High Quotes

• I think the consumption of music is at an all-time high. But I think the ways that record companies are trying to monetize it is just all over the place. At the end of the day, music is in the clouds. Before, you could hold it, look at it, turn it around. Now, it's just in the air.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Time
  • Music
  • Trying

• Alfriston is a compact village set around a rather traffic-weary High Street, mainly of old, timbered buildings. The principal sights lie to the east on the river side.

  

  David Hewson
  • High
  • River

• The problem with the standard American diet, a primary cause of our current obesity epidemic, is the fact that the majority of foods consumed are high in calories and low in micronutrients.

  

  Joel Fuhrman
  • American
  • High

• With a far-future setting merging Chinese and American culture, 'Firefly' also saw high-tech futurism blended with the traditional Wild West.

  

  Jay Kristoff
  • American
  • Future
  • Culture

• The business with high ethical standards has three primary advantages over competitors whose standards are lower:

  

  Marvin Bower
  • Business
  • High

• I had gone to enlist in the Navy, but they had a long waiting list and no need for high-school dropouts.

  

  Daniel Woodrell
  • Long
  • School
  • Waiting

• It's big for us because we know the other teams are right around us for the playoffs. (But) we are not approaching games like that. We are just trying to win the game. We don't feel like we need to settle for the eighth or seventh seed, we feel like we can get as high as we want to.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Trying
  • Game
  • Games

• 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

• Every American has a right to affordable, high-quality health care.

  

  Max Baucus
  • American
  • Health
  • Quality

• The Mississippi and its paddle boats, and the rivers of Bengal and their gleaming steamers evoked a similar atmosphere of romance, of long, song-filled voyages, high winds and lonely sunsets.

  

  Qurratulain Hyder
  • Long
  • Song
  • Lonely

• My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.

  

  Andy Summers The Police
  • High

• My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and I am not sure that my mother completed high school.

  

  Douglass North
  • Life
  • School
  • Mother

• Everyone has the idea of owning good companies. The problem is that they have high prices in relations to assets and earnings, and that takes all of the fun out of the game.

  

  Charlie Munger
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Game

• There is an outdated belief that girls are not as good at science and math subjects as boys. But according to the report 'Generation STEM,' high school girls earn more math and science credits than boys do, and their GPAs, aggregated across math and science classes, are higher than boys'.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Good
  • School
  • Science

• I don't really leave my house too much, 'cause I don't like... it's funny, I don't really like to be high and famous at the same time.

  

  Mac Miller
  • Time
  • House
  • Funny

• 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

• Theater will always be a huge part of my life. The high I get from doing theater is not, quite honestly, matched by many things. I like the fact that when you step out on the stage, for that given night, for better or for worse, you are the master of the boards. I love it to death.

  

  Chris Pine
  • Life
  • Death
  • Night

• Life is very cyclical. And my career has been very-high-very-low, very-high-very-low, and I think it'll probably keep on rolling that way.

  

  Carol Kane
  • Life
  • High
  • Career

• When you get the high art of William Shakespeare and the greatest love story ever told, and you collision crash it with the low art of the tacky garden gnome, you're going to have lots and lots of opportunity for fun and putting your tongue very firmly in your cheek.

  

  David Furnish
  • Art
  • Fun
  • Opportunity

• I hear always the sad voices of summer passing like red winged birds over the high grass

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Red
  • Sad
  • Summer

• In 1970 or '71, early in the magazine, Michael O'Donoghue did maybe eight pages of a 1958 yearbook, from Ezra Taft Benson High School. But by the time the [book-length] high-school yearbook came around, he didn't want to be involved.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • School
  • Book

• When you grow up, you think everything you own is going to be designer. Not true. Most of the stuff I own is high-street. I love mixing it up; it's so beautifully made nowadays, and the quality is of such a high standard, and let's be honest: everybody loves a bargain.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Up
  • True
  • Quality

• So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Parents
  • College
  • Army

• I am pretty geeky, yes. I like odd sub-culture activities, I am often socially inept, I wore glasses in high school. But I am a modern geek.

  

  Josh Zuckerman
  • Glasses
  • Activities
  • Geek

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