WENTWORTH MILLER

The (fake) tattoo takes about four to five hours to apply, ... if you've got two people working on i...
WENTWORTH MILLER

The multitude is always in the wrong
WENTWORTH DILLON

He's great. He's a great actor, has a really interesting presence. It kind of reminds me of … he h...
WENTWORTH MILLER

Saltwater tanks aren't harder to create than freshwater tanks. They are just a heck of a lot less fo...
GLEN WENTWORTH

[A ghostly side note: Soldier boy Miller played a Lucifer-like character in the final two episodes o...
WENTWORTH MILLER

Veal! Trust these bloated plutocrats to eat the flesh of poor, newly-born calves!
SALLY WENTWORTH

You rich people are all the same. You couldn't care less about the other half of the world. They can...
SALLY WENTWORTH

And believe me, darling, there's no man more faithful than a reformed playboy. They make far better ...
SALLY WENTWORTH

My rule is you want someone who's got both feet on the ground. An ideal girlfriend might be someone ...
WENTWORTH MILLER

... I value the experience I did have behind that desk because to make it in this business, you need...
WENTWORTH MILLER

I value the experience I did have behind that desk because to make it in this business, you need the...
WENTWORTH MILLER

There's 150 years of fear, violence and pain soaked into those walls, ... The overall mood there is ...
WENTWORTH MILLER

You've got 150 years of fear and violence and pain soaked into those walls, but the overall mood the...
WENTWORTH MILLER

I've never seen American Idol but I am grateful to them. That show is one of Fox's biggest m...
WENTWORTH MILLER

This role is more visible, and I grew up without a lot of that sort of modeling so I'm relieved ...
WENTWORTH MILLER

I revise obsessively. It's important to me to have a clean page.
WENTWORTH MILLER

Are you a Communist, Dora?
SALLY WENTWORTH

I've never read a book or attended a class on screenwriting. I'm not opposed to the idea, bu...
WENTWORTH MILLER

I certainly learned how to break down a text at Princeton, which helps me break down a script - or a...
WENTWORTH MILLER

Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled ov...
WENTWORTH MILLER

Prison has a universal fascination. It's a real-life horror story because, given the right set o...
WENTWORTH MILLER

I think there's something about evil that is thoughtless and relentless and incredibly frighteni...
WENTWORTH MILLER

I've been spared to a large extent the business end of the race stick.
WENTWORTH MILLER

I'm one of those actors who's going to have to create a space for themselves. It's very ...
WENTWORTH MILLER

I had to marry a Greek; I had to stir up the ethnic pot. Otherwise, my children would have been anem...
ALEXANDRA WENTWORTH

The chemistry and dynamics is a lot like freshwater tanks.
GLEN WENTWORTH

People want to see what goes on under water, without diving to see it.
GLEN WENTWORTH

I come from a very la-ti-da East Coast intellectual family - or so they think.
ALEXANDRA WENTWORTH

I love Oprah to death.
ALEXANDRA WENTWORTH

I would never send my kids to a single-sex school.
ALEXANDRA WENTWORTH

I grew up in that world of power and politics in Washington, but when you grow up around it, you are...
ALEXANDRA WENTWORTH

I know what it takes to go from the point where someone's looking at a newspaper article, and th...
WENTWORTH MILLER

They kept sending them and she kept throwing them out.
JUSTIN WENTWORTH

She's here to have fun. Every day, you can't deny she has a smile on her face.
JUSTIN WENTWORTH

You can definitely tell when it's Sarah speaking.
JUSTIN WENTWORTH

We had trouble scoring last year but our offense has improved a lot. The team is working harder and ...
JUSTIN WENTWORTH

Ashley is one of the best athletes in the county right now. She is the fastest on this team. You hav...
JUSTIN WENTWORTH

I just followed my two linemen. They made some great blocks and I took off from there.
SETH WENTWORTH

Ambition devours gold and drinks blood and climbs so high by other men's heads, that at the leng...
THOMAS WENTWORTH, 1ST EARL OF STRAFFORD

More precious is want with honesty than wealth with infamy.
THOMAS WENTWORTH, 1ST EARL OF STRAFFORD

It is a maxim in philosophy that ambitious men can be never good counselors to princes; the desire o...
THOMAS WENTWORTH, 1ST EARL OF STRAFFORD

We're hoping (attendance) doesn't drop too much because we had to change locations.
E. JANE WENTWORTH

For a $2 donation, visitors may vote on the People's Choice for the best carvings entered and will a...
E. JANE WENTWORTH

They will be happy to answer your questions or help you get started.
E. JANE WENTWORTH

She credits her carving skills today to the terrific teachers and classes she has taken. All her rib...
E. JANE WENTWORTH

Since most are cars with four wheels, that will mean about 800,000 wheels.
E. JANE WENTWORTH

This show will have something for everyone.
E. JANE WENTWORTH

The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age.
WENTWORTH DILLON, EARL OF ROSCOMON

'Tis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.
WENTWORTH DILLON, EARL OF ROSCOMON

Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do, ...
WENTWORTH DILLON, EARL OF ROSCOMON

The multitude is always in the wrong.
WENTWORTH DILLON, EARL OF ROSCOMON

Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault) Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.
WENTWORTH DILLON, EARL OF ROSCOMON

Immodest words admit of no defence; For want of decency is want of sense.
WENTWORTH DILLON, EARL OF ROSCOMON

Thou whom avenging pow'rs obey, Cancel my debt (too great to pay) Before the sad accounting da...
WENTWORTH DILLON, EARL OF ROSCOMON

When you look at death, it makes you understand the importance of the moment when you have life and ...
MICKALENE THOMAS

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodie...
THOMAS HOBBES

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or ev...
THOMAS SOWELL

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and th...
THOMAS BECKET

I'm a voyeur. I say that with no embarrassment. If I could have a superpower, being invisible wo...
THOMAS SCHLAMME

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
THOMAS PAINE

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
THOMAS PAINE

I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll ...
THOMAS LYNCH

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.
THOMAS HARRIS

It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on wh...
CLARENCE THOMAS

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
THOMAS HOBBES

Love and a red rose can't be hid.
THOMAS HOLCROFT

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the populatio...
THOMAS SOWELL

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonor...
THOMAS SOWELL

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't t...
THOMAS SOWELL

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of ...
THOMAS SOWELL

The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evi...
THOMAS SOWELL

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
THOMAS PAINE

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
THOMAS PAINE

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, lovi...
THOMAS PAINE

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting ...
THOMAS PAINE

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
THOMAS PAINE

These are the times that try men's souls.
THOMAS PAINE

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value...
THOMAS PAINE

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
THOMAS PAINE

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is ...
THOMAS HOBBES

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
THOMAS HOBBES

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
THOMAS HOBBES

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
THOMAS HOBBES

Words are the money of fools.
THOMAS HOBBES

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after pow...
THOMAS HOBBES

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them w...
THOMAS AQUINAS

God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.
THOMAS AQUINAS

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
THOMAS AQUINAS

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the...
THOMAS AQUINAS

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall l...
THOMAS AQUINAS

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of...
THOMAS AQUINAS

Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the pers...
THOMAS AQUINAS

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
THOMAS AQUINAS

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
THOMAS PAINE

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a...
IRWIN THOMAS

I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud.
IRWIN THOMAS

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
IRWIN THOMAS

I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and a...
IRWIN THOMAS

People refer to me as 'that 'Love Boat' man.'
IRWIN THOMAS

I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get...
IRWIN THOMAS

I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
IRWIN THOMAS

Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
IRWIN THOMAS

My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pen...
IRWIN THOMAS

When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thi...
IRWIN THOMAS

I believe in the players and what I've put together and we'll make it work.
ISAIAH THOMAS

Larry Brown thought Steve Francis was a Larry Brown type of player.
ISAIAH THOMAS

All of those things had been talked about, suggested, rumored, as a manager and as a member of the K...
ISAIAH THOMAS

I'll continue to try to make changes to better improve the team.
ISAIAH THOMAS

Do not waste a minute -- not a second -- in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Do not waste a minute -- not a second -- in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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