High Quotes

• You know, I was a nerdy kid going through high school, and then I got to college and that all vanished. I mean, a lot of my good friends - when we were in high school, we would never have been able to hang out together because we were in such different cliques or whatever. Now, who cares?

  

  Brandon Sanderson
  • Good
  • Different
  • School

• Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Value
  • Friendship
  • Kindness

• The fast, flowing parts, the high-speed corners, that's where a Formula One car is at its best - changes of direction, pulling high g-forces left and right.

  

  Jenson Button
  • High
  • Car

• I have been performing in the street for more than 50 years: magic for basically 60 years, and the high wire 45 years. The beauty of it is that it's never the same. It's never easy. And yet, part of my art is to make it look easy.

  

  Philippe Petit
  • Art
  • High
  • Magic

• I was in a band when I was in high school, and I was bitten by the performance bug, if anything else.

  

  Luke Macfarlane
  • School
  • High
  • Band

• I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the High School of Performing Arts.

  

  Ellen Barkin
  • School
  • High

• I had been on the junior Olympic team in high school for trampoline; I could do twenty-six back flips in a row.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • School
  • High
  • Team

• With a recent University of Rochester study concluding that the total effect of Sarbanes-Oxley has reduced the stock value of American companies by a staggering $1.4 trillion dollars, it is now clear that the costly regulatory burdens imposed by this legislation absolutely outweigh its benefits. The PCAOB and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act raise unconstitutional barriers to needed liquidity, discourage entrepreneurship and innovation, and hinder U.S. competitiveness by denying access to needed capital. Further, the high cost of compliance that disproportionately affects smaller public companies is having long-term, exponential negative implications for our economy.

  

  Mallory Factor
  • Long
  • American
  • Value

• Golf is a game of coordination, rhythm, and grace; women have these to a high degree.

  

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • Women
  • Game
  • Golf

• Talking about Korea, it has pretty high capital ratios at banks and maintains a good credit rating.

  

  Lee Myung-bak
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Banks

• Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue can not reach it.

  

  Quintus Curtius Rufus
  • Nature
  • High

• It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think they know, but are mistaken, and act upon their mistakes, are the most dangerous people to have in charge.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • People
  • Important
  • High

• I am so not a proper, good female. I can't dance in high heels and I'm just so not girly, but then I see these men with these banging bodies, dancing in heels, singing, and having so much fun with so much make-up on. That makes me honestly want to be a better woman.

  

  Kesha
  • Up
  • Good
  • Men

• What you really want is for a cyberattack to be very costly and risky so it is used only rarely and only against really high-value targets.

  

  Dmitri Alperovitch
  • High
  • Value

• Mother, they would praise my balls if I hung them high enough.

  

  Brendan Behan
  • Mother
  • High

• Because of the high altitude, you get drunk really fast. So everyone's drunk all the time.

  

  Clea Duvall
  • Time
  • High
  • Drunk

• I wasn't popular in high school; I had no friends.

  

  SZA
  • School
  • Friends
  • Popular

• Eighty-two percent of prisoners in the United States are high-school dropouts. A high-school dropout between the ages of 30 and 34 is two-thirds more likely to be in jail, or to have been in jail, or to be dead.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • School
  • High

• I'm not like a high intellectual.

  

  Billy West
  • High

• You know, parenting is so personal. And we're all afraid that we didn't quite get it right. And it feels like the stakes are so high. By we - what if we made a mistake?

  

  Amy Chua
  • High
  • Mistake

• I don't think intimidated is the word. I definitely get excited by it. I don't want to let anybody down. I've always been the type of person to make everybody happy and get things done. I want everything to be 100% perfect. I do feel it when people hold me to high expectations.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Done
  • Happy

• I don't think I have ever done anything for this age of children before, a pre-school audience. Generally speaking, we don't have vivid memories of that age and what influenced us, yet clearly they are hugely formative years and it's really important that we can create television of a high quality for that audience.

  

  David Tennant
  • Important
  • Children
  • School

• The Gatsby that I remember reading when I was 15 years old in junior high school was far different from the Gatsby I read as an adult.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Different
  • School
  • Remember

• The first time I ever acted was in 'The Glass Menagerie' in high school, and my first line was, 'I didn't know Shakespeare had a sister.'

  

  Bill Hader
  • Time
  • School
  • Sister

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