F.E. Higgins Quotes
When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it's hard to feel sad.
I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.
The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.
A good man's life is never quite ended; something of it always remains to touch and illuminate other lives.
Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about.
The flame of inspiration needs to be encouraged. Put a glass around that small candle and protect it from discouragement or ridicule.
Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.
Every age, after all, must have its own aisling and dream of a better, kinder, happier, shared world.
We need to discuss the basis of a new form of trust built on a meaningful form of citizenship appropriate for a republic.
Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs.
When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors.
The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet.
I think even the poorest people in the great country that is the United States should be entitled to basic health care.
The characters are telling you the story. I'm not telling you the story, they're going to do it. If I do it right, you will get the whole story.
Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.
As a writer, you paint strokes and leave suggestions so readers can create their own pictures. That allows you to know someone by a small action and it saves countless pages of explanation.
"I don't want to lose you, I love you, and...and that's all I've got." As speeches went, it wasn't great. As feelings went...different story.
Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned.
Track accountability is the best way to describe it. You're looking to see which dog accounts for the most tracks in the smoothest manner.
I am delighted to be back home in Galway, the place I first came to as a 19-year-old in 1960. It's here where my heart is and will forever be.
Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound the multitude.
I am delighted with the strong vote I have received. My message of positive leadership, patriotism and commitment clearly was resonating with tens of thousands of ordinary Irish people.
The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.
The Red Sox are a religion. Every year we re-enact the agony and the temptation in the Garden. Baseball child's play? Hell, up here in Boston it's a passion play.
Show the reader what the character thinks about, and then the reader will think about it too.
I am a natural optimist but there were times when (it seemed like) I was doing nothing but adding up on the back of envelope what I had to pay this month.
Human beings are not like they are portrayed in Hollywood. They are individuals who are a mixture of good and bad.
I've always been a deep thinker. Since I was a kid I was delving into the very depths of why we existed, often driving my parents crazy with unanswerable questions.
I really don't know why the Muslims do what they are doing. Those terrorists don't seem to have a moral code.
I realized fear one morning, with the blare of the fox hunter's sound. When they're all chasin' the poor bloody fox, 'tis safer to be dressed like the hound.
I'm a Navy brat. You find that a lot of stage actors are Army or Navy brats, because they have the ability to make a big impression, make friends, and then leave just a few months later.
My dad always said to me that with fame comes great responsibility, which has always stuck with me, even though I think he stole that line from Spiderman.
