High Quotes

I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.

Being a teenager, I would think they were real strict, and I would get upset, but I'm glad they were like that. They didn't let us do whatever we wanted. We weren't allowed to date until we were, like, juniors in high school.

Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined.

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.

The minimum wage is the black teenage unemployment act. It is the guaranteed way of holding the poor, the minorities and the disenfranchised out of the mainstream is if you price their original services too high.

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.

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.