High Quotes

• I never thought for one second I'd be able to play with a real band. When I was in high school, I went through a lot of bad treatment and was called a lot of names by boys because I wanted to play. Sly was different.

  

  Cynthia Robinson
  • Different
  • Real
  • School

• I think a lot of the high technology is distracting.

  

  Keith Matthew Thornton
  • Thinking
  • Technology
  • High Technology

• The first day back to school, you never want to wear your best outfit. You're setting the bar too high for yourself! Then the rest of the school year, you'll feel so much pressure! Wear something cute, but save your best outfit for a day when no one expects it.

  

  Bethany Mota
  • School
  • Rest
  • Cute

• I never even was in any of my high school plays. I mean, look at me. What role could they give me - the tooth fairy?

  

  John Matuszak
  • School
  • High

• I think, as a chef and restaurateur, that you have to take care of your business. Otherwise, you're only as good as your last meal. You have to watch if your food costs are too high, or you could be out of business in no time.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • Time
  • Good
  • Business

• I majored in theater in college. I did a couple of plays in high school, and I really enjoyed it, so I went to Illinois Wesleyan University and got a degree, and then I went back to Chicago and started doing theater in all the companies around the city for about 11 years before I moved out to L.A.

  

  Kevin Dunn
  • School
  • College
  • City

• The Lamb's Club is going to be a luxury bar and grill; we're not doing an overly fancy restaurant. We wanted to make a space that people will come to every day, almost like a very high-end bistro.

  

  Geoffrey Zakarian
  • People
  • High
  • Space

• I was a rebellious adolescent. It was the '60s. Everyone was rebellious. I hated high school.

  

  George Dyson
  • School
  • High

• Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • Good
  • High
  • Evil

• I had learning problems when I was in elementary school, and didn't really start to read well until high school. I never read any of the middle grade classics that were popular when I was young - 'Harriet the Spy', 'Charlotte's Web', 'The Witch of Blackbird Pond', 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'.

  

  Lauren Tarshis
  • School
  • Learning
  • Popular

• In 1991, if someone came in with a $1 million budget for a boutique, I would have fainted. Nobody spent even half that. But now, the bar has risen very high.

  

  Peter Marino
  • High

• I got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it.

  

  Philip Seymour Hoffman
  • Up
  • School
  • College

• The more Keystone comedies I make, the more convinced I become that comedy is an art, and a high one at that.

  

  Michael Sinnott
  • Art
  • Comedy
  • Keystones

• So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• Life is too short for any vain regretting... Between the swift sun's rising and its setting, we have no time for useless tears or fretting, life is too short.... Time is the best avenger if we wait, the years speed by, and on their wings bear healing, life is too short for aught but high endeavor-too short for spite, but long enough for love. And love lives on forever and forever.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• Those who were high go down low, and those who've been low go up higher.

  

  Anzia Yezierska
  • High
  • Higher
  • Low

• 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.

  

  Leslie Fiedler
  • God
  • Different
  • Art

• This new generation, for example, is not content with preachings against that vile form of collective murder - lynch law-which has broken out in our midst anew. We know that it is murder, and a deliberate and definite disobedience of the Commandment, 'Thou shalt not kill.' We do not excuse those in high places or in low who condone lynch law.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • High
  • Law
  • Broken

• I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring a lot to the table. I'm not talking about material things but what I have to offer as a person - love and loyalty and all the things that make a good relationship.

  

  Jennifer Lopez
  • Good
  • Relationship
  • Partner

• Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class.

  

  Matt de la Pena
  • Writing
  • School
  • High

• Throw high risers at the chin; throw peas at the knees; throw it here when they're lookin' there; throw it there when they're lookin' here.

  

  Satchel Paige
  • High
  • Knees
  • Peas

• The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.

  

  Chinua Achebe
  • People
  • Long
  • Remember

• 'Eh, Manuel, and will you re-model the world?' 'Who knows?' says Manuel, in the high pride of his youth. 'At all events, I do not mean to leave it unaltered.'

  

  James Branch Cabell
  • World
  • Model
  • Pride

• Hedge funds try to produce above-average investment returns using tactics ranging from traditional stock-picking to complex derivative and arbitrage plays. High minimum investments, redemption restrictions and aggressive strategies make them suitable mainly for more sophisticated and well-heeled investors.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • High
  • Stock

1

...

182

183

184

185

186

...

236

previous

next