High Quotes

• It's a perfect wave when small and the most beautiful and scary wave on Earth when it's big, as the swell from deep water hits the shallow reef ledge. A ten-foot high wave and a 30-footer break in the same depth of water.

  

  Kelly Slater
  • Beautiful
  • Earth
  • Small

• When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there.

  

  Paul Westerberg The Replacements
  • Time
  • High

• Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.

  

  Arne Jacobsen
  • Good
  • High
  • Goals

• I left high school very early. I was 17. So I guess it wasn't that early, but I did not get a high school education.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • School
  • High
  • Education

• I never wrote. I also never really thought about being an actor. But when it was time to go to high school, we couldn't afford private school, so I tried out for all the special schools in New York.

  

  Jennifer Salt
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Game
  • Basketball

• Everybody's like, 'You're tall. You didn't play basketball?' They asked me when I was a freshman in high school, and basketball practice was the same time a lot of stuff happened with choir. And I picked choir, which, normally, people would scratch their heads at, but it worked out okay.

  

  Chris Young
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• The premium valuation is warranted in our view given the consistently high level of execution, the expansion into other revenue-driving channels such as entertainment and food ... and the improvement in both U.S. and international profitability.

  

  Larry Miller
  • Food
  • Driving
  • Improvement

• I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

  

  Adam Oates
  • School
  • Hockey
  • High School

• The eternal feminine draws us on high.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • High
  • Draws
  • Feminine

• A lot of people in my family have high blood pressure. Dre told me I better start hitting the gym... so I took his advice.

  

  Warren G
  • People
  • Family
  • Advice

• I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Career

• I was eight years old when Miley Cyrus made her debut on Disney Channel's 'Hannah Montana' and beginning my senior year of high school when she delivered the VMAs performance that single-handedly butchered the teddy-bear industry.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • School
  • She
  • Single

• I was pretty anti-academic, and I wasn't much of a student. I had a really short attention span and did not get a lot out of high school academically. I think college was a little the same way.

  

  Chris Crutcher
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Attention

• The last member of the party to disembark was a girl of about nineteen, and it was the young man who stood at the boat's prow to lift her high and dry upon land. She gave him a brave and pretty smile of thanks, but no words passed between them.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • She
  • Pretty
  • Girl

• When I was 16, at night I went to my high school and chucked rocks at the billboard sign and broke the light bulbs. That was fun.

  

  Christopher Mintz-Plasse
  • School
  • Fun
  • Night

• And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It's like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Better

• I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Different
  • School
  • Bullying

• If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung - and everybody hates me.

  

  Katherine Heigl
  • Good
  • Mother
  • High

• On the high wire, within months, I'm able to master all the tricks they do in the circus, except I am not satisfied.

  

  Philippe Petit
  • High

• Kids below 10 or 12, I think they just need to learn by playing at golf. Later on, in high school, when they develop muscles and everything, that's when they need to see about getting lessons.

  

  Bubba Watson
  • School
  • Kids
  • Golf

• In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • School
  • History
  • Culture

• In high school, I was not as much of a grade-follower. I kind of enjoyed more of the social aspect of high school.

  

  Danielle Fishel
  • School
  • High

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