High Quotes

By the time I was in high school, Roe v. Wade had passed, so that was also happening; girls were getting pregnant and getting abortions - and that happened in my school too.

I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle.

When a writer admits that he has an affection for something which he has written, it is high time to pray for his soul.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

I set very high standards for myself and worked every game with the same energy and enthusiasm as if it were the seventh game of a World Series.

As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character.

I was a WASP kid going to a high school that was 99 percent Jewish and I wanted attention and I wanted to make a spectacle of myself because I couldn't stand to be ignored.

Men and women of high professional standing have been reduced to the status of vagrants.

Personally, I need a high level of physical fitness in order to feel at ease.

I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.

Acting still rings my bell as much as it did in high school. Plus, I can now indulge my interests as a producer as well. My work is more fun than fun but, best of all, it's still very scary. You are always walking some kind of high wire.

If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.

I didn't figure out the makeup or cute hair or clothes until oh, maybe my junior year of high school.

Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then.

Pole vaulting is an event of high and lows.

We are also ignoring and underfunding high speed rail which is one of the best ways to move citizens and improve congestion on our highways.

It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting.

Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way.

We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic.

In high school, I was the biggest procrastinator in the world.

I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.

I was voted best-looking kid in high school but, as you can see, things changed. I used to say I was a 260 pound Woody Allen. You can make that 295 pound now.

The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.

Certainly, we are hurt by the high fuel prices because it raises our cost.

The thing that influenced me most in relation to 'Nanny McPhee' were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti Westerns; all the Virginians; all the High Chaparrals. Because if you think about the form, it's a stranger from out of town.

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, there's a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, there's so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them.

I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another.