High Quotes

• I was made fun of a lot in high school because of the way I sound and the way I was.

  

  Chris Colfer
  • School
  • Fun
  • High

• When you look at men's fashion magazines, you see a lot of well-groomed guys in suits, but very rarely do you see a lot of guys in drop-crotch and hoods with high-tops. It's coming, though, because guys in suits and short hair are beginning to look like they're from another time.

  

  Ian Astbury The Cult
  • Time
  • Men
  • Fashion

• Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Man
  • Rich
  • Uncle

• I love the shape of '50s fashion: the clothes are very flattering; they let you out in the right places. I love high heels, too, as I'm only five foot three, although I always tell people I'm five foot five.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Love
  • Fashion

• André and I are still best of friends, always have been and always will be. When our 18-year-old son, Seven, started high school, we both agreed to be in the same city, so André is in Dallas all the time, and we're always all together doing something.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Time
  • School
  • Friends

• I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect.

  

  Eric Davis
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• The definition of success is that the company doesn't miss a beat. Do I love what I do? Oh yeah - I love it more than ever. You've got to have that energy level 24/7. But you've also got to make sure the transition is smooth. Being realistic, most high-tech companies haven't done that well.

  

  John T. Chambers
  • Done
  • Success
  • Energy

• Sports were a big part of my life. I was the captain of the basketball team in high school, and captain of the basketball team at Princeton.

  

  John W. Rogers, Jr.
  • Life
  • School
  • Team

• High-level actors can be all about their close-ups and the size of their trailers. I'd heard these horror stories of how a really powerful actor can come in and change your script.

  

  Neill Blomkamp
  • High
  • Powerful

• Mother set impossibly high standards for us, creating tremendous pressures and undermining our ability to accomplish whatever modest aims we may have set for ourselves.

  

  Katharine Graham
  • May
  • Mother
  • High

• Better to be the cat gazing coolly down from a high wall, its expression inscrutable. The cat that shunned petting, that needed no one. Why couldn't she be that cat?

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Why
  • She
  • Wall

• I have no complaints about losing money I put in high-risk investments. I did some of that when I had real money; my informed choice, my measured gamble.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Real
  • Money
  • Risk

• You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.

  

  Phil McGraw
  • Home
  • High
  • Violence

• Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.

  

  Gwen Stefani No Doubt
  • High
  • Sacrifice

• 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

• For the vast majority of those who are obese - those with a Body Mass Index over 30 - their size is their choice. They choose to take in more calories than they burn. They choose to take in high fat calories over low-fat ones. They choose to fad diet, if they choose to diet at all.

  

  John Ridley
  • High

• We should make sure that unscrupulous schools do not prey on uninformed students, leaving them with high debt and useless degrees.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Leaving
  • Students
  • Debt

• I graduated from high school in '62 and I didn't know any people who were gay. I'm sure there were people, but I didn't know any. For years and years, I guess, I was very uptight about being a gay actor. I thought it would make me less hirable.

  

  John Glover
  • People
  • School
  • Gay

• Diamond Resorts delivers world-class events and high-caliber hospitality; I look forward to representing Diamond and performing in the 2017 Diamond Resorts Concert Series to help make vacations unforgettable for their members.

  

  Cole Swindell
  • World
  • Help
  • Diamond

• The natural/supernatural distinction itself, and the near-equation of 'supernatural' with 'superstition', are scarecrows that Enlightenment thought has erected in its fields to frighten away anyone following the historical argument where it leads. It is high time the birds learned to take no notice.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Time
  • Bird
  • Enlightenment

• I love the game, it's the greatest game on earth, that's why I can't understand all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? That's the beauty of baseball. There is no time element.

  

  Eric Davis
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I had always choreographed a little, beginning in high school. And I leaned toward choreography. I always had an overview of what was going on.

  

  Patricia Birch
  • School
  • Beginning
  • Going

• Even at Westchester High in West LA, I was class clown.

  

  Phil Hartman
  • High

• Sometimes when you get on a new movie you kind of how to figure out the way other people work and it can be like being the new kid in high school where you're just trying to find out where your place is on the movie or on the set.

  

  Luke Wilson
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

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