High Quotes

• The thing with physical preparation is I have tons of friends who train at a really high level and who can give me advice. But with mental training, I don't really know anybody who has a much better mind for climbing, I guess, so I don't really know where I would go. It's not really a limiting factor for me.

  

  Alex Honnold
  • Mind
  • Friends
  • Training

• I suspect the real reason the N.F.L. and N.B.A. don't want high schoolers and college underclassmen to play with their ball is that they don't want to jeopardize their relationship with National Collegiate Athletic Association, which serves as a sort of free minor league and unpaid promotional department for the pros.

  

  David Shields
  • Real
  • Free
  • Relationship

• The first programming assignment I had in high school was to find the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I thought it would be cooler to write a program to get the teacher's password and all the other students' passwords. And the teacher gave me an A and told the class how smart I was.

  

  Kevin Mitnick
  • School
  • Teacher
  • Smart

• I felt I ought not to be wasting time, and I hurried to graduate from high school to enroll at UCSD. I also hurried to finish college, to go on to higher studies. By the time I was in my teens, I had a strong sense of mission, wanting to discover something important or solve a major problem in biology or medicine.

  

  Bruce Beutler
  • Time
  • Important
  • School

• His wife is, it occurs to Harry, a channel that can't be switched. The same slightly too-high forehead, the same dumb stubborn slot of a mouth, day after day, same time, same station.

  

  John Updike
  • Time
  • Wife
  • Dumb

• I was teased up until high school about my hair, being short, my high pitched voice, and just anything you can think of.

  

  Chrissie Fit
  • Up
  • School
  • Hair

• The alphabet, when pushed to a high degree of abstract visual intensity, became typography. The printed word with its specialist intensity burst the bonds of medieval corporate guilds and monasteries, created extreme individualist patterns of enterprise and monopoly. (p. 23)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • High

• I went to an art school in high school and got in a little trouble like you do when you're a teenager and not being closely supervised. I did. I followed the Dead around, and it was fun. It was great. It was kind and sweet and lovely.

  

  Elizabeth Marvel
  • Great
  • School
  • Art

• Poul Anderson's 'The High Crusade' may have had a greater impact on my development as a writer than any other book I ever read.

  

  Eric Flint
  • May
  • Book
  • High

• There are people who have really high expectations for what we're doing. I have to not think about that so that I can be free and play around every day and not feel like I have to get it right. You want to be loose.

  

  Katherine Waterston
  • People
  • High
  • Free

• Too often, we make budget cuts - then blow the savings. Instead, think about your financial picture. Do you have high-interest rate debt? Paying it off faster will save you a bundle.

  

  Jean Chatzky
  • Picture
  • Financial
  • Blow

• I have a very high expectation for everything I do. And when I go out and compete, I expect myself to make every play.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • High
  • Expectation

• I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, and they had a profound effect on me. I'd read other fantasy before, but none of them that I loved like Tolkien.

  

  George R. R. Martin
  • School
  • High
  • Profound

• When I started, there were no Indians on television or films, except for Sir Ben Kingsley. I was an actor in high school, college, and I played leads. And when I graduated, I knew that I couldn't go to Hollywood and audition for shows or films. I could try, but where was the evidence that it was going to happen?

  

  Jay Chandrasekhar
  • School
  • High
  • College

• If you've got the body and the chutzpah, a pencil skirt is so sexy on older women. Look for ones that fall just below the knee. Think 1940s, cinched-in jackets - imagine you are Lauren Bacall on a date with Humphrey Bogart and you just absolutely have to wear very high heels.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Women
  • Fall
  • Body

• I try never to get too high when things are going well. I try never to get too low when things are going poorly. I try to keep an even keel.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Trying
  • motivation
  • Lows

• My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.

  

  James Wolcott
  • School
  • High
  • College

• When I reached my senior year in high school, I fell into a hole that took a couple of decades to get out of.

  

  John Grant
  • School
  • Couple
  • Senior

• I want my kids to graduate from high school. But that's not enough. I also want them to go to college. Why? Because rich people's kids go to college. And if that's good enough for them, it's good enough for my kids. Because you know what? College graduates don't tend to go to jail as frequently as nongraduates.

  

  Geoffrey Canada
  • People
  • Good
  • School

• I swam a little bit in high school but I wasn't a jock.

  

  Joel Silver
  • School
  • High

• Everything in high school was reversed. If marijuana was supposed to make you mellow, I would be like, "The cops, the cops, the cops..." I was what you call the buzz kill.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • School
  • Marijuana
  • Would Be

• Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.

  

  Jonathan Raban
  • High
  • Bible
  • Presidential

• As you go along your own road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance... But no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still and persevere.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Life
  • May
  • Success

• While I was in high school, I discovered and began writing science fiction.

  

  Laurence Yep
  • Writing
  • School
  • Science

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