High Quotes

I wish I had taken Spanish instead of French in high school. I could eavesdrop on a lot more conversations on the subway if I knew Spanish.

A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.

I think I'm probably much better at the boots and pocket knife thing than I am at the high heels and martini thing.

Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress.

I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty.

Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.

I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.

I'm not very good in a classroom sort of setting. I never was. I was kind of a clown in high school - got suspended a lot.

We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes. I went through that during my junior high schools where I wasn't allowed to watch television. I wasn't allowed to listen to the radio.

Don't peak in high school.

It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.

I look back at my elementary or high school pictures and I always had gel in my hair and a gold chain that I would wear outside my shirt. That's how I was born and raised as an Italian male, and I always considered myself a Guido, anyway.

Set high standards and few limitations for yourself.

I've always had high ambitions and aspirations.

Aim high, and you won't shoot your foot off.

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

When my kids are in college, maybe I'll drag my fishnets and high heels out.

I do suspect my star ratings average too high. But, of course, star ratings are ridiculous. I'm stuck with them.

Well, I really don't like heights. I don't get on the top deck of a double-decker because that's a bit high for me. I always feel that I'm going to hurl myself off, so heights are a problem.

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

We shot 'High School Musical' in eight weeks. I spent longer rehearsing for 'Hairspray' than filming 'High School Musical'.

High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift.

The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.

I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything; I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper.

I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you.

Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.

I broke my ankle ten years ago so high heels are not an option unless I'm literally going door to door for a function.

I love luxury, I love the high life, and I have to foot the bills - I have received practically nothing from my marriages and relationships.

One of the big misconceptions about me is that I walk around in mini-skirts and high heels twenty-four seven and go to the gym in heels.

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

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

You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.

I'd rather buy something that is relatively depressed than something that is relatively high.

The man that's out to do something has to keep in high gear all the time.

I started out as a business manager for a national hotel chain based in Oklahoma. I got frustrated with what was happening in the state capital - the high cost of doing business and a lack of educated workers.

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?'

I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me.

The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.

When I went to high school, in the late 1970s, disco was in full swing and anyone who was into it dressed the part. I know I did.

Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today.

A rise in the level of saving can reduce aggregate activity temporarily but only a sustained high level of saving makes it possible to have the sustained high level of business investment that contributes to the long-run growth of output.

I set myself high standards on the pitch and I know I have not always lived up to them this season.

For me, it's not about price. It's about necessity, quality, and usefulness. Like, I have my Wet N Wild 666 lip liner. It's 99 cents and always has been. I started using it when I was in high school, and it's great.

You'd be surprised how addicting high self-esteem is.

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

The least-crowded channel for meeting high profile bloggers is in person. Email is the most difficult, the most crowded... I'm a top 1,000 blogger, not a top 100 blogger, and I get hundreds of pitches by email every week. Most of them I don't even see because my assistant declines them.

People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs.

After decades of hauling telescopes around in the back of vans and going up to high altitude locations and so forth, I did finally build an observatory, here on Sonoma mountain.

It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

In high school, I was a total jock/extracurricular nerd/just plain nerd.

The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.

I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.

He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played.

). Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these threatening activities.

There is that stereotype of a nerd with the high pants and pocket protector and that kind of thing. That can sustain comedy for maybe a movie - hence the 'Revenge of the Nerds' franchise - but not for hopefully years on the air. It's a sight gag, not a story.

As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school.

According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.

I do not have a fear of heights at all. I was the kid who would see how high I could get in the trees. I was always climbing something. But I wasn't allowed to look down; I had to step off completely blind and backwards.

Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky.

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.

It's a staggering transition for high school students that found they could study five hours a week and make As and Bs.

Is being an idiot like being high all the time?

In high school, I was kind of a loner because I had moved to a new school.

It's a market economy. Apparently the demand for great coaches exceeds the supply, so of course the price of good coaches is going to be high.

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

One of the high points of my career was winning the Grammy for 'I Will Survive.'

Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'

Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.

If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.

Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.

You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.

Patients are becoming aware that they're being taken for a ride by big pharma companies. They charge high prices and have never cared for India's healthcare. There are 23 million cases of cancer every year and India has a fair share of that.