High Quotes

• I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that.

  

  George P. Shultz
  • Business
  • High
  • Worry

• My tolerance for crazy people is, I think, high a tolerance as you're ever going to find. I love being around David Allen Coe. I would have loved to hang out with Tiny Tim. I can listen to Sun Ra on a tape-recording rant.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Sun

• What is a forest? A marvelous insect. A drawing-board, what do forests do? They never go to bed early. They are waiting for the tailor. What is the high season of the forests? It is the future..

  

  Max Ernst
  • Future
  • Waiting
  • Drawing

• I was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, which is where J. Cole is from. I went up to Washington, D.C., where my mother moved, to stay with her, and then moved back to North Carolina to finish junior high and high school.

  

  Brian Tyree Henry
  • Up
  • School
  • Mother

• I hated high school and got to college and realized they didn't care if I showed up because I'd already paid. So I decided, 'I'm going to turn this around.' And I did: I got straight A's and was named 'outstanding senior.'

  

  Pauley Perrette
  • Up
  • School
  • College

• For high school, everything is about what you wear, how you come to school, and in high school, a lot of people judge you. So fashion is something that can save you - at least, it saved me.

  

  Lele Pons
  • People
  • School
  • Fashion

• The United Nations World Charter for Nature, section 21, empowers any nongovernmental organisation or individual to uphold international conservation law in areas beyond national jurisdiction and specifically on the high seas.

  

  Paul Watson
  • World
  • Nature
  • Law

• I took Japanese in high school. I'm Chinese, though, and I just fell in love with the language and the culture.

  

  Matthew Moy
  • School
  • Culture
  • Chinese

• I attended the High School of Industrial Arts and studied with many great artists as painting is something that you never stop learning about. Actually, in high school there was a time that I was thinking about just concentrating on painting and I asked my music teacher, Mr. Sondberg, for advice and he encouraged me to stick with the music as well. So all my life I have been singing and painting.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• Writing has always felt like a compulsion. Even at high school there'd be times when people would ask me if I wanted to go and hang out and I'd sit home and write instead.

  

  Amanda Hocking
  • People
  • Writing
  • School

• I grew six, seven inches in junior year of high school, so I played guard my whole life growing up. So I think there's where I got my skill set from.

  

  Kelly Olynyk
  • Life
  • Up
  • School

• I worked at a daycare for a couple of years going through high school and college. I did youth sports camps. I ran all the camps through my college.

  

  Derek Theler
  • School
  • College
  • Sports

• When I graduated from high school, my mom and dad were saying I needed to go to college, but I said I wanted to pursue my dream of acting. At the end of my high school career, they quit their jobs, and we moved out to California on a leap of faith.

  

  Elijah Kelley
  • School
  • Career
  • Dream

• I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Time
  • High
  • Engineering

• With the notion of marriage - an exclusive, emotional, binding 'til death do you part' tie - becoming more and more an exception to the rule given a rise in cohabitation and high rates of divorce, why should the federal government be telling adults who love one another that they cannot get married simply because they happen to be gay?

  

  Lisa Murkowski
  • Why
  • Death
  • Marriage

• My wife, Ashley, is a West Texan, a graduate of Abilene Cooper Public High School and the University of Texas.

  

  Brett Kavanaugh
  • School
  • Wife
  • Texas

• I don't take success very well, because I know it's fleeting. And the next day, it can all fall apart. I know that, too. So I don't get too high, and I don't get too low. You get through the world a lot easier that way.

  

  James Garner
  • World
  • Success
  • Fall

• What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work - and masses of unemployed?

  

  Andy Grove
  • People
  • Work
  • Society

• I probably didn't talk in public until eighth grade, and then in high school, I started doing oral interpretation - kind of like monologues. Through theater and plays, I started coming out of my shell.

  

  Emily Kuroda
  • School
  • High

• We're not in high school anymore and we've had a little more life experiences to help us better understand what were going through in terms of stardom and recognition.

  

  Jay Hernandez
  • Life
  • School
  • Help

• When we looked out at the world and saw what 3D scanners could do, we wanted to make something that could make really high quality models that you could create on your MakerBot.

  

  Bre Pettis
  • World
  • High
  • Quality

• Does the sweet morning rise,Bride-like, from sleep,When their first revelriesBird and bee keep,Singing out joyouslyIn the green tree ?Then, when my hopes are high,Think I of thee.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Morning
  • Sleep
  • Singing

• Giving Northern Europe a veto over Southern Europe's budgets will not hold a monetary union together. The euro zone will continue to need the weaker countries to stomach decades of high unemployment to grind down wages.

  

  Austan Goolsbee
  • Together
  • Giving
  • Grind

• I did 12 years with nuns, you know. So I came out of it going, like, 'I think Jesus is all right.' The rest of it I think stinks to the high heavens.

  

  Denis Leary
  • High
  • Rest
  • Jesus

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