High Quotes

I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have.

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool.

With random urinalysis, there's a clear choice - either get high or go to jail.

I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is.

Unemployment in America today is too high. And part of the reason, unfortunately, is that many companies cannot fill the high-skilled jobs increasingly at risk of going overseas.

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.

These kids are the future of the National Football League. They're the next generation that will be playing high school football, NCAA football, and some even to the pros.

We're like marauders out on the high seas.

I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Because of my tremendous respect for Bob Barker and for the show's high standards of professionalism I consider this a tremendous honor that few announcers have ever been treated to. Both Rod's and Johnny's shoes are huge; I can't think about filling them.

I want to get away from the high school thing and do other types of roles.

I started in high school to be interested in music and from there, I decided to study in college. Yeah, you're right, I did start late, but luckily, because of my schooling, I picked up a lot of ground pretty quick.

In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.

I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and employments.

Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.

Researches tested a new form of medical marijuana that treats pain but doesn't get the user high, prompting patients who need medical marijuana to declare, "Thank you?"

In the garden of our house, when I was three. My brothers and I had a jumping wall. I remember it as enormously high, but it was probably only about a foot and a half.

Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too.

I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.

My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.

Each of our children during their high school years went to 'early morning seminary' - scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15.

I think it's important that we don't all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything's fine.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.

Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful.

If I do hit that rope and do a hop, skip and a jump and get up as high as I can, I'm just going to hold my breath, because I know i'm going to hear all kinds of scar tissue popping.