High Quotes

• When very large stars die, they create temperatures so high that protons begin to fuse in all sorts of exotic combinations, to form all the elements of the periodic table. If, like me, you're wearing a gold ring, it was forged in a supernova explosion.

  

  David Christian
  • High
  • Die
  • Gold

• Paper publishers are doing everything they can to slow the transition to eBooks because, in a digital world, paper publishers' high hardback margins essentially disappear.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • World
  • Doing
  • Transition

• There is a lot going on in high schools, and I think what we portray is fairly accurate.

  

  Chi McBride
  • High

• Being in combat is not unending high-five moments.

  

  David Petraeus
  • High
  • Moments

• I almost failed out of high school. I nearly gave in to the deep anger and resentment harbored by everyone around me... Whatever talents I have, I almost squandered until a handful of loving people rescued me.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • School
  • Deep

• I set pretty high expectations for myself,and I hold myself to a pretty high standard.

  

  Jimmy Garoppolo
  • High
  • Pretty

• I was not paying attention during physics in high school; I was wondering if I was going to be cast in 'Pippin.'

  

  John Benjamin Hickey
  • School
  • High
  • Attention

• This may just be me, but I feel like everyone's dream is to live as an American high school student. There are so many teen films set in America that you live vicariously through them, anyway.

  

  Katherine Langford
  • Live
  • School
  • May

• I hope fans walk away still feeling like their batteries are charged. I want fans walking away high-fiving strangers.

  

  Dierks Bentley
  • Hope
  • Feeling
  • Walking

• All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • School
  • Opportunity
  • College

• Envy aims very high.

  

  Ovid
  • High
  • Very
  • Envy

• I didn't really start performing until high school. My whole family is actually in the business, and started in the business in Chicago, so I was going to shows when I was a teeny-tiny kid, but I didn't really start performing until high school.

  

  Jessie Mueller
  • Family
  • School
  • Business

• There'd be days in high school where I thought I played well, my team got the win, and I'd go to the gym still in my uniform, and my dad would say, 'C'mon, let's go. We have more work to do.'

  

  Jalen Brunson
  • Work
  • School
  • Team

• The nation is marching along a permanently high plateau of prosperity.

  

  Irving Fisher
  • Nation
  • Prosperity
  • Plateau

• From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right to choose an interesting a career, a high-status mate, the desirable handbag or vacation, the perfect family size, and a definitionally fruitless quest for 'perfection.'

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Women
  • Family
  • Career

• I don't think I ever set my goals that high. As a kid growing up I just wanted an opportunity to race and to be able to make a living doing it. It just came together.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Up
  • Together
  • Opportunity

• Just because I'm staring deep into your birth canal does not mean that I'm fucked up. It means you should have paid more attention in high school and I have a dollar. I have four quarters and you have a bad job. Don't get pissed at me because you didn't learn how to type, you no-back-up-plan-having pain in the ass.

  

  Joe Rogan
  • Up
  • School
  • Job

• Ryan Reynolds was my childhood crush. His name is all over the walls of my room. I actually Photoshopped myself into a picture with him my freshman year of high school.

  

  Brianna Hildebrand
  • School
  • Picture
  • Childhood

• Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.

  

  Danny Glover
  • School
  • Freedom
  • Education

• Some people thought I was using my popularity as a singer to sell my first novel. For others, it was almost a sacrilege: a practitioner of a minor art daring to enter the field of high art.

  

  Francisco "Chico" Buarque de Hollanda
  • People
  • Art
  • High

• I'm interested in just about anything that's right for my voice, and that's a good fit for my personality in the part as well. 'Evita' has always been a dream part for me, but it's really, really high to sing. I'd love to do Elphaba - heck, I'd even do Glinda. For me, I'd do anything to get into 'Wicked!'

  

  Lea Salonga
  • Good
  • Dream
  • Personality

• The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in 'Tinker, Tailor,' was extremely personal. I borrowed elements of people I admired and invested them in this mythical character. I'm such a fluent, specious person now, but I was an extremely awkward fellow in those days.

  

  John le Carre
  • People
  • Character
  • High

• I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but I lived in Brooklyn for a while as a kid. I went to junior high school there. Girls in Brooklyn have to be tough - I mean real tough - just to get by. It's life in the combat zone.

  

  Patty Smyth
  • Life
  • Real
  • School

• Sourav's calm and assured presence sets him apart. His captaincy is of a high order but he bats sensibly and reads situations well. I hope Sourav too becomes a World Cup wining captain.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • World
  • Hope
  • Calm

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